Latest physica status solidi article highlights (May 2012)
Technology
Comparing MRI Contrasts
Gossuin, Sandre, et al. describe the design of magnetic nanoparticles with optimised relaxivity for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and CalCEF Galvanize California's Battery Industry
New partnership, CalCharge, to foster California’s blossoming battery innovation ecosystem.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for April 2012
Magnetic recording, solid state lighting, graphene – the most downloaded pss articles from April.
Carbon Meta-Nanotubes – Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Professor Dirk Guldi reviews Carbon Meta-Nanotubes – Synthesis, Properties, and Applications.
New Electrochemistry Prize Announced
BASF and Volkswagen announce the annual “Science Award Electrochemistry”, with a 50,000EUR prize on offer.
Synthetic Scent Hounds: Nanotechnology to Detect Explosives
Nanostructured sensor for the detection of very low concentrations of explosive.
New Carbon Materials for Faster Computers and Better Mobile Phones
Graphene and carbon nanotubes could improve the electronics used in computers and mobile phones, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Get free access to the best biomedical materials papers, including work on tissue engineering, drug delivery, bioimaging, and more.
Warm atoms for a long memory: Implementing quantum computing
One of the exciting potential applications of electromagnetically induced transparency and slow and stored light is for practical realization of quantum memory, and, ultimately, quantum computing. Recent advances using ensembles of warm atoms in vapor cells have been made.
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