Chinese tech makes desalinating seawater cheaper than producing bottled water
Desalination has always been an energy-hungry way of turning salt water into fresh water, making it largely the…
Room-Temperature Quantum Computing? A Superlattice Breakthrough Could Be Poised to Help Supercharge Information Science
A novel phase of matter has been achieved by a team of American researchers, finally realizing a theoretical…
Quantum beats of exciton-polarons in CsPbI3 perovskite nanocrystals
Photon echo and long coherence of zero-phonon exciton The ensemble of CsPbI3 NCs is synthesized in a fluorophosphate…
Molecular quantum-dot orbital hybridization supports efficient endothermic singlet exciton fission
Daiber, B. et al. Change in tetracene polymorphism facilitates triplet transfer in singlet fission-sensitized silicon solar cells. J.…
Accurate determination of the 3D atomic structure of amorphous materials
Nomura, K. et al. Room-temperature fabrication of transparent flexible thin-film transistors using amorphous oxide semiconductors. Nature 432, 488–492…
Strange Quantum Effects Persist in Surprisingly Large Particles, New Research Reveals
Pushing quantum mechanics into new territory, recent research is showing that objects far larger than individual atoms can…
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
Quantum and classical model The theory of Talbot–Lau interference is best formulated in phase space using the Wigner–Weyl…
Brownian spin-locking effect | Nature Materials
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Tiny robots swim through blood, deliver drugs — and then dissolve
The tiny, drug-filled robots are guided through blood vessels using magnets.Credit: Luca Donati/lad.studio Zürich A remote-controlled robot the…
Harnessing “DNA surgery” to develop therapeutic medicines for genetic liver and heart diseases
Genome editing is increasingly recognzed as a leading frontier in biomedical research and an essential driver of healthcare…
Nanostructures boost CRISPR delivery for genetic medicine
With the power to rewrite the genetic code underlying countless diseases, CRISPR holds immense promise to revolutionize medicine.…
Quantum state unlocked in object at room temperature in world-first
Researchers at the University of Wien (TU Wien) in collaboration with those at ETH Zurich have unlocked quantum…