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- ‘Designer molecules’ could create tailor-made quantum devices 06/07/2021 Researchers are concocting molecules specially suited for use as quantum bits or sensors
- Australian researchers create quantum microscope that can see the impossible 01/07/2021 In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.
- Synthesizing a new class of bio-inspired, light-capturing nanomaterials 29/06/2021 Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with collaborators from Washington State University, created a novel material capable of capturing light energy. This material provides a highly efficient artificial light-harvesting system with potential applications in photovoltaics and bioimaging.
- How quantum dots can 'talk' to each other 24/06/2021 A group has worked out theoretically how the communication between two quantum dots can be influenced with light. The team shows ways to control the transfer of information or energy from one quantum dot to another. To this end, the researchers calculated the electronic structure of two nanocrystals, which act as quantum dots. With the results, the movement of electrons in quantum dots can be simulated in real time.
- Scientists found a new and promising qubit at a place where there is nothing 22/06/2021 In the world of quantum mechanics, researchers can even make empty space, the lack of something, do their bidding. Scientists have now created a new setup to control the absence of electrons in a sol
- Nanomaterials with laser printing 17/06/2021 An interdisciplinary team presents a laser-driven technology that enables them to create nanoparticles out of materials such as copper, cobalt and nickel oxides. At the usual printing speed, photoelectrodes are produced in this way, for example, for a wide range of applications such as the generation of green hydrogen.
- Magnetism drives metals to insulators in new experiment 15/06/2021 Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying heat and electricity. While gold is a good conductor under any conditions, some materials have the property of behaving like metal conductors only if temperatures are high enough; at low temperatures, they act like insulators and do not do a good job of carrying electricity. In other words, these unusual materials go from acting like a chunk of gold to acting like a piece of wood as temperatures are lowered. Physicists have developed theories to explain this so-called metal-insulator transition, but the mechanisms behind the transitions are not always clear.
- Can room-temperature superconductors work without extreme pressure? 10/06/2021 Physicists aim to make practical materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance
- Biphenylene network zipped together 08/06/2021 Flat carbon allotrope assembled using HF-zipping reaction
- Emergence of a new heteronanostructure library 03/06/2021 Organizing functional objects in a complex, sophisticated architecture at the nanoscale can yield hybrid materials that tremendously outperform their solo objects, offering exciting routes towards a spectrum of applications. Developments in synthetic chemistry over past decades has enabled a library of hybrid nanostructures, such as core-shell, patchy, dimer, and hierarchical/branched ones.
- New evidence for electron's dual nature found in a quantum spin liquid 01/06/2021 New experiments provide evidence for a decades-old theory that, in the quantum regime, an electron behaves as if it is made of two particles: one particle that carries its negative charge and the other that gives it a magnet-like property called spin. The team detected evidence for this theory in materials called quantum spin liquids.