By providing an electrode for the microorganisms to donate their electrons to the electrons can be harvested as electricity.
said spokesman Luca Gamberini. e also have a sensor panel with live data feed from the lab biosphere so all data is live on the internet and accessible to anyone. c
The electronic signals are sent wirelessly on to an array of electrodes placed over the damaged cells at the back of the retina.
and converts it to electrical energy reportedly enough to power a small electronic device, like a wearable.
An electrode is needed in order to harvest the current, so the research team installed a 50nm-thick gold film to get the job done.
this type of generator could remove the need for batteries in certain mobile devices your smartwatch
by means of a roll-on coating consisting of a honeycomb of electrodes (see bottom right image).
whereby opaque, charged particles (approx. 1 micron in size) are attracted to electrodes that posses an opposite charge.
Thus the electric field created between the two electrodes causes the flow of these particles back and forth.
The interaction of incoming light with each electrophoretic pixel (two electrodes) depends on the position of the particles relative to these electrodes,
In reference to these, the device uses electrophoresis to attract charged color particles to the top transparent electrode to preadtheir color,
which are adjacent to the electrode. The device is filled with dual-colour, dual-particle colloidal dispersion inks.
It is common in e-ink displays to use sub-pixels (i e. multiple electrodes to do some fancy charged transport),
They use three electrodes and by altering the applied voltages between them all, many color states are created during operation,
which is the same technology used to pattern microchips and is very expensive. But the design here can be integrated with HP roll-to-roll micro-patterning technique, a much cheaper and large scale alternative.
along with cameras and sensors that monitor the plants bunches of basil (used to make Liguria's iconic pesto sauce) growing either in hydroponics or in soil.
Light emitting diodes (LEDS) are now everywhere from consumer electronics like smart phones to light bulbs for home lighting.
In an effort to alleviate the environmental burden of electronic devices, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:
or support layer, of a computer chip, with cellulose nanofibril (CNF), a flexible, biodegradable material made from wood."
"The majority of material in a chip is support. We only use less than a couple of micrometers for everything else,
"Now the chips are so safe you can put them in the forest and fungus will degrade it.
CNF offers many benefits over current chip substrates, she says.""The advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it's a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
"The group's work also demonstrates a more environmentally friendly process that showed performance similar to existing chips.
The majority of today's wireless devices use gallium arsenide-based microwave chips due to their superior high-frequency operation and power handling capabilities.
"I've made 1, 500 gallium arsenide transistors in a 5-by-6 millimeter chip. Typically for a microwave chip that size,
and make a completely functional circuit with performance comparable to existing chips.""While the biodegradability of these materials will have a positive impact on the environment,
Ma says the flexibility of the technology can lead to widespread adoption of these electronic chips."
"Mass-producing current semiconductor chips is so cheap, and it may take time for the industry to adapt to our design,
2015stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
2015cellulose from wood can be printed in 3-D June 17th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th, 2015discoveries Scientists film shock waves in diamond:
2015stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th,
2015announcements Stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology:
2015stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015new Sensors Measure Blood Anticoagulation Drug June 17th,
2015research partnerships Stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds: Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data;
wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology:
Cancer Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015news and information Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:
New technique creates multilayered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions June 23rd,
2015nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015newly-Developed Biosensor in Iran Detects Cocaine addiction June 23rd,
2015discoveries Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:
2015announcements Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids:
in animals with atherosclerosis June 23rd, 2015toward tiny, solar-powered sensors: New ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 percent June 23rd,
2015nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015iranian Scientists Design Nano Device to Detect Cyanogen Toxic Gas June 23rd,201 0
"Electromagnetic metamaterials are revolutionizing imaging and sensor technologies. Since the initial demonstration these systems have advanced already to practical applications."#
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Both outputs support the Nanotechnology Signature Initiative Nanotechnology for Sensors and Sensors for Nanotechnology: Improving and Protecting Health, Safety,
electronic devices June 22nd,2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology: 4-D printing to advance chemistry, materials sciences and defense capabilities June 18th, 2015discoveries Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together
nanoscale geometric grids: New technique creates multilayered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions June 23rd,
Both outputs support the Nanotechnology Signature Initiative Nanotechnology for Sensors and Sensors for Nanotechnology: Improving and Protecting Health, Safety,
Both outputs support the Nanotechnology Signature Initiative Nanotechnology for Sensors and Sensors for Nanotechnology: Improving and Protecting Health, Safety,
2015research partnerships Lancaster University revolutionary quantum technology research receives funding boost June 22nd, 2015fabricating inexpensive, high-temp SQUIDS for future electronic devices June 22nd,
The one-atom-thick carbon sheets could revolutionize the way electronic devices are manufactured and lead to faster transistors, cheaper solar cells, new types of sensors and more efficient bioelectric sensory devices.
As a potential contact electrode and interconnection material, wafer-scale graphene could be an essential component in microelectronic circuits,
but most graphene fabrication methods are not compatible with silicon microelectronics, thus blocking graphene's leap from potential wonder material to actual profit-maker.
"Our work shows that the carbon ion implantation technique has great potential for the direct synthesis of wafer-scale graphene for integrated circuit technologies."
"In silicon microelectronics, graphene is a potential contact electrode and an interconnection material linking semiconductor devices to form the desired electrical circuits,
#Scientists print low cost radio frequency antenna with graphene ink (Nanowerk News) Scientists have moved graphene--the incredibly strong and conductive single-atom-thick sheet of carbon--a significant step along the path
Researchers from the University of Manchester, together with BGT Materials Limited, a graphene manufacturer in the United kingdom, have printed a radio frequency antenna using compressed graphene ink.
The antenna performed well enough to make it practical for use in radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and wireless sensors,
the antenna is flexible, environmentally friendly and could be cheaply mass-produced. The researchers present their results in the journal Applied Physics Letters,
Paving the Way to Antennas, Wireless Sensors, and More The researchers tested their compressed graphene laminate by printing a graphene antenna onto a piece of paper.
The antenna measured approximately 14 centimeters long, and 3. 5 millimeter across and radiated radio frequency power effectively,
said Xianjun Huang, who is the first author of the paper and a Phd candidate in the Microwave and Communcations Group in the School of Electrical and Electronic engineering.
as well as sensors and wearable electronics s
#Hematite're-growth'smoothes rough edges for clean energy harvest (Nanowerk News) Finding an efficient solar water splitting method to mine electron-rich hydrogen for clean
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
and even livestock would have embedded their own sensors that report information directly to networked servers,
however, will require extremely low-power sensors that can run for months without battery changes or, even better,
this new chip can do both, and it can power the device directly from the battery.
All of those operations also share a single inductor the chip main electrical component which saves on circuit board space
the chip power consumption remains low. e still want to have battery-charging capability, and we still want to provide a regulated output voltage,
To control the current flow across their chip, El-Damak and her advisor, Anantha Chandrakasan,
whose regulation is the very purpose of the chip. Since that voltage is fixed, the variation in timing has to come from variation in capacitance.
El-Damak and Chandrakasan thus equip their chip with a bank of capacitors of different sizes.
who leads a power conversion development project as a fellow at the chip manufacturer Maxim Integrated. f youe only coming in with a small amount,
he adds. t really kind of a full system-on-a chip for power management. And that makes it a little more complicated
#Sensors and drones: hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,
helping them to use less fertilizers and water, and to control the general condition of their crops.
the research centre CSP and four wine cooperatives are testing a decision support system (DSS) based on wireless sensor networks,
in charge of the DSS research at CSP, installing in the vineyard five sensors that control the temperature and the humidity of air and soil,
and sensors are channelled into the same database, says Molino, and it allows facts about different years to be compared.
These sensors give us several indexes, explains Sgrelli, such as the normalized difference vegetation index, also known as NDVI,
Connecting these results with those gathered by agronomists and sensors on the ground, the farmer can have a complete overview of
CSP, together with the Association Piattella Canavesana di Cortereggio"and the municipality of San Giorgio Canavese, started monitoring via sensors that control temperature and humidity at 10 and 40 centimetres underground,
which is the first of its kind, in a paper published May 6, 2015, in the journal Nano Energy("Single-electrode triboelectric nanogenerator for scavenging friction energy from rolling tires").
"The nanogenerator relies on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire. When this part of the tire surface comes into contact with the ground,
They attached an electrode to the wheels of the car, and as it rolled across the ground,
Thanks to their low weight, high energy density and slower loss of charge when not in use, LIBS have become the preferred choice for consumer electronics.
or explosion risk from LIBS used in consumer electronic devices. These types of batteries, in all of their different lithium-anode combinations, continue to be an essential part of modern consumer electronics
despite their poor track record at high temperatures. The Korean team tried a totally new approach in making the batteries.
but due to ever increasing demands from electronic devices to be lighter and more powerful, investigation of novel electrolytes is necessary in order.
and textiles, enabling the creation of unique wearable electronic devices, Hinestroza said. Taking advantage of cottons irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
The one-atom-thick carbon sheets could revolutionize the way electronic devices are manufactured and lead to faster transistors, cheaper solar cells, new types of sensors and more efficient bioelectric sensory devices.
As a potential contact electrode and interconnection material, wafer-scale graphene could be an essential component in microelectronic circuits,
but most graphene fabrication methods are not compatible with silicon microelectronics, thus blocking graphene's leap from potential wonder material to actual profit-maker.
"Our work shows that the carbon ion implantation technique has great potential for the direct synthesis of wafer-scale graphene for integrated circuit technologies."
"In silicon microelectronics, graphene is a potential contact electrode and an interconnection material linking semiconductor devices to form the desired electrical circuits,
either--the antenna and power-converting circuit can only extend the battery life of an iphone 6 by about 30,
Hertz and Wagner anticipate that such materials like the graphene flakes they developed will be particularly suitable for use in portable electronic devices,
#Computer Chips Can Now Be made From Wood Not quite what we had in mindthe woods are lovely, dark, deep,
researchers announced the construction of computer chips made from wood. But don't expect to see hipsters advertising hand-carved artisan computer chips.
The wood product that the scientists are using is called cellulose nanofibril, or CNF. It is thin, flexible,
The researchers were able to use CNF as a substrate or base layer for electronic circuits in lab tests,
unlike a lot of the petroleum-based alternatives that manufacturers use to build the bases of modern computer chips.
"The majority of material in a chip is support. We only use less than a couple of micrometers for everything else,
"Now the chips are so safe you can put them in the forest and fungus will degrade it.
"It will be years before computers containing wood-based computer chips hit store shelves, but computers as fertilizer isn't a totally crazy idea.
and tested a new sensor to detect ambient levels of mercury in the atmosphere. Funded through a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, the new highly sensitive, laser-based instrument provides scientists with a method to more accurately measure global human exposure to mercury.
titled"Deployment of a sequential two-photon laser-induced fluorescence sensor for the detection of gaseous elemental mercury at ambient levels:
It also generates small amounts of electricity--in practice enough to drive a small fan, a sensor or a light-emitting diode.
but which could also transfer electrons to a metal electrode, "he says. The idea behind this water purification approach was born many years ago
#New laser for computer chips: International team of scientists constructs first germanium-tin semiconductor laser for silicon chips The transfer of data between multiple cores as well as between logic elements and memory cells is regarded as a bottleneck in the fast-developing computer technology.
Data transmission via light could be the answer to the call for a faster and more energy efficient data flow on computer chips as well as between different board components.
However in spite of intensive research a laser source that is compatible with the manufacturing of chips is not yet achievable according to the head of Semiconductor Nanoelectronics (PGI-9). The basis of chip manufacturing is silicon an element of main group IV of the periodic table.
Hence sensors made of Gesn promise a new possibility of detecting these compounds. Along with computer chips completely new applications that have not been pursued so far for financial reasons may
thus benefit from the new laser material. Gas sensors or implantable chips for medical applications which can gather information about blood sugar levels
or other parameters via spectroscopic analysis are examples. In the future cost-effective portable sensor technology--which may be integrated into a smart phone--could supply real-time data on the distribution of substances in the air
or the ground and thus contribute to a better understanding of weather and climate development m
#Comprehensive know-how and the full value chain, from technology development to complete systems Arraythe FBH develops the LED TECHNOLOGY in the UV-B and UV-C spectral range from the chip to the final
which are defined by gratings implemented into the semiconductor chip. Wavelength selection is realized by separately addressable sections within the laser.
With these FBH tiny monolithic light sources on chip level, a compact SERDS measurement head that is only as small as a laser pointer was realized for the first time.
This work opens the door for green, low-cost, portable electronic devices in future. Array"We found that cellulose nanofibrillated fiber based transistors exhibit superior performance as that of conventional silicon-based transistors,
"It can be anticipated that future electronic chips and portable devices will be much greener and cheaper than that of today."
Sunlight to electricity Solar cells work by converting photons of sunlight into an electric current that moves between two electrodes.
A key roadblock to building an efficient perovskite-silicon tandem has been a lack of transparency. olin had to figure out how to put a transparent electrode on the top
Mcgehee said. o one had made ever a perovskite solar cell with two transparent electrodes. Perovskites are damaged easily by heat and readily dissolve in water.
This inherent instability ruled out virtually all of the conventional techniques for applying electrodes onto the perovoskite solar cell
#A new kind of wood chip: collaboration could lead to biodegradable computer chips Portable electronics typically made of nonrenewable,
non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials are discarded at an alarming rate in consumerspursuit of the next best electronic gadget.
In an effort to alleviate the environmental burden of electronic devices, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:
A cellulose nanofibril (CNF) computer chip rests on a leaf. Image credit: Yei Hwan Jung, Wisconsin Nano Engineering Device Laboratory A cellulose nanofibril (CNF) computer chip rests on a leaf.
Image credit: Yei Hwan Jung, Wisconsin Nano Engineering Device Laboratory The research team, led by UW-Madison electrical
or support layer, of a computer chip, with cellulose nanofibril (CNF), a flexible, biodegradable material made from wood. he majority of material in a chip is support.
Ma says. ow the chips are so safe you can put them in the forest
CNF offers many benefits over current chip substrates, she says. he advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
The group work also demonstrates a more environmentally friendly process that showed performance similar to existing chips.
The majority of today wireless devices use gallium arsenide-based microwave chips due to their superior high-frequency operation and power handling capabilities.
500 gallium arsenide transistors in a 5-by-6 millimeter chip. Typically for a microwave chip that size,
and make a completely functional circuit with performance comparable to existing chips. While the biodegradability of these materials will have a positive impact on the environment,
Ma says the flexibility of the technology can lead to widespread adoption of these electronic chips. ass-producing current semiconductor chips is so cheap,
which means reducing power and cooling requirements for electronic devices. f silicene could be used to build electronic devices,
The next step will be to integrate it into electronic devices and test its usefulness for specific applications. he challenge is to make large-scale
and high-quality silicene layers that are large enough for integrated circuits, Dr Du said. here is also work to be done in developing ways to peel
as well as embed electrodes in it. s
#Scientists construct first whole genome sequence of bighorn sheep Geneticists at the University of Alberta have constructed the first whole genome sequence of a bighorn sheep in a new study that could have a significant impact on conservation efforts of the species,
The technology is depending on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire. When it comes into contact with the ground,
Engineers attached an electrode to the tires of the toy car and watched the LED LIGHTS as the car was rolling forward
and they flashed on and off as electrodes came with contact with the surface. The friction was strong enough for the electrodes to harvest enough energy to power the lights,
which means that scientists confirmed the idea that wasted friction energy can be collected and reused.
unique wearable electronic devices, Hinestroza said. Taking advantage of cotton irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
The idea is that instead of making chips from petroleum-based plastic, we'd be able to use cellulose nanofibril-a flexible,
"The majority of material in a chip is support. We only use less than a couple of micrometers for everything else,
"The result is based a bio chip, which is not only flexible enough to use in consumer electronics but an order of magnitude more environmentally-friendly."
"The chips are so safe you can put them in the forest and fungus will degrade it.
They become as safe as fertilizer, "said Ma. He added:""Mass-producing current semiconductor chips is so cheap,
and it may take time for the industry to adapt to our design. But flexible electronics are the future,
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