Engineers at Caltech have shown that atoms in optical cavities—tiny boxes for light—could be foundational to the creation of a quantum internet. Their work was published on March 30 by the journal Nature.
Quantum Physics
Mar 30, 2020
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Scientists have designed a catalyst composed of very low concentrations of platinum (single atoms and clusters smaller than billionths of a meter) on the surface of titanium dioxide. They demonstrated how this catalyst significantly ...
Materials Science
Mar 26, 2020
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Since its discovery in 2014, phosphorene—a sheet of phosphorus atoms only a single atom thick—has intrigued scientists due to its unique optoelectronic anisotropy. In other words, electrons interact with light and move ...
General Physics
Mar 25, 2020
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Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reported a strategy to fabricate single-atom catalysts (SACs). They synthesized more than thirty different ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 23, 2020
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Scientists and engineers working at the frontier of nanotechnology face huge challenges. When the position of a single atom in a material may change the fundamental properties of that material, scientists need something in ...
General Physics
Mar 6, 2020
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Scientists have been interested in superconductors—materials that transmit electricity without losing energy—for a long time because of their potential for advancing sustainable energy production. However, major advances ...
Superconductivity
Mar 3, 2020
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Measuring a quantum system causes it to change—one of the strange but fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. Researchers at Stockholm University have now been able to demonstrate how this change happens. The results ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 26, 2020
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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have shown that single platinum atoms trapped in C12A7 crystals act as a stable and effective catalyst for the hydrogenation of nitroarenes, an essential process in ...
Materials Science
Feb 24, 2020
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a surprising feature in two-dimensional (2-D) magnets, a new class of materials receiving a great deal of attention. Their finding is ...
Nanophysics
Feb 19, 2020
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Because of their maximum atom-utilization efficiency and unique catalytic properties, single-atom catalysts (SACs) have sparked intense interests in recent years. However, most of the reported SACs are limited to single-site ...
Materials Science
Feb 6, 2020
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