gravity pulls much of the gelling elastomer down to the underside of the template, making the coating thinner on top and thicker on the bottom.
which is one-thousandth the speed of light. And that extreme speed allows the resistance to increase by a factor of 10,000.
A few feet below the surface, plenty of sunlight still filters in, the temperature is kept at a stable 25°C (77°F) by the sea,
It's a different approach to the wearable space, taking a diagnostic system that is usually stationary and making it mobile,
when it detects sufficient sunlight. So when that cloud passes overhead, you won have to intervene.
angle of inclination, and orientation to the sun affect the charge rate, so you can easily set it up in the best position.
Both have been utilized individually by researchers to boost sunlight conversion to electrical current in solar cells, and to increase the efficacy of electrically-generated light.
and warms it via the sun's rays. It is drawn then into the house as a low-cost means of heating via ventilation.
Unfortunately, avoiding potentially dangerous situations before they pose a threat can be difficult on well sighted roads during the day, let alone at unlit junctions after the sun sets.
so their uses are restricted to very specialized applications, such as spacecraft or advanced cooling systems. The new foam metal being developed by the NC State team led by Afsaneh Rabiei,
a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was created originally as a strong, lightweight material for military and transportation applications,
Illustration of different possible modes for this latest"smart window"technology"These two advancements show that sophisticated dynamic control of sunlight is said possible,
#Earth's magnetic field may be more than 750 million years older than previously thought The Earth's magnetic field is crucial to life on the planet.
It keeps out harmful solar winds, which would strip away our atmosphere and surface water and bombard us with radiation if left unchecked.
A new analysis of zircon minerals suggests that the field originated at least 4. 2 billion years ago a hop after the planet formed in the geological timeline,
and much earlier than previously thought. The finding comes courtesy of University of Rochester geophysicist John Tarduno,
who was one of the researchers responsible for the previous-best estimate of the age of Earth's magnetic field (3. 2 to 3. 45 billion years).
For this new estimate, Tarduno and his team looked at tiny zircon gemstones in Western australia that date back to the earliest two eons in the planet's history the Archean and Hadean periods.
The magnetic data the researchers found embedded in the ancient magnetite suggests that the Earth had a magnetic field at least 750 million years earlier than previously thought.
which involved all the planets in the Solar system getting pummelled by comets and asteroids for two or three hundred million years.
This event is thought to be the reason why it's so hard for scientists to glean information about the Earth's very early history it wiped out most of the geologic record.
which is the heat release mechanism in the Earth's liquid inner core that generates the magnetic field,
also draws more parallels to Mars. Our red neighbor is thought to have developed a magnetic field shortly after its formation,
but it collapsed after around four billion years and left the planet vulnerable to atmospheric stripping by solar wind o
About three-fifths of those Hawaiian solar systems use microinverters from Enphase, the company that leads the market for DC-to-AC devices that sit at the solar panels themselves, rather than in one big box next to the power meter.
bidirectional communications technology that allows us not only to know what is happening with the solar systems and the grid,
Enphase is far from the only player in the distributed solar universe that had the foresight to connect its inverters to a two-way communications network.
Enphase cloud-based monitoring platform knows ot only how well the solar system is performing, but also how well the grid is performing in those areas as well, he noted. n many cases,
Silver Spring Milli 5 is one-seventh as big as the company's previous networking node, with a fivefold reduction in power consumption--all while increasing range and operational life. n the utility space,
So it may seem like energy storage is the big star these days. But it turns out that there were just as many energy efficiency venture capital deals last year, according to a new report.
Led by Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) in partnership with Obsidian Strategic, Tata Communications and Rutgers University,
In a position paper for the 3rd annual BDEC event, a team of researchers from A*Star Computational Resource Centre revealed further details about the implementation of Infinicortex. he approach is not a grid or cloud based,
seven universities and two large research organizations (A*Star in Singapore and Oak ridge National Laboratory in Oak ridge, Tenn..
The organizers employed Infiniband sub-nets with different net topologies to create a single topologically optimized computational resource, a so-called Galaxy of Supercomputers.
Senior director of the A*Star Computational Resource Center Marek Michalewiczin, a co-author of the position paper,
and Aurora presented as successors to Edison, Titan, and Mira (respectively). While Cori and Summit were announced previously,
this is the first time that we are hearing about Aurora, which along with Summit and Sierra, falls under the CORAL collaboration framework.
The listed peak performance of more than 150 petaflops would give Aurora at least 15 times more computing power than its predecessor, Mira,
Bolt isn wasting any time. e are on the verge of a total transformation of consumer apparel that will reach every person on the planet,
but in less space than conventional batteries would allow, Hamedi explains. To create their innovative wood-based aerogel material,
observes. hese unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of temperature of the sun,
Yun Daniel Park, professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Seoul National University and co-lead author,
the ECOG signals were recorded with high resolution in time and space. Later on, the researchers in Karlsruhe analyzed the data to develop Brain-to-Text.
Professor Wass and his team have been working with aerospace engineers at the university, who wanted to know
which are used widely in the aerospace industry but also have many other applications.**The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery.
Rolf Mars, the director of Volkerwesselsroads subdivision, KWS Infra, said in the Guardian: lastic offers all kinds of advantages compared to current road construction,
once perfected, may open the door to a variety of new 3d printing applications within the art industry, medicine, aerospace, security, architecture, and more.
the new search space contains far more possibilities than there are articles in the observable universe. As the only manufacturer of scalable quantum processors, D-Wave breaks new ground with every succeeding generation it develops.
and force them to leave their orbit ionize the air and in the process of ionization towards the plasma a air begins to emit light.
Scientists have formed a hologram in the form of hearts, stars and little fairies. The visible image is a three-dimensional representation of two-dimensional data.
which the company says could boost computing power of verything from smartphones to spacecraft. he company unveiled the industry first seven-nanometer chip that could hold more than 20 billion tiny switches or transistors for improved computing power.
#Technology Fuel cells provide electricity for homes Kyoto-based Steven Rogers is the business development executive for Ceres Power, a British venture company that specialises in solid oxide fuel cells.
He stresses that Ceres is a echnology not a roductcompany; other firms, including Japanese ones,
Ceres Power brainchild is a remarkably compact fuel cell, the prototypes of which are made in a state-of-the-art plant in Horsham, southern England.
But, unlike a traditional battery, Ceres fuel cells last years. e are targeting 10 years, he states.
A typical home needs 120 separate Ceres cells, which are stacked and form part of the combined heat and power,
Gas is essential to the Ceres fuel cell process. The stacks will be powered by piped gas in the same way that homes are supplied with gas from the mains in the street.
both the user of electricity and the user of heat are there. he Ceres system,
He expects the Ceres Power fuel cell technology to reach the market in two and half years. f there was one in every home in Japan, for example,
a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and leader of the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) group,
or PTS, was conceived originally as a joint project between the MERS group, the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford university and aerospace giant Boeing,
and consist of eight-point gold stars that are surrounded by a layer of dye and encased in a sphere of silica and a polymer.
The researchers'method of making the stars ensures that all of the particles are nearly identical
That regular star shape is important because it scatters light in a particular way Kircher said.
because they give up some to the chemical bonds in the dye that coats the gold stars changing the way the dye looks under the laser light. 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life Ordinarily it would be difficult to see the change in the light
which include NASA and Virginia Tech, to print such scaffolds and other medical-grade devices and use them in real-world settings,
which received Lux Awards 2014 Light source Innovation of the Year, can fill a room ceiling mimicking sunlight from different latitudes, from the equator to Northern europe.
The key to its success in replicating a sunny sky uses nanostructured materials to scatter light from LEDS in the same way tiny particles scatter sunlight in the atmosphere so-called Rayleigh scattering.
From new ways to shake off those winter blues to manipulating light in small spaces, the trajectory for artificial light is bright indeed n
Not all versions of the Shine run on sunlight, just the blue-colored wearable, which Misfit has dubbed an"energy harvesting crystal."
Solpro Of course, the Misfit Shine isn't the only product at this year's CES that gets its power from the sun. Solar tech company Solpro unveiled its new solar-powered phone-charging device, the Helios Smart
These panels can absorb enough sunlight in 90 minutes to charge a standard smartphone according to the company.
"For instance, if nothing is done to reduce the amount of heat-trapping gasses, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere,
Earth could be 5 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 8 degrees Celsius) warmer by the end of century,
NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
Earlier this spring, NASA ENGINEERS flew the so-called GL-10 (the"GL"stands for"Greased Lightning")prototype drone at a military base located about two hours away from the agency's Langley Research center In virginia.
and long-endurance surveillance for agriculture, mapping and other applications,"Bill Fredericks, an aerospace engineer at the Langley Research center, said in a statement."
"aerospace engineer David North said in a statement.""We did lose some of the early prototypes to'hard landings'as we learned how to configure the flight control system.
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
NASA ENGINEERS will continue to tweak the design of the GL-10 drone, according to agency officials,
but requiring a fraction of the time, space, materials, cost and effort of a conventional laboratory.
The presence of a droplet in any given space represents a one in computer data
clean and flexible insulator for applications in a range of industries, including aerospace, oil and gas, RF-radar, automotive and building materials.
The spherical hydrogels that make up the material can be manufactured precisely to have specific sizes and spaces between them,
Because these spores store water in very small, nanometer scale spaces, they respond dramatically to pressure changes caused by evaporating moisture.
but that shortcoming is compensated by the fact that you can put double the Vortex turbines into the same space as a propeller turbine.
#Computing at the speed of light Engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faster than current machines.
which try to maximize exposure to sunlight, or fuel cell electrodes, which catalyze reactions at their surfaces.
which try to maximize exposure to sunlight, or fuel cell electrodes, which catalyze reactions at their surfaces.
observes. hese unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of the temperature of the sun,
Yun Daniel Park, professor in the Department of physics and Astronomy at Seoul National University and co-lead author,
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
plants that are exposed to sunlight use carefully organized nanoscale structures within their cells to rapidly separate charges pulling electrons away from the positively charged molecule that is left behind,
The polymer donor absorbs sunlight and passes electrons to the fullerene acceptor; the process generates electrical energy.
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
plants that are exposed to sunlight use carefully organized nanoscale structures within their cells to rapidly separate charges pulling electrons away from the positively charged molecule that is left behind,
The polymer donor absorbs sunlight and passes electrons to the fullerene acceptor; the process generates electrical energy.
basically because LWIR waves are highly transparent in earth atmosphere. This wave range also has great application for the soldiers in the military who rely on infrared thermal imaging technology and for flexible night vision glasses.
low-pressure vacuum-but the micro-reactor allowed the TEM to operate in the presence of an atmosphere of reactive gases."
While nothing travels faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, light isn't always in a vacuum.
#Reshaping the solar spectrum to turn light to electricity Researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun's spectrum to make solar cells more efficient.
#Reshaping the solar spectrum to turn light to electricity Researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun's spectrum to make solar cells more efficient.
Improve Lives of Millions March 5th, 2015anousheh Ansari Wins the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award for"Service to the Space Community"March 5th, 2015enhanced Graphene Components for Next
Improve Lives of Millions March 5th, 2015anousheh Ansari Wins the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award for"Service to the Space Community"March 5th, 2015enhanced Graphene Components for Next
and air molecules in the chamber's atmosphere generates cyano radicals--carbon-nitrogen molecules that have been stripped of their electrons.
2015researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight February 25th, 201 2
#Rice fine-tunes quantum dots from coal: Rice university scientists gain control of electronic, fluorescent properties of coal-based graphene Abstract:
this technology enables the formation in the atmosphere of top contact-type OFET (figure 1)* 2 contact electrodes without the use of a vacuum environment,
which is the lowest value currently on record in terms of the contact resistance of organic semiconductor contact electrodes formed in the atmosphere.
Also, while electrode formation in the atmosphere is possible using metallic ink and metallic paste,
Also, Professor Takeya's research group developed a coating-type organic semiconductor that could be formed in a short time in the atmosphere with a large-surface thin film with uniform crystal orientation
Results of the research will be used in aerospace industries, automobile manufacturing and all industries related to aluminum and light metals.
and there is no space left at radio frequencies for future expansion. At the same time, the grand challenge of the next-generation 5g network is to increase the data capacity by 1, 000 times.
In astronomy, for example, evenly spaced slits known as diffraction gratings are used routinely to direct light and spread it into its component colors.
By"tuning"the spaces between the bars, it's possible to select the specific color to be reflected.
2015researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight February 25th, 2015display technology/LEDS/SS Lighting/OLEDS Breakthrough in OLED technology March 2nd,
Rice physicists build superconductor analog, observe antiferromagnetic order February 23rd, 2015aerospace/Space Anousheh Ansari Wins the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award
for"Service to the Space Community"March 5th, 2015launch of the Alliance for Space Development March 1st,
2015national Space Society and Space Frontier Foundation announce the formation of the Alliance for Space Development February 25th, 2015rosetta Team Wins the National Space Society's Science and Engineering Space
2015researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight February 25th, 2015detecting defects at the nanoscale will profit solar panel production:
#Computing at the speed of light: Utah engineers take big step toward much faster computers The Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter--the smallest on record--for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NASA, the research will be published as the cover story in Issue 23 of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
added Hud, who is also director of the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience,
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Astrobiology Program under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (CHE-1004570.
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or NASA l
enabling us to fit more electronics in a smaller space.""A 3d structure enables storage of significantly more power in less space than is possible with conventional batteries,
In the nano cosmos, other than in our macroscopic world, the rules of quantum physics apply. In Kinsis, material scientists, chemists, physicists, biologists, electrical engineers, information scientists, food scientists and physicians work closely together.
2015graphene Haydale Subsidiary Changes Name & Creates New Aerospace Unit June 4th, 2015environmental Issues to Hamper Growth of Global Nanocomposites Market June 4th, 2015an inexpensive rival
2015haydale Subsidiary Changes Name & Creates New Aerospace Unit June 4th, 2015environmental Issues to Hamper Growth of Global Nanocomposites Market June 4th, 2015an inexpensive rival to graphene aerogels:
2015aerospace/Space Ultrafast heat conduction can manipulate nanoscale magnets June 8th, 2015production of Nanocomposites by Using Direct Nano-Welding of Micromaterials in Iran June 4th,
2015haydale Subsidiary Changes Name & Creates New Aerospace Unit June 4th, 2015an inexpensive rival to graphene aerogels:
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab's scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes.
Saharan silver ants (Cataglyphis bombycina) forage in the Saharan Desert in the full midday sun when surface temperatures reach up to 70°C (158°F),
, in the region of maximal solar radiation (the ants run at a speed of up to 0. 7 meters per second
This passive cooling effect works under the full sun whenever the insects are exposed to the clear sky. o appreciate the effect of thermal radiation,
and strength of waves of atomic motion that have promising potential uses such as fine-scale imaging and the transmission of information within tight spaces.
Chanda research was funded by the university and grants from the Florida Space Institute/NASA. He was awarded just a $300,
low-pressure vacuum--but the micro-reactor allowed the TEM to operate in the presence of an atmosphere of reactive gases."
PEMFC are leading candidates to power the space shuttle and other mobile applications even down to mobile phones,
highly symmetrical planes of oxygen atoms (somewhat like a densely packed box of marbles) where different metallic elements are lodged in the spaces between them.
an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work."
and these new techniques developed at Caltech have made it possible to visualize such behavior in both space and time,
Among other applications of this sensor, mention can be made of desulfurization of petroleum products, production of jet fuel and launching of aircrafts and other aerospace applications.
News and information Agilent technologies and A*STAR's Bioprocessing Technology Institute Collaborate on New Bioanalytical Methodologies July 15th, 2015for faster,
2015nanomedicine Agilent technologies and A*STAR's Bioprocessing Technology Institute Collaborate on New Bioanalytical Methodologies July 15th, 2015nanospheres shield chemo drugs,
2015announcements Agilent technologies and A*STAR's Bioprocessing Technology Institute Collaborate on New Bioanalytical Methodologies July 15th, 2015for faster,
therefore targeting their search at a semiconductor material that is able to both convert sunlight into an electrical charge and split the water, all in one;
and they are sensitive to alkaline and sunlight, and they have strength limitations. According to Amir Behzadnia, one of the researchers, this study was carried out aiming to improve the properties of woolen products through special finishing process,
'"Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy,
and shows that they can be useful for converting sunlight into usable electricity.""Additional co-authors include Hangqi Zhao and Michael Mcclain, both of Rice.
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,
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
It will bring many new applications to our daily life very soon,"added Kostya S. Novoselov, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, who coordinated the project.
and receive light over a very confined space, Fang says, and could lead to nique optical material that has great potential for optical interconnects.
compact micro-actuators for aerospace, automobile, biomedical, space and robotics applications; and ultra-low thermal signature actuators for sonars and defense applications.
they could replace existing rare-earth based magnetostriction alloys, which are expensive and feature inferior mechanical properties,
water or other spaces that are causes for health concerns. And it could aid in the detection of chemical weapons s
enabling us to fit more electronics in a smaller space.""A 3d structure enables storage of significantly more power in less space than is possible with conventional batteries,
and in community decision-making to choose monitoring solutions for spaces such as schools and urban public spaces. ven though the effects of poor air quality on health are well known,
irrefutable evidence of the scale of the air quality issue and the benefits of ameliorating strategies is needed urgently,
and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United states")."An interactive map summarizing the plans for each state is available at http://www. thesolutionsproject. org.
They analyzed each state's sun exposure, and how many south-facing, non-shaded rooftops could accommodate solar panels.
but wind and sunlight are free. So the overall cost spread over time would be roughly equal to the price of the fossil fuel infrastructure, maintenance and production."
these plates can slide across each other bit like geological plates that form the earths crust allowing for high sensitivity
The immune organoid was created in the lab of Ankur Singh, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
or perhaps something a little larger, say, an entire planet. Top image: An intense Gaussian-shaped x-ray pulse (transparent blue shape) has passed just through a cluster of Argon atoms (pink spheres.
and space scales required for such rapid expansion. This speedup was achieved with improved multi-threaded parallelism
producing a record low turn-on voltage that enabled the researchers to be the first to use earth-abundant hematite
Water splitting combines sunlight and water in a chemical reaction in order to harvest clean hydrogen energy. By smoothing the surface of hematite,
We are happy to show that much can be harvested from this earth abundant, nontoxic material. l
a Ph d. student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the work.
its overall material properties, says Chih-Hao Chang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and corresponding author of the paper.
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
While the demand for technical systems converting sunlight into electricity is increasing, organic materials represent a highly interesting alternative to silicon that has to be processed at high costs before it can be used for the photoactive layer of a solar cell l
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage (Nanowerk News) The materials in most of todays residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
In photosynthesis, plants that are exposed to sunlight use carefully organized nanoscale structures within their cells to rapidly separate charges pulling electrons away from the positively charged molecule that is left behind,
The polymer donor absorbs sunlight and passes electrons to the fullerene acceptor; the process generates electrical energy.
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