#Electrical control of quantum bits in silicon paves the way to large quantum computers (Nanowerk News) A University of New south wales (UNSW)- led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time,
The purified silicon was provided through collaboration with Professor Kohei Itoh from Keio University in Japan n
#New ways to see light and store information (Nanowerk News) Reseachers from the University of Cologne,
Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK) have developed a method that significantly prolongs the lives of charges in organic electronic devices("Organic Electronics:
Yajun Gao and Professor Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht from the University of Cologne have made now substantial progress in this field in collaboration with researchers from Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
Chemists at ITBM, Nagoya University have developed a novel iridium catalyst that enables highly para-selective borylation on benzene,
Nagoya University and the JST-ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project have developed a bulky iridium catalyst that selectively directs a boron moiety to the opposite side of mono-substituted benzene derivatives.
ITBM, Nagoya University) Metal-catalyzed C-H borylation of aromatic rings is considered an efficient way to introduce functional groups to make functional molecules via a boryl moiety.
This week in the journal Applied Physics Letters("Metamaterial electromagnetic energy harvester with near unity efficiency"),researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada report a novel design for electromagnetic energy harvesting based on
The work was coordinated from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and participated by Ramón y Cajal Researcher Dr Inhar Imaz and ICREA Research Prof Daniel Maspoch from the ICN2 Supramolecular Nanochemistry & Materials Group.
which has been coordinated from University of Aveiro (Portugal). The results have been published in Advanced Functional Materials in an article entitled"Lanthaniderganic Framework Nanothermometers Prepared by Spray-Drying".
Now a chemist from the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with chemists from Oxford university has invented a compound
Thomas Just Sørensen is Associate professor at the Department of chemistry, Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen. Together with his English team and his Copenhagen partner, Tom Vosch, he has published the articles:"
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#Bio-inspired eye stabilizes robot's flight without need for an accelerometer Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement-Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille
Computer scientists at Saarland University are studying the potential use of the human body as a touch sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices.
Computer scientists at Saarland University are studying the potential use of the human body as a touch sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices.
A method currently being developed by a team of computer scientists from Saarbrücken in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie mellon University in the USA may provide a solution to this problem.
a Phd student in the team led by Jürgen Steimle at the Cluster of Excellence at Saarland University.
According to recent findings by environmental scientists at Radboud University, the location of the agricultural lands used to grow these biofuel crops has a major impact on the greenhouse gas emission they ultimately produce.
Pieter Elshout and fellow environmental scientists at Radboud University have demonstrated how long it takes for the advantages that biofuels offer over fossil fuels to earn a return on this initial emission On the global scale,
From Western europe to the tropics Elshout, a Phd candidate at Radboud University, explains: Nineteen years sounds like a long time,
Now researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a simple way to do exactly that.
Xiao-Min Lin et al, taken using a scanning electron microscope at the University of Chicago) The findings open the way for scientists to design membranes with tunable electrical,
Yoke Khin Yap, a professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, has worked with a research team that created these digital switches by combining graphene and boron nitride nanotubes.
#Artificial blood vessels become resistant to thrombosis Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation.
head of the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University proposed a solution to the problem.
an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at the University of Melbourne, was published today in Advanced Materials("Multifunctional Thrombin-Activatable Polymer Capsules for Specific Targeting to Activated Platelets").
"Through a combination of high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (CRYO EM) and a unique methodology for image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules
Last year a multi-discipline research team led by South korea Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) director Young Hee
A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has produced recently some promising results toward that goal,
and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a methodology to temporarily enhance the stiffness of a long, high-aspect-ratio flexible microneedle (e g.,<
Imperial College London and the University of Buenos aires have published the results of a study testing a silicon nanodevice in the journal Nature Communications("Non-plasmonic nanoantennas for surface enhanced spectroscopies with ultra-low
and functions for sustaining microbial life (Nanowerk News) A new study led by bioengineers at the University of California,
says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Albertas Faculty of medicine & Dentistry. Were moving towards a very logical type of treatment for genetic diseases,
says John Slater, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware. Now, Slater and a team of researchers from Duke university, Baylor College of Medicine and Rice university have developed an image-based,
& Astronomy at Stony Brook University, is one outside earths solar system at 100 light years away.
Stanimir Metchev, a Physics & Astronomy Professor at Western University in Canada and at Stony Brook University, is a co-investigator on the scientific study,
and optoelectronics devices("Observation of tunable bandgap and anisotropic Dirac semimetal state in black phosphorus").The research team operating out of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH),
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University, explained:""Over the last decade, we have established an ecosystem for photonic quantum technologies,
"The University of Bristol's pioneering'Quantum in the Cloud'is the first and only service to make a quantum processor publicly accessible
NUS)( click on image to enlarge) The team from the National University of Singapore (NUS)- Mr Li Changjian, a graduate student from the NUS Graduate school for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Assistant professor Ariando and Professor
who is a Phd graduate from NUSNNI, working with Professor Hans Hilgenkamp at the MESA+Institute of the University of Twente in The netherlands.
Drexel University researchers are testing an array of new combinations that may vastly expand the options available to create faster, smaller, more efficient energy storage, advanced electronics and wear-resistant materials.
That order was imposed by Michel W. Barsoum, Phd and Yury Gogotsi, Phd, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and head of the Drexel Nanomaterials Group
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory along with collaborators at Binghamton University and the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin show that La1-xsrxcro3 (LSCO) is a new p-type TCO with considerable potential.
a professor of physics at Tsinghua University in China who was involved not in this work. The three areas, he says,
Now Northwestern University engineers have examined a wide variety of surfaces that can do just that--and, better yet,
#Information storage and retrieval in a single levitating colloidal particle Thanks to this new technique developed by scientists at the University of Zurich,
Professor of Physical chemistry at the University of Zurich, succeeded in the controlled spatial manipulation of matter on the nanometer scale.
Inspired by this result, Michi-To Suzuki and Ryotaro Arita from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, in collaboration with Hiroaki Ikeda from Ritsumeikan University in Japan, investigated the mechanism of electron pairing in 2si2
imec associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.
A fine-grain version of the proven meander interconnect technology was developed by the CMST lab at Ghent University
who is also the Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of California Berkeley,
Alivisatos and Ralph Nuzzo of the University of Illinois are the corresponding authors of a paper in ACS Photonics describing this research entitled Quantum dot Luminescent Concentrator Cavity Exhibiting 30-fold Concentration.
The success of this Cdse/Cds nanoparticle-based LSC system led to a partnership between Berkeley Lab, the University of Illinois, Caltech and the National Renewable energy Lab (NREL) on a new solar
#Biodiesel made easier and cleaner with waste-recycling catalyst Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.
"Professor Matthew Rosseinsky, Professor of Inorganic chemistry at the University of Liverpool, who was not part of the study,
and Bioengineering at Tufts University and their collaborators have developed successfully a 3-dimensional (3d) tissue-engineered model of bone marrow that can produce functional human platelets outside the body (ex vivo).
and food supplements Researchers at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) developed a nanostructured system capable of protecting the active compounds of juices and nutritional supplements from high temperatures during the pasteurization process,
"said the university academic. In addition to improving retention of betacarotene in thermal processes, the use of nanocapsules can be applied to other antioxidants in processes such as sterilization or UHT.
which aims to promote the culture of industrial property in the university. This scientific development is in the process of patenting.
Scientists at the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have devised an ultra-thin invisibility"skin"cloak that can conform to the shape
a George Holmes University Professor of physics. ou don have to do this on the fly. aving a way to know what youe inputting into an unknown situation is important.
Collaborators on the project are from the University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Princeton university, and Johns hopkins university.
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering) In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials("3d Printed Anatomical Nerve Regeneration Pathways),
"said University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor Michael Mcalpine, the study's lead researcher.""Someday we hope that we could have a 3d scanner
#Darwin on a chip Researchers of the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology and the CTIT Institute for ICT Research at the University of Twente in The netherlands have demonstrated working electronic circuits that have been produced in a radically new way,
Moving away from designed circuits The approach of the researchers at the University of Twente is based on methods that resemble those found in Nature.
The system, designed by by scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, has the potential to fine-tune temperature distribution
said Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Houston and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity,
#Permanent data storage with light The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) and the universities of Münster, Oxford, and Exeter.
the University of Münster, Oxford university, and Exeter University have developed now the first all-optical, nonvolatile on-chip memory. ptical bits can be written at frequencies of up to a gigahertz.
This allows for extremely quick data storage by our all-photonic memory, Professor Wolfram Pernice explains.
and recently moved to the University of Münster. he memory is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
#Pushing the limits of lensless imaging Using ultrafast beams of extreme ultraviolet light streaming at a 100,000 times a second, researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
"explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher.""The computer emulates the lens."
Zürch and a team of researchers from Jena University used a special, custom-built ultrafast laser that fires extreme ultraviolet photons a hundred times faster than conventional table-top machines.
"Valentyn Volkov is the co-lead author, a visiting professor from the University of Southern Denmark.
"Professor David Wright, from the University of Exeters Engineering department said: With our prototype we have, for the first time,
Professor Wolfram Pernice, from the Institute of Physics at Mnster University and who led the work said:
Ph d.,the Benjamin Mayhugh Associate professor of Mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota. The work is described in the August 12, 2015 issue of Nano Letters("3d Printed Programmable Release Capsules".
#Ultrathin graphene oxide lens could revolutionise next-gen devices Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, collaborating with Monash University,
have developed an ultrathin, flat, ultra-lightweight graphene oxide optical lens with unprecedented flexibility. The ultrathin lens enables potential applications in on-chip nanophotonics
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal."
"said Sahar Mashid, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study."
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
"An international team, formed by scientists at the Italian Institute of technology (Italy), the University Jaume I (Spain),
the IBM research lab Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) demonstrated a radically new approach to manipulate the light emission of quantum dots.
#Flexible microfluidic tactile sensor for robotics, electronics and healthcare applications A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of engineering has developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile
#Ultrafast lasers offer 3-D micropatterning of biocompatible hydrogels Tufts University biomedical engineers are using low energy,
Schmidt's lab at UC Santa cruz worked with researchers at Brigham Young University and UC Berkeley to develop the system.
according to research that has primarily been conducted at the University of Gothenburg. Nuclear fusion is a process
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Iceland has been to study a new type of nuclear fusion process.
"says Leif Holmlid, Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg. No radiation The new fusion process can take place in relatively small laser-fired fusion reactors fuelled by heavy hydrogen (deuterium.
#A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work A team of scientists at the University of Washington
#Tattoo-like electronic health patches may now be cheaper and easier to make A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-performing wearable patches
#Highest efficiency hydrogen production under natural sunlight Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Miyazaki University have produced hydrogen under natural sunlight at an energy conversion efficiency of 24.4,
The University of Tokyo) and Associate professor Kensuke Nishioka (Miyazaki University) used concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules,
#Brightness-equalized quantum dots improve biological imaging Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have introduced a new class of light-emitting quantum dots (QDS) with tunable and equalized fluorescence brightness
Alfred Leitenstorfer at the University of Konstanz (Germany) has succeeded in doing just that. They demonstrated a first direct observation of the so-called vacuum fluctuations by using short light pulses
The research team at the University of Konstanz developed these technologies in-house and also an exact description of the results based on quantum field theory.
Now researchers at the University of Rochester have demonstrated a key achievement in shrinking photonic devices below the diffraction limit--a necessary step on the road to making photonic circuits competitive with today's technology.
"said Kenneth Goodfellow, a graduate student in the laboratory of the Quantum Optoelectronics and Optical Metrology Group, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, New york."
#Developing a nanoscale'clutch'A model microscopic system to demonstrate the transmission of torque in the presence of thermal fluctuations-necessary for the creation of a tiny'clutch'operating at the nanoscale-has been assembled at the University of Bristol as part of an international collaboration (Nature
Dr Paddy Royall of the University of Bristol said:""This device looks a lot like a washing machine,
In addition to the experiments performed at the University of Bristol, physicists at the University of Düsseldorf have developed model computer simulations to further investigate torque coupling at the nanoscale.
This enables the measurement of nanomachine efficiency, which is small but can be optimised through careful control of the system parameters.
Professor Hartmut Loewen of the University of Düsseldorf d
#A quantum logic gate in silicon built for the for the first time (w/video) The significant advance, by a team at the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature("A two-qubit logic gate in silicon"."
""What we have is a game changer, "said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW."
But the UNSW team-working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan's Keio University-has done just that for the first time.
researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic
Meni Wanunu, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, says the group work with graphene membranes may significantly improve on commercial membranes used for water purification,
At the University of Hamburg these exotic magnetic structures were recently found to exist in ultrathin magnetic layers and multilayers,
Now researchers from the University of Hamburg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel have demonstrated that skyrmions can be detected much more easily because of a drastic change of the electrical resistance in these magnetic whirls("Electrical detection of magnetic skyrmions by tunnelling non-collinear magnetoresistance".
Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also
In collaboration with theoretical physicists from the University of Kiel the researchers were able to identify the origin of the resistance change in the magnetic whirl:
Stefan Heinze from the University of Kiel. When the electrons are travelling through a magnetic whirl,
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and simulation and is the result of an international cooperation involving researchers from the Institute of Structural biology (ISB, CEA/CNRS/Joseph Fourier University) in Grenoble, France, Purdue University, USA,
Francesco Ricci, of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, senior co-author of the study.""This DNA nanomachine can be modified in fact custom
Valle-Blisle of the University of Montreal, the other senior co-author of the paper.""It is rapid,
Kevin Plaxco of the University of California, Santa barbara.""The materials needed for one assay cost about 15 cents,
Ricci at the University of Rome and first-author of the paper.""For example, we could adapt our platform
Kendra Frederick, a former Whitehead postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern,
Atif Shamim and Swanlund Chair Professor John Rogers of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, reports their findings in the October 6, 2015 online edition of Advanced Functional Materials
Alexander Rohrbach conducts research at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and is an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg g
and electrons to read data Scientists from Kiel University and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
""Six plus seven makes three-plus one carried over",calculated Professor Hermann Kohlstedt, Head of the Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University.
"The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk University in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal (Nature Communications,"Direct oriented growth of armchair graphene nanoribbons on germanium").
Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical center designed a new delivery system for these drugs that,
when coupled with a drug developed at the University of Rochester School of medicine and Dentistry, rid immune cells of HIV and kept the virus in check for long periods.
#Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces A Tufts University chemist has discovered a way to select specific surfaces of single-crystal ice for study,
"said Mary jane Shultz, Ph d.,professor of chemistry in the School of arts and Sciences at Tufts University."
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
Scientists and engineers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), headquartered at the University of New south wales (UNSW),
Now, the CQC2T collaboration, involving theoretical and experimental researchers from the University of Melbourne and UNSW, has designed such a device.
"says University of Melbourne Professor Lloyd Hollenberg, Deputy Director of the CQC2T who led the work with colleague Dr Charles Hill."
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
The electron microscope images, created by scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory with partners from Stony Brook University and Rockefeller University,
an essential function for every living cell,"said Huilin Li, a biologist with a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University."
and provided by Roxana Georgescu in Michael O'Donnell's research group at Rockefeller University.
"several University of Delaware researchers show how a new peptide-based hydrogel could one day make that reconnection process easier to perform
Konstantin Novoselov's lab at the University of Manchester UK, studied the transport mechanism of the sensors.
a team of bioengineers at Rice university and surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels that points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation.
#Scientists discover the gene that will open the door for space-based food production Queensland University of Technology (QUT) scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved the sensitivity of these materials,
and prove to be an important practice to help reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer, Parkinson and other neurological diseases, according to researchers at Stony Brook University.
Stony Brook University researchers Hedok Lee, Phd, Helene Benveniste, MD, Phd, and colleagues, discovered that a lateral sleeping position is the best position to most efficiently remove waste from the brain.
Dr. Benveniste, Principal investigator and a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at Stony Brook University School of medicine, has used dynamic contrast MRI for several years to examine the glymphatic pathway in rodent models.
Their colleagues at the University of Rochester including Lulu Xie, Rashid Deane and Maiken Nedergaard, Phd,
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
and a Chinese-language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
says David Temperley, a professor at the University of Rochester, who along with his Rochester colleague Daniel Gildea has authored co a study comparing dependency length in English
including Lohitash Karumbaiah of the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center, has developed a brain-friendly extracellular matrix environment of neuronal cells that contain very little foreign material.
and Mark Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, found that the extracellular matrix derived electrodes adapted to the mechanical properties of brain tissue
and is chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology and Emory University,
Charlene Betourney University of Georgiaimage Source: The image is credited to the researchersoriginal Research: Full open access research for mall-Molecule-Driven Direct Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblasts into Functional Neuronsby Xiang Li, Xiaohan Zuo, Junzhan Jing, Yantao Ma,
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
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