Top 10 scientific and technological achievements in 2011

Scholars of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Mechanical Engineering have voted on the world's top 10 scientific and technological achievements.

1. The flexible method of making nanosheet sheets is 1 atom thick

In the Science report published in February 2011, an international research team, including researchers from the University of Oxford, said they had discovered a simple, fast and inexpensive way to Create nanosheet plates as thick as an atom from many materials. This new method promises to bring revolutionary technological advances.

2. The largest solar powered aircraft to fly the first international flight

Solar Impulse, Switzerland's largest solar powered aircraft, successfully launched its first international flight in May 2011 on a 630km route from Switzerland to Brussels, Belgium in about 13 hours.

3. "Locking" antimatter in 1,000 seconds

Scientists at the Nuclear Research Organization said in June 2011 that they had successfully locked 309 antihydrogen atoms - substances used in weapons of mass destruction - within 1,000 seconds ( equivalent to more than 16 minutes), about 5,000 times longer than before.

4. First biological Lade

Harvard Medical School scientists and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, in June 2011, said they created the world's first bio laser by combining the jellyfish's glowing proteins. with a single human cell.

It is believed that this laser may be useful in studying a specific human cell or curing disease.

5. Anti-laser

Scientists at Yale University (USA) announced in February 2011 that they had launched the world's first laser anti-laser machine. This finding has potential applications in the field of optical computers and other fields.

6. Launch the Curiosity exploration ship on Mars

In November 2011, NASA launched Curiosity, the world's largest extraterrestrial explorer. The explorer is expected to land on Mars on August 6, 2012 and study Mars's past and present bacteria's ability to sustain life in the past and present.

Curiosity's "business trip" lasts a year on Mars, about 687 days on Earth.

7. Diamond stores information encoded into tangled quantum

Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada and Paderborn University in Germany for the first time have demonstrated that diamonds can successfully contain information encoded into Photon quantum entangled states. This finding - published in the January 2011 issue of Nature - marks the turning point in the process of building a quantum system.

8. String of potato genes

The project team, with the participation of 29 research groups from 14 countries, published high-quality potato gene sequences in July 2011 in Nature. This gene sequence will help scientists and breeders improve productivity, quality, nutritional value and disease resistance of many types of potatoes.

9. The fastest computer

Fujitsu Japanese Information Technology Company and RIKEN Research Institute - financially supported by the Japanese Government - announced in November 2011 that they have successfully built the world's fastest computer with the processing speed. Experimental up to 10.51 quadrillion per second.

This K Computer supercomputer was the first large computer to have a processing speed of more than 10 quadrillion per second.

10. World's smallest electric car

Dutch researchers have invented the world's smallest electric car the size of a molecule, visible only through a small magnifying glass. This car has 4 wheels and a very small internal frame.