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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Wrapping of nanosize copper cubes can help convert carbon dioxide into other chemicals

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As the need to mitigate climate change accelerates, scientists are trying to find new ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. One process, called electrochemical reduction or electrolysis, uses electricity and a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide...

Sep 23, 2022

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Key element for a scalable quantum computer: Physicists from Forschungszentrum J�lich and RWTH Aachen University demonstrate electron transport on a quantum chip

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Millions of quantum bits are required for quantum computers to prove useful in practical applications. The scalability is one of the greatest challenges in the development of future devices. One problem is that the qubits have to be very close to ...

Sep 23, 2022

Nanoengineers Develop Pneumonia-Fighting Microrobots

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Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed microscopic robots, called microrobots, that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medication and be used to clear up life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia.

Sep 23, 2022

'Twisty' photons could turbocharge next-gen quantum communication

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Quantum computers and communication devices work by encoding information into individual or entangled photons, enabling data to be quantum securely transmitted and manipulated exponentially faster than is possible with conventional electronics. No...

Sep 22, 2022

Using Fullerenes to Understand Natural Enzyme Evolution

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Enzyme mimics based on self-assembling nanomaterials are an easy way to replicate the activities of natural enzymes. However, these enzyme mimicking nanomaterials were not used to understand the influence of amino acids on the catalytic activity.

Sep 22, 2022

Piezoelectric Composite Nanofiber Electrode for Wearable Devices

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Wearable device applications have ushered in a new era of human-computer interaction with a variety of purposes, underlying concepts, and forms. These devices have widespread uses in medical and health domains such as physiological signal assessme...

Sep 22, 2022

Simple CBD Method to Fabricate Pencil Graphite Electrodes

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Selenium nanoparticles (NPs) are a good choice for biological and electrochemical sensing applications due to their low toxicity. In an article published in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials, a simple chemical bath deposition approach was use...

Sep 22, 2022

Probing Properties of Nanobubbles in 2D Semiconductors

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Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a new class of semiconductors that display distinctive properties at monolayer thickness.

Sep 22, 2022

Developing a key element for scalable quantum computers

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Quantum computers have the potential to vastly exceed the capabilities of conventional computers for certain tasks. But there is still a long way to go before they can help to solve real-world problems. Many applications require quantum processors...

Sep 22, 2022

Traditional computers can solve some quantum problems

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There has been a lot of buzz about quantum computers and for good reason. The futuristic computers are designed to mimic what happens in nature at microscopic scales, which means they have the power to better understand the quantum realm and speed...

Sep 22, 2022

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