Researchers at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have realized a new design for a superconducting quantum processor, aiming at a potential architecture for the large-scale, durable devices the quantum revolution demands.

Unlike the typical quantum chip design that lays the information-processing qubits onto a 2-D grid, the team from the Cleland Lab has designed a modular quantum processor comprising a reconfigurable router as a central hub. This enables any two qubits to connect and entangle, where in the older system, qubits can only talk to the qubits physically nearest to them.

The Carl Zeiss Foundation is contributing EUR 6 million to a research project on the regeneration of the nervous system at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The new Interactive Biomaterials for Neural Regeneration (InteReg) project will bring together researchers from the fields of neurobiology, neuroimmunology, chemistry, and polymer research to develop precision engineered synthetic biomaterials for the treatment of neurological disorders.

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an esteemed organization dedicated to recognizing and honoring academic innovation, has named Worcester Polytechnic Institute President Grace J. Wang, as an NAI Fellow. This distinction, the highest professional honor awarded exclusively to academic inventors, highlights President Wang’s exceptional contributions to pioneering research and innovation.

A new biotechnological process just detailed in the Journal of American Chemical Society shows how Berl Oakley at the University of Kansas and collaborators at the University of Southern California break down and remove the matrix from carbon fiber reinforced polymers so that recovered carbon fiber plies exhibit mechanical properties comparable to those of virgin manufacturing substrates.