leaving a hollow architecture. The applications of this technique are practically limitless, Greer says. Since pretty much any material can be deposited on the scaffolds,
In a newly published article in the journal ACS Advanced Materials & Interfaces, researchers Ravi Saraf and Chieu Van Nguyen describe a thin-film sensor that can detect tumors too small and deep
In research funded with a grant from the National institutes of health, Saraf and Nguyen perfected a thin film made of nanoparticles and polymers
The film, just one-60th the thickness of a human hair, is a sort of"electronic skin"able to sense texture and relative stiffness.
the researchers ued the film to successfully detect tumors as small as 5 millimeters, hidden up to 20 millimeters deep.
The film is easy to manufacture using readily available industrial processes and remains stable for months,
Saraf said the thin-film tool would have at least three advantages to a manual breast exam performed by a physician:
Yet if the film is too sensitive, it would create a saturated image and prevent visualization of a deeper embedded mass a
but aware of the extensive literature saying that the oxidizing agent was required, Kovtyukhova balked.""I kept asking her to try it
Graphene is more flexible than conventional ceramic alternatives like indium-tin oxide (ITO) and more transparent than metal films.
The new 150 pixel per inch (150 ppi) backplane was made at low temperatures (less than 100°C) using Plastic Logic's Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) technology.
and carrier concentrations with an accurate nanoscale picture of the semiconductor film's microstructure really gives a complete picture of how the device operates and
Two-dimensional aluminum (Al) nanofiber networks offering transparent conductors were fabricated by simple wet chemical etching of Al metalized polymer films using an electrospun polystyrene nanofiber mask template.
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.
The method uses biodegradable nanoscale thin films laden with drug molecules that are absorbed into the body in an incremental process.
Now we're looking at a way of creating an extremely thin film or coating that's very dense with a drug and yet releases at a constant rate for very long time periods.
which significantly exceeds the release duration achieved by most commercial controlled-release biodegradable films. You can potentially implant it
which drug molecules are attached effectively to layers of thin-film coating. In this specific case the researchers used diclofenac a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is often prescribed for osteoarthritis and other pain or inflammatory conditions.
The film can be applied onto degradable nanoparticles for injection into local sites or used to coat permanent devices such as orthopedic implants.
Indeed other researchers who have looked at the paper say the potential medical versatility of the thin-film technique is of considerable interest.
"In addition, this approach can be transferred easily to silicon thin films to develop thin-film siliconolymer hybrid solar cells with even higher efficiency. e
It is a method of manufacturing graphene on the board of metal film that serves as a catalyst.
For example, experiments have shown that film made of packed nanowires has properties that differ quite a bit from a crystal thin film."
"One application the group is now exploring is a thin film solar cell, made of densely packed nanowires,
"In our technology, two diamond anvils were used to sandwich nanoparticulate thin films. This external stress manually induced transitions in the film that synthesized new materials,
"he said. The pressure, delivered by two diamond plates tightened by four screws to any controlled setting, shepherds silver nanospheres into any desired volume.
Any industry that has embossing equipment could lay a film of silver on a piece of paper
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.
Subramani Swaminathan and Janet Cusido from the UM's Laboratory for Molecular Photonics Department of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences;
Notably the presence of minor components of Si and P in the original L-BIOX nanometric particles resulted in specific and well-defined electrode architecture.
The researchers made a thin film of graphene oxide by chemically exfoliating graphite into graphene flakes,
it becomes a large-area transparent film that can be lifted carefully off without tearing. The film is then cut into narrow strips
and wound on itself with an automatic fiber scroller, resulting in a fiber that can be knotted
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)."
This hybridization of carbon nanotube thin films and IGZO thin films was achieved by combining their types, p-type and n-type, respectively,
#DNA-linked nanoparticles form switchable'thin films'on a liquid surface Scientists seeking ways to engineer the assembly of tiny particles measuring just billionths of a meter have achieved a new firsthe
Understanding the assembly of such nanostructured thin films could lead to the design of new kinds of filters or membranes with a variable mechanical response for a wide range of applications.
and how that process affects the properties of a"thin film"made of DNA-linked nanoparticles,
and assemble in a variety of three-dimensional architectures. The goal of the present study was to see
if the same approach could be used to achieve designs of two-dimensional, one-particle-thick films."
any object larger than the mesh-size of the network cannot penetrate through this very thin film.""
#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
carbon nanotube clusters architecture via chemical vapor deposition and inductively coupled plasma treatment. Lithium ion batteries based on this novel architecture demonstrate a high reversible capacity and excellent cycling stability.
The architecture demonstrates excellent electrochemical stability and irreversibility even at high charge and discharge rates nearly 16 times faster than conventionally used graphite based anodes.
The researchers believe the ultrafast rate of charge and discharge can be attributed to two reasons said Wei Wang lead author of the paper.
Two the cone-shaped architecture offers small interpenetrating channels for faster electrolyte access into the electrode
But improved performance is just a start for this new quantum dot-based solar cell architecture. The powerful little dots could be mixed into inks
"These two pronounced factors drive the need to substitute ITO with a cost-effective and flexible conductive transparent film,
adding that the new film provides the same degree of transparency as ITO, yet offers greater conductivity.
The novel film retains its shape and functionality after tests in which it has been bent 1, 000 times.
"We expect this film to emerge on the market as a true ITO competitor, "Zhu says."
which organises metal nanoparticles into alternating layers in thin gel films to produce the sensors in a matter of seconds.
what was needed for this solar fuel generator application Deposited as a film ranging in thickness between 4 and 143 nanometers the Tio2 remained optically transparent on the semiconductor crystalsllowing them to absorb lightnd protected them from corrosion
if applied using an inexpensive less-controlled application technique such as painting or spraying the Tio2 onto a semiconductor.
This allows those charges to be collected at the edge of the film where they can be harnessed to provide an electric current.
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.#
Received 06 december 2013 Accepted 15 april 2014 Published online 25 may 2014energy Level Modification in Lead Sulfide Quantum dot Thin Films Through Ligand Exchange.
Thin film transistors are a particular subset of these that are used typically in screens and displays.
Virtually all flat-screen TVS and smartphones are made up of thin film transistors today; they form the basis of both LEDS and LCDS (liquid crystal displays."
"The team also tried bending the films to test what happens under stress. In most thin film transistors, the material starts to crack, which,
Next, the team is interested in adding logic and memory to flexible films, so you could make not just a screen but an entire flexible and transparent TV or computer."
All of a sudden, the ability to design technologies at the basis of health, entertainment, travel and social communication will not be limited by plugs and external power sources,
However Pint pointed out that there have not been any reports in the technical literature of tests performed on structural energy storage materials that show how they function under realistic mechanical loads l
This research involved silicalite-1 a synthetic aluminum-free zeolite that has served as a prototype in literature for studying zeolite growth.
This one packs an interconnected network of graphene and carbon nanotubes so tightly that it stores energy comparable to some thin-film lithium batteriesn area where batteries have held traditionally a large advantage.
"Such a laser patternable highly nonlinear thin film, about one hundredth of a human hair, has not been achieved by any other material,
To create the thin film the researchers spin coated graphene oxide solution to a glass surface.
Using a laser as a pen they created microstructures on the graphene oxide film to tune the nonlinearity of the material."
"Now we can provide a film, on which everything can be fabricated with laser and then it is automatically integratable."
#'3-D Painting'Sprays Metal To Repair Or Rebuild Machines Video#GE is showing off a new machine that sprays high-velocity metal powders at broken machines repairing damage in a few
or 3-D painting#(you know like printing) could also be used to make entirely new parts.
I want craft that can support bases on the Moon flag planting ceremonies on Mars Europa and Titan.
It was called The Island a sci-fi film. Anyhow there are other ways to immortality then what you described.
She is a professional artist who has been teaching painting for over 20 years and she has a number of students who are colorblind.
Key to the boats is named a program Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing or CARACAS.
and explored for use in architecture by inventor Buckminster Fuller in the 1960s. Subsequent research found tensegrities all throughout biology#for instance the human spine relies on both the vertebrae and the muscles tendons and ligaments that surround and support the bones.
and the leaded film would be contained completely within other materials. The research Environmentally-responsible fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells from recycled car batteries was published recently online by the journal Energy and Environmental science.
Originally created for animated film, the software also allows for easier design changes. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science i
The architecture of space has had always a military underpinning. American nuclear submarines, hiding out at sea,
and used it to make thin films on a silicon substrate. Via metal electrodes that contacted the film,
the researchers observed the relationship between current and voltage under various conditions. Reflectin transported protons,
The researchers then manufactured the tiny elongated structures out of the modified epoxy film via two-photon polymerisation.
People can also look at two paintings and find similarities between them in terms of composition color texture subject matter etc.
People can also look at two paintings and find similarities between them in terms of composition color texture subject matter etc.
An artist might be inspired by one painting a body of work or even an entire style of art.
Although there has been some research on automated classification of paintings there is almost no research done on computer-based measuring
However there is limited research on the classification of painting style. Measuring influence is a very difficult task because of the broad criteria for
and retrieving paintings. There are millions of paintings present on the Internet; to manage properly the databases of these paintings it becomes essential to classify paintings into different categories and sub-categories.
This classification structure can be used as an index and thus can improve the speed of retrieval process.
Also it will be of great significance if we can infer new information about an unknown painting using already existing databases of paintings.
Although the meaning of a painting is unique to each artist and is completely subjective it can somewhat be measured by the symbols and objects in the painting.
Symbols are visual words that often express something about the meaning of a work as well.
For example the works of Renaissance artists such as Giovanni Bellini and Jan Van-eyck use religious symbols such as a cross wings and animals to tell stories in the Bible.
We should be able to describe the painting from a list of many different object classes.
Paintings do not necessarily have to look alike but if they do or if they have reoccurring objects (high-level semantics) then they might be considered similar.
If influence is found by looking at similar characteristics within a group of paintings the importance of finding a good similarity measure becomes prominent.
and the linearity of paintings therefor cuts down the possibilities of influence. The contribution of our work 1234 is in exploring the problem of computer-automated suggestion of influences between artists a problem that has not previously been addressed in a general setting.
1) studying different representations of painting to determine which is more useful for the task of influence detection;
2) measuring similarity between paintings; 3) studying different measures of similarity between artists. We collected a comprehensive painting dataset for conducting our study.
The data set contains 1710 high-resolution images of paintings by 66 artist spanning the time period of 1412-1996
and containing 13 painting styles. We also collected a ground-truth data set for the task of artistic influences
which mainly contains positive influences claimed by art historians. This ground-truth was used only for the overall evaluation of our discovered/suggested influences
We hypothesized that a high-level semantic representation of painting would be more useful for the task of influence detection.
We tried to find this useful representation by considering the task of classifying painting style.
and classification models for the task of classifying painting style among seven different styles 13.
Using the right features to represent the painting paves the way for judging similarity between paintings in a quantifiable way.
Figure 2 illustrates an example of similar paintings detected by our automated methodology: Frederic Bazille#Studio 9 Rue de la Condamine#(1870) and Norman Rockwell#Shuffleton Barber Shop#(1950.
The paintings may not look similar at first glance; however a closer look reveals striking similarity in composition and subject matter
Measuring similarity between paintings is fundamental to discovering influences however it is not clear how painting similarity might be used to suggest influences between artists.
The paintings of a given artist can span an extended period of time and can be influenced by several other contemporary and prior artists.
1 R. Aroara and A. Elgammal#Towards Automated Classification of Fine-art Painting Style: A Comparative Study#21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR#12) Tsukuba Science City Japan November 2012.2 Kanako Abe Babak Saleh and Ahmed
By sequencing notes together like lines of code in a program children can make Wigl dance
and even uncover secret dances. This fusion of right brain creativity with left brain logic engages children
and move to the music. Original versions of Wigl used DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) chips which are used commonly in touch-tone phone systems.
If you play a series of notes together to form a song Wigl celebrates with a special dance!(
Most children s entertainment is moving towards software mainly on tablets and I believe that limits their creativity and understanding of what s possible.
 Other participants in the B fundingâ included Qualcommâ KPCB Andreessen Horowitz Obvious Ventures and Legendary Entertainment m
but important questions have to be well thought to be realistic. he Poppy communitypoppy developers hope that the robot will also be used in schools for learning about robotics and as an experimental platform in the arts;
and does a little dance when the user decides to stop eating. It interactions like these that make mealtime more entertaining andâ help to establish a bond between the user and the robot.
Wire-framer of ideas and framer of ideas out of sculpture wire. Hannah Chung Cofounder and CCO:
but eagle-eyed technophiles are likely to have noticed one very exciting addition to the opening ceremony.
if playing music was as simple at looking at your laptop screen. Now it is thanks to Kenneth Camilleri
#Microsoft pays 5m CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research.
At the Ecocloud center at EPFL Dr. Edouard Bugnion and Professor Babak Falsafi are carrying out research into energy-efficient memory architectures for data centres that can handle huge amounts of data.
Other companies include Holomni makers of high tech wheels Bot&dolly and Autofuss the super cool robotics software companies behind the special effects in the film Gravity.
and Control and the Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication both from ETH Zurich Switzerland. ee Federico research paper a collaboration with Ammar Mirjan presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference
Mataerial is a research collaboration between Petr Novikov and Sasa Jokic from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Joris Laarman Studio.
and television shows such as ARD Nachtmagazin. This (ongoing) media attention has helped us to reach the public:
due to apparent activation of blind pores within the carbon architectures as the cell charges and discharges over time,
researchers have combed now the literature for relevant research. When ants came, crop yields often improved, the team concludes online today in the Journal of Applied Ecology.
not only how light reflects off the film, but also how much of it is absorbed. When a transparent material lay underneath the GST film
spots with a crystalline order absorbed more light than did spots with an amorphous structure.
and research scientist in the MIT Department of Architecture. very material responds to some sort of energy source,
if we want to demonstrate a new architecture that wel be allowed to manipulate the factory in any way.
The software, dubbed Matriarch for aterials Architecture allows users to combine and rearrange material building blocks in almost any conceivable shape.
With Matriarch engineers can explore what happens to a material properties when its architecture changes.
and design them according to their needs. ur description of the material architecture is backed up by a rigorous mathematical framework,
More recently, the company entered the entertainment space, landing Netflix as a client. That was a product of the company's ability to process a lot of content in a short amount of time
Leave the process running longer and a continuous film forms. Stepped surfaces result in the nanoparticles forming linear chains on the step edges at low coverage.
Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee studied the protective film formed by the common soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
They found it incorporates proteins that change shape as they reach the film surface. This exposes an impervious surface on the protein molecules
The film is able to repel water-which means other potentially harmful molecules also bounce off.
but the ability to control the creation of a water-repellent film has many possible applications."
special concerns for thin-film and concentrator PV; connectors; PV systems; and soiling. A final task group was assembled to tackle how to communicate PV quality assurance ratings to the industry, stakeholders,
our sensor architecture easily lends itself to a compact solid-state imaging chip. We believe our results are a significant step forward in developing an entirely new generation of cameras that can function for a very long durationdeally,
In one new software tool, we have applied expertise in advanced algorithm development, knowledge on genetics and principles of genome architecture."
At the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques in October, MIT researchers unveil the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades.
lay down a film just a few micrometers thick on a suitable substrate, and run a current through it.
Right now, Fraunhofer is putting the film on small panels that can be glued to the inside of a car door,
The DRAGEN processor delivered its critical speed gains to the hospital servers thanks to its architecture,
The process is somewhere between using a dowsing rod and the dark arts. This is the holy grail of marketing,
CA-based Soraa who is using the technology in their connected LED lamps. ee built the unique architecture where devices form a native,
which is noneducational, it more entertainment focused, so a kid that doesn want to spend money can still learn,
and it gives you a summary of each one based on literature, says Banda. t not someone else tweet
The team demonstrated that silicone elastomers can be printed seamlessly into gradient architectures composed of soft and rigid regions (meaning that for wearable devices,
They turned to architecture firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill to design the house, which includes a small kitchenette, entertainment area, and Murphy bed.
Clayton Homes, the nation largest builder of manufactured housing, assembled it. Both the house and car used over 25,000 lbs of printed material.
an architecture and design firm based in New york city and Istanbul. The make the swimsuit, the material was moulded into the shape of a bikini
entertainment area, and murphy bed with an accompanying Printed Utility Vehicle (PUV). The home, on the one hand, receives energy from solar panels affixed to its roof,
Owings & Merrill LLP, one of the largest architecture firms in the world, laid out the blueprints for the structure and,
Several university decision makers, company partners and other Hungarian 3d printing ventures participated at the opening ceremony held last week.
That when partners of New york city-based architecture and design firm Eray Carbajo came in with the idea to implement the material into a wearable technology
This means that we can apply all the required partial layers even to films or other flexible substrates, explains Peter William de Oliveira, head of the program division Optical Materials.
professor of neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences and senior associate vice provost for research. e know that the technological breakthroughs
Linda B. Glaser is a staff writer for the College of Arts and Sciences a
Vibrant optical colors are generated from ultra-thin single layer silicon films deposited on a thin aluminum film surface with a low cost manufacturing process.
The optical colors are controlled by the thickness of silicon films. The thickness of the silicon films ranges from 20 to 200 nanometers for creating different colors.
For reference, 100 nanometers is about 1/1000 of the thickness of a single sheet of paper.
The combination of high index of refraction and low absorption enables strong optical wave interference inside ultra-thin silicon films,
In combination with innovative quantitative approaches and numerical simulations, they were also able to define the genome architecture at the nanoscale.
they observed key differences in the chromatin fibre architectures of both cells. Pia Cosma, group leader and ICREA research professor at the CRG explains,
#Canatu Announce Multitouch, Button-Free Automotive Panels with Carbon nanobud Films Canatu, a leading manufacturer of transparent conductive films, has in partnership with Schuster Group
and Display Solution AG, showcased a pioneering 3d encapsulated touch sensor for the automotive industry. The partnership is delivering the first ever,
Canatu CNB#(Carbon nanobud) In-Mold Film with its unique stretch properties provides a clear path to the eventual replacement of mechanical controls with 3d touch sensors.
CNB#In-Mold Films can be formed easily into shape. The film is patterned first to the required touch functionality, then formed,
then back-molded by injection molding, resulting in a unique 3d shape with multitouch functionality.
CNB#In-Mold Films can bring touch to almost any surface imaginable. The unique properties of CNB#In-Mold Films are unmatched as no other film on the market can be stretched 120%and molded without losing their conductivity.
A natural partnership Schuster Group has a long history in manufacturing customized paneling for the automotive industry.
Schuster Group is keen to utilize Canatu proprietary CNB#(Carbon nanobuds) In-Mold Film in their latest next generation product design.
The partnership was a natural choice for Schuster Group as Canatu CNB#are the world highest performing carbon based transparent conductive film for transparent conductors in touch
'In addition to controlling music or phone calls, the iskin technology could be used for many other applications. For example, a keyboard sticker could be used to type
and Jeffery G. Saven, a professor in Penn Arts & Sciencesdepartment of Chemistry. It was published in the journal ACS Nano.
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