Faculté des Sciences, des Technologies et de Médecine
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Faculté des Sciences Humaines, des Sciences de l’Éducation et des Sciences Sociales
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
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Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsTopic : Physique & sciences des matériaux
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Engineering meets Quantum Mechanics
En savoir plusIn an interdisciplinary collaboration between computational engineers and physicists from the University of Luxembourg, published in Nature Communications, a method combining quantum and continuum mechanics has been developed and it was shown to lead to a novel discovery of emergent long-range adhesive interactions for atomically-thin layers on top of surfaces.
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How a surface treatment improves the inside of a solar cell
En savoir plusIn the frame of the European project Sharc25, physicists from the University of Luxembourg with European experts have succeeded in explaining the recent efficiency improvements in thin film solar cells. The work of the whole consortium has been published in the prestigious journal Advanced Energy Materials.
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1.2 million euros to explore information, irreversibility and energy
En savoir plusProf. Massimiliano Esposito from the University of Luxembourg together with international scientists have been awarded a large grant from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) to explore the relation between information, irreversibility and energy.
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Big Data at the Nanoscale
En savoir plusAn international team of scientists, including physicists from the University of Luxembourg, have reported a comprehensive view-point on how machine learning approaches can be used in Nanoscience to analyse and extract new insights from large data sets, and accelerate material discovery, and to guide experimental design. Moreover, they discuss some of the main physical challenging…
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Taming ultrafast electrons with light
En savoir plusPhysicists from the University of Luxembourg together with European researchers have exploited light to control the motion of electrons in a metallic nanocircuit. This could have major implications for the future of data processing and computing.
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Surfing on Quantum Waves: protein folding revisited
En savoir plusTwo physicists from the University of Luxembourg have now unambiguously shown that quantum-mechanical wavelike interactions are indeed crucial even at the scale of natural biological processes.
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New opportunities for proteins identification using nanotechnology
En savoir plusPhysicists from the University of Luxembourg and their international research partners have reported a comprehensive perspective on how novel nanoscale tools called plasmonic nanopores might improve in an unprecedented manner the way we can discriminate single-molecule DNA bases, and even identify single proteins components, that is amino acids, coming from specific patients.
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The “Physics meets Biology” website is launched!
En savoir plusPhysicists and biologists from the University of Luxembourg have recently launched the « Physics meets Biology » website. This initiative combines expertise in condensed matter physics and systems biology to understand living systems from a quantitative and mechanistic perspective.
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AI algorithm can learn the laws of quantum mechanics
En savoir plusAn interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, and computer scientists from the University of Luxembourg, the University of Warwick and the Technical University of Berlin have developed a deep machine learning algorithm that can predict the quantum states of molecules, so-called wave functions, which determine all properties of molecules.
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Thermodynamics 2.0: New thermodynamic framework for cells
En savoir plusPhysicists at the University of Luxembourg have developed theoretical tools to analyse and optimise chemical engines ranging from simple chemical reaction networks to complex metabolic pathways.