"When placed on a metal film, electrons that tunnel across the gap can excite plasmons, although inefficiently."
"Our surfaces combine the unique surface architectures of lotus leaves and pitcher plants, in such a way that these surfaces possess both high surface area
or structural changes in mammary glands can lead to the breakdown of tissue architecture associated with tumors that metastasize,
#Super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics Washington state University researchers have discovered how to stretch metal films used in flexible electronics to twice their size without breaking.
when they made a metal film out of indium, a fairly inexpensive metal compared to gold,
they were able to stretch the metal film to twice its original length. When the pieces broke
"A metal film doubling its size and not failing is very unusual, ''he said.""We have proposed a model for the stretchy metal
a postdoctoral research associate in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.""But with rampant oxidative stress leading to uncontrolled cellular death,
Hills and Potholes Many of these types of flexible electronic devices will rely on thin films of organic materials that catch sunlight
the UVM team was able to observe nanoscale defects and boundaries in the crystal grains in the thin films of phthalocyanine--roadblocks in the electron highway."
very carefully controlling how the thin films are deposited. Using a novel"pen-writing"technique with a hollow capillary,
the team worked in the lab of UVM physics and materials science professor Randy Headrick to successfully form films with jumbo-sized crystal grains and"small angle boundaries."
and Naveen Rawat G'15--opens a window to view how increasing"long-range order"in the organic semiconductor films is a key mechanism that allows excitons to migrate farther."
This allows organic thin films to carry energy along this molecular highway with relative ease,
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They showed that silicone elastomers can be printed seamlessly into gradient architectures composed of soft and rigid regions.
#Antimicrobial film for future implants The implantation of medical devices is not without risks. Bacterial or fungal infections can occur
and create a film invisible to the naked eye (between 400 and 600 nm thick) that is made of several layers.
Embedded antimicrobial peptides on a thin silver coating The film is also unique due to the fact that it embeds natural antimicrobial peptides
we have placed a silver-coated precursor before applying the film. Silver is an anti-infectious material currently used on catheters and dressings.
preventing and controlling infection The results from numerous tests performed on this new film shows that it reduces inflammation
that the presence of the film on the implant suppresses the activation of inflammatory markers normally produced by immune cells in response to the implant.
"the film inhibits the growth and long-term proliferation of staphylococcal bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus), yeast strains (Candida albicans) or fungi (Aspegillus fumigatus) that frequently cause implant-related infection"emphasises Philippe Lavalle.
Researchers conclude that this film may be used in vivo on implants or medical devices within a few years to control the complex microenvironment surrounding implants
In the past couple of years, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have been processed solution into thin films or bulk crystals for photovoltaic devices that have reached a 20-percent power conversion efficiency.
Virginia--a liquid-cooled FPGA was operated using a custom processor architecture provided by Altera. With a water inlet temperature of approximately 20 degrees Celsius and an inlet flow rate of 147 milliliters per minute
a process typically used to produce thin films. In graphene, the process naturally creates tiny defects.
The discovery of such skyrmions in thin magnetic films and multilayers, already used in today's technology,
"The metamaterial consists of silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film.
#Internal fingerprint sensor peers inside fingertips for more surefire ID In the 1971 film Diamonds are Forever,
a portable USB-powered film scanner to image the test strips; and a portable computer for real-time data analysis.
"The study was funded co by Capillary Film Technology Ltd--a UK SME developing low-cost microfluidic fluoropolymer film for life sciences and clinical diagnostics.
if you're crafting devices with complex architectures, such as customized miniature biomedical devices. Within a single patient-specific device, the corners, the curves,
"These are the sorts of architectures that we are now producing synthetically, "says Erb, who has received a $225,
With this technology, we're finally scratching the surface where we can theoretically determine that a particular fiber architecture leads to improved mechanical properties
and we can also produce those complicated architectures
#3-D printed'building blocks'of Life scientists have developed a 3-D printing method capable of producing highly uniform'blocks'of embryonic stem cells.
stand, walk, dance it can even beam a movie or slideshow on your wall with its built-in projector.
Everyone who ever tried to listen to music, whether in tiny earphones or big expensive cans, knows that
the music leaking out in the room around him. urn down the volume or youl go deaf!
he realized the danger of hearing loss by listening to music too loudly isn just something parents say
because they can stand your music. According to data by the World health organization and the American Academy of Audiology
Most devices we use today to listen to music, however, can crank the volume up to more than 100db.
Along with serial entrepreneur Anthony Lye, the startup they co-founded, Aegis Acoustics, is on a mission to prevent further hearing loss among kids who love consuming their music with headphones.
The sound of music At first glance the Aegis Pro headphones don look like a particularly revolutionary product.
because there is a growing literature that shows discrimination is actually harmful for people health, particularly among African american adults,
but we succeeded due to our great knowledge in growing high quality thin films and our knowledge in ionic and electronic transport mechanism in these films says Professor Nini Pryds.
The results of this work were patented recently, with the hope that this discovery opens brand new possibilities for usingd-Bismuth as an ion conductor. e have used very advanced fabrication
and characterization methods together with our previous knowledge to create this thin films architecture. The use of thin film technology for Bi oxide is not trivial and required long and hard studies.
That might be the reason why we succeeded where many didn says senior researcher Vincenzo Esposito,
Making othing The method for making nanogaps begins with the production of thin films in
this method allows graphene to be transferred to gold film with minimal defects or contamination. his new method,
gold thin film. The films are sliced then into 150 nm-wide nanostructures. Finally, the structures are treated with oxygen plasma to remove graphene.
Scanning electron micrographs of the structures reveal extremely small nanogaps between the gold layers. Nanogap applications One potential application for this technology is in ultra-sensitive detection of single molecules,
#icrocombingcreates Stronger, More Conductive Carbon nanotube Films Researchers from North carolina State university and China Suzhou Institute of Nanoscience and Nano-Biotics have developed an inexpensive technique called icrocombingto align carbon nanotubes (CNTS),
pure CNT films that are stronger than any previous such films. The technique also improves the electrical conductivity that makes these films attractive for use in electronic
and aerospace applications. t a simple process and can create a lightweight CNT film, or ucky paper, that is a meter wide and twice as strong as previous such films it even stronger than CNT FIBERS,
says Yuntian Zhu, Distinguished Professor of Materials science and engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work.
The researchers begin by growing the CNTS on a conventional substrate in a closely packed array.
creating a layered film of pure CNTS. Researchers can control the thickness of the film by controlling the number of layers.
The CNT films made using the microcombing technique had more than twice the tensile strength of the uncombed CNT films greater than 3 gigapascals for the microcombed material
versus less than 1. 5 gigapascals for the uncombed material. The microcombed CNT film also had 80 percent higher electrical conductivity than the uncombed film. his is a significant advance,
but we want to find ways to make CNT alignment even straighter, Zhu says. t still not perfect. n addition,
This film is coated on both sides with highly flexible electrodes of graphite or carbon black. When the film deforms as a result of compression or stretching,
its thickness decreases and its surface area simultaneously increases. This means its capacitance rises with pressure an effect the ISC researchers can measure.
The team managed to synthesize a thin film made of densely packed aluminum oxide nanorods blended with molecules of a thrombolytic enzyme (urokinase-type plasminogen activator.
the film causes the parietal area of the graft to get filled with a stable concentration of a substance, called plasmin,
The unique properties of the film arise from its structure, which represents a porous matrix,
Yulia Chapurina, laboratory researcher and first author of the paper, set up several in vitro experiments that helped demonstrate just how effective the film is:
we were astounded to see exquisite fine-scale fibre architectures, which are completely different from those known in any other contemporary gel materials,
SEM images (false colour) depicting the intricate gel fibre architecture They then discovered that intertwined amongst these microscopic fibres were a profusion of nanoparticles around 100 nanometres in size.
to the best of our knowledge this is the first example of its kind reported in the literature.
But it the promise of MOF nanoparticles suitable to make into thin films for sensors and microelectronics that is particularly alluring.
films on various substrates. These thin films can, for instance, function as a coupled temperature-moisture sensor that rapidly switches from turquoise to dark blue colour for easy identification, reversibly, upon heating.
Thin film sensors created using MOF nanoparticles harvested from hybrid gels The team worked with Isis Innovation to patent the technology and Samsung Electronics
who part-funded the research, are looking to translate this discovery into a range of real-world applications including optoelectronics, thin-film sensors,
and microelectronics. e believe our method has huge potential, comments Jin-Chong, t opens the door to exploiting MOF-based supramolecular gels as a new 3d scaffolding material useful for engineering optoelectronics and innovative micromechanical devices n
because once you have that architecture, then you can ask fundamental biological questions. Kilian said these questions range from the basic how macrophages signal to the breast cells to the more long-term:
or structural changes in mammary glands can lead to the breakdown of tissue architecture associated with tumors that metastasize,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute. ur surfaces combine the unique surface architectures of lotus leaves
Thin films of Mos2 are also under study as possible catalysts that facilitate chemical reactions. In addition
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due to apparent activation of blind pores within the carbon architectures as the cell charges and discharges over time,
Nanocarbon architectures derived from biological materials such as mushrooms can be considered a green and sustainable alternative to graphite-based anodes,
The nanoribbon-like architectures transform upon heat treatment into an interconnected porous network architecture which is important for battery electrodes
because such architectures possess a very large surface area for the storage of energy, a critical component to improving battery performance.
flexible film typically used to manufacture flexible printed circuits and the outside layer of spacesuits. Researchers were able to easily peel off the sensors from the curved film without compromising their functioning.
In order to make the sensors more like peel off stickers researchers essentially had to build the sensors upside down
Each company was formed around the discovery of unique identifying protein features within the cellular architecture of sperm and egg cells.
#Study reveals the architecture of the molecular machine that copies DNA DNA replication is essential to all life,
and Stony Brook University has revealed that vital complex molecular architecture. And to their surprise, it does not look as they had expected. ur finding goes against decades of textbook drawings of
"In nature, a great number of microorganisms, like diatoms, can assemble biominerals into intricate hierarchical three-dimensional architectures with great structural control,
The big winners were mainly large electrical, digital and entertainment retailers, with Amazon, Argos and Tesco at numbers 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
According to NC State, the technology consists of an elastic film that is studded with biocompatible microcapsules.
The university said in a statement that the microcapsules stick halfway out of the film, on the side of the film that touches a patient skin.
When the elastic film is stretched it also stretches the microcapsules enlarging the surface area of the microcapsule
The coating is applied using an electrochemical technique that deposits an ultrathin film of tungsten oxide islands on to the steel.
digital music has matched and will likely soon surpass physical formats in the money it generates,
films and advertisements making up the rest. think we will be looking in the next couple of years at digital surpassing physical,
The drops contributed to the overall picture for the global music industry revenue of $14. 97bn in 2014, down a modest 0. 4%from a year earlier.
CDS are still far more popular than digital music in Japan which nonetheless saw revenue decline by 5. 5%in 2014,
and other sites to license music consistently. Youtube, owned by search engine giant Google, enjoys so-called afe harbourstatus under US law that lets it avoid liability for copyright infringement as it is considered an internet service provider.
The IFPI, in data released in the report, said that more than half of all internet users accessed music through video sites such as Youtube in the past six months.
It hovered thanks to"Magnetic field Architecture"(MFA), a fancy name for what the company's founder,
#Dr dre's new album streamed 25 million times on Apple Music in its first week Compton,
the new album from hip-hop mogul and Apple employee Dr dre, was streamed 25 million times in its first week on Apple Music.
only available for stream on Apple Music and digitally through itunes. Beats cofounder Jimmy Iovine was positive about the results,
saying that it constituted a good start for Apple Music.""We're beginning to show what we can do in terms of communicating music to a worldwide audience and helping artists at the same time,
"he told The New york times . But where Iovine says Apple is started just getting getting music to the world,
hip-hop's current kings are already old hands at disseminating their music to a huge and internet-literate fanbase.
000 to produce the four minute film, shot on a host of cameras that saw frontwards, sideways and backwards,
000 to produce the four-minute film, shot on a host of cameras that saw frontwards, sideways and backwards,
Called sol-gel thin film, it is made up of a single layer of silicon atoms and a nanoscale self-assembled layer of octylphosphonic acid.
Performance of sol-gel thin film electrodes at Georgia Tech's laboratories has exceeded all existing commercial electrolytic capacitors and thin-film lithium-ion batteries.
and service oriented architecture, the lines between software providers and software consumers have blurred, almost to the point in
For this study the research team also worked with Tony Heinz David M. Rickey Professor of Optical Communications at Columbia Engineering and professor of physics at Columbia's Graduate school of Arts and Sciences.
One step further along the researchers also determined the molecular architecture of the final double-ring structure left behind after the ORC leaves the system offering a number of key biological insights.
Furthermore it is applicable to a broad range of documents from school textbooks children's stories and literature.
and uniformly thin films the flat-plane emission device has the potential to provide a new approach to lighting in people's life style
In a new study engineers from Duke increased the photon emission rate of fluorescent molecules to record levels by sandwiching them between metal nanocubes and a gold film.
The researchers found they could achieve a significant speed improvement by placing fluorescent molecules in a gap between the nanocubes and a thin film of gold.
and gold film to optimize the setup. That gap turned out to be just 20 atoms wide.
Scientific literature on Bre1 had been mixed. Some studies indicated that Bre1 had a role as a tumor suppressor Strahl said.
Of the 25 genes previously identified in the literature 19 (76 percent) were identified by DIGGIT,
to watch what they call the"dance"of HIV proteins on the virus'surface, which may contribute to how it infects human immune cells.
Using Light to Watch HIV Dance In the Science study, Dr. Blanchard worked with Dr. Walther Mothes, a HIV specialist at the Yale university School of medicine,
But we saw that the proteins dance when no CD4 was present--they change shape all the time."
"The antibodies used in the crystallography study are ones that we observed to stop the dance of the HIV envelope proteins,
#Nanoribbon film keeps glass ice-free Rice university scientists who created a deicing film for radar domes have refined now the technology to work as a transparent coating for glass.
This scanning electron microscope image shows the network of conductive nanoribbons in Rice university's high-density graphene nanoribbon film.
A o. Raji/Rice university Last year the Rice group created films of overlapping nanoribbons and polyurethane paint to melt ice on sensitive military radar domes,
"That caused degradation of the film. Those spots got so hot that they burned up."
"The answer was to make the films more consistent. The new films are between 50 and 200 nanometers thick--a human hair is about 50,000 nanometers thick
--and retain their ability to heat when a voltage is applied. The researchers were also able to preserve their transparency.
The films are still useful for deicing applications but can be used to coat glass and plastic as well as radar domes and antennas.
This scanning electron microscope image shows a closeup of the nanoribbon network in Rice university's high-density graphene nanoribbon film.
"One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer, and even in skyscrapers,"Tour said."
"He said nanoribbon films also open a path toward embedding electronic circuits in glass that are both optically and RF transparent.
Alpha-helix rods and folded beta-sheet constructions were clearly visible within the 20 subunits of the APC/C defining the overall architecture of the complex.
#Painting robot lends surgeons a hand in the operating room Would you let an artist perform lifesaving surgery on you?
if the artist is a painting robot. Timothy Lee built a robotic painting arm that can replicate the lines
I never really thought you could do music with robots he said. That got me thinking'What else can you do with robots that most people wouldn't think about
'I thought I could do something with painting and that prompted the idea of robotic surgery.
Lee said painting and surgery have more in common than initially meets the eye. A painter has to be nimble and precise with his brushstrokes much like a surgeon must be nimble and precise with a scalpel.
More than painting by numberslee ordered parts online and assembled his contraption. His invention took an artistic turn
You can think of a painting canvas as a body and the brush as a surgeon's knife.
This year the event will take place at the University of Pittsburgh where Lee will demonstrate his robot's painting abilities.
thicker electrodes, the system reduces the conventional battery architecture number of distinct layers, as well as the amount of nonfunctional material in the structure, by 80 percent.
and a little bit more comprehensive than some of the other designs that might be reported in the literature.
Pitch Perfect Data transmission The UC San diego researchersapproach is akin to a concert master who tunes multiple instruments in an orchestra to the same pitch at the beginning of a concert.
The quantum dot filters are printed into a thin film and placed on top of a photodetector such as the charge-coupled devices (CCDS) found in cellphone cameras.
and architecture by prioritizing the process over the built form.""To this extent we are integrating the service,
while producing a piece of architecture as another equally important outcome. It is neither strictly service design or architecture,
but an integrated hybrid with aspects of each.""Mapping the user journey Elsewhere, Melbourne's Huddle has launched recently Smart Blocks, a collaboration with the Australian government.
and digital storage for music and movies--all#decedents#of technologies that he pioneered and championed.
We try to play good music for them. It s a matter of having the right temperature, right moisture levels and not too much light.
because speech and music are compressed in different ways. Voice compression typically relies on algorithms called code-excited linear prediction (CELP),
containing algorithms for both voice and music, and it switches between them as needed. The new voice algorithms are substantially more complex than those of the decade-old 7, 000-Hz codec.
Nanofibril films may be used in photovoltaic cells and also in displays because they have better light-transmission properties than glass,
The condensers gain efficiency because the the graphene resists the formation of films on the condensers.
When a thin film is formed the heat transfer of the condensation is compromised. The MIT researchers exploited the graphene coating hydrophobic qualities to ensure that the water formed into droplets.
Even worse, the polymer coatings are sometimes so thick that they actually pose a bigger problem to the heat transfer than the films they are supposed to be combating.
the resulting material preserved the natural architecture found in the reeds. After 200 cycles of charging
The deal was struck at a#signing ceremony#at Baidu HQ in Beijing which Baidu chairman and CEO Robin Li and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick both attended.
angrily blasting the media for reporting the private details revealed through the recent hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, in
or insider-y emails about films. That those things were stolen, however? Yes. Especially since former employees weren even being made aware of the situation.
the company threatened via letters sent to a number of online and print publishers. ony Pictures Entertainment will have no choice
television hasn been as quick to have been disrupted by the Internet as other industries, like music or books.
music, shopping lists and more. It offers a basic music player as well that lets you see what playing,
what youe played recently and what in your queue, while also offering player controls that let you play,
Exit Music In the following years attention and capital turned to payments companies like Braintree (acquired by Paypal), Stripe or Square as the hope for fintech biggest home runs.
the company is also launching a cloud entertainment business unit, which will create services that make it easier to stream videos and games from Youku Tudou main sites.
In a prepared statement, Youku Tudou CTO and president of its cloud entertainment unit Leo Yao, said,
But that will most likely change as more people rely on the Internet to watch television shows and movies.
and entertainment collectibles to art and it says that the plan will be to extend this to undreds of thousands of itemsby 2015.
and has defined both the controller architecture and use cases for SDNS through open APIS and standards-based protocols.
Opflex was designed to offer a highly scalable architecture that works across a broad range of hardware devices to enable multivendor innovation.
As part of this, part of Bittorrent team from Bundles Bittorrent paid content service covering different kinds of media from books to music
and a robust arts culture and one day we hope to be able to bring their work to our global audience of over 57 million members.
With decades of moving images available from film and television, people began scouring that media for snippets that could illustrate the everyday struggles and triumphs they felt.
and tailed with conductive film so there no mechanical gullies to harvest the crumbs of your lunch.
and valued at over $2 billion produces security entertainment and enterprise products too. It already has strong links to Xiaomi
During Webank launch ceremony in Shenzhen today China premier Li Keqiang said e will lower costs for
During a recent visit to Thync beautiful offices (theye renovated an old opera hall), I got to strap the startup mood-altering wave generator to the olnoggin.
I note that I into music and fashion related categories. You then browse reams of products that each show their typical retail price.
Next is designing the high-level system architecture to minimize patient risk and ensure that it is usable.
Next is designing the high-level system architecture to minimize patient risk and ensure that it is usable.
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