morphing aircraft; giant-range strain sensors; failure-free pacemaker leads; and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices.
The new fibers differ from conventional materials in several ways. For example, when conventional fibers are stretched,
UC Riverside researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun's spectrum to make solar cells more efficient A huge gain in this direction has now been made by a team of chemists at the University of California,
Riverside that has found an ingenious way to make solar energy conversion more efficient. The researchers report in Nano Letters that by combining inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals with organic molecules, they have succeeded in"upconverting"photons in the visible and near-infrared regions of the solar spectrum."
providing a route to higher efficiencies.""This 550--nanometer light can be absorbed by any solar cell material,
The asymmetry of a p-n junction presents the electrons with an"on/off"transport environment.
Neaton and his colleagues at Columbia University have discovered a way to address both deficiencies.""Electron flow at molecular length-scales is dominated by quantum tunneling,
"The Berkeley Lab-Columbia University team believes their new approach to a single-molecule diode provides a general route for tuning nonlinear nanoscale-device phenomena that could be applied to systems beyond single-molecule junctions
and designing new routes to charge and energy flow at the nanoscale. What is exciting to me about this field is its multidisciplinary nature-the need for both physics and chemistry-and the strong beneficial coupling between experiment and theory."
-which measures how much the polar groups line up in a stable way with the field-behaves in a linear way,
"We were surprised to see transport rates approaching the'holy grail'number of a billion water molecules per channel per second,
The beamsplitter would be just one of a multitude of passive devices placed on a silicon chip to direct light waves in different ways.
together with BGT Materials Limited, found a way to increase the conductivity of graphene ink without resorting to a binder.
similar to the way new pavement is compressed with a road roller. Compressing the ink increased its conductivity by more than 50 times,
Paving the Way to Antennas, Wireless Sensors, and More The researchers tested their compressed graphene laminate by printing a graphene antenna onto a piece of paper.
Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
#Controlling light by pairing two exotic 2-D materials Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
and can couple in ways that afford a great deal of control over the behavior of light.
when the materials are combined in a certain way, the plasmons and phonons can couple, producing a strong resonance.
ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand.
Yu-Zhong Wang, Fei Song and colleagues wanted to seek a greener way forward. The researchers developed a thin,
Nae-Eung Lee and colleagues note that one way to make interactions between people and robots more intuitive would be to endow machines with the ability to read their users'emotions
The nanobatteries were fabricated by atomic layer deposition to make oxide nanotubes (for ion storage) inside metal nanotubes for electron transport, all inside each end of the nanopores.
and out and close contact between the thin nested tubes to ensure fast transport for both ions and electrons.
"Our findings fundamentally change the way we think about a certain type of magnetism that has been in place
and gaining a previously unattainable understanding of processes such as electron, water or ion transport or chemical reactions.
Down the road, you could potentially get enough cells from just a normal syringe-based blood draw,
Treating the surface of medical devices would have a greater impact on patients considered at high risk of infection such as trauma victims from road traffic collisions or combat operations,
This research may also provide ways to alter the function of metals in order to develop active elements for technologies such as optical communications by controlling how light is reflected from a metal.
If a word is said in a certain way five times, and then in a different way once, it learned to filter away the standout
and concentrate on the most common way, which is presumably correct. This processing happens during the robots downtime.
We say that the machine dreams at night, Brandtsegg says. After a while, the robot was able to connect words
Between the two displays, they worked on improving the way the robot organizes its memories.
opening the way to more accurate diagnostic tests that rely on detection of molecular"signatures"using different markers."
Roads congested with traffic, public transport overcrowded, pavements heaving with people. But as well as the frustration, there a sinister side to the commute to work:
every breath you take could be adding to your risk of dying prematurely. Air pollution is the world largest single environmental health risk,
Personal devices were strapped to bicycles carried in cars and on buses, and static devices were attached to lampposts
and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites. Fifty static devices were deployed also around London Heathrow Airport to record 22 months in the life of one of the busiest airports in the world. his was the first time technology like this had been tested in real-world situations as a high-density network,
says Jones, whose research at Heathrow was funded by the Natural environment Research Council. e could see huge variability in the exposure to pollution that people encounter as they move around the urban environment,
we could see the airport turning on and off during the day, individual aircraft taxing and taking off,
and the effects of wind direction and the perimeter and M25 motorway road traffic. They also discovered that sensor performance can create new opportunities.
Jones and colleagues had to develop new smart software methods capable of separating local pollution events from background signals (pollution transported from long range)
whether pollution along bus routes is improved by upgrading the exhaust processing on a bus fleet; whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
and to what extent changing a route to work, even from one side of the road to another, can affect an individual exposure.
Last year, the first commercial product (AQMESH) was released by UK manufacturer Geotech, which specialises in environmental monitoring equipment.
which prevents metal corrosion in an environmentally friendly way, even under extreme conditions. It can be used wherever metals are exposed to severe weather conditions, aggressive gases,
including for example salt solutions such as salt spray on roads and seawater, or aqueous acids such as acid rain.
t helps us to respond in a highly systematic way to the different needs of industry,
like that produced by a Polaroid filter, vibrates in a single plane. When struck by such a light beam,
the amount of blue light the nano-spirals emit varies as the angle of the plane of polarization is rotated through 360 degrees.
Silver and platinum nano-spirals could be made in the same way. Because of the tiny quantities of metal actually used, they can be made inexpensively out of precious metals,
Down the road, the team is interested in developing the glove beyond an assistive device to a rehabilitation tool for various hand pathologies,
The only way for electrons to break free is to forcefully add additional electrical charge to the system,
a solid material with spin-transition solution-like behaviour Spintronics is called a discipline to change the way we store
Zhe Jiang, Peter Kruskal, Chong Xie, Zhigang Suo, Ying Fang"Existing techniques are crude relative to the way the brain is wired,
amplifiers--to transport optical signals.""A major trend in optics,"the researchers write, "has been a drive toward...
in much the same way that integration of electronics has driven the impressive advances of modern computer systems."
The fact that our research is helping to make motorcycling more environmentally friendly eases my conscience every time
#Engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy (Nanowerk News) One potential way to combat ongoing climate change,
and the ways we currently consume energy, but indicate that the conversion is technically and economically possible through the wide-scale implementation of existing technologies."
One way to overcome the barriers is to inform people about what is said possible Jacobson,
residential, commercial, industrial and transportation. For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed-coal oil, gas, nuclear,
Jacobson said that several states are already on their way. Washington state, for instance, could make the switch to full renewables relatively quickly,
which will pave the way for a new-generation of diagnostics. The device, described in an article published in the journal Scientific Reports("All-nanophotonic NEMS biosensor on a chip"
What they didn't expect is that the trend doesn't scale in a predictable way.
which has paved the way for flexible mobile phones. Lead author, Phd researcher Philipp Gutruf, says the unbreakable,
#3d printing of metal with microscale droplets A team of researchers from the University of Twente has found a way to 3d print structures of copper and gold,
and recasts it in a simpler way, says ALCF assistant computational scientist, Chris Knight. Unlike typical molecular simulations, the XFEL studies are computationally more intensive.
#Researchers grind nanotubes to get nanoribbons (w/video) A simple way to turn carbon nanotubes into valuable graphene nanoribbons may be to grind them,
Highly conductive graphene nanoribbons, thousands of times smaller than a human hair, are finding their way into the marketplace in composite materials.
Kabbani said. here no way we can grind two nanotubes in a microscope and watch it happen.
KAIST) Another way to achieve ultralow-powered PRAM is to utilize self-structured conductive filaments (CF) instead of the resistor-type conventional heater.
Were now working on ways to improve the conductivity of the nano-accordion structures. And at some point we want to find a way to scale up the process.
The researchers are also experimenting with the technique using other conductive materials to determine their usefulness in creating non-transparent
In particular, finding effective ways to remove heat energy is vital to the continued miniaturization of electronics.
One way to measure these tiny vibrations is to bounce electrons off the material and measure how much energy the electrons have transferred to the vibrating atoms.
"Researchers are faced frequently with finding ways to measure smaller and smaller signals, "says NIST researcher Fabian Natterer,
The team was able to map all the graphene phonons this way, and their findings agreed well with their Georgia Tech collaborators'theoretical predictions.
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
the scientists found a way to protect the germanium from expanding and becoming ineffective after it takes on lithium.
A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
and they assemble into the appropriate structure because of the way the materials are designed, Schwartz said.
A second stage of the grant will help bring a pilot to India this summer.
And they had to use computer modeling to find a way to create more coiling.
"Our laser technique forces the materials to assemble in a particular way. We can then build structures layer-by-layer,
and the way the rows intersect and overlap shapes the grid. We then apply the functional materials after each layer forms.
It's an exceptionally fast and simple way to produce such precise configurations.""Study coauthor Atikur Rahman, a CFN postdoctoral researcher, added,
"We have developed an entirely new way of creating a color display, "said John Hong, a researcher with Qualcomm MEMS Technologies,
much like the way we would read and view printed material.""Harnessing Ambient light Typical color displays are essential yet power-hungry components of virtually every digital product with a human-machine interface, from cell phones and computers to home televisions and massive displays
engineers have been exploring ways to replace emissive technologies with displays that can reflect ambient light. Earlier attempts to create reflective light color displays,
-burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry. Stanford scientists have invented a device that produces clean-burning hydrogen from water 24 hours a day
As an alternative, scientists have been trying to develop a cheap and efficient way to extract pure hydrogen from water.
such as regenerative braking in trains and buses, elevators and cranes. They are used also in flashes in mobile phones and as a complementary technology to batteries in order to boost performance.
such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries
This way we can tailor the properties of both components to maximise the amount of energy that is stored.
and glucose-sensing enzymes that rapidly release their cargo when blood sugar levels get too high.
they had to figure out a way to administer them to patients with diabetes. Rather than rely on the large needles
and stayed that way for several hours. In addition, the researchers found that they could tune the patch to alter blood glucose levels only within a certain range by varying the dose of enzyme contained within each of the microneedles.
and cadmium sulfide to provide a route to low-cost, scalable and green synthesis of Cds nanocrystals with extrinsic crystallite size control in the quantum confinement range.
scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have found a way to halt and reverse the progression of atherosclerosis in rodents by loading microscopic nanoparticles with a chemical that restores the animals'ability to properly handle cholesterol.
when encapsulated that way, D-PDMP's potency rose tenfold in animals fed with it.
In this way, previous data and the data gathered through apps and sensors are channelled into the same database,
which is used already for scanning by plane, satellite or tractor, has become a precise, noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing.
the new device offers a way to study such cells in unprecedented detail.""With the ability to probe these reactions with the same speed at which they occur,
Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area. his is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,
They have gotten nuclear spins to line themselves up in a consistent, controllable way, and they have done it using a high-performance material that is practical, convenient,
They contain a transportation channel, through which small molecules can pass unobstructed, while large molecules have to meet certain criteria to be transported.
for the first time, an University of Zurich research team headed by Professor Ohad Medalia has succeeded in displaying the spatial structure of the transport channel in the nuclear pores in high resolution (Nature Communications,
It also helps improve our understanding of the development of some diseases that involve a defective transportation to the nuclear pores-such as intestinal ovarian and thyroid cancer r
For the first time, ORNL researchers have discovered a simple way to control the elongation of a crystalline material along a single direction without changing the length along the other directions
"The intricate way in which electrons are bound inside complex oxides means that any strain--stretching,
Minjun Kim, Phd, a professor in the College of Engineering and director of the Biological Actuation, Sensing & Transport Laboratory (BASTLAB) at Drexel
Drexel team, the lone representatives from the United states, is already well on its way to tailoring robotic icroswimmertechnology for clearing arteries. icrorobotics is still a rather nascent field of study
DGIST researchers are planning to harness this behavior in the microswimmmers to lead the way for a vascular probe by loosening the arterial plaque that is causing the blockage.
From there, the swimmers would push their way into the blockage, then the drill would clear it completely.
Stenting is a way of creating a bypass for blood to flow around the block by inserting a series of tubes into the artery,
Wouldnt this be a great way to make a drug-delivery system? Langer says. He brought this idea to Cima,
The company has also found ways to integrate electronics into the microchips to shrink down the device.
which means the materials have different properties along x and y direction in the same plane.
the group have perfected a way to reliably blast tiny cavities in the solid silicon. This creates extremely high pressure around the explosion site
the nanogenerator ultimately could provide automobile manufacturers a new way to squeeze greater efficiency out of their vehicles.
Xudong Wang has developed a new way to harvest energy from rolling tires. The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.
Wang says the nanogenerator provides an excellent way to take advantage of energy that is usually lost due to friction."
#Graphene flexes its electronic muscles Flexing graphene may be the most basic way to control its electrical properties, according to calculations by theoretical physicists at Rice university and in Russia.
which the electronic properties of a sheet of graphene can be manipulated simply by twisting it a certain way.
as its atomselectrical charges balance each other out across the plane. But curvature in graphene compresses the electron clouds of the bonds on the concave side and stretches them on the convex side,
Business model instead of problem From our viewpoint, the quantities of carbon alone which rise as smoke from the Duisburg steelworks as carbon dioxide would suffice to cover the entire need for kerosene of a major airline.
and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.
Finding ways to speed up the recording process of phase-change materials and understanding the limits to this speed could lead to a new type of memory that harnesses the best of both worlds.
a multipurpose sensor Glass fibres can do more than transport data. A special type of glass fibre can also be used as a high-precision multipurpose sensor,
The Ume researchers have managed to find a way to maintain a high-energy state in the enzyme, adenylate kinase,
which are tailored structurally on a very fine scale to change the way light waves reflect off of the cloak.
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower, like
Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses.
and synthesize proteins in a completely different way. The reason for this is that within the DNA of each cell,
they amplify the process in a limited way, and only if the gene is turned on.""In this way additional production of the protein can only occur in tissue where genes are active,
even when the enzyme is administered to the entire organism.""For this reason, our enzymes are excellent candidates for treating gene haploinsufficiencies,
and even in the same tissue, do not always divide in exactly the same way.
"This research opens up a new way to manipulate the flow of light, and could enable new technologies in light sensing and solar energy conversion,
Toward future polariton lasers and optical transistors In a condensate, the polaritons all behave the same way, like photons in a laser.
The study of room-temperature condensates paves the way for future technological breakthroughs such as polariton micro-lasers using low-cost organic materials,
'Using widely-available polycrystalline metals in this way can open up many possibilities for cost-reduction and larger-scale graphene production for applications where very high quality graphene is needed.'
"We now know enough about redirecting traffic inside the cell that we can engineer cells to make more of the products that have high value.
Scientists the world over currently are developing ways to take advantage of these natural processes to create new forms of energy.
The goal of this research was to find ways to change the organism's metabolism
but that isn't enough to understand the complexities of RNA transport and localization within a cell.
-actin mrna in Hela cells (the oldest and most commonly used human cell line) as well as to follow the real-time transport of?
The one-atom-thick carbon sheets could revolutionize the way electronic devices are manufactured and lead to faster transistors, cheaper solar cells, new types of sensors and more efficient bioelectric sensory devices.
carrying electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature, a property known as ballistic transport. Graphene's unique optical, mechanical and electrical properties have lead to the one-atom-thick form of carbon being heralded as the next generation material for faster, smaller, cheaper and less power-hungry electronics."
that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,
#New material forges the way for'stem cell factories 'If you experience a major heart attack the damage could cost you around five billion heart cells.
The research, published in the academic journal Advanced Materials("Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion and Multilineage Differentiation"),could forge the way for the creation of'stem cell
What we are doing here is paving the way for the manufacture of stem cells in large numbers
#3d'printouts'at the nanoscale using self-assembling DNA structures A novel way of making 3d nanostructures from DNA is described in a study published in the renowned journal Nature("DNA rendering of polyhedral meshes
which opens the way for completely new biological applications of DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY. The design process is automated also highly,
and we can do it in the same way as one might draw a 3d structure for printing out in macroscopic scale,
Apart from being compared simpler to former ways of making DNA origami the method importantly does not require high concentrations of magnesium salt.
New ways of generating spin currents may be important for low-power high-speed spin based computing (spintronics),
The paramagnetic SSE changes the way we think about thermally driven spintronics, allowing for the creation of new devices
much in the way a wave moves through water without actually transporting the water molecules anywhere.
and there appears to be no way for the spins to communicate with one another. But to everyone's surprise,
"We don't know the way this works, "said Bhattacharya.""There's an opportunity here for somebody to come up with a theory for this."
#Wafer-thin material heralds future of wearable technology (Nanowerk News) UOW Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) has pioneered successfully a way to construct a flexible,
#Smart hydrogel coating creates'stick-slip'control of capillary action Coating the inside of glass microtubes with a polymer hydrogel material dramatically alters the way capillary forces draw water into the tiny structures,
The discovery could provide a new way to control microfluidic systems, including popular lab-on-a-chip devices.
Leading the way is a meniscus, a curved surface of the water at the leading edge of the water column.
This ability to turn the stick-slip behavior on and off with temperature could provide a new way to control the flow of water-based liquid in microfluidic devices,
""Our technology paves the way for studies of epigenomes with extremely low number of cells from animals and from patients,
Jewett. ur new protein-making factory holds promise to expand the genetic code in a unique and transformative way, providing exciting opportunities for synthetic biology and biomolecular engineering,
In this way, he and his colleagues want to bring GST into a position where it can act as a light switch for optical data processing as well e
which is a way of saying that I would prefer to generate a hypothesis from the data
""We were surprised to see transport rates approaching the'holy grail'number of a billion water molecules per channel per second,
Now, an international group of researchers has shown how nature uses a variety of pathways to grow crystals that go beyond the classical, one-atom-at-a-time route.
"How we think about the ways to crystallization impacts how we interpret natural crystallization processes in geochemical and biological environments,
We realized we could not ignore the role that oxygen plays in the way these elements mix together.
There is still a long way to go but there are clear indications that we can tune the electrical properties of these materials,
Of particular interest was Tesla's dream of developing a way to transmit energy wirelessly using only air as a medium.
Tesla had been working on a project way back when that would have demonstrated this on a large scale--the Tesla Tower, also known as Wardenclyffe,
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