Nanotechnology & materials
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Demonstrated the first-ever two-qubit logic gate in a solid-state device, an advance crucial to building an ultrafast quantum computer.
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Michael Strano
Arrived at a new understanding of carbon nanotube surface chemistry.
Global
Kinneret Keren
Exploits biology-based self-assembly to build molecular electronics. She created a self-assembled molecular-electronic device -- a carbon nanotube transistor -- using a DNA template.
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Ravi Kane
Created a highly potent anthrax treatment in which each drug molecule blocks multiple toxin molecules rather than just one.
Global
Yi Cui
Demonstrated the possibility of building new structures using the basic ingredients of nanotech.