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    Electron Spin Control: Levitated Nanodiamond is Research Gem

    July 20, 2016, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    This is a schematic of an optical tweezer used in a vacuum chamber by Purdue University researchers, who controlled the "electron spin" of a levitated nanodiamond. The advance could find applications in quantum information processing, sensors and studies into the fundamental physics of quantum mechanics. Credit: Purdue University image/ Tongcang Li

    This is a schematic of an optical tweezer used in a vacuum chamber by Purdue University researchers, who controlled the “electron spin” of a levitated nanodiamond. The advance could find applications in quantum information processing, sensors and studies into the fundamental physics of quantum mechanics. Credit: Purdue University image/ Tongcang Li

    Researchers have demonstrated how to control the “electron spin” of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a vacuum, an advance that could find applications in quantum information processing, sensors, quantum mechanics studies, and measurement of magnetic and gravitational fields, which could be applied to computer memory and experiments to search for deviations from Newton’s law of gravitation. .

    Electrons can be thought of as havin...

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    Successful embedding of Powerful Magnetic Memory Chip on a Flexible Plastic material

    July 19, 2016, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    Associate Professor Yang Hyunsoo from the National University of Singapore, who led a research team to successfully embed a powerful magnetic memory chip on a plastic material, demonstrating the flexibility of the memory chip. Credit: National University of Singapore

    Associate Professor Yang Hyunsoo from the National University of Singapore, who led a research team to successfully embed a powerful magnetic memory chip on a plastic material, demonstrating the flexibility of the memory chip. Credit: National University of Singapore

    This malleable memory chip is a breakthrough in the flexible electronics revolution, and brings researchers a step closer towards making flexible, wearable electronics a reality in the near future. It looks like a small piece of transparent film with tiny engravings on it, and is flexible enough to be bent into a tube. Yet, this piece of “smart” plastic demonstrates excellent performance in terms of data storage and processing capabilities.

    Such devices have great potential in applications such as automotive, healthcare electr...

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    Upsizing Nanostructures into Light, Flexible 3D Printed Metallic materials

    July 18, 2016, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics, Chemistry/Nanotechnology

    Researchers have developed hierarchical metallic metamaterial with multi-layered, fractal-like 3-D architectures to create structures at centimeter scales incorporating nanoscale features. Credit: Jim Stroup/Virginia Tech

    Researchers have developed hierarchical metallic metamaterial with multi-layered, fractal-like 3-D architectures to create structures at centimeter scales incorporating nanoscale features. Credit: Jim Stroup/Virginia Tech

    For years, materials have been made at the nanoscale level to take advantage of their mechanical, optical, and energy properties, but efforts to scale these materials to larger sizes have resulted in diminished performance and structural integrity. Now, researchers describe a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, 7 orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3D architectures.

    Strikingly, these multiscale metallic materials have displayed super elasticity because of their design...

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    Tiny Transformers: Chemists create Microscopic and Malleable Building Blocks

    July 18, 2016, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    A team of NYU chemists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials. The research focused on engineering particles a micrometer in width -- about 1/200th the width of a strand of human hair (on which the particles [pink and blue] are placed in the above image). Credit: Image courtesy of the Sacanna lab.

    A team of NYU chemists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials. The research focused on engineering particles a micrometer in width — about 1/200th the width of a strand of human hair (on which the particles [pink and blue] are placed in the above image). Credit: Image courtesy of the Sacanna lab.

    Taking a page from Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” a team of scientists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials...

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