Disruptive noise is almost everywhere, from people talking in the office corridor to road construction down the street to the neighbor’s lawn mower. Research being conducted at the University of Illinois’ Coordinated Science Laboratory is looking to improve this noisy frustration. Current noise cancelling technology comes in the form of headphones and earbuds. To cancel…
Robust New Process Forms 3-D Shapes from Glat Sheets of Graphene
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new approach for forming 3D shapes from flat, 2D sheets of graphene, paving the way for future integrated systems of graphene-MEMS hybrid devices and flexible electronics. “To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate graphene integration to a variety…
Donuts, Math, and Superdense Teleportation of Qantum Information
Putting a hole in the center of the donut–a mid-nineteenth-century invention–allows the deep-fried pastry to cook evenly, inside and out. As it turns out, the hole in the center of the donut also holds answers for a type of more efficient and reliable quantum information teleportation, a critical goal for quantum information science. Quantum teleportation…