News from the NNI Community - Research Advances Funded by Agencies Participating in the NNI

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(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with their colleagues at the University of Hamburg in Germany, have imaged an exotic quantum particle that can be used as a building block for future qubits and eventually the realization of quantum computers.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) $4.8 million over the next five years to establish a Center for Nanotechnology Research and Education (CNRE) as part of the NSF Center of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) Program.  The CNRE’s mission is to utilize UDC faculty’s core expertise in nanotechnology to establish a nationally recognized center of excellence to realize UDC’s goals of supporting student research and professional development.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) $4.8 million over the next five years to establish a Center for Nanotechnology Research and Education (CNRE) as part of the NSF Center of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) Program.  The CNRE’s mission is to utilize UDC faculty’s core expertise in nanotechnology to establish a nationally recognized center of excellence to realize UDC’s goals of supporting student research and professional development.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U.S. Department of Energy)

Rice University theoretical researchers have discovered that nanotubes with segregated sections of “zigzag” and “armchair” facets growing from a solid catalyst are far more energetically stable than a circular arrangement would be.

(Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the U.S. Department of Energy)

Rice University theoretical researchers have discovered that nanotubes with segregated sections of “zigzag” and “armchair” facets growing from a solid catalyst are far more energetically stable than a circular arrangement would be.

(Funded by the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation)

Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound, called phonons. The device could eventually lead to smaller, more efficient quantum computers that operate by manipulating sound rather than light.

(Funded by the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation)

Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound, called phonons. The device could eventually lead to smaller, more efficient quantum computers that operate by manipulating sound rather than light.

(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

A scientist, a multimedia artist, and a professor of computer music have been combining their expertise to convert x-ray scattering data of nanomaterial structures into sound.

(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

A scientist, a multimedia artist, and a professor of computer music have been combining their expertise to convert x-ray scattering data of nanomaterial structures into sound.

(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation)

Physicists at Stanford University have stumbled upon a novel form of magnetism, predicted but never seen before, that is generated when two honeycomb-shaped lattices of carbon are carefully stacked and rotated to a special angle. The authors suggest the magnetism, called orbital ferromagnetism, could prove useful for certain applications, such as quantum computing.