The pair of keen high-school students have partnered with Virgin Media to develop the device and theye just announced that the Kipstr is ready for trials.
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania; University of California Berkeley; and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has made inroads in solving one such hurdle.
By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene they have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2-D material.
Moreover their method enables this value to be tuned through the application of an electric field meaning graphene circuit elements made in this way could one day be rewired dynamically without physically altering the device.
Now a team of physicists at the University of California Riverside has found an ingenious way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving graphene's electronic properties.
This is the first time that graphene has been made magnetic this way said Jing Shi a professor of physics
Ziang Zhang, a Rice graduate student and the paper's lead author. Yakobson, Zhang and Rice postdoctoral researcher Alex Kutana used density functional theory, a computational method to analyze the energetic input of every atom in a model system,
#and it's difficult to isolate the efficiency of each step says Dr. Brendan O'connor an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.
University at Buffalo researchers and their colleagues have designed a nanoparticle that can be detected by six medical imaging techniques:
"says researcher Jonathan Lovell, Phd, UB assistant professor of biomedical engineering.""Once such systems are developed, a patient could theoretically go in for one scan with one machine instead of multiple scans with multiple machines."
as well as the University of Wisconsin and POSTECH in South korea. The researchers designed the nanoparticles from two components:
new tool for medical imaging,"says Prasad, also a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemistry, physics, medicine and electrical engineering at UB."
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#High-resolution patterns of quantum dots with e-jet printing A team of 17 materials science and engineering researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana#Champaign and Erciyes University in Turkey have authored High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots
and the research interests of John Rogers co-author of the paper and a materials scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
It was research conducted by Yingnan Zhao of the University of Twente's MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology that led to this discovery.
The technology, developed collaboratively by researchers from Cornell University and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, uses an electrochemical process called anodization to create nanoscale pores that change the electrical charge and surface energy of a metal surface,
"said Carmen Moraru, associate professor of food science and the paper's senior author. Guoping Feng, a research associate in Moraru's lab, is the paper's first author.
The collaborating group from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute is led by Diana Borca-Tasciuc, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace and nuclear engineering.
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#Carbon nanotube finding could lead to flexible electronics with longer battery life University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have made a significant leap toward creating higher-performance electronics with improved battery lifend the ability
Led by materials science Associate professor Michael Arnold and Professor Padma Gopalan, the team has reported the highest-performing carbon nanotube transistors ever demonstrated.
In a paper published recently in the journal ACS Nano, Arnold, Gopalan and their students reported transistors with an on-off ratio that's 1
#A new step towards using graphene in electronic applications A team of the University of Berkeley
In 2013 a team of scientists from the University of Berkeley and the Centre for Materials Physics (CFM) a mixed CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) and UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country
The Fellows Gipuzkoa programme funded by the Chartered Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa is devoted in fact to bringing back young researchers with solid postdoctoral training in internationally prestigious groups and centres by offering them a platform for reincorporation through contracts with a duration
Macrophages accumulation in the arterial wall under atherogenic conditions such as high cholesterol triglycerides oxidative stress#are converted into lipids or laden foam cells
Macrophage foam cells accumulation in the arterial wall are a key cell type in the development of atherosclerosis
Here researchers have discovered for the first time that the toxicity of silicon dioxide nanoparticles has a significant and substantial effect on the accumulation of triglycerides in the macrophages at all exposure concentrations analyzed
Professor Zhiyong Fan and his group from Hong kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reported novel nanobowl optical concentrator fabricated on low-cost aluminum foil
The novel nanobowl optical concentrator developed by Professor Zhiyong Fan can largely enhance the optical absorption in the active layer of organic solar cell
The development of the novel nanobowl optical concentrator and its application on OPV were a collaborative effort involving Professors in Department of chemistry of HKUST including Professor Shihe Yang
and Professor He (Henry) Yan who are working on cutting-edge researches about organic photovoltaics. The research project was supported by General Research Funds from Hong kong Research Grants Council and Hong kong Innovation Technology Commission.
#Carbon nanoballs can greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that the insulation plastic used in high-voltage cables can withstand a 26 per cent higher voltage
"Together with colleagues from Chalmers University of Technology and the company Borealis in Sweden, he has found a powerful method for reducing energy losses in alternating current cables.
The UCD team led by Conway Fellows Professor Gil Lee in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Professor Walter Kolch in Systems Biology Ireland synthesised nanorods with a long iron segment coated with polyethylene glycol
and a short gold tip coated with single layer of the protein heregulin (HRG). HRG is a growth factor that binds to
and an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State. This could make the manufacture of semiconductor devices an order of magnitude less expensive.
#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
Dr Uday Kishore from Brunel University London's College of Health and Life sciences said: By using a protein recognised by the immune system to effectively disguise carbon nanoparticles we will be able to deploy these tiny particles to target hard-to-reach areas without damaging side effects to the patient.
This shows that we can use 3-D printing to create complex electronics including semiconductors said Mcalpine an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
In the recent past a team of Princeton professors including Mcalpine created a bionic ear out of living cells with an embedded antenna that could receive radio signals.
and biological materials said Kong a graduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering. Kong the lead author of the Oct 31 article describing the current work in the journal Nano Letters said that the contact lens project on the other hand involved the printing of active electronics using diverse materials.
To solve these interdisciplinary challenges the researchers collaborated with Ian Tamargo who graduated this year with a bachelor's degree in chemistry;
and Barry Rand an assistant professor of electrical engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
Dan Steingart an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center helped design and build the new printer
Researchers at the University of Basel and The swiss Tropical and Public health Institute have developed now so-called nanomimics of host cell membranes that trick the parasites.
Cornelia Palivan (both at the University of Basel) and Prof. Hans-Peter Beck (Swiss TPH) have designed successfully and tested host cell nanomimics.
Our approach reduces the cost of nanolithography to the point where it could be done in your garage says Dr. Chih-Hao Chang an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.
or other applications says Xu Zhang a Ph d. student in Chang's lab and lead author of the paper.
All conclusions made based on the X-ray studies were confirmed further using atomic-resolution microscopy in the group of Professor Robert Klie of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois at Chicago Research Resources Center.
A paper describing this discovery by a research team led by John V. Badding a professor of chemistry at Penn State was published in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Nature Materials.
Physicists from Leibniz University Hannover and from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have taken now a decisive step in this direction.
As an electron source the physicists from Leibniz University Hannover and from PTB used so-called semiconductor single-electron pumps.
The theoretical maximum storage capacity of graphite is limited very at 372 milliamp hours per gram hindering significant advances in battery technology said Vilas Pol an associate professor of chemical engineering at Purdue University.
It will certainly become fully affordable in the perspective of broad scale application mentioned by collaborators Vadim G. Kessler and Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva from the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences.
Swedish University of Agricultural sciences researchers Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva Geoffrey Daniel and Vadim G. Kessler; James Caruthers Purdue's Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Professor of Chemical engineering;
Jeanmarie Nedelec a researcher from Clermont Universit in France; and Pol l
#Toward a low-cost'artificial leaf'that produces clean hydrogen fuel For years scientists have been pursuing artificial leaf technology a green approach to making hydrogen fuel that copies plants'ability to convert sunlight into a form of energy they can use.
Scientists create multifunctional nanotubes using nontoxic materials A doctoral student in materials science at Technische Universitat Darmstadt is making multifunctional nanotubes of goldith the help of Vitamin c and other harmless substances.
The doctoral student in the research group of Professor Wolfgang Ensinger in the Department of Material Analysis is working on making nanotubes of gold.
"says the TU professor, combining the two mottos:""Green meets Nano meets Life
#Uniform nanowire arrays for science and manufacturing Defect-free nanowires with diameters in the range of 100 nanometers (nm) hold significant promise for numerous in demand applications including printable
Last year materials scientist Chunmei Ban and her colleagues at the National Renewable energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado and the University of Colorado Boulder found that they could cover silicon nanoparticles with a rubberlike coating made from aluminum glycerol.
So Yang He from the University of Pittsburgh explored the coated silicon nanoparticles in action at EMSL.
The findings were published just in Nano Energy by scientists from the OSU College of Science OSU College of Engineering Argonne National Laboratory the University of South Florida and the National Energy technology Laboratory in Albany Ore.
and costs less said Xiulei (David) Ji an OSU assistant professor of chemistry in the OSU College of Science
Yael Hanein of Tel aviv University's School of Electrical engineering and head of TAU's Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and including researchers from TAU the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Newcastle University.
According to TAU doctoral student and research team member Dr. Lilach Bareket there are already medical devices that attempt to treat visual impairment by sending sensory signals to the brain.
Then, in May 2014, scientists from the University of California, Irvine, showed for the first time that these sensors can also be used to improve signals in a related imaging mode known as inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy.
University of Manchester researchers have found. Published in the journal Nature the discovery could revolutionize fuel cells
One-atom thick material graphene first isolated and explored in 2004 by a team at The University of Manchester is renowned for its barrier properties
The University of Manchester research suggests that the use of graphene or monolayer boron nitride can allow the existing membranes to become thinner and more efficient with less fuel crossover and poisoning.
Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo, a Phd student and corresponding author of this paper, said: When you know how it should work it is a very simple setup.
A research team headed by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials science and engineering at KAIST provides an easier methodology to realize high performance flexible electronics by using the Inorganic-based Laser Lift off (ILLO.
Professor Lee said By selecting an optimized set of inorganic exfoliation layer and substrate a nanoscale process at a high temperature of over 1000c can be utilized for high performance flexible electronics.
and protein diagnostic devices into every single doctor's office said Stuart Lindsay an ASU physics professor and director of Biodesign's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics.
In contrast to conventional cancer therapy a University of Cincinnati team has developed several novel designs for iron-oxide based nanoparticles that detect diagnose
The results of the UC work will be presented at the Materials Research Society Conference in Boston Nov 30-Dec 5 by Andrew Dunn doctoral student in materials science engineering in UC's College of Engineering and Applied science.
Working with Dunn in this study are Donglu Shi professor of materials science engineering in UC's College of Engineering and Applied science;
David Mast associate professor of physics in UC's Mcmicken College of Arts and Sciences; and Giovanni Pauletti associate professor in the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
The UC study used the living cells of mice to successfully test the efficacy of their two-sided nanoparticle designs (one side for cell targeting and the other for treatment delivery) in combination with the PTT.
The researchers led by Professor Joel K. W. Yang at A*STAR (the Agency for Science Technology
and Research) in Singapore the National University of Singapore and the Singapore University of Technology and Design have published a paper on the new technique for realizing 3d full-color stereoscopic prints in a recent issue of Nature Communications.
and delivers anticancer drugs Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has invented a unique biomarker with two exceptional functions.
NTU associate professors Zhang Qichun and Joachim Loo have found a way to make the nanoparticle light up
The project which took three years is funded jointly by NTU the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation Singapore.
The discovery is an important contribution to the University's research effort in Future Healthcare
which the university aims to make a global mark in. The other four peaks include Sustainable Earth New Media the East-West knowledge hub and Innovation Asia.
Das and Walker Julie AK Mcdonald (Kingston General Hospital) Dr. Petrof (KGH) and Emma Allen-Vercoe (University of Guelph) were published in the Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology.
but a new, injectable material developed by team of researchers from Texas A&m University and the Massachusetts institute of technology could buy wounded soldiers the time they need to survive by preventing blood loss from serious internal injuries.
says Akhilesh Gaharwar, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A&m and member of the research team.
Coe-Sullivan, then a Phd student in electrical engineering and computer science, was working with Bulovic and students of Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry,
Then, a chance encounter at a cocktail party at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship with a former classmate
QD Vision cofounder Greg Moeller MBA 2 sped things along. Early in the evening, the two started discussing Coe-Sullivan QLED advancements;
When associate professor Qi Hua Fan of the electrical engineering and computer science department set out to make a less expensive supercapacitor for storing renewable energy he developed a new plasma technology that will streamline the production of display screens.
and plasma technologies Fan was named researcher of the year for the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering.
In this project he has been collaborating with assistant professor Zhengrong Gu in the agricultural and biosystems engineering department
since 1988 and have been the subject of countless high school chemistry class experiments. They employ cheap organic dyes
While these platelets flow in our blood they're relatively inert said graduate student researcher Aaron Anselmo lead author of the paper.
At issue are molybdenum sulfide (Mos2) thin films that are only one atom thick first developed by Dr. Linyou Cao an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have engineered a nanowire system that could pave the way for this ability,
at the university. The patent covers microscopic genetics-based technology that can help safely kill mosquitos and other insect pests.
Kun Yan Zhu professor of entomology; Xin Zhang research associate in the Division of Biology;
and Jianzhen Zhang visiting scientist from Shanxi University in China developed the technology: nanoparticles comprised of a nontoxic biodegradable polymer matrix
. But a team from Argonne National Laboratory and Ohio University has found a way around this limitation by combining STM with the spectroscopic versatility of synchrotron x-rays achieving chemical fingerprinting of individual nickel clusters on a copper surface at a resolution
and sensitivity made possible with these advances in synchrotron x-ray tunneling microscopy (SX-STM) the Argonne/Ohio University experiment team analyzed nickel clusters deposited on a copper surface.
Researchers at Drexel University and Dalian University of Technology in China have engineered chemically a new electrically conductive nanomaterial that is flexible enough to fold
-and hold enough energy to run your watch for a long period of time said Michel Barsoum Phd Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering.
This development was facilitated by collaboration between research groups of Yury Gogotsi Phd Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering at Drexel and Jieshan Qiu vice dean for research
of the School of Chemical engineering at Dalian University of Technology in China. Zheng Ling a doctoral student from Dalian spent a year at Drexel spearheading the research that led to the first MXENE-polymer composites.
The researchat Drexel was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the U s. Department of energy.
or even graphene said Chang Ren Gogotsi's doctoral student at Drexel. When mixing MXENE with PVA containing some electrolyte salt the polymer plays the role of electrolyte
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison created the microtube platform to study neuron growth.
U. of I. professor of electrical and computer engineering who co-led the study along with UW-Madison professor Justin Williams."We can guide,
accelerate and measure the process of neuron growth, all at once.""The team published the results in the journal ACS Nano."
"said U. of I. graduate student Paul Froeter, the first author of the study.""If we can see what's happening,
Williams, a professor of biomedical engineering at UW-Madison.""Without this we may have noticed an overall increase in growth rates,
So we spoke to Professor Duncan Graham a UK-based nanoscientist from University of Strathclyde
The technical definition is that a nanoparticle is an object that is less than 100 nanometres wide along one of its edges Professor Graham told us.
Professor Graham is perplexed somewhat by the recent media hubub. It's been quite challenging to work out
In Professor Graham's view there are two serious hurdles for nanotechnologists to overcome before particle-based biosensing becomes a reality:
Professor Graham's'take-home'message is that it's a mistake to see Google as the only organisation focusing on nanotechnology to detect disease it's a vibrant active field with incredible potential but still in its early days.
and toxicity said Dr. Zhen Gu assistant professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical engineering at NC State and UNC-Chapel hill.
So far in vivo testing in mice has shown that this approach produces significant accumulation of drugs in tumor sites instead of healthy organs.
He is supported by faculty staff and Ph d. students in the Joint Department of Biomedical engineering a partnership between NC State and UNC-Chapel hill that tackles urgent biomedical problems.
#A billion holes can make a battery Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a battery that they say could bring about the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage components.
First author Chanyuan Liu a graduate student in materials science & engineering says that it can be charged fully in 12 minutes
Gary Rubloff director of the Maryland Nanocenter and a professor in the Department of Materials science and engineering and in the Institute for Systems Research;
Sang Bok Lee a professor in the Department of chemistry and Biochemisty and the Department of Materials science and engineering;
and seven of their Ph d. students (two now graduated. Many millions of these nanopores can be crammed into one larger battery the size of a postage stamp.
#Team grows uniform nanowires A researcher from Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a new way to grow nanowire arrays with a determined diameter length and uniform consistency.
or outperform the current use of platinum and show that these nanowire arrays are better catalysts for the oxygen reduction reactions in the cells says Dr. Manashi Nath assistant professor of chemistry at Missouri S&t.
Together with researchers at the Technion in Israel and the Technical University in Dortmund the Stuttgart-based group describes in a recent paper a kind of artificial scallop just a few hundred micrometers in diameter.
This temporally asymmetric pattern of movement causes the fluid to be less viscous during opening than during the subsequent closing stroke says doctoral student Tian Qiu a member of the team in Stuttgart.
and therefore highly viscous structures explains co-author Debora Schamel a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.
Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have invented a simple, one-step process for producing these nanopores in a graphene membrane using the photothermal properties of gold nanorods."
"says Luke Lee, the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley. Lee and Alex Zettl, a physicist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division
Adrian Bachtold, together with Marc Dykman (Michigan University), report on an experiment in which a carbon nanotube mechanical resonator exhibits quality factors of up to 5 million,
and his research group at the University of California (UC) Berkeley achieved symmetry-breaking in a bulk metamaterial solution for the first time.
Huilong Fei a graduate student; and their colleagues. It catalyzes the separation of hydrogen from water when exposed to a current.
#Better bomb-sniffing technology with new detector material University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of carbon nanotube material for handheld sensors that will be quicker
Vaporsens, a university spin-off company plans to build a prototype handheld sensor by year's end
and produce the first commercial scanners early next year, says cofounder Ling Zang, a professor of materials science and engineering and senior author of a study of the technology published online Nov 4 in the journal
and monitor the current through the nanotube,"says Zang, a professor with USTAR, the Utah Science Technology and Research economic development initiative."
In an international study University of Melbourne and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US found that pairs of closely spaced nano particles made of gold can act as optical antennas.
Chief Investigator Ken Crozier a professor of Physics and Electronic engineering at the University of Melbourne said Up until now there were two competing theories surrounding
Lead author Dr Wenqi Zhu from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United states performed the work under Crozier's supervision as a Phd student at Harvard university said We found the ultimate limit for light
Professor Crozier said This work is important for engineers and scientists working in the nanomaterial industry y
Published in Nature Nanotechnology researchers from Cardiff University have unveiled a new method for viewing nanodiamonds inside human living cells for purposes of biomedical research.
In their latest paper, researchers from Cardiff University's Schools of Biosciences and Physics showed that non-fluorescing nanodiamonds (diamonds without defects) can be imaged optically
Professor Paola Borri from the School of Biosciences, who led the study, said:""This new imaging modality opens the exciting prospect of following complex cellular trafficking pathways quantitatively with important applications in drug delivery.
Danny Porath, the Etta and Paul Schankerman Professor in Molecular Biomedicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reports reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four
Porath is affiliated with the Hebrew University's Institute of Chemistry and its Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
The molecules were produced by the group of Alexander Kotlyar from Tel aviv University, who has been collaborating with Porath for 15 years.
The measurements were performed mainly by Gideon Livshits, a Phd student in the Porath group, who carried the project forward with great creativity, initiative and determination.
a miniature device developed at the University of Montreal can measure a patient's blood for methotrexate, a commonly used but potentially toxic cancer drug.
The research was led by Jean-François Masson and Joelle Pelletier of the university's Department of chemistry. Methotrexate has been used for many years to treat certain cancers
Miquel Salmeron a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division (MSD) and professor in UC Berkeley's Materials science and engineering Department explains this in the context of a battery.
#Research unlocks potential of super-compound Researchers at The University of Western australia's have discovered that nano-sized fragments of graphene sheets of pure carbon-can speed up the rate of chemical reactions.
Assistant professor Amir Karton from UWA's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry said the finding published this week in Chemical Physics Letters journal was significant
and electronics Assistant professor Karton said. Ever since the discovery of graphene in 2004 scientists have been looking for potential applications in nanochemistry he said.
Assistant professor Karton said the current investigation showed that graphene nonoflakes could efficiently catalyse a range of chemical reactions.
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