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Nanotubes – grow or go?

by Nicole Grobert

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were first identified by Morinobu Endo et al. [1] in the late 1970s and caused tremendous interest when Sumio Iijima published his paper in Nature in 1991 [2]. A number of synthesis techniques have been established and it is possible to produce quantities of CNTs sufficient to conduct further research and use in the first applications.

Virtually every research article on CNTs refers to their extraordinary properties and potential for future applications. Some ...

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Diamond wedding for spin couple

by John J. L. Morton

The field of quantum computation is replete with wide-ranging proposals, each looking to marry robustness against decoherence with the ability to couple and measure individual quantum bits (qubits). Although the electron spin associated with a nitrogen vacancy (NV) centre in diamond is a relative newcomer, recent results have thrust it towards the very forefront of candidates for solid-state quantum-information processing [Ref 1]. Gaebel et al. show that spin-coherence lifetimes for isolated NV ...