The system doesn require its own room or complicated infrastructure, instead being lightweight, self-contained, and fully mobile,
so it can be taken from room to room as necessity requires. Here a quick company video showing off the capabilities of the new Virtual Incision robot:
as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
#New ultra-strong, lightweight aluminum-steel alloy invented that rivals titanium Old-fashioned steel has been one of the most reliable and ubiquitous building materials for centuries,
and it could make aluminum-steel alloy the building material of the future.""Because of its lightness, our steel may find many applications in automotive
The group hopes the improved transparent batteries could one day be used to make smarter windows for buildings
#Nano-policing pollution Pollutants emitted by factories and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases
#Nano-policing pollution Pollutants emitted by factories and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases
so we solved the conundrum. ext they dyed the sample with 14 different dyes in a narrow emission window and excited and photoswitched the molecules with one laser.
and thus readily identifiable. hat useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
Working with brick-like blocks of gold nanoantennas, the Berkeley researchers fashioned a kin cloakbarely 80 nanometers in thickness,
viscous liquid that slows the passage of DNA two to three orders of magnitude. As a result, sequencing accuracy improves down to single nucleotides.
Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW. ee demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate the central building block of a quantum computer and,
which rely on more exotic technologies. his makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible,
The result means that all of the physical building blocks for a silicon-based quantum computer have now been constructed successfully
Experiments revealed that lithium ion intercalation in maghemite reduces its magnetization at room temperature. By the specific control of the lithium ions,
graphene's flat sheet conducts electricity quickly, and the atomic structure in the nanotubes halts electric currents.
but then they come to a staircase and are forced to stop.""Yap and his research team have shown also that
The fabrication of multifunctional materials with tunable structure and properties requires programmed binding of their building blocks.
These filaments can be regenerated magnetically on mechanical damage, owing to the fluidity of the capillary bridges between nanoparticles and their reversible binding on contact.
and creates capillary bridges between them so that the particles stick together on contact, "said Orlin Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper."
and makes the bridges fragile, leading to breaking and fragmentation of the nanoparticle chains. Yet the broken nanoparticles chains will reform
"the team has been able to dramatically reduce the effects of the oxidation through the use of ionic species confined to the walls of microvascular channels within the flexible substrates."
Leever foresees use of flexible systems to monitor the conditions of bridges and other types of infrastructure in real time.
"Next they dyed the sample with 14 different dyes in a narrow emission window and excited and photoswitched the molecules with one laser.
"That's useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
and Naveen Rawat G'15--opens a window to view how increasing"long-range order"in the organic semiconductor films is a key mechanism that allows excitons to migrate farther."
This research demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to transmit electric signals in an insulating material.
tested on a Stanford rooftop, addresses a problem that has bedeviled long the solar industry: The hotter solar cells get,
viscous liquid that slows the passage of DNA two to three orders of magnitude. As a result, sequencing accuracy improves down to single nucleotides.
Gundlach believes this tool may open a new window for understanding how cellular proteins process DNA,
including medicine, building, textile and military after being mass-produced. Among textile products, woolen fabrics are used in various industries due to their unique properties such as insulation and flexibility.
The synthesis of these fabrics will open new windows to the production of composites with conventional and innovative applications.
and Zhitomirsky, a materials science and engineering professor, demonstrates an improved three-dimensional energy storage device constructed by trapping functional nanoparticles within the walls of a nanocellulose foam.
and their room lights happened to emit at just the right wavelength. The electric field from the polarized strontium titanate was leaking into the topological insulator layer,
Using Zno and Al2o3 as the building materials, refractive indices from 1. 3 down to 1. 025 were achieved.
"The tunnel effect enables us to move electrons through the ultra-thin layer with very little energy,
The system that the Chalmers researchers succeeded in building is suited particularly well for measuring the vacuum fluctuations
Physicists are now able to realize the basic building blocks, the quantum bits (qubits) in a laboratory, control them
The building block of this type of order, namely charge, is simply a scalar quantity--that is,
if the building block of the ordered phase was a pair of oppositely pointing spins--one pointing north
When you shine a red laser pointer at a wall, for example, your eye detects red light. However, for all materials, there is a tiny amount of light bouncing off at integer multiples of the incoming frequency.
So with the red laser pointer, there will also be some blue light bouncing off of the wall.
and temperature window where the pseudogap is present. The researchers are still investigating whether the two overlap exactly,
and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft.""This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,
The semiconductor material also allowed the team to create a skin that was incredibly thin, perfectly flat,
More day-to-day applications could include sensors that would change color to indicate that structural fatigue was stressing critical components on bridges, buildings,
used a single automated process to synthesize 14 distinct classes of small molecules from a common set of building blocks.
pick the building blocks they want, instruct their assembly through the web, and the small molecules would get synthesized and shipped,
Burke says. here are a small number of building blocks that are coupled together over and over again, using the same kind of chemistry in an iterative fashion.
patterns emerged. here are building blocks that appear over and over again, and we've been able to dissect out the building blocks that are most common,
he says. The small-molecule synthesizer that Burke's team built takes these building blocks each with two chemical connectors that can be linked readily to the corresponding part on another building block
--and snaps them together like pop beads using a standard chemical reaction. The team used the approach to synthesize 14 different small molecules,
Burke's team has developed hundreds of these chemical building blocks and made them commercially available. ut it's not really about the numbers,
he says. e are showing that with a very reasonable number of building blocks we can make many different types of natural products.
#Researchers probe nanoscale properties and mechanisms of lubricant films The pistons in your car engine rub up against their cylinder walls thousands of times a minute;
which come in preassembled building blocks. The prepackaged transceivers are large and expensive, limiting their large-scale use,
and are attached directly to the processor package without preassembling them into standard transceiver housings. This improves the performance
such as the small nooks and crevices in a collapsed building.""During test flights, signals were transmitted to the beetle backpack every millisecond,
but in a closed room equipped with eight 3-D motion-capture cameras.""In our earlier work using beetles in remote-controlled flight,
It works by projecting beams of light through an oxygen-permeable window into a liquid resin.
and Innovation Stand in Hall 2, Stand B 46, are looking for development partners. Filomena Simone, an engineer in the research team led by Professor Stefan Seelecke,
The researchers from the INM will be presenting their results from 13 to 17 april 2015 in Hall 2 at the stand B46 of the Hannover Messe in the context of the leading trade fair for R & D and Technology Transfer.
or passage of a fluid through a semipermeable membrane into a solution in which the solvent is concentrated more."
and water dwelling purple bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris with magnetite and controlled the amount of light the cultures were exposed to.
indicating a larger lift force in the special resonance. This new phenomenon and the principle, Zhao noted, may open doors for many novel soft devices,
such as soft and lightweight robots for circumstances with restricted space and weight requirements or flapping wings of soft robotic birds that can generate a large lift force.
which are responsible for carrying heat in insulating materials. Phonons typically move in straight lines in nanowires threads barely a few atoms wide.
unfortunately, this tube was not particularly good at holding water in its central tunnel. Undeterred, Zeng team set out to modify that molecule.
This study was published in the online version of the UK scientific journal Nature Communications("Misfit accommodation mechanism at the heterointerface between diamond and cubic boron nitride
The paper("Probing the Molecular Architecture of Arabidopsis thaliana Secondary cell Walls Using Two-and Three-dimensional 13c Solid State Nuclear Magnetic resonance Spectroscopy")describing this work was Editors Choice for the American
and ultra-efficient building lighting which could substantially lower electricity consumption. Yajun Gao and Professor Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht from the University of Cologne have made now substantial progress in this field in collaboration with researchers from Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
but not most windows or smartphone surfaces.""Our goal is to reach a transparency in the 90-percent range,
It can fly along a tunnel with uneven, moving walls without measuring either speed or altitude.
all by itself, avoid vertical obstacles in a tunnel with moving walls. To achieve this, the researchers mimicked the ability of insects to use the passing landscape as they fly.
The first feedback loop makes it change its altitude so as to follow the floor or the roof..
in order to adapt it to the size of the tunnel through which it flies. The third loop stabilizes the eye in relation to the local slope,
The research team will be presenting the Skinproject from March 16th to March 20th at the Cebit computer expo in Hanover (Stand E13, Hall 9). If a mobile phone rings during a meeting,
Hall 9). Someone wearing a smartwatch can look at a calendar or receive e-mails without having to reach further than their wrist.
which takes place from the 16th until the 20th of March in Hannover (hall 9, booth E13) 0
which is like a circular wall of mirrors to the electron. Image: Jon Wyrick, CNST/NIST) In some structures,
such as the dome in St pauls Cathedral in London, a person standing near a curved wall can hear the faintest sound made along any other part of that wall.
occurs because sound waves will travel along a curved surface much farther than they will along a flat one.
which is like a circular wall of mirrors to the electron. An electron that hits the step head-on can tunnel straight through it,
and travel along the sides of the curved walls of the barrier until they began to interfere with one another,
"Workers on manufacturing floors could direct robots to one side of the warehouse to collect items,
so insulating that electrons are rebuffed like an overeager dog hitting the patio door. But together, these two materials make a workable digital switch
but then they come to a staircase and are forced to stop. Yap and his research team have shown also that
#Giving robots a more nimble grasp (w/video) Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed:
and push the pencil against a nearby wall, just enough to slide the robot gripper closer to the pencil midpoint. robotic gripper A simple robotic gripper can adjust its grip using the environment.
a process that stops the greenhouse gas before it escapes from chimneys and power plants into the atmosphere and instead turns it into a useful product.
#Reflexes for robots (w/video)( Nanowerk News) Deep in the basement of MITS Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc:
As Ramos mimes punching through a wall, the robot does the same. When the robots fist hits the wall, Ramos feels a jolt at his waist.
By reflex, he leans back against the jolt, causing the robot to rock back, effectively balancing the robot against the force of its punch.
while the robot may successfully punch through a wall, it would also fall headlong into that wall.
The interface allows a human to remotely feel the robots shifting weight, and quickly adjust the robots balance by shifting his own weight.
the robot can carry out momentum-driven tasks like punching through walls, or swinging a bat
In one test, the robot unexpectedly got its arm stuck in the wall. But, because the human was in the loop,
because it represents a new way of combining elemental materials to form the building blocks of energy storage technology--such as batteries, capacitors and supercapacitors,
in a topological insulator, making it possible to turn a device off and on as a potential building block for spintronics,
This new approach using intermolecular interactions at room termperature does not require ultracold temperatures. The new technology also offers extremely fast and low-friction operation.
Logic gates are an elementary building block of digital circuits-used in computers and other electronic equipment. They are made traditionally using diodes or transistors
and theye being eyed for use as building blocks in hybrid structures with unique properties for electronics,
The wall thickness of the microtubes was kept below 10 micrometers, which helped proplatelets migrate through the walls and release platelets.
By pumping culture media, a solution filled with necessary nutrients, through the microtubes, the researchers mimicked the flow of blood.
and then build it back up, brick by brick, to give you a basic structure you need for the product you are looking forn this case a human platelet made to order,
Working with brick-like blocks of gold nanoantennas, the Berkeley researchers fashioned a"skin cloak"barely 80 nanometers in thickness,
one and the same network can be configured into 16 different logical gates. The evolutionary approach works around-or can even take advantage of-possible material defects that can be fatal in conventional electronics.
#Physicists determine the three-dimensional positions of individual atoms for the first time Atoms are the building blocks of all matter On earth,
Gundlach believes this tool may open a new window for understanding how cellular proteins process DNA,
The research team at the University of Konstanz developed these technologies in-house and also an exact description of the results based on quantum field theory.
A media room for credentialed press and analysts will be located on-site in The Fairmont Hotel, 18-22 october 2015.
"We've demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate-the central building block of a quantum computer-and, significantly, done it in silicon.
"This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry,
The result means that all of the physical building blocks for a silicon-based quantum computer have now been constructed successfully
or by the resistance change in a tunnel contact with a magnetic probe. Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also
To learn more about this potential building material, the scientists set out to learn its atom-resolution structure.
These fundamental building blocks are composed themselves of backbones, and the polymers that make up these backbones are joined all together using the same rule.
"The tunnel effect enables us to move electrons through the ultra-thin layer with very little energy,
The fabrics were three times as sensitive to nitrogen dioxide in air compared to another reduced graphene oxide sensor previously prepared on a flat material.
and avenues for commercialization, including non-fouling medical tools and devices, such as implants and scalpels, nozzles for 3d printing and, potentially, larger-scale applications for buildings and marine vessels.
#Buildings producing their own energy prepared for tomorrow's cities An innovative façade, able to turn solar energy into heat for residentsuse,
and will prove its capabilities in real-life conditions The worldwide energy consumption of buildings is expected to grow by 45%from 2002 to 2025,
To reduce energy demand in old buildings across Europe, a consortium of researchers has designed an industrialised façade system for use in retrofitting works.
The system brings an imaginative technological solution that can be applied to different types of building
and façade orientations his system provides the tools for producing energy as well as insulating the building better:
The insulation technology is ready now for full-scale implementation in a real building in Merida, a city in the south of Spain.
and the exterior sides of the building through holes made in the original façade of the construction. hese connections could weaken the sound insulation of the original façade
or could let the air pass into the building, affecting its heating quality, explains Julen Astudillo.
for the future use on any other Spanish building, says Serge Galant, C e o. of Technofi,
which corresponds to the reduced energy needs of the refurbished buildings. The project researchers admit that their system is neither simple, nor cheap.
Poorly insulated buildings from the 1950s to the 1990s are the focus of the European Meefs project.
ventilate or heat the building wrapped within o
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
and found the hydrogel would form a semi-solid to support the walls of the tiny vessel,
"Perhaps in the future, you could put this material on your roof and it could turn rain water into energy with the help of the sun."But, unlike many other energy sources,
"Silicon nanowire towers make up dark regions of the flexible Fresnel zone lenses. Each individual lens resembles a bull-eye of alternating light and dark.
1) ohn threw out the old trash sitting in the kitchen. 2) ohn threw the old trash sitting in the kitchen out. ither sentence is grammatically acceptable,
but you probably found the first one to be more natural. Why? Perhaps because of the placement of the word ut,
Amino acids are also known as the building blocks of proteins which we find in all types of cells.
In 2010, Pollock fell from a second-story window and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Then they applied chemicals to the 5cb film that caused the molecules to align in such a way as to block the passage of light.
Maria Lobikin, Ph d.,recent doctoral graduate from the Levin laboratory and first author on the Science Signaling paper, first identified the building blocks receptors, hormones and other signaling
ENT surgeons commonly use endoscopic approaches to remove brain tumors through the nose by making a window through the blood-brain barrier to access the brain.
The men and women have their own small rooms, with space for a sleeping cot and desk,
"It's like a rapidly growing building site, "says John Aplin of the University of Manchester, UK.
But how the glycogen and other materials for baby-building were transported to the embryo and placenta was a mystery until now.
they contain protein that can be broken down into amino acids the building blocks from which tissue is assembled.
so the pressure of arterial blood would likely dislodge the embryo from the wall of the uterus.
the algorithm found the voltages that transformed the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of conventional computer chips.
The team was able to find voltages to transform the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of computer chips.
#Echoless light could help send signals through walls and skin IT a call with no response.
could put more drugs on the street.""Unfortunately, one of the implications, in my judgment, is that addicts would have easier access to something that threatens health in very serious ways,
could put more drugs on the street.""Unfortunately, one of the implications, in my judgment, is that addicts would have easier access to something that threatens health in very serious ways,
roughly the amount of water contained in 1. 2 Olympic swimming pools. One cubic millimeter of this water would be enough to carry out the test.
according to experts. or the last 50 years we have manufactured tablets in factories and shipped them to hospitals
and Dr Frauke Zeller Ryerson University, Toronto to explore the streets and make new friends.
This human dependent adorable robot traversed the streets of Canada and Netherlands and made many friendly connections.
and one on the other side of the organ wall. The clinician then deploys the patch and turns on the catheter's UV LIGHT.
The researchers called it a"window into the brain"(metaphorically, of course. Right now, the algorithm they've developed is refined not enough to distinguish Parkinson's patients from people who are sleep deprived,
#Navy Makes Armor Clear As Clay It a transparent armor so good it might turn the phrase lass cannonon its head.
so they can scale it up to make giant sheets of transparent, lightweight, bulletproof clay. Called Spinel, the material is made in a lab from synthetic powder.
While the military already has ways of protecting its cameras and windows spinel does it in a much lighter way.
A"bulletproof"window today, for example, has layers of plastic and glass perhaps five inches thick."
wiping out camps, injuring dozens and killing at least 18 people according to the AP. Avalanches triggered by aftershocks continue to hamper efforts to reach climbers trapped further up the mountain.
Historic buildings in Katmandu were particularly hard hit, with many reduced to rubble after the quake hit.
building up huge amounts of energy along a fault as the plates try to keep moving.
Safety experts worried for years about poor building codes near the presence of a fault which could cause untold misery if'the big one'hit,
#Humanitarian Mapping Program To Help Nepal Earthquake Recovery Efforts Pallets of supplies, including shelter kits
Hundreds of thousands of people need food, water, shelter, or some combination of the three, not to mention the numerous people who desperately need medical care.
An organization called the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is looking for volunteers from all over the world to look through satellite imagery of Nepal and label and map roads, buildings,
so it can fly through an experimental tunnel over a simulated rolling landscape without crashing,
Tiny rescue robots in the future may not have room for an accelerometer, even a small one, but theyl almost certainly require a camera.
but for any person trapped in a collapsed building that would rather be rescued by a nonliving machine instead of a cyborg beetle r
but the design is written broadly enough that it can potentially protect everything from ships to submarines, offshore platforms, ground vehicles, buildings,
#Putting Sensors In Bridges And Tunnels Could Make Their Walls Talk Trying to get a building to tell you how it feeling is,
well, like talking to a brick wall. But it doesn have to be that way. Researchers with the GENESI project want to make it so walls can talk back,
by creating various sensors to fit inside buildings, tunnels, and bridges. With the feedback collected from these sensors,
inspectors will have a better understanding of how a city's infrastructure is holding up GENESI is an awkward acronym for reen sensonr NETWORKS for Structural monitoring.
One of GENESI two pilot projects is a testbed in the tunnels of Rome underground rail system,
From there, presumably civil engineers have access to the data and can use it to inform future maintenance planning
Renewable energy is tricky in tunnels, since the sun's rays don't reach that far. But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.
whether tucked away in tunnel walls or nestled in dark unlit crevices under bridges, replacing batteries isn always the easiest task for humans,
so that might be a future job for drones. If systems like GENESI become widespread, they could drastically improve city infrastructures,
. expect to see more yelling at brick walls, like John Oliver does below e
#Tiny Drones Can See The World Like Insects Do Drones with better fly-sighttiny insect drones could be useful for disaster-area surveillance
wee seen this in animal studies, says Marco Loggia, who led the MGH team. ut this is the first time we have proof that it works the same way in humans,
says Loggia. n five to 10 years, we could potentially have a pill to do just that. e
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