Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Stanford collaborators at the Q-NEXT quantum center amp up the signal from tin atoms embedded in diamond, opening possibilities for quantum networking. The future of tin-based qubits is brighter thanks to breakthrough work by Stanford University researchers supported through a quantum research center led by...
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How DNA could power future quantum computers
Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk News) A recent study by researchers from Peking University demonstrates the potential of nuclear electric resonance to control the nuclear spins of nitrogen atoms in DNA using electric field gradients, thereby achieving artificial intervention to manipulate DNA for computation. Utilizing molecular dynamics simulations, quantum chemical computations...
Emission of single photons of light in nanoribbons
Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Experiments conducted at Montana State University in collaboration with Columbia University and the Honda Research Institute have resulted in the emission of single photons of light in a new type of quantum material — a feat that could lead to the development of controllable light...
Microscopic robots target and destroy antibiotic resistant bacteria in infected eyes
Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Bacterial eye infections blind millions globally each year, and current antibiotics increasingly fail to stop them. When bacteria develop resistance to drugs, they can withstand our most powerful medications - leaving doctors with few options to save patients' vision. This crisis hits hardest in cases...
Fox and rabbit in the quantum world
Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Basel have shown that quantum systems can have antagonistic interactions, too – one agent attracts the other, but the other way around, there is a repulsion. Such interactions could be realized using cold atoms that are coupled to each other....
Detecting edges at the speed of light
Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Physicists from the group of Jorik van de Groep at the UvA-Institute of Physics have devised a new method that can be used to detect edges of images in an extremely energy efficient and ultrafast way. The results were recently published in the journal ACS...
Finding better photovoltaic materials faster with AI
Jan 23, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Perovskite solar cells are a flexible and sustainable alternative to conventional silicon-based solar cells. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are part of an international team that was able to find – within only a few weeks – new organic molecules that increase...
Can DNA-nanoparticle motors reach the same speed as motor proteins?
Jan 22, 2025 (Nanowerk News) DNA-nanoparticle motors are exactly as they sound: tiny artificial motors that use the structures of DNA and RNA to propel motion by enzymatic RNA degradation. Essentially, chemical energy is converted into mechanical motion by biasing the Brownian motion. The DNA-nanoparticle motor uses the "burnt-bridge" Brownian...
3D architected materials that adapt and protect (w/video)
Jan 22, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Experiments from the Caltech lab of Chiara Daraio, G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, have yielded a fascinating new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses as a fluid would...
Catching a Black Hole’s turbulent accretion flow
Jan 22, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the centre of Messier 87 (M87*). This study marks a significant step towards multi-year analysis at horizon scales, in order to investigate the...