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also known as cot death, using an accelerometer attached to baby clothing. Growing signalbluetooth can improve health prospects beyond humans too.
while reducing greenhouse gas emissions everybody winssaid Mel Kurtz president of quasar energy group. uasar Columbus facility can produce 1. 3 million gasoline gallon equivalents of CNG each year. hat
##You can literally carry this in your pocket and run an experiment in the field without any additional equipment.##
##The technology can be embedded in any porous material such as cloth potentially opening the door for wider applications says Collins. He envisions smart scrubs for health care workers that can sense exposure to a virus;
hat we have discovereds a way to find not where you were borns you have that information on your passportut where your DNA was formed up to 1,
000 years ago by modeling these admixture processes. hat is remarkable is that, we can do this so accurately that we can locate the village where your ancestors lived hundreds
and the Advanced Light source at Lawrence Berkeley. ithout that it s hard to get insight about the structureyu says. hat benefits us tremendously. his knowledge will serve as a foundation from
Tour says the material did not degrade over many cycles nd my guess is we won t see any.
and catalogued. hat we have learned in the last 5 to 10 years of computer vision research is that the more data you have the better computer vision becomesgupta says.
and herding them into a milking parlor to have hooked machines up to suit efficiency experts doesn't help yield,
and liquids to suit each cow. As the trough swings clear at the end of milking, this encourages the cow to walk forward and leave.
Another application that LLNL is looking at is protective clothing. With the current Ebola outbreak tracking contamination in anti-contamination suits is vital
so the researchers see DNATRAX as a safe way of assessing how well current suits are performing.
By applying the DNA particles to the exterior of the suit it is possible to identify
if a breach has occurred by seeing if contaminants appear on the wearer's skin. We all hear horror stories about contaminated foods says DNATREK CEO Anthony Zografos.
which is exposed to different types of pollution from agrochemical residues to metals from leather tanneries.
##and leather buyers/consumers have expressed already an interest in its prototyped 3d-printed leather products.
the tip of the wedge is going to be synthetic leather, which will gain acceptance much faster
every adventurer to wear on their belt, and every soldier, sailor, and construction worker to have within arm reach at any given moment?
Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time.
The best configuration, a honeycomb lattice with a 50 nanometer coat of alumina, is less dense than waterthat is,
#Spinning out a company has been the best way to validate the technology especially with novel power-electronics hardware Dawson says.
They adjusted parameters such as speed of deployment and the speed of the belt, and observed how the cable coiled as it hit the surface.
and tangles, Reis says. hat can lead to signal attenuation. But if the boat is traveling faster,
including the speed of the belt and the spool. The team used a digital video camera to record the filamentsmotion as they hit the belt,
and observed three main patterns: meandering waves, alternating loops, and repeated coils. A Hollywood makeover To see
and cloth notoriously difficult features to animate realistically for films including he Hobbitand Disney angled. he eye is very good at picking up what physical and what not,
Grinspun says. e want to capture the motion of hair and clothing in a realistic way,
it can resemble rope or thread, drizzling onto a surface in wavelike patterns. Reis wondered if the same code could be adopted to simulate the coiling of cables. e realized that I using geometry to scale up and down problems,
and tailor them for different applications without having to build everything from scratch, he says. But companies developing cameras, sensors,
he says. hat youe looking to do in space is maximize reuse, while minimizing energetics. If we look at Earth as the spaceship, it the same problem.
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
The scale is small, a little smaller than the diameter of spider silk. Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,
The light in these terahertz wavelengths can pass through materials that we normally think of as opaque such as skin plastics clothing and cardboard.
The University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that two of these single-layer semiconductor materials can be connected in an atomically seamless fashion known as a heterojunction.
Super-stretchable yarn is made of graphene More information: Hunt Adrian Ernst Z. Kurmaev and Alex Moewes.
#Let This Amazing Hydrophobic Shirt Keep You Dry, You Slob#Human beings! Clothes-wearers! Folks who maybe drank some milk right out of the jug one time
and spilled it all over themselves but okay it was Saturday night and no one was around
On Kickstarter now is called a shirt Silic which repels liquids. If the videos are to be believed it looks rad.
Spill a bunch of soda on your shirt and it bounces right off. The shirts are woven with a hydrophobic silica also known as silicon dioxide.
Self Cleaning Clothing With Hydrophobic Nanotechnology as the Kickstarter says might be a vague enough claim to cause some concern
but we've definitely seen similarly cool stuff with aerosol sprays so it's not too much of a stretch to think this could work with clothing.
How the shirt actually feels along with how long it retains its properties (the team says 80 washes) might require a closer look.
But it's designed by a former designer for the Vera Wang Collection and definitely looks better than a shirt with an orange juice accent stain.
Kickstarter via Huffington Post
#An Open-source Hive To Save The Bees#You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies continuing to die at unprecedented rates
(but still use the fruits of those discoveries when it suits you) and keep being smirked at more and more.
the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses. f you think of a modern microscope,
it has multiple components that have to be assembled carefully inside, Faraon says. ut with our platform,
Cornell researchers examined these special nylon sheets replete with applied nanoscale iron oxide particles to see
and particle retention of the nylon membranes as they were processed (or washed) in solutions of varying ph levels. t critical to evaluate particle retention
Adhering nanoparticles of iron oxide to nylon fiber is done in three ways: electrospraying, which facilitates uniform nanoparticle placement in the fibers;
Trejo explained. ou would want the nanoparticles to stay on the Nylon 6 membranes so the material can have function throughout the life use.
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Davis and the paperssenior author. hat happens is the debris in biological samples,
On the other hand, ubiquitins have a subtle trick up their sleeves they can tag other tags. This gives them a near-exponential flexibility,
however, that no prior techniques combined the structural cues needed to get cells self-assembling in an organized fashion with the ability to grow multiple cell types according to position and with 3d tissue assembly and on-demand, minimally-invasive disassembly.
and oriented themselves in a more orderly fashion. The researchers continued to drop the temperature,
or even entirely different fields, such as architecture, art and fashion. What's most inspiring to me about the evolving science of regenerative medicine is how it recasts the role and potential of the body's own cells.
Sun powered cell phone chargers woven into the fabric of backpacks. A new generation of organic semiconductors may allow these kinds of flexible electronics to be manufactured at low cost,
the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses."
"Using our metasurfaces, we have complete control of the polarization and phase of light,"says study first author Amir Arbabi, a senior researcher at Caltech."
and developers who design the software that decodes the neural signal. hat neural prosthetic devices do is communicate seamlessly to an external prosthesis,
hat have learned you? How are the devices deficient, and how can we make them better?'
#USDA Scientists, International Colleagues Sequence Upland cotton Genome U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) scientists and their partners have sequenced the genome of the world most widely cultivated and genetically complex species of cotton,
a milestone that will make it easier to address increasing threats to cotton by tapping into its natural defenses.
Sequencing the genome of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) will help breeders develop varieties of cotton that are equipped better to combat the pests,
Cotton growers have experienced a plateau in yields since the early 1990s and most commercial varieties lack genetic diversity, making cotton vulnerable to natural threats.
The findings will help researchers and breeders in the years ahead develop cotton varieties with improved fiber qualities, higher yields and more tolerance to heat, drought and diseases anticipated due to climate change.
Cotton is grown on 12 million acres in 17 states and is a $6 billion crop in the United states. here is untapped a vast
reservoir of genes in wild cotton plants that could offer us stronger and more effective defenses to the numerous challenges faced by cotton growers.
Sequencing of a genetic standard in cotton gives us the roadmap to identify and tap into that reservoir of genetic variability,
said Chavonda Jacobs-Young, administrator of the USDA Agricultural research service (ARS. ARS is USDA principal intramural scientific research agency.
because several of the scientists involved in today studies recently sequenced the two arentspecies of most commercial cotton varietiesn Old world cultivated cotton and a New world wild cotton.
and exploit cotton genetic diversity by tapping into the potential of genes found in the 10,000 accessions of exotic and wild cotton plants in the ARS Cotton Germplasm Collection in College Station, Texas t
offers a method to potentially improve the makeup and color of optical materials used in computer screens along with other consumer products.
scientists initiated a chemical reaction that allows molecular components to stick together in a particular fashion process some have compared to connecting Legos.
the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses. f you think of a modern microscope,
it has multiple components that have to be assembled carefully inside, Faraon says. ut with our platform,
The shoes are the first illustration of a new method of weaving in three dimensions created by Nigerian American industrial designer Oluwaseyi Sosanya.
Sitting somewhere between the traditional art of weaving and the recent home availability of 3d printers,
Sosanya has created a way to weave materials such as wool and cotton in three dimensions before they are sealed to maintain a rigid structure.
The method he said, could be applied to protective clothing in sports, for making bulletproof vests and in constructing buildings.
Sosanya is in the early states of developing the new weaving method, an idea which came to the 31-year-old
This shirt that I am wearing right now is woven in the same way as a shirt that was made 3, 000 years ago,
It was with this in mind that he found himself in Huddersfield talking to veteran weavers in mills who explained to him in detail the traditional ways of weaving cloths.
Lengthwise yarns the warp are interwoven over and under with yarns called the weft. But what was not being done was weaving in three dimensions
nor was it being done seemingly by anyone else, according to patent research. Back in London, Sosanya had learned to weave
and used his background in mechanical engineering and computer programming to handbuild a machine which guides yarn in set patterns over layers to create the 3d shapes such as those used on the soles of the navy shoes he created.
Above those tubes is a mechanised eederwhich winds the fabric for example cotton around them in shapes dictated by a set pattern programmed into a computer.
The tubes act as scaffolding for the grid of fabric to be built on top. To make the structure rigid
the thread is coated in silicone which then solidifies. When the desired shape is completed, the tray at the bottom of the machine is slid out and the mesh
Where traditional weaving has the warp and the weft, Sosanya has replaced the warp with the rigid tubes
As there is one continuous piece of thread which is used through the whole structure, further strength is added.
Different fabrics can be used at different stages of the weave and the density and pattern can be altered throughout,
Sosanya is now investigating how the new method of weaving could be used practically. Custom-made shoes are one of the first potential uses. ou have all of these opportunities now where you can do customisation around footwear,
he said. ith this weaving system you can pre-programme the density. At the ball of your foot, you may want a denser material.
which play into the performance of our footwear. Now with 3d printing you can scan your foot
or even a whole sole or the whole shoe at some point. he designer and the chiropodist can say that you need to remove some material here
You have all of these opportunities now where you can do customisation around footwear. i
#Revolutionary tidal fence is set to trap the sea power A British company has announced plans for an array of unique marine turbines that can operate in shallower and slower-moving water than current designs.
she says. hat true in India and that also true in the U s. ource: Julia Sklar, MIT Newsimage:
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
a patent-pending technology that uses a growing organism and byproducts from food production (oat hulls from New york, cotton hulls from Texas and rice hulls from Arkansas) to create a strong composite material.
but it doing so in grand fashion, with a practical lineup to get your home connected to your ios ecosystem in an essential way.
The light is projected through each well and collected by 96 plastic optical fibers. A custom-designed smartphone app then reads the resulting images
After the light is projected through each well, 96 individual plastic optical fibers in the attachment collect a multitude of images.
#Gold nanoparticle Coating on Cotton Fibers Can Help Kill Bacteria Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses. otton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials,
said Hinestroza, associate professor of fiber science, who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. n a nanoscale world
and that is our world we can control cellulose-based materials one atom at a time. The Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors
so instead of adding electronics to fabrics, he converts the fabric into an electronic component. reating transistors
and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
and textiles, enabling the creation of unique wearable electronic devices, Hinestroza said. Taking advantage of cotton irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. he layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always,
Hinestroza said, ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
Abbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
or analyze sweat, sewn into pillows to monitor brain signals or applied to interactive textiles with heating and cooling capabilities. revious technologies have achieved similar functionalities,
but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns, which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting,
Hinestroza said. Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
but the new surfaces can efficiently kill 99.9 percent of bacteria, which could help in warding colds, flu and other diseases.
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
or MOFS to fend off malarial mosquitoes. Malaria kills more than 600,000 people annually in Africa. While insecticide-treated nets are common in African homes
the antimalarial garment can be worn during the day to provide extra protection and does not dissipate like skin-based repellants.
Other students have used MOFS to create a mask and hood capable of trapping toxic gases in a selective manner.
MOFS, which are clustered crystalline compounds, can be manipulated at the nano level to build nanoscale cages that are the exact same size as the gas they are trying to capture. e wanted to harness the power of these molecules to absorb gases
and incorporate these MOFS into fibers, which allows us to make very efficient filtration systems,
Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses. e want to transform traditional natural fibers into true engineering materials that are multifunctional
but have it remain flexible and as comfortable as a t-shirt or an old pair of jeans. c
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
The Saturas sensing system tailors irrigation to the crop's real-time water needs resulting in more efficient water use
which converts video images from a miniature video camera worn on his glasses. He can now make out the direction of white lines on a computer screen using the retinal implant.
"The bionic eye implant receives its visual information from a miniature camera mounted on glasses worn by the patient.
so that the medical team could be sure that the visual information was coming via the camera on his glasses and the implant.
which are used locally and in a disconnected fashion, the microscopes described here are connected all to servers through WIFI or network signals,
The light projects through each well and is collected by 96 individual plastic optical fibers in the attachment.
The basis of this led to the production of the sensor cap for milk cartons.
Products including pistachios, almonds, citrus, stone fruit, cotton, and grapes are grown here and distributed all over the United states
hat the heck are you doing? It a reasonable question, considering the decidedly different turn he and his former Microsoft colleague Jose Lugo took in 2010 when they founded Redmond, Wash.
#lastic bucklinghoneycomb structures bounce right back from major impacts The concept of impact resistance likely brings to mind vehicle airbags, trampolines, helmets, kneepads,
(and that of others) to apply negative stiffness to ballistics by using nylon (rather than a sponge) as their build material.
and works by changing the makeup of the damaged cells. But since it only converts rather than edits genes,
2015tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th, 201 0
#Environmentally friendly lignin nanoparticle'greens'silver nanobullet to battle bacteria Abstract: Silver nanoparticles have antibacterial properties,
#Self-Cleaning Woolen Fabrics Produced in Iran Woolen products are very good sources for the growth of bacteria and microorganisms due to their protein structure,
This objective was achieved by creating a homogenous coating made of a nanocomposite of zinc oxide/nitrogen silver (N-Ag/Zno) on the fabrics.
the processing of the woolen fabric samples by using optimum amount of honeycomb nanocomposite such as N-Ag/Zno improves the biological, mechanical and hydrophilicity of the fabrics.
Among the other advantages of the use of this nanocomposite in the production of fabrics, mention can be made of creating a delay in flammability,
Ultrasonic bath has been used in the finishing process of the fabrics. By using the bath the process is carried out in one stage at low temperature at shorter time.
Finally, the abovementioned properties are created in the final product by processing of the woolen fabrics with the nanocomposite.
#Nanotechnology transforms cotton fibers into modern marvel (Nanowerk News) Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses.
Cotton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials, said Hinestroza, associate professor of fiber science,
who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. In a nanoscale world and that is our world we can control cellulose-based materials one atom at a time.
The Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors so instead of adding electronics to fabrics,
he converts the fabric into an electronic component. Marcia Silva da Pinto, postdoctoral researcher, works on growing metal organic frameworks onto cotton samples to create a filtration system capable of capturing toxic gas,
as Juan Hinestroza looks on. Creating transistors and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
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,
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. The layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always
Hinestroza said, Fibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
Abbey Liebman 10 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
or analyze sweat, sewn into pillows to monitor brain signals or applied to interactive textiles with heating and cooling capabilities.
Previous technologies have achieved similar functionalities but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns,
which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting, Hinestroza said. Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
but the new surfaces can efficiently kill 99.9 percent of bacteria, which could help in warding colds, flu and other diseases.
Two of Hinestrozas students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
or MOFS to fend off malarial mosquitoes. Malaria kills more than 600,000 people annually in Africa. While insecticide-treated nets are common in African homes
the antimalarial garment can be worn during the day to provide extra protection and does not dissipate like skin-based repellants.
Other students have used MOFS to create a mask and hood capable of trapping toxic gases in a selective manner.
MOFS, which are clustered crystalline compounds, can be manipulated at the nano level to build nanoscale cages that are the exact same size as the gas they are trying to capture.
We wanted to harness the power of these molecules to absorb gases and incorporate these MOFS into fibers,
which allows us to make very efficient filtration systems, he explains. Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses.
We want to transform traditional natural fibers into true engineering materials that are multifunctional and that can be customized to any demand,
but have it remain flexible and as comfortable as a t-shirt or an old pair of jeans s
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
and shape to a wristwatch, but with the active mechanics positioned on the sensitive inside part of the wrist.
But scientists have developed now a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both generate heat
and trap the heat from our bodies better than regular clothes. They report on their technology,
breathable mesh materials that are flexible enough to coat normal clothes. When compared to regular clothing material,
the special nanowire cloth trapped body heat far more effectively. Because the coatings are made out of conductive materials,
they can also be warmed actively with an electricity source to further crank up the heat. The researchers calculated that their thermal textiles could save about 1
000 kilowatt hours per person every year--that's about how much electricity an average U s. home consumes in one month h
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