In a significant advancement for boosting renewable energy generation development, the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has taken the lead in breaking through studies of the nanoscale properties…
Category: Nanotech
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Intel 18a, TSMC N2 Make Tiniest SRAMs
Last week at the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), two of the biggest rivals in advanced chipmaking, Intel and TSMC, detailed the capabilities of the key memory circuits, SRAM, built using their newest technologies,
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Mesoporous silicon: Semiconductor with new talents
Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material’s properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB has now produced mesoporous silicon layers with…
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From defect to high-tech material
Cadmium selenide nanoplatelets provide a promising foundation for the development of innovative electronic materials. Since the turn of the millennium, researchers around the world have taken a particular interest in these tiny platelets, which…
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Mimicking shark skin to create clean cutting boards
Keeping work surfaces clean during meat processing is a challenge. Bacteria from meat can attach, grow, and build up to create a biofilm that is difficult to remove, even on stainless steel surfaces used in industrial facilities. It can also…
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DNA origami suggests route to reusable, multifunctional biosensors
Using an approach called DNA origami, scientists at Caltech have developed a technique that could lead to cheaper, reusable biomarker sensors for quickly detecting proteins in bodily fluids, eliminating the need to send samples out to lab centers…
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Flawed Diamonds Make Perfect Quantum Sensors
Quantum sensors take the biggest roadblock for quantum computers—unwanted interference, or noise—and turn it into a strength. Noise wrecks quantum computers because the quantum states they use for computation are affected by the slightest…
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Highly uniform nanocrystals synthesized by liquid crystalline antisolvent
A research team led by Professors Young-Ki Kim and Yong-Young Noh at POSTECH has developed a groundbreaking method for synthesizing perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs), a next-generation semiconductor material, in a more uniform and efficient manner….
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Deep Nanometry reveals hidden nanoparticles
Researchers including those from the University of Tokyo developed Deep Nanometry, an analytical technique combining advanced optical equipment with a noise removal algorithm based on unsupervised deep learning. Deep Nanometry can analyze…
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Towards new battery tech: Chemists demonstrate high-performance sodium-ion cathode
For decades, scientists have sought ways to counter our dependence on lithium-ion batteries. These traditional, rechargeable batteries energize today’s most ubiquitous consumer electronics — from laptops to cell phones to electric cars. But raw…
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