Reporting today in The Optical Society's (OSA) high-impact journal Optica optical and material scientists at the University of Rochester
and atomically thin material that can be exploited for nanophotonic integrated circuits said Nick Vamivakas assistant professor of quantum optics and quantum physics at the University of Rochester and senior author of the paper.
Innovative work such as what's being done at the University of Connecticut puts us closer than we've ever been to ending one of the world's oldest
Along with colleagues at the University of Manchester researchers captured the world's first real-time images and simultaneous chemical analysis of nanostructures while underwater or in solution.
The study Real-time imaging and local elemental analysis of nanostructures in liquids was published in the journal Chemical Communications with researchers from the University of Manchester and BP.
It is said potentially limitless Professor Dan Li of Monash University's Department of Materials Engineering.
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.
Collaborators from the electron microscopy center at the University of Warwick in England found that all the atoms in both materials formed a single honeycomb lattice structure, without any distortions or discontinuities.
University of Warwick The researchers created the junctions in a small furnace at the UW.
and the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Physics department.""Having quantitatively determined charge transfer time to be less than 50 femtoseconds,
Cephalopods like octopus and squid are masters of camouflage but they are also color-blind. Halas said the squid skin research team which includes marine biologists Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Mass
. and Thomas Cronin of the University of Maryland Baltimore County suspect that cephalopods may detect color directly through their skin.
's research group from Hanbat National University, all in Daejeon, South korea, have published their paper on the new fabrication method in a recent issue of Nano Letters.
By turning instead to copper, both abundant and cheap, researchers at Monash University and the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication have developed a way of making flexible conductors cost-effective enough for commercial application."
"said lead researcher Associate professor Wenlong Cheng, from Monash University's Department of Chemical engineering.""The copper aerogel monoliths are conductive
at the University of Cambridge in the UK, have used surface plasmon resonance as a new way to construct holograms.
"said coauthor Calum Williams at the University of Cambridge.""Furthermore, this concept can be applied as the basis to produce dynamic three-dimensional color displays.
#Scientists unveil new technology to better understand small clusters of atoms Physicists at the University of York,
working with researchers at the University of Birmingham and Genoa, have developed new technology to study atomic vibration in small particles,
Now researchers from the University of Surrey and Trinity college Dublin have treated for the first time common elastic bands with graphene to create a flexible sensor that is sensitive enough for medical use
but our graphene-infused rubber bands could really help to revolutionise remote healthcare said Dr Alan Dalton from the University of Surrey.
But Moh El-Naggar assistant professor at the USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences says he was always careful to avoid saying that he knew for sure that's what they were.
Scientists from USC collaborated with colleagues from Penn State the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute on the research.
and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster cheaper more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated how to use light to view individual molecules bending
In order to view the behaviour of the cell membrane at the level of individual molecules the Cambridge team working with researchers from the University of Leeds squeezed them into a tiny gap between the mirrored gold facets of a nanoparticle sitting just above a flat gold surface.
like chants from at football ground, could become a reality, according to a new collaboration between scientists from Queen Mary University of London and Nokia.
in research published with Imperial College London. Developing this research further, Nokia worked with the QMUL team to create an energy harvesting prototype (a nanogenerator) that could be used to charge a mobile phone using everyday background noise such as traffic,
Under the guidance of Canada Research Chair in Materials science with Synchrotron radiation Dr. Alexander Moewes University of Saskatchewan researcher Adrian Hunt spent his Phd investigating graphene oxide a cutting-edge material that he hopes will shape the future
and Kostya Novoselov at the University of Manchester a discovery that earned the two physicists a Nobel prize in 2010.
Co-author of the study Professor Jongheop Yi from Seoul National University said: Our study has shown that used-cigarette filters can be transformed into a high-performing carbon-based material using a simple one step process
The paper was authored co by Hsu Myoung-Hwan Park of Shamyook University in South korea Samantha Hagerman'14 and Hammond
and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University adding that the research is really a nice piece of work.
At the Vienna University of Technology, Thomas Mueller, Marco Furchi and Andreas Pospischil have managed to create a semiconductor structure consisting of two ultra-thin layers,
Researchers from Monash University have discovered that graphene oxide sheets can change structure to become liquid crystal droplets spontaneously and without any specialist equipment.
"We are pleased so to be associated with Dr Majumder's team at Monash University. The progress they have made with our joint project has been said astonishing,
and Monash University and was the first linkage grant for graphene research in Australia s
#Nanoscale details of electrochemical reactions in electric vehicle battery materials Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions,
and the Institute for Physical chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The filament that makes up the propeller,
or negligible propulsion,"said study co-author Associate professor Alex Leshanksy of the Technion Faculty of Chemical engineering.
Everybody assumed the sample would immediately decay as soon as they pulled it out of the chamber added Northwestern University graduate student Brian Kiraly one of the principal authors of the study.
"said Srinivasan Chandrasekar, a Purdue University professor of industrial engineering and materials engineering.""However, our findings have implications beyond wear itself,
#Graphene and related materials promise cheap flexible printed cameras Dr Felice Torrisi University Lecturer in Graphene technology has been awarded a Young International Researchers'Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
Yung-Eun Sung is both a group leader at the Center for Nanoparticle Research at Institute for Basic Science*(IBS) and a professor at the Seoul National University.
#A crystal wedding in the nanocosmos Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Vienna University of Technology and the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin have succeeded in embedding nearly perfect semiconductor crystals
Scientists from the HZDR, Vienna University of Technology and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin have now come a step closer to both these targets:
#Tiny laser sensor heightens bomb detection sensitivity New technology under development at the University of California,
an assistant professor of physics at Peking University who did this work when he was a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab."The other thing we see at airports is the use of swabs to check for explosive residue,
a former Ph d. student in Zhang's lab who is now an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tokyo.
A Columbia University team used supercomputers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to simulate
and character when stressed said study coauthor and Columbia University Ph d. candidate Eric Isaacs. To see the beautiful patterns exhibited by these materials at their breaking points for the first time was enormously exciting and important for future applications.
of which can be compared directly to experimental data said Chris Marianetti a professor of materials science at Columbia University and coauthor of the study.
The new nanoparticle, developed by researchers at Imperial College London, boosts the effectiveness of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning by specifically seeking out receptors that are found in cancerous cells.
Professor Nicholas Long from the Department of chemistry at Imperial College London said the results show real promise for improving cancer diagnosis."By improving the sensitivity of an MRI examination
Dr Juan Gallo from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London said:"
Stephen Westland professor of color science and technology at Leeds University said in The Independent These new materials they are pretty much as black as we can get almost as close to a black hole as we could imagine.
#Researchers demonstrate novel tunable nanoantennas A research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a novel,
#Sand-based lithium ion batteries that outperform standard by three times (Phys. org) esearchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry standard by three times.
Robert Wolkow and his lab at the University of Alberta are taking giant steps forward.
who has been developing plasmonic biosensors at the University of Victoria, British columbia, Canada. He also believes that such approach will make medical care more cost effective."
Now, findings by Xincai Wang from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and co-workers from Nanyang Technological University could turn the tables on silicon nanowires by improving the manufacturing of silicon'nanoholes'arrow cavities carved into silicon wafers
along with Dr. Seok-In Na at Chonbuk National University and Dr. Byoung Gak Kim at KRICT synthesized carbon nanosheets similar to graphene using polymer
Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using Shrinky Dinks, plastic that shrinks under high heat,
Chemists at the NIM Cluster at LMU and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, have synthesized now a new material that could show the way forward to state-of-the-art lithium-sulfur batteries.
Lots of pores for sulfur The chemists Professor Thomas Bein (LMU), Coordinator of the Energy conversion Division of the Nanosystems Initiative Munich, Professor Linda Nazar (University of Waterloo, Waterloo Institute
Recent work by Professor Yan Li at Peking University shows that it is realized finally. I believe her idea to use W-based catalyst is the landmark of growth of carbon nanotubes.
"said Professor Shigeo Maruyama from The University of Tokyo, who also serves the president of Fullerene, Carbon nanotubes,
Yan Li at Peking University first shows that the controlled growth is possible. This development is very important for the applications of carbon nanotubes in many fields
For practical applications these nanocarriers are highly desirable explains Francisco Raymo professor of chemistry in the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences and lead investigator of this project.
Other authors are John F. Callan co-corresponding author of the study from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Ulster;
Subramani Swaminathan and Janet Cusido from the UM's Laboratory for Molecular Photonics Department of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences;
and Colin Fowley and Bridgeen Mccuaghan School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Ulster.
but Jun Takada and colleagues at Okayama University discovered unexpected industrial functions of L-BIOX such as a great potential as an anode material in lithium-ion battery.
"Research universities like UT Arlington encourage faculty and students to follow each new discovery with even deeper questions,
"said Pamela Jansma, dean of the UT Arlington College of Science.""With their latest publication, Drs.
"said Wei Lu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan.""In a liquid and gas, it's mobile
and have strengths approaching that of Kevlar is possible, according to Penn State and Shinshu University, Japan, researchers."
former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; visiting research fellow Qi"Kevin"Ge;
a Stony Brook University postdoctoral researcher and the lead author on the paper. Other groups of scientists have assembled such planes of nanoparticles,
#Charging portable electronics in 10 minutes Researchers at the University of California Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three-dimensional silicon-decorated cone-shaped carbon nanotube cluster architecture for lithium ion battery anodes that could enable charging of portable
"said Greg Herman, an associate professor and chemical engineer in the OSU College of Engineering.""We're all pretty excited about the opportunities that this new technology will enable."
Researchers in the University of Toronto's Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer engineering have designed
#Shatterproof screens that save smartphones University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could change the face of smartphones, literally,
#Researchers develop an invisible type of bar code to thwart criminals (Phys. org) A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic institute in Massachusetts has developed a type of bar coding system that would be almost impossible for criminals to thwart.
but it may become a reality thanks to breakthrough technology developed at a University of Central Florida research lab. So far electrical cables are used only to transmit electricity.
and monitor diabetes and other conditions, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, for use both in clinics and home settings.
IBN's test has been validated by the National Cancer Centre Singapore, the National University Cancer Institute Singapore,
Arthur Nozik a research professor in chemistry at the University of Colorado who was involved not in this research says This result represents a significant advance for the applications of quantum dot films and the technology of low-temperature solution-processed quantum dot photovoltaic cells.#
the team started with a trick that earned its original University of Manchester inventors the Nobel prize:
in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, have developed a 3-D artificial enzyme cascade that mimics an important biochemical pathway that could prove important for future biomedical and energy applications.
and Professor Neal Woodbury along with colleagues Professor Nils Walter and postdoctoral fellow Alexander Johnson-Buck at the University of Michigan.
The mechanism was observed by Academy Research Fellow Pekka Koskinen from the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä together with his colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US.
Research by Jeremy Duczynski from the University of WA's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry investigated
When University of Illinois Associate professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering Hyunjoon Kong graduate student Cartney Smith and colleagues set out to improve MR imaging (MRI) they turned current contrast agent technology on its head
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used this relationship, in combination with powerful lasers and nanopatterned gold surfaces
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have designed a new type of sensing mechanism, combining a unique twisting property of light with frequency doubling to identify different chiral forms of molecules with extremely high sensitivity,
#Silly Putty material inspires better batteries Using a material found in Silly Putty and surgical tubing, a group of researchers at the University of California,
Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a new way to make lithium-ion batteries that will last three times longer between charges compared to the current industry standard.
Both processes appear to happen simultaneously said Jeffrey Rimer an engineering professor at the University of Houston
Rimer and Lupulescu who did the project as part of her dissertation earning her Ph d. in chemical engineering from UH's Cullen College of Engineering in December worked with California-based Asylum Research.
thanks to the work of researchers Brigham Young University, there's a way to avoid cell death
electrically conductive lance,"explained Brian Jensen, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University."
#Liver-like device via 3-D printer (Phys. org) Nanoengineers at the University of California San diego have developed a 3-D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins
The product's developers engineers and scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore Tsinghua University in China and Case Western Reserve University in the United states believe the storage capacity by volume
Devised by researchers at Vanderbilt University Purdue University and the Colorado School Of mines it uses a laser vibrometer
David Willetts British minister for universities and science called the achievement remarkable. The Skylon concept has impressed also the European space agency (ESA)
Researchers from University college London the University of North carolina School of medicine found that in response to visual stimuli dendrites fired electrical signals in the brains of mice.
and engineering at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill said in a statement. The dendrites are not passive integrators of sensory-driven input;
Timothy James a glaciologist at the University of Swansea agrees. This is very exciting news he said.
but it is drifting out there all aloneâ#stated team leader Michael Liu who is with the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. â
Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii This article was republished with permission from Universe Today o
Female fruit flies however have a special kind of defense to lower the potential cost of getting down and dirty with another fly according to a new study from the University of Bath in the UK.
and one-thousandth as bright as the sun. But in this week's PNAS Online Early Edition a team of researchers from#University of California at#Berkeley released a study that looks at how common Earth-size planets
Scientists at the University of Groningen have developed a possible solution that involves automatic deactivation of antibiotics.
but a team at Baylor University in Texas recently discovered that the gunk contains even more information.
if the shutdown continues the disruption to the Antarctic summer research season could be catastrophic. â##We have 22 years of data showing the summer snapshot in this area that s changing really rapidlyâ#says Oscar Schofield an oceanographer at Rutgers University. â
Cat Luria a Phd student at Brown University is one of them. She s studying how microbes at the base of the oceanic food chain
and interior pipes that often attract bugs according to the University of Freiburg the German university where the bug-repelling material's makers did their research.
The researchers are now working on making a prototype bug-shedding material according to the University of Freiburg.
University of Freiburg u
#Massive CT SCANNER Will Glean Safety Insight From Wrecked Cars Computed tomography (CT SCANNERS are great for diagnosing problems in people but what about cars?
A team of scientists from John Hopkins University and the National institutes of health have cured newborn mice of Down syndrome by injecting them with a drug that stimulates
The researchers led by Roger Reeves of the John Hopkins University School of medicine treated newborn mice that had been engineered genetically to have Down syndrome-like characteristics with a small molecule called SAG.
Mya Breitbart a microbial ecologist at the University of South Florida has figured out how to quickly decipher what they are and
Her contributions have been pivotal in unmasking the enormous diversity of viruses on the planet says Curtis Suttle a marine virologist at the University of British columbia.
As a computer scientist at the Polytechnic institute of New york University Cappos has developed a completely different way to cloud compute.
Arjun Raj and his collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania invented a technique to track that gene expression and its effects.
In response a company called Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS) and University of Western australia scientists have been working to protect swimmers surfers
"says Zaman, now a biomedical engineer at Boston University. The bogus-drug trade isn't just a problem for the world's poorest patients:
A group of chemists from St mary's College in Indiana and Notre dame has gotten into the detective game, too.
Mitalipov is a biologist who studies cells and development at the Oregon Health and Science University.
when Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University said he'd made human clones. It turned out Hwang was lying.
because apparently one's google Ph d means a lot more than a University Ph. dreally we could probably find a way to artificially pollinate plants.
and someone with normal vision is not as dramatic as the difference between someone who is colorblind and someone with normal vision according to Kimberly Jameson a cognitive scientist at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California in Irvine.
She and her colleague Alissa Winkler at the University of Nevada in Reno have been studying Antico for about a year to better understand tetrachromacy.
Roxana Geambasu Exposes How Companies Use Your Data As a computer scientist Roxana#Geambasu of Columbia University says she picks new projects based on
and designed and kept in the silos of universities Prakash says. He wants to bring them to the masses.
which has been targeted largely at universities and cities so far. On September 23 several dozen heads of state including President Barack Obama came to the United nations for a one-day climate summit.
A new chimera-like creation from the Modular Robotics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania combines two snakebots and one quadcopter into a sort of drone superorganism bringing rescue robots together
#Solar Car Powers Your House When It's Parked A team of twenty students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The netherlands entered the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013 a six-day solar race
A team of university engineers has created a vehicle headlight that adjusts itself so that drivers can keep their high beams on even
or snowflakes seem to disappear from its beam to clear the vision of the driver a trick that this team of engineers from Carnegie mellon University has been working on for a few years now.
I was in marching band in high school. The headlight's onboard computer reacts to what it senses
whether it's cars raindrops street signs or anything else within 1 to 2. 5 milliseconds according to Carnegie mellon University.
That's an improvement from last year when the university had only a raindrop-disappearing light that worked with a 13-millisecond delay.
The university plans to install it into a truck for testing next year. It will take a few more years yet to miniaturize the light enough for ordinary cars s
Available to NFL and college teams and soon youth and high school#players the new Speedflex is designed to diminish the impact forces of a hard hit.
It will also alert coaches on the sideline if a blow was powerful enough to potentially cause a head injury.
and engineers from universities and startups in Europe and the U s. understandably sent only two messages in this manner:
Sciences and Shinshu University. Scientists have known long spider-silk proteins are exceptionally strong. Dragline silk the stuff spiders use to make the spokes of their webs
Over the past few years engineers working for several universities and companies have tried to make emotion-reading algorithms.
We are anticipating that some parts might fail says researcher Ken Caluwaerts a roboticist at Ghent University in Belgium.
#Boy Given A 3-D Printed Spine Implant Doctors at Peking University Third Hospital have implanted successfully the first ever 3-D-printed section of vertebra into the young patient.
the World health organization and universities will review grant applications, the Guardian reports r
#Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar energy Used car batteries can leech chemicals and create lead pollution
"said study lead author Esam Azhar, a virologist at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. The finding implies that virus could possibly be spread in enclosed spaces such as hospitals
and with a lower chance of being rejected, the researchers (from the University of California, Irvine) said.
or all tech fields#said Michael Wagner a senior commercialization specialist with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie mellon University.#
The Cygnus cargo vehicle destroyed on this accident was carrying a lot of small satellites owned by schools universities and startups.
and university research resources. The two acquisitions are Dark blue Labsâ (whichâ is creating systems to understand natural languageâ that would allow computers to comprehend the meaning of sentences
Earlier this year the company invested £5m in a lab at Imperial College London designed to help robots#understand
of 2014says Amy Loutfi the project coordinator based at Arebro University Sweden. o far we have had six homes in Europe two homes each in Spain Sweden
While these interests may seem divergent the synthesis of them led him to Brown University#s Braingate Group where he is the Senior Research and development Engineer.
and Computer science and Director of CSAIL Cagdas Onal Assistant professor of Mechanical engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic institute and Andrew Marchese a doctoral candidate in engineering at MIT created the robot to be autonomous.
and his team of researchers from the Department of Systems and Control engineering and the Centre for Biomedical Cybernetics at the University of Malta who have developed a music player that can be controlled by the human brain.
Microsoft researchers will also work closely with the scientists at the two universities. Microsoft has been investing in Swiss research for years
Microsoft will provide one million Swiss francs per year in funding for IT-related research projects at the two universities over a period of five years.
Coordinated by the University of Delft the project will involve 16 partners from academia and industry including Siemens Fraunhofer Universal Robots Philips and the Technische Universitã¤t Mà nchen (TUM).
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