#Scientists made a major breakthrough in 3d-printed electronics that will keep you from ever drinking spoiled milk again Researchers have used 3d printing to develop a sensor that can be placed inside a carton of milk to detect
This represents a breakthrough in terms of three dimensional printing of electronic circuits. Polymers are poor conductors of electricity
and 3d printing is based primarily around a set range of plastics. To overcome this, Controlled Environments reports that the research group designed materials based around polymers and wax.
"One day, people may simply download 3d printing files from the Internet with customized shapes and colors and print out useful devices at home."
The research has been published in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, in an article headed"3d-printed microelectronics for integrated circuitry and passive wireless sensors. e
The core of Calgren plant is an anaerobic digester built by DVO, which is based in Wisconsin.
Lewis is also a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
and liquid capture media in the same platform says Lewis. It is also quite flexible in that both the core
Lewis has conducted previously groundbreaking research in the 3d printing of functional materials including tissue constructs with embedded vasculature lithium-ion microbatteries and ultra-lightweight carbon-fiber epoxy materials s
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
using them to power Wi-fi hotspots, cell phone chargers, and even streetlights. The company debuted their project, called tarry Sky, in November of 2014 near Amsterdam,
where they lit up more than 300 LED streetlights at two different sites. Their plant power technology is also being used to power the company headquarters in Wageningen.
Their technology allows them to produce electricity from practically every site where plants can grow. ia photosynthesis a plant produces organic matter.
On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.
www. plantpower. eu or visit their website listed in the sources. More and more energy innovations seem to be emerging every single day,
A control centre on dry land allows the scientists to monitor the status of crops without having to dive down every day to tend to them. e have installed many webcams
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
with the electronic images in the centre of the eye melding with natural images from the surviving peripheral cells in the retina.
#Meet the Machine That's Turning Grocery stores'Food waste Into Fertilizer Larry Lesueur is used to former peers from the software world asking him,
considering the decidedly different turn he and his former Microsoft colleague Jose Lugo took in 2010 when they founded Redmond, Wash.
spent two years using a PCC store as a iving laboratory to understand how food waste is created in a retail grocery environment. n 2010 the WISERG teamith the help of biologists, computer programmers and engineerseveloped a solution:
The Harvester also delivers data to help stores cut down their food waste. t not about just how much goes out the back door
meanwhile, is putting data culled from the Harvester to work to improve ordering and reduce shrink.
As the software gets smarter, Harvesters will help markets parse down to the item level to figure out
The Foodily virtual recipe book allows users to search, save and share digital recipes on their smartphones or tablets and,
via partnerships with retailers like Freshdirect, turn recipes into shopping lists and order ingredients online for delivery.
The Smartgrill by Lynx, programmable via smartphone, is activated voice to cook on user command or automatically via a database of more than 200 preprogrammed recipes.
Instead of reviewing restaurants, Foodspotting users recommend dishes. The app is searchable by specific foods. Move over lattes.
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.
Enjoyfresh online marketplace allows users to search and sign up for unique off-menu dishes and exclusive events at local restaurants.
#Flexible nanogenerator harvests muscle movement to power mobile devices The consumer world is becoming powered by mobile devices,
What if you could generate power for your mobile devices simply by moving your body, and the power source was almost unnoticeable?
this type of generator could remove the need for batteries in certain mobile devices your smartwatch
Who knows one day this type of generator could even generate enough energy to power your smartphone,
which is one of the biggest constraints to smartphone development and design o
#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,
The researchers have produced electrokinetic pixels for use as a fundamental smart window element. These are capable of dimming light transmission
and e-ink displays. So far, the team has created only a proof-of-concept device,
the pixels could easily go milky for privacy so no one can see in, but still allow 90 percent (or more) of the available light in.
How do the pixels work? As stated, the device works off electrophoretic principles, the phenomena behind e-ink/e-paper displays,
whereby opaque, charged particles (approx. 1 micron in size) are attracted to electrodes that posses an opposite charge.
The interaction of incoming light with each electrophoretic pixel (two electrodes) depends on the position of the particles relative to these electrodes,
It is common in e-ink displays to use sub-pixels (i e. multiple electrodes to do some fancy charged transport),
Well, the basic technology is similar to that in electronic display devices. The challenge for the the team from the university,
This quisweetnesshas been confirmed by independent panels from UK consumer research agency Sensory Dimensions while its only taste constraint is a slight reduction in bitterness.
#Farmlogs Is Now Able To Alert Farmers About Crop Threats Farm management software company Farmlogs is used by over 20%of the farms in the U s. with over $15 billion in crops under management.
Farmlogs users will automatically receive actionable maps. Farmlogs monitors crop health by utilizing multi-spectral satellite imagery to build performance baselines from over five years of field-specific crop health data.
The crop health is tracked throughout the season against the performance baseline to detect subtle cues
As a gift to its users, Farmlogs is offering the crop monitoring feature for free this year.
and the farm management software company plans to double its staff count this year. Farmlogsgrowth does not come as a surprise
ee seen how impactful data can be in helping farmers optimize their production. At the same time, we are always looking for ways to minimize the work our users have said to do
Farmlogs CEO and cofounder Jesse Vollmar in an interview. sing remote sensing technology to monitor the health of fields made perfect sense as a feature that would do both things.
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.
Was the January 2015 data an anomaly? No. CAISO uses a March 31 forecast date to illustrate the daily forecasted maximum ramp requirements on its system from 2014 through 2020.
it is providing both real-time data and forecasts for how supply and demand will match in its territory.
check your email, count your sperm: Taiwanese start-up Aidmics is hoping to cash in on the $40 billion global human fertility market with an ipad compatible gadget it calls isperm.
Aidmics initially developed the product to help livestock farmers, but founder Agean Lin now plans to seek U s. Food
The light beams the moving image to the ipad camera, and algorithms then analyze the sample for total sperm count and motility,
or how fast sperm can swim. Sam Wang, manager of a livestock farm in central Taiwan, is a convert. ur pregnancy success rate increased by 20 percent after we started using this gadget
said Wang, who uses the device to measure the fertility of his boars. n the past,
Light-based technologies such as optical fiber networks allow us to connect rapidly with people worldwide over the internet.
Light emitting diodes (LEDS) are now everywhere from consumer electronics like smart phones to light bulbs for home lighting.
and receive data with high bandwidths as well as to detect trace molecules or bio-agents. Construction of our nanolaser required precise control over the shape and location of the adjacent gold nanoparticles.
That such nanostructures could even be made is because of the decades-long investment by the electronics industry in developing nanofabrication tools to make the tiny components in computers.
#New Honeycomb-Inspired Design Protects Against Impacts Conventional honeycomb structures are insular panels of repeating, often hexagonal-shaped cells in a range of sizes and configurations.
non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials-are discarded at an alarming rate in consumers'pursuit of the next best electronic gadget.
and computer engineering professor Zhenqiang"Jack"Ma, described the new device in a paper published May 26, 2015 by the journal Nature Communications("High-performance green flexible electronics based on biodegradable
or support layer, of a computer chip, with cellulose nanofibril (CNF), a flexible, biodegradable material made from wood."
Yei Hwan Jung, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering and a co-author of the paper,
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment."
and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores.""The researchers used the nanoparticles to attack E coli, a bacterium that causes food poisoning;
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment."
and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores.""The researchers used the nanoparticles to attack E coli, a bacterium that causes food poisoning;
"##The research team included faculty members in bioengineering, chemical and biomolecular engineering, chemistry, electrical and computer engineering and mechanical science and engineering;
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Method could be useful in developing green energy and a better understanding of rust June 18th, 2015registration in 8th Int'l Iran Nano Expo 2015 Starts June 18th, 2015interviews/Book reviews
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"This tool allows us to apply drugs as needed directly to the site of injury, which could have broad medical applications,
and transported a patch of the nanowire carpet on water droplets that were used used to deliver it to the site of injury.
The nanowire patches adhere to the site of injury through surface tension Gao said. The magnitude and wave form of the electromagnetic field must be tuned to obtain the optimum release of the drug,
"By the time the drug diffuses from the site out into the rest of the body it is in amounts that are undetectable in the usual tests to monitor the concentration of drugs in the bloodstream."
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000 Qubit Processor and Is discussed in the Economist June 23rd, 2015leti to Present Solutions to New Applications Using 3d Technologies at SEMICON West Letiday Event, July 14:
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,
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2015philips Introduces Quantum dot TV with Color IQ Technology from QD Vision: Manufacturer is first to offer quantum dot displays for both TVS and monitors June 30th,
2015carnegie Mellon chemists characterize 3-D macroporous hydrogels: Methods will allow researchers to develop new'smart'materials June 30th, 2015discoveries Chitosan coated,
Our results demonstrate that the application of green chemistry principles may allow the synthesis of nanoparticles with biodegradable cores that have higher antimicrobial activity and smaller environmental impact than metallic silver nanoparticles.
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment."
and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores.""The researchers used the nanoparticles to attack E coli, a bacterium that causes food poisoning;
In a paper published July 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Zongfu Yu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
#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,
from AIP Publishing("Binder-free highly conductive graphene laminate for low cost printed radio frequency applications")."These scanning electron microscope images show the graphene ink after it was deposited
/University of Manchester) The study demonstrates that printable graphene is now ready for commercial use in low-cost radio frequency applications,
They accomplished this by first printing and drying the ink, and then compressing it with a roller,
which enabled efficient radio frequency radiation, was one of the most exciting aspects of the experiment,
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.
like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,
Most commercial RFID tags are made from metals like aluminium and copper, Huang said, expensive materials with complicated fabrication processes that increase the cost."
"Graphene based RFID tags can significantly reduce the cost thanks to a much simpler process and lower material cost,
The University of Manchester and BGT Materials Limited team has plans to further develop graphene enabled RFID tags,
Tunneling electrons from a scanning tunneling microscope tip excites phonons in graphene. The image shows the graphene lattice with blue arrows indicating the motion direction of that carbon atoms for one of the low energy phonon modes in graphene.
The high purity graphene device was fabricated by NIST researcher Y. Zhao in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology's Nanofab, a national user facility available to researchers from industry, academia and government t
Wrights team is now looking to find out how easy it is for users. The USAID competition was intended actually for systems built for individual farms,
#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,
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. e need to regulate the input to extract the maximum power,
at very limited input power levels 10 nanowatts to 1 microwatt for the Internet of things. The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program.
but now they have an app for tablets to collect data directly from the field.
In this way, previous data and the data gathered through apps and sensors are channelled into the same database,
says Molino, and it allows facts about different years to be compared. This research has involved also a company based in Ivrea,
A software program builds a mosaic made up of hundreds of images, which shows in a single 3d picture the field flown over.
All the data are was sent by digital mobile radio allowing agronomists and farmers to check the results in real time.
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
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
In a study published in Nature Nanotechnology("An environmentally benign antimicrobial nanoparticle based on a silver-infused lignin core),
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment.
and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores. The researchers used the nanoparticles to attack E coli
In a paper published July 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters("Extraordinarily large optical cross section for localized single nanoresonator"),Zongfu Yu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Nanoparticles made from these polymers have a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic shell. Due to molecular-scale forces
BPA, another endocrine-disrupting synthetic compound widely used in plastic bottles and other resinous consumer goods, from thermal printing paper samples;
and one oxygen atom) can be polymerized to form polycarbonates in reactions that use special catalysts.
promises to capture all those stray radio waves emitted back and forth between wireless phones and the towers through
extending a smartphone's battery life by as much as 30%.%Announced as part of an upcoming Kickstarter fundraising campaign, the technology,
which Nikola's designers engineered into a special case made for Apple's iphone, reportedly harvests the electromagnetic radiation transferring to and from mobile phones and converts it into direct current (DC) electrical energy,
which is recycled then back into the phone's battery.""Nikola Technology efficiently converts RF signals like Wi-fi, Bluetooth,
and LTE into DC power using its proprietary energy harvesting circuit, "explains the company on its website."
"The result is usable energy that can provide power to mobile devices wirelessly.""Though not perfect by any means, Nikola energy-capturing case holds promise For a sponsorship contribution of $99,
early supporters of the project will gain exclusive first-issue access to the case, which doesn't so much charge an iphone actively as it does extend its normal battery life.
Still, the case's novelty, and more importantly its longer-term potential, is what stands to inspire a new generation to take advantage of energy inefficiency and waste.
One major drawback to the technology is that its relatively slow to harvest energy, and the case itself doesn't contain an actual battery of its own to store excess charge.
At the same time the case itself is small and form-fits well to the iphone, acting as an all-in-one battery extension package that's sleek, discreet and unobtrusive."
"As magical as this sounds, the iphone case won't be able to charge your phone from zero to 100,
%"explains Business Insider about the case, which captures some 90%of the stray signals that would
either--the antenna and power-converting circuit can only extend the battery life of an iphone 6 by about 30,
Elledge and his colleagues used an international database to look up all viruses known to infect humans around 1000 strains from 206 viral species. Using this information,
"The team used the test to screen blood samples from 569 people from four countries the US, South africa, Thailand and Peru.
Matthews thinks it would be worth extending the screen to animal populations. He envisages screening wild populations of animals thought to be linked to emerging diseases."
and migrate to the affected sites. We could also use this technique to study the early development of complex organisms,
including future generations of film displays for smartphones and tablets e
#Computer Chips Can Now Be made From Wood Not quite what we had in mindthe woods are lovely, dark, deep,
and filled with potential computer components. In a paper published in Nature Communications this week,
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,
and when a layer of epoxy is applied, it doesn't expand or attract moisture like wood normally does (think of a warped board--not something you want in a computer).
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.
"It will be years before computers containing wood-based computer chips hit store shelves, but computers as fertilizer isn't a totally crazy idea.
Society tends to treat electronics as disposable commodities. But unlike a glass bottle that gets recycled or food that hits a compost heap,
once that broken laptop heads into the trashcan, it doesn't disappear. Every year, 3. 2 million tons of electronic waste are thrown out in the United states alone.
and others like him (another team is building dissolvable circuits) are trying to deal with the e waste problem at the start--long before your phone gets stepped on or your computer crashes.
#Mood-changing wearable tech sets pulses racing The makers of'doppel'call it the next generation of wearable technology-one that can actually change the mood of the user.
instead of the current crop that often just monitor the body's activity.""Wearables currently are centered mostly around monitoring
"Bennett told Reuters. Doppel is synchronized to each individual via a smartphone app that measures their resting heart rate.
"You take your resting heart rate through your phone, and then that's the bio-data we need to set the levels that you need to either (get) calm
or to get going. It's not a lot of data, but we're using it very smartly,
and that's the approach we take, "said co-developer Jack Hooper. To control the level of doppel's pulse,
with their controlled tests showing the device can improve alertness when correctly set to the user's preference.
#Researchers develop new instrument to monitor atmospheric mercury Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine
and monitor blue shifted atomic fluorescence. UM Rosenstiel School Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Anthony Hynes and colleagues tested the new mobile instrument
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