By turning instead to copper, both abundant and cheap, researchers at Monash University and the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication have developed a way of making flexible conductors cost-effective enough for commercial application."
"said lead researcher Associate professor Wenlong Cheng, from Monash University's Department of Chemical engineering.""The copper aerogel monoliths are conductive
"Associate professor Cheng said. The versatility extends to the degree of conductivity.""The conductivity can be tuned simply by adjusting the loading of copper nanowires,
Associate professor Cheng said. In their report, published recently in ACS Nano, the researchers noted that devices using their copper-based aerogels were not quite as sensitive as those using gold nanowires,
at the University of Cambridge in the UK, have used surface plasmon resonance as a new way to construct holograms.
"said coauthor Calum Williams at the University of Cambridge.""Furthermore, this concept can be applied as the basis to produce dynamic three-dimensional color displays.
#Scientists unveil new technology to better understand small clusters of atoms Physicists at the University of York,
working with researchers at the University of Birmingham and Genoa, have developed new technology to study atomic vibration in small particles,
"Professor Jun Yuan, from York's Department of physics, added:""Our work can already explain the numerical discrepancies in the existing experimental data.
Now researchers from the University of Surrey and Trinity college Dublin have treated for the first time common elastic bands with graphene to create a flexible sensor that is sensitive enough for medical use
but our graphene-infused rubber bands could really help to revolutionise remote healthcare said Dr Alan Dalton from the University of Surrey.
Co-author Professor Jonathan Coleman from Trinity college Dublin commented This stretchy material senses motion such as breathing pulse
But Moh El-Naggar assistant professor at the USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences says he was always careful to avoid saying that he knew for sure that's what they were.
Scientists from USC collaborated with colleagues from Penn State the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute on the research.
El-Naggar credits Sahand Pirbadian USC graduate student with devising an ingenious yet simple strategy to make the discovery.
and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster cheaper more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.
Doctoral student and first author Tim Gehan says that organic solar cells made in this way can be semitransparent as well so you could replace tinted windows in a skyscraper
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated how to use light to view individual molecules bending
In order to view the behaviour of the cell membrane at the level of individual molecules the Cambridge team working with researchers from the University of Leeds squeezed them into a tiny gap between the mirrored gold facets of a nanoparticle sitting just above a flat gold surface.
It's like having an extremely powerful magnifying glass made out of gold said Professor Jeremy Baumberg of the Nanophotonics Centre at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory who led the research.
like chants from at football ground, could become a reality, according to a new collaboration between scientists from Queen Mary University of London and Nokia.
in research published with Imperial College London. Developing this research further, Nokia worked with the QMUL team to create an energy harvesting prototype (a nanogenerator) that could be used to charge a mobile phone using everyday background noise such as traffic,
a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry who led the research. Electrochemical capacitors, also known as ECS or supercapacitors, are an important technology for the future of energy storage and mobile power supplies,
Under the guidance of Canada Research Chair in Materials science with Synchrotron radiation Dr. Alexander Moewes University of Saskatchewan researcher Adrian Hunt spent his Phd investigating graphene oxide a cutting-edge material that he hopes will shape the future
and Kostya Novoselov at the University of Manchester a discovery that earned the two physicists a Nobel prize in 2010.
Co-author of the study Professor Jongheop Yi from Seoul National University said: Our study has shown that used-cigarette filters can be transformed into a high-performing carbon-based material using a simple one step process
which can be achieved by incorporating a large number of small pores into the material continued Professor Yi.
It's been hard to develop something that releases medication for more than a couple of months says Paula Hammond the David H. Koch Professor in Engineering at MIT
and do anything about it says Bryan Hsu Phd'14 who helped develop the project as a doctoral student in Hammond's lab. You don't have to go recover it.
The paper was authored co by Hsu Myoung-Hwan Park of Shamyook University in South korea Samantha Hagerman'14 and Hammond
because it's broadly applicable to a lot of systems says Kathryn Uhrich a professor in the Department of chemistry
and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University adding that the research is really a nice piece of work.
At the Vienna University of Technology, Thomas Mueller, Marco Furchi and Andreas Pospischil have managed to create a semiconductor structure consisting of two ultra-thin layers,
Florian Libisch and Professor Joachim Burgdörfer (TU Vienna) provided computer simulations to calculate how the energy of the electrons changes in both materials
Researchers from Monash University have discovered that graphene oxide sheets can change structure to become liquid crystal droplets spontaneously and without any specialist equipment.
"We are pleased so to be associated with Dr Majumder's team at Monash University. The progress they have made with our joint project has been said astonishing,
and Monash University and was the first linkage grant for graphene research in Australia s
#Nanoscale details of electrochemical reactions in electric vehicle battery materials Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions,
and the Institute for Physical chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The filament that makes up the propeller,
or negligible propulsion,"said study co-author Associate professor Alex Leshanksy of the Technion Faculty of Chemical engineering.
Everybody assumed the sample would immediately decay as soon as they pulled it out of the chamber added Northwestern University graduate student Brian Kiraly one of the principal authors of the study.
and the silver said Northwestern graduate student Andrew Mannix. For their final test the researchers decided to probe the atomic signature of the material.
"said Srinivasan Chandrasekar, a Purdue University professor of industrial engineering and materials engineering.""However, our findings have implications beyond wear itself,
Narayan Sundaram, an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science; and Yang Guo, a research scientist at M4 Sciences.
#Graphene and related materials promise cheap flexible printed cameras Dr Felice Torrisi University Lecturer in Graphene technology has been awarded a Young International Researchers'Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
In 2012 Drs Felice Torrisi Tawfique Hasan and Professor Andrea Ferrari at the Cambridge Graphene Centre invented a graphene ink
Yung-Eun Sung is both a group leader at the Center for Nanoparticle Research at Institute for Basic Science*(IBS) and a professor at the Seoul National University.
#A crystal wedding in the nanocosmos Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Vienna University of Technology and the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin have succeeded in embedding nearly perfect semiconductor crystals
Scientists from the HZDR, Vienna University of Technology and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Lublin have now come a step closer to both these targets:
#Tiny laser sensor heightens bomb detection sensitivity New technology under development at the University of California,
UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering, has found a way to dramatically increase the sensitivity of a light-based plasmon sensor to detect incredibly minute concentrations of explosives.
an assistant professor of physics at Peking University who did this work when he was a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab."The other thing we see at airports is the use of swabs to check for explosive residue,
a former Ph d. student in Zhang's lab who is now an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tokyo.
A Columbia University team used supercomputers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to simulate
and character when stressed said study coauthor and Columbia University Ph d. candidate Eric Isaacs. To see the beautiful patterns exhibited by these materials at their breaking points for the first time was enormously exciting and important for future applications.
of which can be compared directly to experimental data said Chris Marianetti a professor of materials science at Columbia University and coauthor of the study.
The new nanoparticle, developed by researchers at Imperial College London, boosts the effectiveness of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning by specifically seeking out receptors that are found in cancerous cells.
Professor Nicholas Long from the Department of chemistry at Imperial College London said the results show real promise for improving cancer diagnosis."By improving the sensitivity of an MRI examination
they are perhaps not as good at detecting smaller tumours in the early stages",added Professor Long.
Professor Long said:""We would like to improve the design to make it even easier for doctors to spot a tumour
Dr Juan Gallo from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London said:"
LANP graduate student Yu Zhang used one of these, a two-coherent-laser technique called"coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy,"or CARS.
"Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer engineering and a professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, physics and astronomy at Rice, said the potential applications for SECARS include chemical and biological sensing as well as metamaterials research.
Stephen Westland professor of color science and technology at Leeds University said in The Independent These new materials they are pretty much as black as we can get almost as close to a black hole as we could imagine.
#Researchers demonstrate novel tunable nanoantennas A research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a novel,
an associate professor of mechanical science and engineering who led the research.""For our approach, one can take a nanoarray structure that was fabricated already and further reconfigure the plasmonic,
"The interdisiciplinary research teamhat included Abdul Bhuiya (MS student in ECE student), Xin Yu (ECE post-grad),
#Sand-based lithium ion batteries that outperform standard by three times (Phys. org) esearchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry standard by three times.
environmentally friendly way to produce high performance lithium ion battery anodes,"said Zachary Favors, a graduate student working with Cengiz and Mihri Ozkan, both engineering professors at UC Riverside.
Robert Wolkow and his lab at the University of Alberta are taking giant steps forward.
In another first, this time led by Phd student Marco Taucer, the research team observed how single electrons jump in and out of the quantum dots,
"We have this nice connection where we have a training ground for students and highly academic ambitions for progress,
"says Alexandre Brolo, professor of chemistry specialised in nanotechnology research, who has been developing plasmonic biosensors at the University of Victoria, British columbia, Canada.
He also believes that such approach will make medical care more cost effective.""You want something that is very cheap
Now, findings by Xincai Wang from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and co-workers from Nanyang Technological University could turn the tables on silicon nanowires by improving the manufacturing of silicon'nanoholes'arrow cavities carved into silicon wafers
along with Dr. Seok-In Na at Chonbuk National University and Dr. Byoung Gak Kim at KRICT synthesized carbon nanosheets similar to graphene using polymer
Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using Shrinky Dinks, plastic that shrinks under high heat,
"said study leader Sungwoo Nam, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the U. of I."With the shrinking approach,
Chemists at the NIM Cluster at LMU and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, have synthesized now a new material that could show the way forward to state-of-the-art lithium-sulfur batteries.
Lots of pores for sulfur The chemists Professor Thomas Bein (LMU), Coordinator of the Energy conversion Division of the Nanosystems Initiative Munich, Professor Linda Nazar (University of Waterloo, Waterloo Institute
#Chirality-controlled growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes Recently, Professor Li Yan's research team developed a novel strategy to produce single-walled carbon nanotubes with specific chirality by applying a new family of catalysts,
Recent work by Professor Yan Li at Peking University shows that it is realized finally. I believe her idea to use W-based catalyst is the landmark of growth of carbon nanotubes.
"said Professor Shigeo Maruyama from The University of Tokyo, who also serves the president of Fullerene, Carbon nanotubes,
"Inspiringly, Professor Li and her collaborators have made a breakthrough on this issue. The catalysts, tungsten-based bimetallic alloy nanoparticles of non-cubic symmetry, have high melting points
The work was evaluated highly by Professor Jie Liu at Duke university, "The chirality-specific growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes is the most challenging and important issue in the field,
Yan Li at Peking University first shows that the controlled growth is possible. This development is very important for the applications of carbon nanotubes in many fields
The Rice researchers led by graduate student Sehmus Ozden reported their finding in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters.
For practical applications these nanocarriers are highly desirable explains Francisco Raymo professor of chemistry in the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences and lead investigator of this project.
Other authors are John F. Callan co-corresponding author of the study from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Ulster;
Subramani Swaminathan and Janet Cusido from the UM's Laboratory for Molecular Photonics Department of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences;
and Colin Fowley and Bridgeen Mccuaghan School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Ulster.
Professor Lei Jiang and his group from State Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, set out to study this unified bionic frontier.
Therefore, learning from nature could help us develop smart materials and system. Bio-inspired from nature,
but Jun Takada and colleagues at Okayama University discovered unexpected industrial functions of L-BIOX such as a great potential as an anode material in lithium-ion battery.
Authors of the new paper are Ali Koymen, a professor of physics; Samarendra Mohanty, an assistant professor of physics;
and Ling Gu, a researcher in Mohanty's lab. The new discovery grew out of previous study where Koymen
"Research universities like UT Arlington encourage faculty and students to follow each new discovery with even deeper questions,
"said Pamela Jansma, dean of the UT Arlington College of Science.""With their latest publication, Drs.
Koymen, Mohanty and Gu have taken their collaboration to a new level as they keep building toward valuable implications for human health and disease treatment."
"said Wei Lu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan.""In a liquid and gas, it's mobile
and have strengths approaching that of Kevlar is possible, according to Penn State and Shinshu University, Japan, researchers."
much better than other carbon fibers,"said Mauricio Terrones, professor of physics, chemistry and materials science and engineering, Penn State."
former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; visiting research fellow Qi"Kevin"Ge;
"says Fang, the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career development Associate professor in Engineering Design. So far, the researchers at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materialsetal, ceramic,
Qianglu Lin a CASP student working on the synthesis of these materials said A striking feature of the thick-shell Pbse/Cdse quantum dots is fairly bright visible emission from the shell observed simultaneously with the infrared emission from the core.
Electrical engineering professor Dr. Chongwu Zhou and USC Viterbi graduate students Haitian Chen Yu Cao, and Jialu Zhang developed this energy-efficient circuit by integrating carbon nanotube (CNT) thin film transistors (TFT) with thin film transistors comprised of indium, gallium and zinc oxide (IGZO)."
"said Dr. Chongwu Zhou, professor in USC Viterbi's Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical engineering.""Before then, we were working hard to try to turn carbon nanotubes into n-type transistors and then one day,
research assistant and electrical engineering Phd student at USC Viterbi.""This gives us further proof that we can make larger integrations
a Stony Brook University postdoctoral researcher and the lead author on the paper. Other groups of scientists have assembled such planes of nanoparticles,
#Charging portable electronics in 10 minutes Researchers at the University of California Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three-dimensional silicon-decorated cone-shaped carbon nanotube cluster architecture for lithium ion battery anodes that could enable charging of portable
"said Greg Herman, an associate professor and chemical engineer in the OSU College of Engineering.""We're all pretty excited about the opportunities that this new technology will enable."
Researchers in the University of Toronto's Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer engineering have designed
and Professor Ted Sargent was published this week in Nature Materials. Collecting sunlight using these tiny colloidal quantum dots depends on two types of semiconductors:
#Shatterproof screens that save smartphones University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could change the face of smartphones, literally,
and replace conventional touchscreens, according to Yu Zhu, UA assistant professor of polymer science. Currently used coatings made of indium tin oxide (ITO) are more brittle,
#Researchers develop an invisible type of bar code to thwart criminals (Phys. org) A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic institute in Massachusetts has developed a type of bar coding system that would be almost impossible for criminals to thwart.
but it may become a reality thanks to breakthrough technology developed at a University of Central Florida research lab. So far electrical cables are used only to transmit electricity.
However, nanotechnology scientist and professor Jayan Thomas and his Ph d. student Zenan Yu have developed a way to both transmit and store electricity in a single lightweight copper wire.
and monitor diabetes and other conditions, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, for use both in clinics and home settings.
For the better part of a half century these materials have been considered off the table for this kind of use says Nate Lewis the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and the principal investigator on the paper.
The research led by Shu Hu a postdoctoral scholar in chemistry at Caltech appears in the May 30 issue of the journal Science.
IBN Executive director Professor Jackie Y. Ying said, "Diseases caused by blood clots can be potentially fatal.
IBN's test has been validated by the National Cancer Centre Singapore, the National University Cancer Institute Singapore,
The development is described in a paper published in the journal Nature Materials by MIT professors Moungi Bawendi and Vladimir Buloviä#and graduate students Chia-Hao Chuang and Patrick Brown.
The new process is an extension of work by Bawendi the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry to produce quantum dots with precisely controllable characteristics
Buloviä#the Fariborz Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technology and associate dean for innovation in MIT's School of engineering explains that thin coatings of quantum dots allow them to do what they do as individuals to absorb light very well
along with MIT's Jeffrey Grossman the Carl Richard Soderberg Associate professor of Power engineering and three others appears this month in the journal ACS Nano explaining in greater detail the science behind the strategy employed to reach this efficiency breakthrough.
Arthur Nozik a research professor in chemistry at the University of Colorado who was involved not in this research says This result represents a significant advance for the applications of quantum dot films and the technology of low-temperature solution-processed quantum dot photovoltaic cells.#
the team started with a trick that earned its original University of Manchester inventors the Nobel prize:
in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, have developed a 3-D artificial enzyme cascade that mimics an important biochemical pathway that could prove important for future biomedical and energy applications.
Led by ASU Professor Hao Yan, the research team included ASU Biodesign Institute researchers Jinglin Fu, Yuhe Yang, Minghui Liu, Professor Yan Liu
and Professor Neal Woodbury along with colleagues Professor Nils Walter and postdoctoral fellow Alexander Johnson-Buck at the University of Michigan.
The mechanism was observed by Academy Research Fellow Pekka Koskinen from the Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä together with his colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US.
Research by Jeremy Duczynski from the University of WA's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry investigated
When University of Illinois Associate professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering Hyunjoon Kong graduate student Cartney Smith and colleagues set out to improve MR imaging (MRI) they turned current contrast agent technology on its head
The new compound they designed in collaboration with Illinois'Roger Adams Professor of Chemistry Steven C. Zimmerman is not only more effective but also self-assembling.
dull grey wafers that graduate student Andrew Westover and Assistant professor of Mechanical engineering Cary Pint have made in Vanderbilt's Nanomaterials
ICREA Professor at ICFO Romain Quidant coordinator of the project comments the most fascinating finding is that we are capable of detecting extremely low concentrations of this protein in a matter of minutes making this device an ultra-high sensitivity state-of-the-art
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used this relationship, in combination with powerful lasers and nanopatterned gold surfaces
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have designed a new type of sensing mechanism, combining a unique twisting property of light with frequency doubling to identify different chiral forms of molecules with extremely high sensitivity,
The sensing mechanism, designed by Dr Ventsislav Valev and Professor Jeremy Baumberg from the Cavendish Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues from the UK and abroad, uses a nanopatterned gold surface in combination with powerful lasers.
#Silly Putty material inspires better batteries Using a material found in Silly Putty and surgical tubing, a group of researchers at the University of California,
Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a new way to make lithium-ion batteries that will last three times longer between charges compared to the current industry standard.
It was authored co by Cengiz S. Ozkan, a mechanical engineering professor, Mihrimah Ozkan, an electrical engineering professor,
and several of their current and former graduate students: Wei Wang, Hamed Hosseinni Bay, Aaron George and Favors.
Both processes appear to happen simultaneously said Jeffrey Rimer an engineering professor at the University of Houston
and analyzing changes in their physical properties said Rimer Ernest J. and Barbara M. Henley Assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at UH.
Rimer and Lupulescu who did the project as part of her dissertation earning her Ph d. in chemical engineering from UH's Cullen College of Engineering in December worked with California-based Asylum Research.
thanks to the work of researchers Brigham Young University, there's a way to avoid cell death
electrically conductive lance,"explained Brian Jensen, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University."
#Liver-like device via 3-D printer (Phys. org) Nanoengineers at the University of California San diego have developed a 3-D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins
To solve this problem a research team led by nanoengineering professor Shaochen Chen created a 3-D-printed hydrogel matrix to house nanoparticles forming a device that mimics the function of the liver by sensing attracting
The product's developers engineers and scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore Tsinghua University in China and Case Western Reserve University in the United states believe the storage capacity by volume
Yuan Chen a professor of chemical engineering at NTU led the new study working with Dingshan Yu Kunli Goh Hong Wang Li Wei and Wenchao Jiang at NTU;
Dai a professor of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve and a co-author of the paper explained that most supercapacitors have high power density but low energy density
Associate professor Baohua Jia led a team of researchers from Swinburne's Centre for Microphotonics to create a micrometre thin film with record-breaking optical nonlinearity suitable for high performance integrated photonic devices used in all-optical communications, biomedicine
"Professor Jia said. Graphene is derived from carbon, the fourth most abundant element on earth. It has many useful properties,
"Phd student Xiaorui Zheng said.""Currently with telecommunications or all optical communications you have to fabricate each component individually
"Professor Jia said. The research is published in Advanced Materials. The researchers are now working to fabricate a functional device e
Devised by researchers at Vanderbilt University Purdue University and the Colorado School Of mines it uses a laser vibrometer
I am sure a great many Popsci readers are thinking this at the same time I'm typing it Attachã this to a drone for remote scouting in 3d!
This reminds me of the science fiction red ball electronic mapping scouting devices (Pups) from the movie Prometheus will come true very soon!
David Willetts British minister for universities and science called the achievement remarkable. The Skylon concept has impressed also the European space agency (ESA)
#Thermal Wristband Keeps Your Body At The Perfect Temperature A group of MIT engineering students wants you to get nice and comfy.
Researchers from University college London the University of North carolina School of medicine found that in response to visual stimuli dendrites fired electrical signals in the brains of mice.
All the data pointed to the same conclusion lead author Spencer Smith an assistant professor of neuroscience
and engineering at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill said in a statement. The dendrites are not passive integrators of sensory-driven input;
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011