Energy-saving Paint Inspired by Butterflies Needs 0.3% Paint by Weight

University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, has drawn inspiration from butterflies to create the first environmentally friendly, large-scale and multicolor alternative to pigment-based colorants, which can contribute to energy-saving efforts and help reduce global warming. Instead of pigment-based colored paint, which requires artificially synthesized molecules, a UCF …

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Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge which can enable clusters of quantum computers

By forcefully embedding two silicon atoms in a diamond matrix, Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together. “People have already built small quantum computers,” says Sandia researcher Ryan Camacho. “Maybe the first useful one won’t be …

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