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25+ year journey to superstrong carbon nanotube bundles | NextBigFuture.com

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In 1991, Sumio Iijima’s discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White’s independent prediction that if single-walled carbon nanotubes could be made, then they would e...

Sep 9, 2018

Breakthrough Carbon nanotube bundles are over 20 times stronger than Kevlar | NextBigFuture.com

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Finally ultralong (several centimeter) carbon nanotube fibers have been made into stronger bundles. The tensile strength of CNTBs (Carbon nanotube bundles) is at least 9–45 times that of other materials. If a more rigorous engineering definition i...

Sep 9, 2018

Physicists Manipulate and Control Individual Molecules

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New technique will open up research possibilities across the fields of nanoscience and nanophysics. Physicists at the University of Bath have discovered how to manipulate... The post Physicists Manipulate and Control Individual Molecules appeared...

Sep 9, 2018

Running quantum algorithms in the cloud just got a lot faster

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A startup called Rigetti Computing is linking quantum computers with classical ones in a new cloud service

Sep 9, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures

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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed.

Sep 9, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Neutrophil nanosponges soak up proteins that promote rheumatoid arthritis

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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed neutrophil "nanosponges" that can safely absorb and neutralize a variety of proteins that play a role in the progression of rheumatoi...

Sep 9, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Measuring the nanoworld

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A worldwide study involving 20 laboratories has established and standardized a method to measure exact distances within individual biomolecules, down to the scale of one millionth of the width of a hu...

Sep 9, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Could a demon help to create a quantum computer? Physicists implement a version of Maxwell's famous thought experiment for reducing entropy

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Reduced entropy in a three-dimensional lattice of super-cooled, laser-trapped atoms could help speed progress toward creating quantum computers. A team of researchers at Penn State can rearrange a ran...

Sep 9, 2018

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As much as 100 times more heat than predicted by the standard radiation theory can flow between two nanoscale objects, even at bigger-than-nanoscale distances, researchers at the University of Michiga...

Sep 9, 2018

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Peering into private life of atomic clusters -- using the world's tiniest test tubes

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Experts in the Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre (nmRC) at the University of Nottingham have taken a first peak into the private life of atomic clusters. Here's what they can see.

Sep 9, 2018

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