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Translucent aerogel bricks could outperform their opaque counterparts

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

While glass bricks are effective for allowing daylight into buildings, they're not good insulators and they can't be used for entire load-bearing walls. Such is reportedly not the case, however, with experimental new aerogel-filled trans...

Apr 20, 2023

Ultra-miniaturized non-classical light sources for quantum devices

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Non-classical states of light such as single photons and entangled photons are key ingredients for chips dedicated to quantum computation, quantum sensing, quantum measurement, etc. Fabrication of a traditional chip is hard, but with billions of d...

Apr 20, 2023

Towards More Efficient and Eco-Friendly Thermoelectric Oxides with Hydrogen Substitution

Tokyo Institute of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

Hydrogen substitution is an innovative strategy for boosting the performance of thermoelectric oxide SrTiO3, find researchers at Tokyo Tech. Their latest study reveals that the approach lowers the thermal conductivity and also realizes high electr...

Apr 20, 2023

Giant magnetoresistance spotted in near-pristine graphene – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Room-temperature effect could find use in magnetic sensors The post Giant magnetoresistance spotted in near-pristine graphene appeared first on Physics World.

Apr 20, 2023

Industry Out of Phase With Supercomputers

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Technical and economic changes in the semiconductor industry threaten to stifle U.S. development of the next generation of high-performance computers, warns a new report from the National Research Council.

Apr 20, 2023

Carbon Waters secures €2 million funding

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

France-based start-up Carbon Waters, specializing in the development and production of lines of high-performance industrial additives, has announced it has raised 2 million euros to industrialize its graphene-based high-performance additives produ...

Apr 20, 2023

The Chinese Graphene Industry Association's International Cooperation Manager answers our questions on recent advances and plans for the future

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

The Chinese Graphene Industry Association (CGIA) was established in 2013, to help promote the graphene industry in China, and has grown to over 150 members today. Recently we talked with Minyang Lu, Deputy Secretary-General of the CGIA. Major in c...

Apr 20, 2023

Study seeks to define quantum compression

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

A study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers identifies a new potential application in quantum computing that could be part of the next computational revolution. The work is published in the journal Computing.

Apr 20, 2023

A particular 'sandwich' of graphene and boron nitride may lead to next-gen microelectronics

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Moiré patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common example is the pattern that sometimes emerges when viewing a chain-link fence through a second chain-link fence.

Apr 20, 2023

A particular 'sandwich' of graphene and boron nitride may lead to next-gen microelectronics

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New work shows that this particular sandwich of graphene and boron nitride elicits properties that are suitable for use in new technological applications.

Apr 20, 2023

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