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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Carbon nanodots do an ultrafine job with in vitro lung tissue: New experiments highlight the role of charge and size when it comes to carbon nanodots that mimic the effect of nanoscale pollution particles on the human lung.

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Epidemiological studies have established a strong correlation between inhaling ultrafine particles from incomplete combustion and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Still, relatively little is k...

Sep 13, 2018

An almost perfect material for research into quantum effects

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Researchers have successfully developed nanowires allowing individual electrons to be captured by a quantum dot on which superconductivity can take place.

Sep 13, 2018

An almost perfect material for research into quantum effects

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Researchers have successfully developed nanowires allowing individual electrons to be captured by a quantum dot on which superconductivity can take place.

Sep 13, 2018

The rise of phosphorene analogue optoelectronic materials

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Black phosphorus (BP or phosphorene), a novel two-dimensional semiconducting material, has gained tremendous attention because of its intriguing properties, such as ON/OFF ratio, high carrier mobility, and tunable direct band. However, a fundament...

Sep 13, 2018

The rise of phosphorene analogue optoelectronic materials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Black phosphorus (BP or phosphorene), a novel two-dimensional semiconducting material, has gained tremendous attention because of its intriguing properties, such as ON/OFF ratio, high carrier mobility, and tunable direct band. However, a fundament...

Sep 13, 2018

The rise of phosphorene analogue optoelectronic materials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Black phosphorus (BP or phosphorene), a novel two-dimensional semiconducting material, has gained tremendous attention because of its intriguing properties, such as ON/OFF ratio, high carrier mobility, and tunable direct band. However, a fundament...

Sep 13, 2018

Laser sintering optimized for printed electronics

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Printed electronics use standard printing techniques to manufacture electronic devices on different substrates like glass, plastic films, and paper. Interest in this area is growing because of the potential to create cheaper circuits more efficien...

Sep 13, 2018

Researchers managed to prevent the disappearing of quantum information

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The properties of quantum mechanics can be utilized, for example, in technology and encrypting messages, but the disadvantage is the occasional disappearing of information. For the first time, a research group consisting of Finnish and Chinese sci...

Sep 13, 2018

Russian and German physicists developed a mathematical model of trapped atoms and ions

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Physicists from RUDN, JINR (Dubna), and the University of Hamburg (Germany) developed a mathematical model for describing physical processes in hybrid systems that consists of atoms and ions cooled down to temperatures close to absolute zero. Such...

Sep 13, 2018

Tiny camera lens may help link quantum computers to network

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An international team of researchers led by The Australian National University (ANU) has invented a tiny camera lens, which may lead to a device that links quantum computers to an optical fibre network.

Sep 13, 2018

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