A potential avenue to quantum computing currently generating quite the buzz in the high-tech industry is 'valleytronics', in which information is coded based on the wavelike motion of electrons moving through certain two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Now, a promising new pathway to valleytronic technology has been uncovered.
Jan 27th, 2015
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Ultrashort laser pulses have become an indispensable tool for atomic and molecular research; a new technology makes creating short infrared pulses easy and cheap.
Jan 27th, 2015
Read moreResearchers have discovered that the insulation plastic used in high-voltage cables can withstand a 26 per cent higher voltage if nanometer-sized carbon balls are added. This could result in enormous efficiency gains in the power grids of the future, which are needed to achieve a sustainable energy system.
Jan 27th, 2015
Read moreTherapeutic oligonucleotide analogs represent a new and promising family of drugs that act on nucleic acid targets such as RNA or DNA; however, their effectiveness has been limited due to difficulty crossing the cell membrane. A new delivery approach based on cell-penetrating peptide nanoparticles can efficiently transport charge-neutral oligonucleotide analogs into cells.
Jan 27th, 2015
Read moreNew battery technology should be able to prevent the kind of fires that grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners in 2013. The innovation is an advanced barrier between the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery.
Jan 27th, 2015
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Researchers have come up with methods to manipulate natural proteins so that they self-assemble into amyloid fibrils.
Jan 26th, 2015
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By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene, scientists have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2D material.
Jan 26th, 2015
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Researchers elucidate how the phase state of aerosol nanoparticles depends on their size.
Jan 26th, 2015
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Researchers observed a molecular shuttle powered by kinesin motor proteins and found it to degrade when operating, marking the first time, they say, that degradation has been studied in detail in an active, autonomous nanomachine.
Jan 26th, 2015
Read moreWill it be possible one day to reconfigure electronic microchips however we want, even when they are in use? A recent discovery suggests as much. The researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to create conductive pathways several atoms wide in a material, to move them around at will and even to make them disappear.
Jan 26th, 2015
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Researchers have found an ingenious way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving graphene's electronic properties. They have accomplished this by bringing a graphene sheet very close to a magnetic insulator - an electrical insulator with magnetic properties.
Jan 26th, 2015
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A team of scientists has developed, for the first time, a microscopic component that is small enough to fit onto a standard silicon chip that can generate a continuous supply of entangled photons.
Jan 26th, 2015
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Chemists have controlled the structure of a material to simultaneously generate both magnetisation and electrical polarisation, an advance which has potential applications in information storage and processing.
Jan 26th, 2015
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Scientists have succeeded in directly imaging how electrons interact within a single molecule.
Jan 26th, 2015
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A new study shows that when the chemotherapy drug Epirubicin is attached to nanodiamonds, the treatment is more effective and patients suffer from less side effects.
Jan 26th, 2015
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Igor Sokolov's nanoscale research could yield better ways to identify and track malignant cells.
Jan 26th, 2015
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