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Dawn run … Manchester trio will put breakthrough technology to test as part of climate change relay to COP27

Volunteer runners are set to break-in their new and innovative graphene-enhanced trainers to help launch COP27.

Oct 3, 2022

'Graphene Harriers' run at dawn for COP27 relay

Volunteer runners  break-in their new and innovative graphene-enhanced trainers to help launch COP27. 

Oct 3, 2022

For the longest time: quantum computing engineers set new standards in silicon chip performance

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Two milliseconds – or two-thousandths of a second – is an extraordinarily long time in quantum computing.

Oct 3, 2022

First Graphene, Breedon Group, Morgan Sindall Construction and the University of Manchester develop graphene-enhanced cement

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

First Graphene will work with the Breedon Group, Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure and the University of Manchester to develop a new reduced-CO2 graphene-enhanced cement. The consortium is currently formulating the cement using ...

Oct 3, 2022

Sparc Technologies, Composite Materials Engineering and Swinburne University collaborate on graphene-enhanced smart materials

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

a collaboration between Sparc Technologies, Swinburne University and Composite Materials Engineering focuses on smart composite structures to help engineers detect structural defects in planes and rockets before they cause disaster. The industry-l...

Oct 2, 2022

1,000,000 Times Thinner Than a Single Strand of Hair – Scientists Develop Leak-Free Nano-Pipes

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

The world’s tiniest plumbing could potentially funnel drugs to individual human cells. Working on microscopic pipes just a millionth the width of a single strand of human hair, Johns Hopkins University researchers devised a method to protect these...

Oct 1, 2022

Hitting the Books: What the wearables of tomorrow might look like

Engadget   -   General News Websites

Apple's Watch Ultra, with its 2000-nit digital display and GPS capabilities, is a far cry from its Revolutionary War-era self-winding forebears. What sorts of wondrous body-mounted technologies might we see another hundred years hence? In his...

Oct 1, 2022

Combining 3D printing and carbon nanotube sensors for safer, cheaper flying

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers are developing embedded sensors that enable real-time monitoring of aircraft while in flight. The 3D-printed parts embedded with CNT fibres generate data that can then be used for monitoring the part.

Oct 1, 2022

A nano-IR probe for proteins in liquid environments

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

A new technique using infrared (IR) light revealed how the self-assembly of proteins is affected by environmental conditions in a surrounding liquid.

Oct 1, 2022

Remembering LED Pioneer Nick Holonyak

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Nick Holonyak Jr., a prolific inventor and longtime professor of electrical engineering and computing, died on 17 September at the age of 93. In 1962, while working as a consulting scientist at General Electric’s Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory,...

Sep 30, 2022

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