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Atom-thin crystals provide new way to power the future of computer memory

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Picture the smartphone in your pocket, the data centers powering artificial intelligence, or the wearable health monitors that track your heartbeat. All of them rely on energy-hungry memory chips to store and process information. As demand for com...

Sep 12, 2025

What really happens during catalysis with platinum-rhodium nanoparticles

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new study shows how platinum core-rhodium shell nanoparticles change during catalysis. Rhodium atoms partly diffuse inward but mostly stay on the surface and oxidise, with behaviour shaped by the orientation of the nanoparticle facets.

Sep 12, 2025

Uniting the light spectrum on a nanophotonic chip

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Researchers develop a highly efficient method to provide coherent light of any wavelength from visible to mid-infrared with a single tiny device.

Sep 12, 2025

Atom-thin crystals offer a new route to efficient computer memory

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New findings show how imperfections and electrodes work together to power reliable, energy-efficient computer memory at the atomic scale.

Sep 12, 2025

Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultracold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire properties useful in quantum computers.

Sep 12, 2025

Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of chargeless quantum information carriers

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Moving excitons with light and a nano-ridge could help bridge optics and electronics, enabling new devices and faster, more efficient communication.

Sep 12, 2025

Nanoscale images of a blood clotting protein complex reveal a secret to the clotting chain reaction

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The discovery solves a decades long puzzle about what sets off blood clotting.

Sep 12, 2025

Versarien receives bids for graphene assets amid financial strain

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Versarien has reported it has received multiple offers for its accelerated sale of intellectual property and shareholdings, including its pioneering graphene-related assets through Gnanomat SL and Total Carbide Ltd. The company emphasized that no ...

Sep 12, 2025

Circuits invisible to the naked eye: New technique shrinks microchips beyond current size limits

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Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to make smaller, faster and affordable microchips used across modern electronics—in everything from cellphones to cars, applianc...

Sep 11, 2025

Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of excitons

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A new nanostructure acts like a wire and switch that can, for the first time, control and direct the flow of quantum quasiparticles called excitons at room temperature.

Sep 11, 2025

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