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The art of custom-intercalating 42 metals into layered titanates

A research team affiliated with UNIST has reported a novel synthesis strategy that enables the direct intercalation of a wide range of metal cations into the interlayer spaces of layered titanate (LT) structures. This approach opens new possibilities for designing highly tailored catalysts and energy storage materials for specific industrial applications.

Professors Seungho Cho (Department of Materials Science and Engineering), Kwangjin An (School of Energy and Chemical Engineering), and Hu Young Jeong (Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering) at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Jeong Woo Han from Seoul National University, report this advancement in Advanced Materials.

Nanoparticles That Destroy Disease Proteins Could Unlock New Treatments for Dementia and Cancer

Scientists have developed a new nanoparticle-based strategy that could dramatically expand the range of disease-causing proteins that can be targeted by modern medicine. A newly released perspective in Nature Nanotechnology describes an emerging nanoparticle-based approach designed to remove harm

Scientists Uncover Hidden Weakness in Quantum Encryption

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a next generation method for protecting digital communications by drawing on the fundamental behavior of quantum particles. Instead of relying on mathematical complexity alone, QKD allows two users to establish a shared secret key in a way that is inherently resistant to interception, even if the communication channel itself is not private.

When an unauthorized observer attempts to extract information, the quantum states carrying the data are unavoidably altered, creating telltale disturbances that signal a potential security breach.

The real-world performance of QKD systems, however, depends on precise control of the physical link between sender and receiver. One of the most influential factors is pointing error, which occurs when the transmitted beam does not perfectly align with the receiving device.

Legendary Doom developer John Carmack theorizes that the world’s tech could run on outdated hardware if it was properly optimized

Id Software co-founder and programmer John Carmack shared a theory that if „optimization was truly a priority… modern tech could run on outdated hardware.

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