Nanosurgical tool could be key to cancer breakthrough

Mar 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The high-tech double-barrel nanopipette, developed by University of Leeds scientists, and applied to the global medical challenge of cancer, has - for the first time - enabled researchers to see how individual living cancer cells react to treatment and change over time – providing vital...

Making quantum bits fly

Mar 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Quantum computers are considered the next big evolutionary step in information technology. They are expected to solve computing problems that today's computers simply cannot solve – or would take ages to do so. Research groups around the world are working on making the quantum computer...

Charge fractionalisation observed spectroscopically

Mar 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute has spectroscopically observed fractionalisation of electronic charge in an iron-based metallic ferromagnet. Experimental observation of the phenomenon is not only of fundamental importance. Since it appears in an alloy of common metals at accessible temperatures, it...

A breakthrough for neuromorphic devices with high-performance spin-wave reservoir computing

Mar 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A group of Tohoku University researchers has developed a theoretical model for a high-performance spin wave reservoir computing (RC) that utilizes spintronics technology. The breakthrough moves scientists closer to realizing energy-efficient, nanoscale computing with unparalleled computational power. Details of their findings were published in npj...

Enhancing covalent organic framework diversity through isomerism

Mar 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology for the first time discovered the selective generation of three types of structural isomers (a set of different nanostructures with an identical chemical composition) of three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (3D-COFs), emerging nanoporous solids proposed for many applications, creating new...