a 3d printed aluminum joint that connects pieces of carbon fiber tubing to make up the car chassis. Among other problems solved by the Node include cutting down on the amount of 3d printing required to build the chassis as well as the time to assemble the car components
"The nodes, combined with carbon fiber tubes are the key components in building a car chassis. It took less than 30 minutes to assemble the chassis by hand.
Currently, the majority of existing fibers are made using a labor intensive tack and drawprocess that involves stacking small glass capillaries by hand to create a preform,
and composition of a fiber limits the degree of flexibility that engineers can use to design a fiber function.
will ultimately allow engineers to manufacture new preform designs that are significantly more complex than existing fibers.
This new way of producing the fibers not only has the potential to dramatically change how existing fibers are produced,
They begin by taking meninges tissue out of patients themselves to analyze the fiber structure.
the machine sprays out a fiber-like ink onto biological paper that simulates the collagen structures found in body.
as well as their powerful carbon fiber filament, using the material. Now, two popular US companies are taking advantage of Amphora with taulman 3d n-vent filament,
said Sebastian Heinz of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who led the study. ut
and may also help the food industry screen against contamination with harmful pathogens, according to researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South korea.
"This means the present method can be utilized as a prescreening test for point-of-care bacterial diagnosis for various applications including medicine and food hygiene.""
the new method may be useful in the food industry or for homeland security applications. In principle, the approach could be scaled up to screen for contaminated food or suspicious packages i
called a hollow fiber, which allows only pure water vapor to permeate its walls. Potable water emerges from the net flux of water vapor
For food processing companies that produce and ship large quantities of foodstuff daily, listeria contamination sources can be a moving target that is often missed by current technology.
#Gold nanoparticle Coating on Cotton Fibers Can Help Kill Bacteria Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
said Hinestroza, associate professor of fiber science, who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. n a nanoscale world
The Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors so instead of adding electronics to fabrics,
and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. he layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always,
but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns, which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting,
Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
and incorporate these MOFS into fibers, which allows us to make very efficient filtration systems,
and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive, and polylactic acid, a biodegradable plastic used in compostable cups and glassware.
Youngbull envisions use of the device in homeland security, mass transit, public spaces, hospitals, schools, food production and combat theater analytics.
avoiding displacing food production, the team observed. They added the development of renewable liquid fuels was critical to reduce global reliance on petroleum
"Food v fuel In recent years, political support for biofuels has waned as concern grew that global demand for biofuels would result in a switch away from food production to biofuel production, exacerbating food security worries.
and control reproductive activity in animals to provide solutions for food production. Circadian clock research has accelerated rapidly since the discovery of clock genes in the 1990's. By genetic and molecular biology approaches,
which will surely contribute to medical applications, food production and advances in clock research. This has been a wonderful experience for
"an image of DNA that chemist Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling created in 1952 by shooting X-rays through fibers of DNA
"an image of DNA that chemist Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling created in 1952 by shooting X-rays through fibers of DNA
and muscle cells aligned into appropriate fibers throughout the muscle matrix. Functional testing of the isolated limbs showed that electrical stimulation of muscle fibers caused them to contract with a strength 80 percent of
These can be food additives, including sugars, which allow the bacteria to be controlled by the food that is eaten by the host,
The muscle-like fibers are made from strands of nickel-titanium wire, each about the width of a human hair.
although each fiber is spongelike, as a mass, they together form a somewhat crisper, paperlike material.
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
'He added that the food industry had contributed effectively to heart disease by lowering saturated fat levels in food and replacing it with sugar.
a 3d printed aluminum joint that connects pieces of carbon fiber tubing to make up the car's chassis. This solves the problem of time
and binds the nano fibers together into a cohesive seamless fabric. once removed from the mold,
Such regulation under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 would require that carriers share access to their lines and fiber networks.
One of the most common complaints from the telcos and cable companies is that the cost of building fiber networks (or
the company never spent more cash in real dollars it just used the state funding it received to pay for fiber,
Maggi case should begin new era of food vigilancea leading food safety official has urged India government to view the recent Maggi noodles affair as the beginning of a new era of food safety vigilance.
He also called for greater self-regulation by manufacturers and better awareness among the public about how much food safety testing takes place behind the scenes. he heated discussion on the presence of lead in food products,
who will in turn educate society. niform packaging standards on the horizonindia will soon get uniform food packaging standards in a bid to increase
The guidelines are being finalised with the help of the Agricultural and Processed food Products Export Development Authority.
#High altitude cooking boosts flavour say Nestlé researchers The team led by Dr Candice Smarrito of the Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne examined the effects of low pressure such as that found at high altitude on the sensory profile
and Hebrew-uses sugar, rather than artificial or alternative sweeteners, consumers'taste expectations are satisfied and there are no aftertaste issues. ee not about reformulation.
and Nestlé, told Foodproductiondaily, the sensors apply to 3d and thermal inspection as an addition to the firm standard products. he thermography is used for example,
Food producers, and the innovators amongst them, perhaps didn know that chemically enriched, grown, stored and produced food would be unhealthy.
Professor Wass explains. arbon fiber composites have been used widely in Formula one and performance cars for many years,
#IBM joins forces with Mars taps genomics to boost food safety Tech heavyweight IBM has joined forces with food manufacturing giant Mars in an attempt to boost global food safety.
Scientists from the two companies have founded the Consortium for Sequencing the Food supply Chain tapping advances in genomics to gain a better understanding of food safety.
The data will be used to investigate how bacteria interact with scientists hopeful the results will improve food safety management across the supply chain. t becoming extremely complex with the global supply chainjeff Welser lab director of IBM Almaden research center
or an ingredient for food or it could be taken a swab from a machine in a food processing plant.?
is Chef Watson understanding of food chemistry, of its ability to offer targeted cooking solutions that can meet usersdietary restrictions.
human cells have the ability to identify fibers, such as endogenous collagen, as part of the connective tissue, explains Ferrari.
While lithium can be an effective mood stabilizer for people with bipolar disorder, it causes numerous unpleasant side effects for patients. f lithium effect on the cerebellum is the key to its effectiveness as a mood stabilizer,
then a more targeted treatment that causes the same change in the cerebellum without affecting other systems might be a better treatment for patients with bipolar disorder,
rubber or fiber, including biodegradable materials. The new method, dubbed"magnetospinning, "provides a simple, scalable,
Ph d.,study co-author and the Georgia Power Professor of Polymers, Fibers and Textiles in UGA's college of family and consumer sciences."
Fibers like these are used currently to create scaffolding for lab-grown tissues and organs. Nanofibers can also be loaded with proteins, nanotubes, fluorescent materials and therapeutic agents."
and the kind of fiber we get is very different. n
#Researchers Discover New ain Sensinggene An international scientific team led by the University of Cambridge reports the identification of a gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans.
They believe their study (he mesh is a network of microtubule connectors that stabilizes individual kinetochore fibers of the mitotic spindle,
All of a sudden, tilting the fiber in 3d showed us that the bridges were not single struts at all
That middle layer will consist of leather fibers and wires made from Nitinol, the latter of which is a shape-memory nickel/titanium alloy.
The drug has been submitted to both the US Federal Drug and Food administration and the European Medicines Agency for consideration, with the scientists hopeful of winning approval later this year.
but the new ballistic wallpaper under development by the US ARMY Corps of Engineers uses a special fiber inlay to help prevent walls from collapsing under blast effects.
which is embedded with Kevlar fibers in a crisscross pattern. According to Boone, the wallpaper can be applied easily
While we've already seen 3d printers that can create objects out of carbon fiber, the ability to print objects made mainly out of graphene could raise the bar even higher for material scientists and hobbyists alike.
like the food industry. The end result, he said, is different way of thinking about how to scale production to high volumes.
and address issues like job creation, food safety, climate change, and to ensure the health and security of the nation.
the fibers can be manipulated to deliver any combination of softness, strength, and durability. Theye even machine-washable. hink of the strength a delicate, pliable spiderweb must have to stop insects hurtling through the air, Jim Kim and Tanguy Chau, members of the venture-capital group Formation 8
or even natural but resource-intensive fibers like cotton. With plans to launch high-performance productshink mountain-climbing apparel and other elite athletic wears early as 2016
After reducing these fibers to around one-millionth of their original thickness the resulting anocelluloseis then dissolved and freeze-dried to remove moisture.
#Researchers invent super-elastic conducting fibers to make artificial muscles, sensors, and capacitors A University of Texas at Dallas research team has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to more than 14 times their initial length and
whose electrical conductivity increases 200-fold when stretched. The research team is using the new fibers to make artificial muscles,
as well as capacitors with energy storage capacity that increases about tenfold when the fibers are stretched. Fibers and cables derived from the invention might one day be used as interconnects for super-elastic electronic circuits
robots and exoskeletons having great reach, morphing aircraft, giant-range strain sensors, failure-free pacemaker leads,
and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices. Wrapping carbon nanotube sheets into fibers In a study published in the July 24 issue of the journal Science,
the scientists describe how they constructed the fibers by wrapping lighter-than-air, electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
The new fibers differ from conventional materials in several ways. For example, when conventional fibers are stretched,
the resulting increase in length and decrease in cross-sectional area restricts the flow of electrons through the material.
But even a iantstretch of the new conducting sheath-core fibers causes little change in their electrical resistance, said Dr. Ray Baughman,
senior author of the paper and director of the Alan G. Macdiarmid Nanotech Institute at UT Dallas. One key to the performance of the new conducting elastic fibers is the introduction of buckling into the carbon nanotube
sheets. Because the rubber core is stretched along its length as the sheets are being wrapped around it,
which allows for repeated stretching of the fiber. hink of the buckling that occurs when an accordion is compressed,
the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry at UT Dallas. e make the inelastic carbon nanotube sheaths of our sheath-core fibers super stretchable by modulating large buckles with small buckles,
These amazing fibers maintain the same electrical resistance, even when stretched by giant amounts, because electrons can travel over such a hierarchically buckled sheath as easily as they can traverse a straight sheath.
Radical electronic and mechanical devices possible By adding a thin overcoat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers and then another carbon nanotube sheath
and the thin rubber layer is a dielectric, resulting in a fiber capacitor. These fiber capacitors exhibited the unrivaled capacitance change of 860 percent
when the fiber was stretched 950 percent. Adding twist to these double-sheath fibers resulted in fast,
electrically powered torsional or rotating artificial muscles that could be used to rotate mirrors in optical circuits
or pump liquids in miniature devices used for chemical analysis. The conducting elastomers can be fabricated in diameters ranging from the very small about 150 microns
Individual small fibers also can be combined into large bundles and plied together like yarn or rope,
an author on the paper and chief research and intellectual properties strategist at Lintec of America Nanoscience & Technology Center. he rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available,
she said. he only exotic component is the carbon nanotube aerogel sheet used for the fiber sheath. o
hich means reinforcing a soft gel proteoglycans or, in our case, a biocompatible hydrogel with a network of very thin fibers.
In its current prototype, the elongated cone is made from a composite of fiberglass and carbon fiber,
"If you take a big tree and cut it down to the individual fiber, the most common product is paper.
The dimension of the fiber is in the micron stage, "Cai says.""But what if we could break it down further to the nano scale?
#Unlocking nanofiberspotential Prototype boosts production of versatile fibers fourfold, while cutting energy consumption by 92 percent.
where it emitted toward the electrode as a fiber. That approach is erratic however, and produces fibers of uneven lengths;
it also requires voltages as high as 100,000 volts. Thinking smallvelásquez-García and his co-authors Philip Ponce de Leon, a former master student in mechanical engineering;
yielding uniform fibers even at high manufacturing rates. e did all kinds of experiments, and all of them show that the emission is uniform,
At the relatively low voltage of 8, 000 volts, that device yielded four times as much fiber per unit area as the best commercial electrospinning devices.
#Unlocking nanofiberspotential Prototype boosts production of versatile fibers fourfold, while cutting energy consumption by 92 percent.
where it emitted toward the electrode as a fiber. That approach is erratic however, and produces fibers of uneven lengths;
it also requires voltages as high as 100,000 volts. Thinking smallvelásquez-García and his co-authors Philip Ponce de Leon, a former master student in mechanical engineering;
yielding uniform fibers even at high manufacturing rates. e did all kinds of experiments, and all of them show that the emission is uniform,
At the relatively low voltage of 8, 000 volts, that device yielded four times as much fiber per unit area as the best commercial electrospinning devices.
a method commonly used in municipal and industrial water filtration and in food production. The other single-step process involved direct control of the reaction temperature in the oxidation process that reduced coal to quantum dots.
We discovered that these rods were really just pieces of'broken'fibers, "Velev said.""We didn't quite have the conditions set perfectly at that time.
the fibers don't break.""NC State patented the liquid shear process in 2006 and in a series of subsequent patents while Velev and his colleagues continued to work to perfect the process and its outcome.
and even count nucleosomes across the chromatin fibers and determine their organisation. STORM overcomes the diffraction limit that normally restricts the spatial resolution of conventional microscopes
rubber or fiber, including biodegradable materials. The new method, dubbed"magnetospinning"by the researchers, provides a very simple,
study co-author and the Georgia Power Professor of Polymers, Fibers and Textiles in UGA's College of Family and Consumer Sciences."
Fibers like these are used currently to create scaffolding for lab-grown tissues and organs. Nanofibers can also be loaded with proteins, nanotubes, fluorescent materials and therapeutic agents."
and the kind of fiber we get is very different."#"##The University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. has filed a patent application on this new method.##
Tiny device could be incorporated into'smart packaging'to improve food safety April 15th, 2015heat-Converting Material Patents Licensed April 8th,
This baking of nanostructures has already been a great success using zinc oxide. The recent findings concentrate on tin oxide,
This baking of nanostructures has already been a great success using zinc oxide. The recent findings concentrate on tin oxide,
Prototype boosts production of versatile fibers fourfold, while cutting energy consumption by 92 percent June 5th, 2015tenasitech secures additional $509,
Prototype boosts production of versatile fibers fourfold, while cutting energy consumption by 92 percent June 5th, 2015unique microscopic images provide new insights into ionic liquids April 28th, 201 0
like tiny fibers making up a piece of shag carpet hundreds of times smaller than a human cell.
a step forward in the food packaging sector June 11th, 2015tissue Engineering Scaffolds Produced from Natural Silk in Iran June 8th,
The testing showed that the synthetic silicon spicules displayed stronger interactions with collagen fibers--a skin-like stand-in for biological tissue--than did currently available silicon structures.
and the other silicon structures into the collagen fibers, then pulled them out. An Atomic Force Microscope measured the force required to accomplish each action."
#UT Dallas nanotechnology research leads to super-elastic conducting fibers Abstract: An international research team based at The University of Texas at Dallas has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to over 14 times their initial length and
whose electrical conductivity increases 200-fold when stretched. The research team is using the new fibers to make artificial muscles,
as well as capacitors whose energy storage capacity increases about tenfold when the fibers are stretched. Fibers and cables derived from the invention might one day be used as interconnects for super-elastic electronic circuits;
robots and exoskeletons having great reach; morphing aircraft; giant-range strain sensors; failure-free pacemaker leads;
and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices. In a study published in the July 24 issue of the journal Science,
the scientists describe how they constructed the fibers by wrapping lighter-than-air, electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
The new fibers differ from conventional materials in several ways. For example, when conventional fibers are stretched,
the resulting increase in length and decrease in cross-sectional area restricts the flow of electrons through the material.
But even a"giant"stretch of the new conducting sheath-core fibers causes little change in their electrical resistance
senior author of the paper and director of the Alan G. Macdiarmid Nanotech Institute at UT Dallas. One key to the performance of the new conducting elastic fibers is the introduction of buckling into the carbon nanotube
which allows for repeated stretching of the fiber.""Think of the buckling that occurs when an accordion is compressed,
the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry at UT Dallas."We make the inelastic carbon nanotube sheaths of our sheath-core fibers super stretchable by modulating large buckles with small buckles,
These amazing fibers maintain the same electrical resistance, even when stretched by giant amounts, because electrons can travel over such a hierarchically buckled sheath as easily as they can traverse a straight sheath."
said the structure of the sheath-core fibers"has further interesting and important complexity.""Buckles form not only along the fiber's length,
but also around its circumference.""Shrinking the fiber's circumference during fiber stretch causes this second type of reversible hierarchical buckling around its circumference,
even as the buckling in the fiber direction temporarily disappears, "Liu said.""This novel combination of buckling in two dimensions avoids misalignment of nanotube
and rubber core directions, enabling the electrical resistance of the sheath-core fiber to be insensitive to stretch."
"By adding a thin overcoat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers and then another carbon nanotube sheath,
the researchers made strain sensors and artificial muscles in which the buckled nanotube sheaths serve as electrodes
and the thin rubber layer is a dielectric, resulting in a fiber capacitor. These fiber capacitors exhibited a capacitance change of 860 percent
when the fiber was stretched 950 percent.""No presently available material-based strain sensor can operate over nearly as large a strain range,
"Liu said. Adding twist to these double-sheath fibers resulted in fast, electrically powered torsional
--or rotating--artificial muscles that could be used to rotate mirrors in optical circuits or pump liquids in miniature devices used for chemical analysis,
"Individual small fibers also can be combined into large bundles and plied together like yarn or rope,
"The rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available, "she said."
"The only exotic component is the carbon nanotube aerogel sheet used for the fiber sheath.""Last year, UT Dallas licensed to Lintec of America a process Baughman's team developed to transform carbon nanotubes into large-scale structures, such as sheets.
and muscle cells aligned into appropriate fibers throughout the muscle matrix. Functional testing of the isolated limbs showed that electrical stimulation of muscle fibers caused them to contract with a strength 80 percent of
which are composite tubular constructions of Kevlar fibers and silicone elastomer, support the range of motions performed by biological fingers.
author Heinz Schmid who describes the crystal growth starting from a small area and evolving into a much larger,
including the motion of fibers called actin. This sequence of atomic force microscope (AFM) images shows before and after effects of inhibiting the function of a key protein in breast cancer cells.
#Nanotechnology transforms cotton fibers into modern marvel (Nanowerk News) Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
said Hinestroza, associate professor of fiber science, who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. In a nanoscale world and that is our world we can control cellulose-based materials one atom at a time.
The Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors so instead of adding electronics to fabrics,
Creating transistors and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. The layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always
Hinestroza said, Fibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes.
Abbey Liebman 10 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns, which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting,
Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
and incorporate these MOFS into fibers, which allows us to make very efficient filtration systems,
and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive, and polylactic acid, a biodegradable plastic used in compostable cups and glassware.
#Vitamin c shown to annihilate cancer Vitamin c is a well-known antioxidant and is used commonly to fight off a cold.
#Fiber optic sensors developed for distributed temperature sensing The high-density fiber array sensors are suited to harsh environment processes
100°F). All Proximion fiber optical sensors are based on the Fiber Bragg Grating technology with a standard spacing between sensing elements of 5mm.
igh density fiber array sensors for temperature monitoring 600°C and high speed interrogator with 10,000 temperature readouts per secondvideo Proximion is not only the manufacturer of the world's longest continuous FBGS,
ffectively eliminate the need for electronic regenerators placed periodically along a fiber link The electronic regeneration in modern lightwave transmission that carries between 80 to 200 channels also dictates the cost and,
and therefore, reversible at the receiving end of the fiber. rosstalk between communication channels within a fiber optic cable obeys fixed physical laws.
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