This research demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to transmit electric signals in an insulating material.
News and information Building the electron superhighway: Vermont scientists invent new approach in quest for organic solar panels and flexible electronics September 14th, 2015pillared graphene gains strength:
Organic molecules fixing the magnetic orientation of a cobalt surface/building block for a compact and low-cost storage technology/publication in Nature Materials July 25th,
Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy yields direct insight into the building block of modern magnetic memories July 6th, 2015chip Technology Building the electron superhighway:
2015ut researchers give nanosheets local magnetic properties September 11th, 2015discoveries Building the electron superhighway: Vermont scientists invent new approach in quest for organic solar panels and flexible electronics September 14th, 2015pillared graphene gains strength:
When the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior September 13th, 2015announcements Building the electron superhighway:
Regulations require collaboration to ensure safety September 14th, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Building the electron superhighway:
or passage of a fluid through a semipermeable membrane into a solution in which the solvent is concentrated more."
which is like a circular wall of mirrors to the electron. Image: Jon Wyrick, CNST/NIST) In some structures,
such as the dome in St pauls Cathedral in London, a person standing near a curved wall can hear the faintest sound made along any other part of that wall.
occurs because sound waves will travel along a curved surface much farther than they will along a flat one.
which is like a circular wall of mirrors to the electron. An electron that hits the step head-on can tunnel straight through it,
and travel along the sides of the curved walls of the barrier until they began to interfere with one another,
"Workers on manufacturing floors could direct robots to one side of the warehouse to collect items,
Amino acids are also known as the building blocks of proteins which we find in all types of cells.
#Putting Sensors In Bridges And Tunnels Could Make Their Walls Talk Trying to get a building to tell you how it feeling is,
well, like talking to a brick wall. But it doesn have to be that way. Researchers with the GENESI project want to make it so walls can talk back,
by creating various sensors to fit inside buildings, tunnels, and bridges. With the feedback collected from these sensors,
inspectors will have a better understanding of how a city's infrastructure is holding up GENESI is an awkward acronym for reen sensonr NETWORKS for Structural monitoring.
One of GENESI two pilot projects is a testbed in the tunnels of Rome underground rail system,
From there, presumably civil engineers have access to the data and can use it to inform future maintenance planning
Renewable energy is tricky in tunnels, since the sun's rays don't reach that far. But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.
whether tucked away in tunnel walls or nestled in dark unlit crevices under bridges, replacing batteries isn always the easiest task for humans,
so that might be a future job for drones. If systems like GENESI become widespread, they could drastically improve city infrastructures,
. expect to see more yelling at brick walls, like John Oliver does below e
#Open-source Soil Sensors: Vinduino As California fourth straight year of drought forces farmers to cut back on water use,
building a handheld Arduino-based device for taking sensor readings; and creating Arduino-based irrigation valves,
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
This new'thirsty'concrete absorbs 4, 000 litres of water in 60 seconds During the first few weeks of August 2007,
more than two-thirds was caused by water running off pavements or overflowing from drainage systems. So what's the solution?
a new type of porous concrete that can absorb up to 4, 000 litres of water in the first 60 seconds,
all the water you can see pouring out in the video isn't being wasted-it's being fed straight back into the system for irrigation, drinking water, swimming pools,
While permeable concrete has been around for the past 50 years, it's mostly been used under pavements to help with drainage,
so the researchers at Tarmac figured out how to make a surface layer version of it that's capable of withstanding the weight of heavy traffic.
Not only can the super-absorbent concrete be used in conjuction with existing concrete-cities can install it so the runoff from regular concrete is fed into the Topmix Permeable
-but it will also be significantly cooler than regular concrete during the hottest months of the year."
so the concrete can only be used in places where temperatures are never likely to dip that low,
Microorganisms can synthesise mixtures of complex organic molecules, such as antibiotics, from simple organic building blocks by fermentation.
000 novel peptides can be made from only 23 building blocks. What's more, they have demonstrated the practicality of this approach by identifying a novel molecule that blocks a key enzyme used by the hepatitis C virus."Our dream is to provide a do-it-yourself method--one that can be applied by anyone,
The modest reaction conditions also indicate the feasibility of low-capital requirements for building distributed hydrogen generating
the most common building block today for biosynthesis."We believe our system is a revolutionary leap forward in the field of artificial photosynthesis,
Despite established knowledge on how to measure and model photosynthesis on the leaf scale, measuring photosynthesis on the canopy scale has been challenging,
thus automating detection of photosynthesis from the canopy y
#Biochar from manure waste enhances soils Researchers at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have obtained biochar using manure waste,
director of the company, involves injecting ozone to the industrial silos obtained from ambient oxygen through an electric shock.
The produced ozone is distributed efficiently within the silo using a mobile system, which allows to move from one container to another
and serve a greater number of silos with the same ozonation system providing great versatility in removing pathogens from stored grain.
Openings around the edge channel sound through 36 passages towards a microphone in the middle. Each passage modifies the sound in a subtly different way as it travels towards the centreoughly
as if an equalizer with different settings were affecting the sound in each slice, explains senior author Steven Cummer, an electrical engineer at Duke university in Durham, North carolina.
The human ear is not able to distinguish how the sound is altered by different passages, says lead author Yangbo Xie, also at Duke.
However, he adds that here could be plenty of room to optimize the design for size in the future. his article is reproduced with permission
the most common building block today for biosynthesis. e believe our system is a revolutionary leap forward in the field of artificial photosynthesis,
is akin to a builder having the capacity to construct a house using glass, metal, brick,
#New, Ultrathin Optical devices Shape Light in Exotic Ways Researchers have developed innovative flat, optical lenses as part of a collaboration between NASA Jet propulsion laboratory and the California Institute of technology, both in Pasadena, California.
Lung and Blood Institute of the National institutes of health, published their work in a recent issue of Lab on a Chip. ell sorting is used widely in many areas of biology to characterize
and turn when it reached the stomach wall. The researchers envisage that the patient would swallow the capsule on an empty stomach
for making bulletproof vests and in constructing buildings. Sosanya is in the early states of developing the new weaving method, an idea
and other electronic devices eliminating the clunky brick that is commonly comes with a device's power cord.
and Research (BMBF) hydraulic engineering experts of KIT built an underground cave power station. For the first time they succeeded in completely filling a karst cave with water.
Prior to use the inhabitants filter the water again with the help of a clay pot that is provided with very small holes.
Within the framework of another partial project a team of KIT scientists headed by Stephan Fuchs expert for aquatic environmental engineering worked in the area of sewage and waste treatment.
It is used then for the gas stoves in the kitchen of the hospital. The remaining solid is applied as a fertilizer on the fields in the vicinity.
Via a pipeline system the gas is passed directly on to the gas stoves of the neighboring houses.
and dimensions using DNA Nature's building block as a construction mold. The ability to mold inorganic nanoparticles out of materials such as gold and silver in precisely designed 3d shapes is a significant breakthrough that has the potential to advance laser technology microscopy solar cells electronics environmental testing disease
and encode the building blocks of life have been harnessed re-purposed and re-imagined for the nanomanufacturing of inorganic materials said Don Ingber Wyss Institute founding director.
& Melinda Gates Foundation has the capability of heating human waste to a high enough temperature to sterilize human waste
and create biochar a highly porous charcoal said project principal investigator Karl Linden professor of environmental engineering.
The project is part of the Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge an effort to develop a next-generation toilet that can be used to disinfect liquid and solid waste
Since the 2012 grant Linden and his CU-Boulder team have received an additional $1 million from the Gates Foundation for the project
According to the Gates Foundation the awards recognize researchers who are developing ways to manage human waste that will help improve the health and lives of people around the world.
Linden's team is one of 16 around the world funded by the Gates Reinvent the Toilet Challenge since 2011.
Linden is working closely with project co-investigators Professor R. Scott Summers of environmental engineering and Professor Alan Weimer chemical and biological engineering and a team of postdoctoral fellows professionals graduate students undergraduates
While the current toilet has been created to serve four to six people a day a larger facility that could serve several households simultaneously is under design with the target of meeting a cost level of five cents a day per user set by the Gates Foundation.
The great thing about the Gates Foundation is that they provide all of the teams with the resources they need Linden said.
and energy on our team and the Gates Foundation values that Linden said. It is one thing to do research another to screw on nuts and bolts
The CU-Boulder team is now applying for phase two of the Gates Foundation Reinvent the Toilet grant to develop a field-worthy system to deploy in a developing country based on their current design
For example, although both forms of amino acid molecules the building blocks of life itself can be made in the laboratory,
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
Developed in the suburbs of Buenos aires by INTA's rural engineering division, the yellow and white robot resembles a child's Tonka truck (the chassis) with a lighthouse (the sprayer) strapped to the top.
The new plastic is made from mushrooms Poking around in my mom s attic recently, I was reminded that I still have the shipping box from my Macintosh SE,
We re also doing building materials as well--replacing foam insulation. It would mostly be commercial. The question is what s the best way to do it.
#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.
Google has catalogued also the interiors of over 70 flood-damaged buildings in the region. The panoramic images are an update to ones taken shortly after the disaster.
Algae technology cleans up fracking Flushing toilets could heat future buildings The lost pets of Fukushima Radiation loving algae comes to Japan s rescu
including Room for indoor monitoring, Weather for outdoor stats, Door & Window for checking open/closed status of those entry points,
and Energy for checking what drawing power and switching them on and off remotely. Using Homekit, ios device users with 8. 1 or above can check on all the stats gathered by the Eve from their devices,
Sensors are sold individually at $79. 99 for Eve Room, $49. 95 for Eve Weather, $49. 95 for Eve Energy and $39. 95 for Eve Door & Window,
which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control. Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time,
letting you save energy and maximize comfort in every area. With Homekit ecobee3 owners can group actions together for control via Siri,
The Caséta Smart Bridge is a wireless lighting hub that makes up a core part of the Caséta Wireless Lighting Starter Kit from the company.
or off in specific areas of the house you might not be able to see at any given moment.
you can control specific rooms or groups of lights separately, or turn everything off with voice commands.
Lutron Homekit-enabled Caséta Smart Bridge is part of the Lighting Starter Kit that also includes two dimmers
including LED bulbs, plug-in lamps, thermostats, wall outlets, cameras, door locks and more. And in addition to its full range of first-party products,
and to allow for two to work in a standard wall outlet at the same time, or to keep one outlet free.
#Germany and Canada Are Building Water Splitters to Store Energy Germany which has come to rely heavily on wind
The electrolyzer projects under construction in Germany typically consist of a few buildings each the size of a shipping container that consume excess renewable energy on sunny and windy days by turning it into an electric current that powers the water-splitting reaction.
If you re using Firechat its nearby chat room lets you exchange messages with other users within 100 feet without sending data via your cellular provider.
He hopes to enable many more Internet-optional apps with the upcoming release of software tools that will help developers build Firechat-style apps for iphone or for Android Mac and Windows devices.
Geometrical clusters were utilized also as building blocks for larger arrays such as2d-planar sheets and linear chains.
and opens up numerous exciting opportunities for high-yield precision assembly of tailored 3d building blocks in
with four of these bundles combined together to form a stable and a relatively strong building material,
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
factories and facilities. As the Visualization, Control and Monitoring Gateway, AIS's Industrial Panel PCS (IPCS) and Embedded Computers Help Enable IIOT
and Smart Technology Applicationsthe Industrial Internet of things (IIOT) white paper also addresses the vital role AIS's open, human machine interfaces and visualization technologies play in enabling IIOT, Industry
and gateway from the factory floor to the digital enterprise level, across different global facilities and plant operations.
AIS's portfolio of Smart HMI solutions are deployed currently in IIOT, Smart cities, Smart Transportation, Smart Factories, Smart buildings and Digital Oil fields.
and Windows smart application running on the same smartphone. Information is sent then to a remote server in the researchersucla laboratory that measures the length of the DNA molecules.
Last week, the U s. Navy signed an agreement with biotech company Biodico to collaborate on developing advanced biofuels and bioenergy refineries throughout the globe for the U s. military.
and insulated with concrete to prevent any leakage from entering local groundwater. Bacteria that naturally occur within cowsdigestive tracts are added to the manure,
sodium carbonate a k a. kitchen-grade baking soda. The microencapsulated carbon sorbents (MECS) achieve an order-of-magnitude increase in CO2 absorption rates compared to sorbents currently used in carbon capture.
Aines says that the MECS-based approach can also be tailored to industrial processes like steel and cement production significant greenhouse gas sources.
and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
Just imagine, a house with a roof full of plant/tree life powering your home. On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.
It pretty cool to imagine, isn it? It important to mention that at the moment, the main problem is the quantity of energy that can be generated.
The plants are kept hydrated by drips of water condensing on the inner walls of the biospheres,
The retired factory supervisor can now make out shapes with his eyes closed proof that the system is working.
The hottest hot beverages in Manhattan are the sippable one brothsfrom Brodo single-service window, with add-ins like Calabrian chili oil, shiitake mushroom tea and fermented beet juice.
but those devices are powered still by being tethered to a wall or a reserve power pack. What if you could generate power for your mobile devices simply by moving your body,
#Low-cost, tunable smart windows developed with lectrokinetic pixelsresearchers at the University of Cincinnati with industry partners,
have created low-cost, smart window technology based on electro-kinetic pixels, which can dynamically adapt for brightness,
color temperatures and opacity something that neither blinds nor existing smart windows can do. This patent-pending research, supported by the National Science Foundation, will hopefully lead to low-cost window tinting that can provide a wide range of optical functionality such as adjusting for color and brightness.
What is the problem? Currently, most home and commercial windows use inexpensive, mechanical shades to provide privacy
and to block light, heat or cold. These (as you may have guessed) are quite effective, which has slowed the adoption of relatively expensive and seemingly unnecessary electronically controlled window tinting.
Previously these electronic windows could only mimic the clear-to-opaque performance of mechanical shades therefore offering no additional performance or functionality benefit,
but at a cost far greater than existing, and much simpler, age-old technology. For any real-world interest to gain hold, smart windows need to be both inexpensive
and offer something that shades cannot. What have the researchers actually created? The researchers have produced electrokinetic pixels for use as a fundamental smart window element.
These are capable of dimming light transmission and fully altering the color temperature of transmitted light.
They can be integrated easily into new windows or even easily applied to already existing windows,
by means of a roll-on coating consisting of a honeycomb of electrodes (see bottom right image).
or change the color of the light along a spectrum from cooler blue to warmer yellow The image to the above right shows the different potential states the window tiles could operate In this is a mock-up based on the results from the single device.
and the two companies (Merck and HP), was how to apply common e-paper technology to larger structures such as windows, but inexpensively.
For example, $30 per square foot is the industry standard for window manufacturing, so in order to become viable,
In summary, the work here provides a unique design for smart windows using existing e-ink technologies,
Rivals to this technology are based liquid-crystal wallpapers and windows, and electrochromic materials (such as vanadium dioxide).
designed so as to ensure that the product is passed gently along the tank walls, as soon as it comes into contact with the deaeration tank specially designed cover.
the juice thus forms a very thin film over the tank walls. Utilising the tank entire surface area,
and the periodic floods, the locals have had to resort to energy-inefficient terrace farming. This is not an isolated problem:
The evaporating sea water condenses on the inner walls of the biosphere, creating a high-humidity environment (up to 85 percent) that favors crop growth.
and received $200 million from the Gates Foundation, is making RTS, S available as a nonprofit drug.
I have had the opportunity to see inside the proto-factories of a range of emerging long-duration energy storage technologies,
and can be controlled with a simple electrical gate. The team, led by Dimitri Basov and Michael Fogler, professors of physics at the University of California,
but can be tuned with an electronic gate. The two kind of polaritons become coupled, a theoretical consideration determined and experimental evidence confirmed.
similar to the way new pavement is compressed with a road roller. Compressing the ink increased its conductivity by more than 50 times,
The system is equipped also to treat the biological contaminants that Wright initially thought shed be treating,
The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.
well above the 80°C typical upper temperature window for exiting LIBS. In the tests, the batteries were cycled at temperatures between 298 K
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
#Making polymer nanostructures from a greenhouse gas (Nanowerk News) A future where power plants feed their carbon dioxide directly into an adjacent production facility instead of spewing it up a chimney
Because it is very difficult to find building blocks to make hydrophilic polycarbonates, the researchers used a trick:
In the same vessel, they then change to a different building block, allyl glycidyl ether (AGE), an epoxide with a double bond in its side chain,
allowing for safe passage through the remainder of the gastrointestinal (GI TRACT. The material is also elastic,
the polymer gel dissolved, allowing for the safe passage of the small PCL pieces without obstruction.
promises to capture all those stray radio waves emitted back and forth between wireless phones and the towers through
when that would have demonstrated this on a large scale--the Tesla Tower, also known as Wardenclyffe, which reports at the time highlighted was being designed to draw millions of volts of electricity through the air from Niagara falls and feed it into cities, factories and private houses from the tops of towers, all without wires.
The project was completed never, at Tesla's own volition, with some suspecting that he put it to rest after recognizing its potential for misuse and destruction.
it must at this stage remain in the academic arena, not as a clinical scenario."
If antibodies target it then the virus has infected the person in the past. var ord=window. ord Math. floor (Math. random()*10e12;
The enzymes and other proteins in our bodies are built all from building blocks called amino acids. There are usually just 20 amino acids in nature.
"If you get your factory contaminated, it can be hard to clean out for a year,
But the real beauty of the new procedure is how simple it is-you can even give it a try in your own kitchen."
making use of Old world War II tunnels underneath the city to host an eco-friendly,
The farm makes use of WWII-era bomb shelters located 12 storeys underground that were designed originally to provide shelter for 8, 000 Londoners during air raids.
And a new development set to open in New jersey later this year is transforming an old steel factory into the world largest vertical farm.
Yi Cui and colleagues note that nearly half of global energy consumption goes toward heating buildings and homes.
the incidence of plagiocephaly--commonly known as flat head--have risen dramatically. Ellen Mack, RNC, MN, neonatal clinical nurse specialist, said the babies are evaluated constantly to determine
This gives us a window into the future to see what bacteria will do to evade drugs that we design before a drug is deployed said co-author Bruce Donald a professor of computer science and biochemistry at Duke.
or weeks--is too slow for this window. A new study in the American Journal of Physiology--Heart and Circulatory Physiology reports a more practical approach called microsphere therapy that can be kept on hand
The pre-plastic--a low-quality plastic--is broken then down into building blocks for PLA. In other words, you are first producing an inferior plastic before you end up with a high-quality plastic.
we were able to convert lactic acid directly into the building blocks for PLA without making the larger by-products that do not fit into the zeolite pores.
and spawning widespread interest among silicon manufacturers. ur goal is to leverage the silicon factories that already exist around the world,
you don need a billion-dollar capital expenditure to build a new factory. Instead, you can start with a silicon module
he. ur paper basically shows there a small window in which you can design them to get very high specificity.
Zhang and Wang carried this hybridization technique a step further as they determined the optimal conditions the window for each experiment, based on simulations.
#Single Atom Building blocks For Future Electronics The material is called a silicene, a layer of silicon single atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern that was fabricated first by researchers at UOW Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) and their partners in Europe and China.
and place them one at a time on a plate to form the silicene paper. he process is like laying bricks,
only these are bricks are the size of a single atom. A 1 centimetre-long chain contains 10 million silicon atoms.
the DNA is first run through a sequencer to identify small strings of building blocks, called nucleotides.
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011