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Machine learning helps improve photonic applications

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Photonic nanostructures can be used for many applications, not just in solar cells, but also in optical sensors for cancer markers or other biomolecules, for example. Researchers using computer simulations and machine learning have now shown how t...

Sep 28, 2018

How swarms of nanomachines could improve the efficiency of any machine

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All machines convert one form of energy into another form—for example, a car engine turns the energy stored in fuel into kinetic energy. Those processes of energy conversion, described by thermodynamics, don't only take place on the macro-lev...

Sep 28, 2018

Composite significantly reduces electromagnetic pollution

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In a paper published in Nano, a group of researchers from Anhui University of Science and Technology have synthesized PANI/Zn ferrite composites which have shown excellent microwave absorption performance. They could be used to reduce electromagne...

Sep 28, 2018

Oxygen vs. nanochip

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For the first time ever, an international team of scientists from NUST MISIS, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Namur (Belgium), and Korea Research Institute for Standards & Science has managed to trace in details the s...

Sep 28, 2018

Green mango peel: A slick solution for oil-contaminated soils

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Nanoparticles derived from green mango peel could be the key to remediating oil sludge in contaminated soil according to new research from the University of South Australia.

Sep 28, 2018

Machine learning helps improving photonic applications

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Photonic nanostructures can be used for many applications, not just in solar cells, but also in optical sensors for cancer markers or other biomolecules, for example. A team at HZB using computer simulations and machine learning has now shown how ...

Sep 28, 2018

Cool polymer paint saves on air conditioning - Physics World

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A polymer coating with trapped nano and micro-sized air voids approaches the theoretical limits for passive cooling The post Cool polymer paint saves on air conditioning appeared first on Physics World.

Sep 27, 2018

Ford Signs Up to Use NASA’s Quantum Computers

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Ford will explore next-gen annealing technology for autonomous and mobility research

Sep 27, 2018

Ford Signs Up to Use NASA’s Quantum Computers

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Ford will explore next-gen annealing technology for autonomous and mobility research

Sep 27, 2018

Polymer coating cools down buildings

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Engineers have invented a high-performance exterior PDRC polymer coating with nano-to-microscale air voids that acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint on rooftops, buildings, water tanks, vehicles, eve...

Sep 27, 2018

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