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Nanomechanics: emerging opportunities for future computing

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This work was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 2018YFE0115500), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61774029, 62004032), Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province (Grant Nos. 21CXTD0088, 2019JDTD0006, 2019YFSY0007), Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No. 19YF1424900), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Major Frontier Program (Grant No. 2019QYA01).

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  1. Wang Z H, Fang J W, and Zhang P C have the same contribution to this work.

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  1. Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    Zenghui Wang & Jiawei Fang

  2. University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Pengcheng Zhang & Rui Yang

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Wang, Z., Fang, J., Zhang, P. et al. Nanomechanics: emerging opportunities for future computing. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 64, 206401 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-020-3241-9

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