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- Adding A Carbon Atom Transforms 2-D Semiconducting Material 21/05/2019 A technique that introduces carbon-hydrogen molecules into a single atomic layer of the semiconducting material tungsten disulfide dramatically changes the electronic properties of the material.
- Researchers Create Soft, Flexible Materials With Enhanced Properties 21/05/2019 A team of polymer chemists and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new methodology that can be used to create a class of stretchable polymer composites with enhanced electrical and thermal properties.
- Researchers Discover How A Nanocatalyst Works At The Atomic Level 21/05/2019 Researchers of the Nanoscience Center (NSC) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Xiamen University, China, have discovered how copper particles at the nanometer scale operate in modifying a carbon-oxygen bond when ketone molecules turn into alcohol molecules.
- Electric-Field-Controlled Superconductor-Ferromagnetic Insulator Transition 21/05/2019 High-temperature (Tc) superconductivity typically develops from antiferromagnetic insulators, and superconductivity and ferromagnetism are always mutually exclusive.
- Less Can Be More: Semiconductor Nanowires For Flexible Photovoltaics 21/05/2019 Capturing and manipulating light at nanoscale is a key factor to build high efficiency solar cells. Researchers in the 3-D Photovoltaics group have recently presented a promising new design.
- Capturing Real-Time Data As Nanofibers Form Makes Electrospinning More Affordable And Effective 20/05/2019 Electrospinning, a nanofiber fabrication method, can produce nanometer- to micrometer-diameter ceramic, polymer, and metallic fibers of various compositions for a wide spectrum of applications: tissue engineering, filtration, fuel cells and lithium batteries.
- Atomic Engineering With Electric Irradiation 20/05/2019 Atomic engineering can selectively induce specific dynamics on single atoms followed by combined steps to form large-scale assemblies thereafter.
- Quantum Information Gets A Boost From Thin-Film Breakthrough 20/05/2019 Efforts to create reliable light-based quantum computing, quantum key distribution for cybersecurity, and other technologies got a boost from a new study demonstrating an innovative method for creating thin films to control the emission of single photons.
- Physicists 'Teleport' Logic Operation Between Separated Ions 20/05/2019 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic operation between two separated ions (electrically charged atoms), showcasing how quantum computer programs could carry out tasks in future large-scale quantum networks.
- Silicon Two-Qubit Gate Achieves 98% Fidelity 20/05/2019 A two-qubit gate based on silicon quantum dots has achieved a quantum fidelity of 98%. The device was created by researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia and the fidelity measurement is the first made on a silicon two-qubit gate.
- Machine Learning Puts Nanomaterials In The Picture 20/05/2019 “Machine learning is a powerful way to navigate that complexity and include all of these features in our predictions.”