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Aug 25, 2016
Defect-engineered graphene improves supercapacitors
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, nanotechnology
Execellent.
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Aug 23, 2016
U of California: Nano submarines could change healthcare, says nanoengineer professor
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, entertainment, nanotechnology
Rebirth of the 1960s cult classic “Fantastic Voyage”; however, this time its not a movie.
When asked what exactly a “nano submarine” was, University of California San Diego chair of nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang described it as like something taken from the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, where medical personnel board a submarine were shrunk to microscopic size to travel through the bloodstream of a wounded diplomat and save his life.
Professor Wang said his team was getting closer to the goal of using nano submarines in a variety of ways, minus the shrunken humans and sabotage of the 1966 film.
Aug 23, 2016
Thermoelectric paper devices utilize waste heat to power electronics and sensors (w/video)
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, nanotechnology, quantum physics
Luv this!!!
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Aug 22, 2016
5 Incredible Ways Scientists Are Merging Our Brains With Machines
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: biotech/medical, computing, nanotechnology, neuroscience
I’ve been reading Ramez Naam’s fantastic book “Nexus,” which is set in a near-future where a powerful nano-drug allows human minds to connect together. In the story, a group of enterprising neuroscientists and engineers discover they can use the drug in a new way — to run a computer operating system inside their brains. Naam’s characters telepathically communicate with each other using a mental chat app and even manipulate other people’s bodies by gaining control of their brains’ operating systems.
Sounds far-fetched, right?
It might not be as far-fetched as you think. From connecting a human brain to a basic tablet to help a paralyzed patient communicate with the outside world to memory-boosting brain implants and a prototype computer chip that runs on live neurons — the real world progress we’re seeing today is nearly as strange as fiction.
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Aug 22, 2016
Spin Nano-Systems Result in New Type of Quantum Bits
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, nanotechnology, quantum physics
Excellent progress.
The rapid progress that has been sweeping the field of crystal growth and related device technology is opening doors. Perhaps nowhere is the effect of this evolution being felt more than in the development of ultra-small structures whose material properties can be controlled on the nanoscale. The reason for this development: because solid-state nano–structures possess unique optical and electronic properties, they have the potential to be the launching pad of a new generation of devices.
Within the field, researchers are particularly focused on the properties of spins confined within the nano-structures – with the ultimate goal being to use spin nano-systems to develop, for example, robust quantum bits (qubits) capable of storing vast amounts of information. Here, the EU -funded S^3NANO project has successfully developed qubits in a new, innovative form. According to project researchers, these qubits could serve as the information units of the quantum computers of the future.
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Aug 19, 2016
Super Stretchy Nanowires May Pave The Way For Flexible Electronics
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: electronics, nanotechnology
Aug 19, 2016
Nanotech Could Blow Artificial Intelligence Wide Open: Here’s How
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Aug 17, 2016
Exploring the promise of the quantum realm
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: engineering, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics, security, terrorism, transportation
Nice work; understanding the quantum effects in nanomechanical systems is closer to reality in being achieved. Imagine a nanobot or microbot with quantum mechanic properties.
Rob Knobel is probing the ultimate limits of nanomechanical systems to develop and build tiny vapour sensors, which could be used as airport security tools to prevent terrorism or drug smuggling.
He and his students are using highly specialized equipment in the $5-million Kingston Nano Fabrication Laboratory (KNFL), which opened a year ago in Innovation Park, to fabricate nanosensors made from graphene, a form of carbon a single atom thick.
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Aug 13, 2016
Turning Quantum Theories Into Quantum Technologies
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, nanotechnology, quantum physics
ACQUIRE researchers will confront major challenges in a four-year quest to engineer a quantum communication system on a chip. The chip will need to operate at room temperature with low energy in a fiber optic network with entangled photons.
Currently, such a communication system may be demonstrated in laboratories, but only at cryogenic (very low) temperatures, and with bulky, energy-intensive equipment. However, a fundamental understanding of quantum physics and optical materials, as well as recent progress in nanoscale photonic integration, have brought communication systems scaled to the quantum level within reach.
If successful, the ACQUIRE teams’ results will begin to realize the hardware needed for secure and efficient quantum communication. The findings from the ACQUIRE projects will also advance quantum sensing and computing.
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