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Rice University researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into ...

A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and the University of ...

The revelation that electrons in the single-atom-thick material known as graphene can act much like a frictionless fluid is a ...

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UNSW quantum engineers have created quantum entanglement between two distant atoms in silicon using electrons as a bridge.UNSW engineers ...

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Scientists reveal for the first time the atomic structure of liquid carbon, key to exoplanets and nuclear fusion.

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