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Diamond is a leading contender as the material of choice for the quantum computer industry. This potential arises mainly from the quantum properties of color centers in diamond. However, before diamond can realize its full potential, the technology to fabricate and sculpt diamond as well as, if not better than, silicon must be developed.
Andrew D. Greentree et al.
The search for superconductivity in copper oxides was motivated by the idea that Jahn–Teller polaron formation could be a novel and much stronger glue for electron pairing than conventional Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer electron–phonon coupling. The consequences of these ideas are unconventional isotope effects and complex pairing symmetries related to multiband superconductivity, which are reviewed here.
New ideas lead to new technologies, and new technologies demand new materials. Quantized matter – atoms – underpinned the 19th century chemical industry and quantized charge – the electron – is the basis of microelectronics.
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| Bryan Kaehr and Jason B. Shear at the University of
Texas at Austin have used multiphoton nonlinear
excitation to fabricate chemically responsive
protein structures embedded in a protein hydrogel
matrix. |
Researchers from the Paul Scherrer
Institut and the École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland
have unveiled the next best thing in
X-ray microscopy by combining the
advantages of two well-established
techniques.
Semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
are promising for electronics because of
their superior properties, particularly their
suitability for flexible applications.
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Wheat is capable of producing a dough with very special structural properties. How does a such a sticky mass become a tasty loaf?
Mark Miodownik
X-ray microscopy makes for super resolution
Promising future for nanotube-based electronics
