000 Qubit Processor and Is discussed in the Economist June 23rd, 2015leti to Present Solutions to New Applications Using 3d Technologies at SEMICON West Letiday Event, July 14:
electronic devices June 22nd,2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology: 4-D printing to advance chemistry, materials sciences and defense capabilities June 18th, 2015discoveries Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together
nanoscale geometric grids: New technique creates multilayered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions June 23rd,
"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.
supplied by Lehigh's Faculty Innovation Grant (FIG) and Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant (CORE) programs.
#World#s 1st Full-Color, Flexible, Skin-Like Display Developed at UCF A breakthrough in a University of Central Florida lab has brought those scenarios closer to reality.
flexible thin-film reflective display. Chanda research was inspired by nature. Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.
But animals like chameleons, octopuses and squids are born with thin flexible, color-changing displays that don need a light source their skin. ll manmade displays LCD, LED,
CRT are rigid, brittle and bulky. But you look at an octopus, they can create color on the skin itself covering a complex body contour,
and create a skin-like display? As detailed in the cover article of the June issue of the journal Nature Communications,
full-color tunable display. His method is groundbreaking. It a leap ahead of previous research that could produce only a limited color palette.
And the display is only about few microns thick, compared to a 100-micron-thick human hair.
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
computers and mobile devices that have considered displays thin by today standards but monstrously bulky in comparison.
But the potentially bigger impact could be whole new categories of displays that have never been thought of. our camouflage
Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area. his is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,
The same team have discovered recently that Graphexeter is also more stable than many transparent conductors commonly used by, for example, the display industry.
Now, Professor Takao Someya's research group at the University of Tokyo's Graduate school of Engineering has developed an elastic conducting ink that is easily printed on textiles and patterned in a single printing step.
The results demonstrate a powerful operando technique--from the Latin for"in working condition"--that may revolutionize research on catalysts, batteries, fuel cells,
and distribution of catalysts affect their efficiency and durability,"said study coauthor Ralph Nuzzo of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
we can better determine the ideal design of future catalysts--especially those that drive energy-efficient reactions without using expensive and rare materials like platinum."
but several different types of catalysts,"said coauthor and Yeshiva University scientist Anatoly Frenkel, who led the x-ray experiments."
it can poison the platinum catalysts that are important to driving the fuel cell. In the heart of a fuel cell, CO binds tightly to platinum
which contains impurities (e g. carbon monoxide) that poison precious metal catalysts (e g. platinum) only at low temperatures (less than 120°C)
Mother Nature can build very efficient catalysts. Environmental mechanisms sourced from Canadelectrochimcanadelectrochim is a small Research and development company located in Calgary,
New technique combines electron microscopy and synchrotron X-rays to track chemical reactions under real operating conditions June 29th, 2015buckle up for fast ionic conduction June 16th, 2015a protective shield for sensitive catalysts:
Manufacturer is first to offer quantum dot displays for both TVS and monitors June 30th, 2015carnegie Mellon chemists characterize 3-D macroporous hydrogels:
In this research, printing graphite electrode modified with silica and gold nanoparticles was used as an appropriate bed for the production of biosensors to detect four-strand structure of DNA
Peninsula of orthorhombic state At a mixture ratio of 85%nickel and 15%copper, the spinel system displays a kind of narrow peninsula of orthorhombic state in the phase diagram where the observed Anm
Our results demonstrate that the application of green chemistry principles may allow the synthesis of nanoparticles with biodegradable cores that have higher antimicrobial activity and smaller environmental impact than metallic silver nanoparticles.
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment."
and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores.""The researchers used the nanoparticles to attack E coli, a bacterium that causes food poisoning;
#Better memory with faster lasers DVDS and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light, with data"recorded"in those two atomic states.
"Today, nanosecond lasers--lasers that pulse light at one-billionth of a second--are used to record information on DVDS and Blu-ray disks,
Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.
ROM storage, including CDS and DVDS, uses phase-change materials and lasers to store information. Although ROM records
and then rewrite a DVD. Although these applications could mean exciting changes for future computer technologies,
A summary of the research, conducted in mouse and human cells, appears online July 14 in the journal ACS Nano.
or LEDS, have helped to improve the performance of devices ranging from television and computer screens to flashlights.
For example, recent LANP plasmonic research has led to breakthroughs in color-display technology, solar-powered steam production and color sensors that mimic the eye."
electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
But even a"giant"stretch of the new conducting sheath-core fibers causes little change in their electrical resistance
Because the rubber core is stretched along its length as the sheets are being wrapped around it,
said the structure of the sheath-core fibers"has further interesting and important complexity.""Buckles form not only along the fiber's length,
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,
or twice the width of a human hair--to much larger sizes, depending on the size of the rubber core."
"The rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available, "she said."
if the data stream remained as light within computer processors.""With all light, computing can eventually be millions of times faster,
and IBM--will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic. Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years.
They accomplished this by first printing and drying the ink, and then compressing it with a roller,
#Printing 3-D graphene structures for tissue engineering Ever since single-layer graphene burst onto the science scene in 2004,
"Supported by a Google Gift and a Mccormick Research Catalyst Award, the research is described in the paper"Three-dimensional Printing Of high-Content Graphene Scaffolds for Electronic and Biomedical Applications","published in the April
"We've expanded that biomaterial tool box to be able to optimize more mimetic engineered tissue constructs using 3-D printing
Learning The robot has already been on display in Trondheim and Arendal where visitors were able to affect its learning.
The day before it was put on display in Trondheim, we worked through the night until eight in the morning.
Between the two displays, they worked on improving the way the robot organizes its memories.
Citizens across Europe will be involved in data collection through personal monitors and in community decision-making to choose monitoring solutions for spaces such as schools
The second image, 50 picoseconds after excitation, displays a low density skin that returns to the original density at later times This result has significant implications beyond our basic understanding of the melting process.
and processors alike demand consistently high quality for their intermediate and final products. The properties of these goods usually also have to meet specific requirements.
who is a Wyss Institute Core Faculty member, Founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, and Assistant professor of Mechanical and Biomedical engineering AT SEAS.
Walsh and his team have also been aided in their work through key expertise from two other Wyss Core Faculty members George Whitesides, Ph d,
A hybrid LED is expected to be a next-generation illumination device for producing flexible lighting and display,
This African Starling displays its iridescent structural colors produced by ordered melanosomes. Photo by Liliana DALBA) UA associate professor of biology, Dr. Matthew Shawkey;
which is helpful in the design of catalysts. Even better news for industrial chemists: the researchers figured out when and why the berry clusters clump into larger bunches of"nano-grapes."
Nanoparticles can act as catalysts to help convert methanol to electricity in fuel cells. NIST's 40-minute process for making nano-raspberries, described in a new paper,*has several advantages.
The ability to monitor such gases in production facilities and coal fired power stations gives vital early warning of explosions
In future, they will be able to link to electronic devices to continuously monitor UV-levels and alert the user when radiation hits harmful levels.
Researchers from FOM and the University of Twente now made a major step towards high-resolution metal printing.
to enable clean printing with metals, gels, pastas or extremely thick fluids s
#Engineers'synthetic immune organ produces antibodies Cornell engineers have created a functional, synthetic immune organ that produces antibodies
more efficiently balanced workloads across many processors, and optimized I/O. A key result is that the time spent in MC was reduced from 60 to less than 10 percent of the hybrid simulations runtime,
but the details of the dynamics are difficult to monitor, Kabbani said. here no way we can grind two nanotubes in a microscope
#Researchers develop the first flexible phase-change random access memory (Nanowerk News) Phase change random access memory (PRAM) is one of the strongest candidates for next-generation nonvolatile memory for flexible and wearable electronics.
In order to be used as a core memory for flexible devices, the most important issue is reducing high operating current.
The researchers found that it is possible to mimic complex dynamic patterning seen in real cephalopods such as the Passing Cloud display,
such as flexible electronics, stretchable displays or wearable sensors. The dimensions of each ridge directly affect the transparent conductors stretchability.
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
PNNL scientist Jian Zhi Hu displays a tiny experimental battery mounted in NMR apparatus used to observe the chemical reaction inside.
Using the"core-shell"structure, however, the battery can be discharged and charged thousands of times.
and touchscreen electronics. The scientists synthesized the materials at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
#Mirrorlike display creates rich color pixels by harnessing ambient light (Nanowerk News) Using a simple structure comprising a mirror
researchers have developed a display technology that harnesses natural ambient light to produce an unprecedented range of colors
An article describing their innovative approach appears today in The Optical Society's new high-impact journal Optica("Continuous Color Reflective Displays Using Interferometric Absorption".
"This display technology, which could greatly reduce the amount of power used in multiple consumer electronics products,
the new design helps solve many key problems affecting mobile displays such as how to provide an always-on display function without requiring more frequent battery charging
and blue (RGB) of earlier display technologies.""We have developed an entirely new way of creating a color display,
"said John Hong, a researcher with Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. and lead author on the Optica paper."
"The incredibly efficient display is able to create a rich palette of colors using only ambient light for viewing,
"Harnessing Ambient light Typical color displays are essential yet power-hungry components of virtually every digital product with a human-machine interface, from cell phones and computers to home televisions and massive displays
engineers have been exploring ways to replace emissive technologies with displays that can reflect ambient light. Earlier attempts to create reflective light color displays,
however, presented a number of vexing problems. The designs required using three separate pixels to produce the red
green and blue of a traditional display. Though adequate for certain applications, the fact that only one-third of the incoming light can be reflected back toward the viewer in a typical reflective RGB format limits the gamut of colors and brightness of the display.
The new display reported in Optica is able to overcome these hurdles by reflecting more of the incoming light
and enabling the full spectrum of visible light to be displayed, including bright white and deep black.
Extending Power and Saving Energy Depending on how the display is used, the power savings can exceed current backlit technologies tenfold.
when a particular image is retained on the display, which then operates like a form of analog memory in a virtually power-free display mode.
The design presented in the paper consists of a panel that is about 1. 5 inches across
Both the resolution and area of the display, however, can be scaled to match those of various mobile devices such as Internet-of-Things (Iot) enabled wearables and smartphones.
"No more squinting at a hard to read display outdoors where we spend much of our time,"noted Hong."
which is probably the best display experience that one can expect, with only the light behind you shining on the page
'Our group has pioneered the idea of using lithium-ion batteries to search for catalysts, 'Cui said.'
'Our hope is that this technique will lead to the discovery of new catalysts for other reactions beyond water splitting.'
'In conventional water splitters, the hydrogen and oxygen catalysts often require different electrolytes with different phone acidic,
is actually more stable than some commercial catalysts made of precious metals.''We built a conventional water splitter with two benchmark catalysts, one platinum and one iridium,
'Wang said.''At first the device only needed 1. 56 volts of electricity to split water,
'We believe that electrochemical tuning can be used to find new catalysts for other chemical fuels beyond hydrogen.
painless patch could lower blood glucose in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes for up to nine hours.
the researchers inserted a core of solid insulin and enzymes specially designed to sense glucose.
The researchers tested the ability of this approach to control blood sugar levels in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes.
including ultrahigh-definition three-dimensional color displays and state-of-the-art anti-counterfeiting measures. So they set about designing a nanostructure architecture that could provide more bang for the buck. Having previously used plasmonic materials to generate color prints at the optical diffraction limit by carefully varying the nanostructure size and spacing
"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.
supplied by Lehigh's Faculty Innovation Grant (FIG) and Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant (CORE) programs.
flexible thin-film reflective display. Chanda research was inspired by nature. Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.
But animals like chameleons, octopuses and squids are born with thin flexible, color-changing displays that don need a light source their skin. ll manmade displays LCD, LED,
CRT are rigid, brittle and bulky. But you look at an octopus, they can create color on the skin itself covering a complex body contour,
and create a skin-like display? As detailed in the cover article of the June issue of the journal Nature Communications("Polarization-independent actively tunable colour generation on imprinted plasmonic surfaces),
full-color tunable display. His method is groundbreaking. It a leap ahead of previous research that could produce only a limited color palette.
And the display is only about few microns thick, compared to a 100-micron-thick human hair.
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
computers and mobile devices that have considered displays thin by today standards but monstrously bulky in comparison.
But the potentially bigger impact could be whole new categories of displays that have never been thought of. our camouflage
Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area. his is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,
#High-performance microscope displays pores in the cell nucleus with greater precision An active exchange takes place between the cell nucleus and the cytoplasm:
In addition, the researchers anticipate that it could also lead to important improvement for devices that monitor the environment."
The work will be of interest to those considering graphene elements in flexible touchscreens or memories that store bits by controlling electric dipole moments of carbon atoms
#Better memory with faster lasers DVDS and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light, with data"recorded"in those two atomic states.
"Today, nanosecond lasersasers that pulse light at one-billionth of a secondre used to record information on DVDS and Blu-ray disks,
Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.
ROM storage, including CDS and DVDS, uses phase-change materials and lasers to store information. Although ROM records
and then rewrite a DVD. Although these applications could mean exciting changes for future computer technologies,
and an Argonaute protein at its core and cleaves the target RNA. However, there were no suitable tools to directly monitor the RNAI reaction
as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen have demonstrated now("Flying particle sensors in hollow-core photonic crystal fibre").
which can literally sense different physical quantities such as electric field, temperature or vibrations through the inside of this hollow-core photonic crystal fibre.
It thus remains trapped in the core like water in a pipe and follows the glass fibre,
The fact that the fibres have a hollow core was a crucial aspect for the team.
whether hollow-core photonic crystal fibres are suitable as sensors by initially using the fibres to measure electric fields, vibrations and temperatures.
The discovery lays the base for developing designed enzymes as catalysts to new chemical reactions for instance in biotechnological applications.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
In a study published in Nature Nanotechnology("An environmentally benign antimicrobial nanoparticle based on a silver-infused lignin core),
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment.
and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores. The researchers used the nanoparticles to attack E coli
-actin mrna in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Sticky-flares are built upon another technology from Mirkin's group called Nanoflares,
it takes a great deal of energy to excite electrons from one level to another--and only displays photocatalytic properties under ultraviolet light.
Nanoparticles made from these polymers have a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic shell. Due to molecular-scale forces
BPA, another endocrine-disrupting synthetic compound widely used in plastic bottles and other resinous consumer goods, from thermal printing paper samples;
and we can do it in the same way as one might draw a 3d structure for printing out in macroscopic scale,
"The scientists also want to look for other materials that display this effect.""We think that there may be other new physics working here,
and one oxygen atom) can be polymerized to form polycarbonates in reactions that use special catalysts.
and progenitor cells isolated from the fetal liver of a mouse in Tan's lab. As Tan explained,"
#How to look for a few good catalysts Two key physical phenomena take place at the surfaces of materials:
The discovery could make it easier to find new catalysts for particular applications, among other potential benefits.
Ideally, this understanding helps us design new catalysts, Stoerzinger says. If a given material has a lower affinity for water,
#Light switches on a DVD There could be more to DVDS than has been assumed to date. The material comprised of germanium, antimony and tellurium in
"The storage mechanism in DVDS is based on the fact that laser pulses rearrange the structure of the material,
While DVDS are likely to soon become a thing of the past, this may not apply to their storage material.
The material owes its job to the fact that, in rewritable DVDS, laser pulses can convert it very quickly from a strongly reflective crystalline state into a much less reflective disordered version..
In the first demonstration of how the technology works, published July 30 in the journal Cell("Saturated Reconstruction of a Volume of Neocortex"),the researchers look inside the brain of an adult mouse at a scale previously unachievable, generating images
"The researchers have begun the process of mining their imaging data by looking first at an area of the brain that receives sensory information from mouse whiskers,
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In one experiment with inflated mouse brain tissue, the researchers gauged the distance between two proteins that sit on opposite ends of neural synapses.
At the meeting, he showed an image of a half-millimetre slab of the mouse brain's hippocampus
Pushing boundaries Viviana Gradinaru, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena, says that Boyden technique is another example of how scientists are bypassing hardware limitations by modifying biological tissue.
But teixobactin has disappointed in its failure to kill ram-negativebacteria. This class, says Eisenstein, is a particular health concern
The next step for this research is to incorporate a two way system that monitors user levels of engagement, cognitive workload
#Jaguar land rover Mind Sense research monitors brainwaves through the hands via sensors in the steering wheel Jaguar land rover has revealed the ixth Senseproject,
With its road safety research, The british firm is joining a number of other car makers that have been researching the measurement of brainwaves to monitor driver concentration in the car.
but also allow the car to monitor driver stress levels. This would then allow the car to help reduce stress, for example by changing mood lighting, audio settings and climate control.
which means users wouldn have to touch the screen itself. In user trials this increases the speed of successful button selection by 22 per cent and therefore reduces the amount of time the driver is looking at the screen with their eyes off the road.
The system could also use mid-air touch to provide the driver with a sensation,
there will be no need for the driver to glance at the screen for visual confirmation which would help keep their gaze on the road ahead.
to decode the brain intent and control output devices, such as a computer cursor and a robotic arm. hese arrays are very small so their placement has to be exceptionally precise,
the location, the positioning and how you manage the hardware. Keep in mind that what wee able to dohe ability to record the brain signals
The implanted device and signal processors used in the Caltech-led clinical trial were the Neuroport Array
and Neuroport Bio-potential Signal Processors developed by Blackrock Microsystems in Salt lake city, Utah. The robotic arm used in the trial was the Modular Prosthetic Limb,
The vessels were detected after Louveau developed a method to mount a mouse meninges the membranes covering the brain on a single slide
according to the paper lead author Ram Madabhushi, a postdoc in Tsai laboratory. hen we knocked down this enzyme,
providing the most compelling evidence to date that this is a core transcriptional control mechanism, he says. anticipate that this advance will have broad implications ranging from the basic biology of transcription to pathological mechanisms involved in diseases such as Alzheimer disease
Aix-Marseille and the German Mouse Clinic teamed up to investigate the initiation process of dendritic spines.
and the surgeon could look at a screen to get a continuously updated picture of where the cancer is
screen and wheels, the robot, located in a laboratory of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), was able to film as it moved
When exceeding defined threshold concentrations, biosensor output signals, connected via custom hardware/software, activated local or distant neurotransmitter delivery from the organic electronic ion pump.
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