Team refines deicing film that allows radio frequencies to pass Rice university scientists who created a deicing film for radar domes have refined now the technology to work as a transparent coating for glass.
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 50000 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.
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 a
The researchers'familiarity with thin films and ionic transport enabled them to exploit chemistry, rather than temperature,
Scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy of picene thin films formed on Ag (111) by Yasuo Yoshida Hung-Hsiang Yang Hsu-Sheng Huang Shu-You Guan Susumu Yanagisawa Takuya
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
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.
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
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,
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.""
"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
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."
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."
It was called The Island a sci-fi film. Anyhow there are other ways to immortality then what you described.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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,
#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
#NIMS MANA Researchers Develop Tissue Adhesive Porous Films that Promote Angiogenesis Without Using Growth Factors A group at NIMS MANA has developed tissue adhesive porous films that promote angiogenesis without using growth factors.
NIMS, has developed tissue adhesive porous films that promote angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels) without using growth factors.
the research group developed porous films using pigskin-derived gelatin chemically modified with hexanoyl group that is believed to provide superb tissue adhesiveness and excellent bonding to growth factors.
With greatly increased porosity, the newly developed porous films demonstrated about five times greater angiogenic capability compared to conventional porous films.
Furthermore, the new films exhibited about three times greater tissue adhesiveness than conventional ones. The newly developed porous films do not require an addition of costly growth factors,
and they are capable of adsorbing vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFS) that occur naturally in the body and taking them into the film materials.
Then the research group found that an enzyme produced in the body breaks down the porous films,
which in turn slowly release VEGFS, thereby promoting angiogenesis. These results indicate that the application of porous films stimulates angiogenesis through improving the body's self-healing capacity.
This porous material alone is capable of boosting the formation of a blood vessel network without relying on growth factors that are expensive and prone to deactivation.
which normally lose stable ferroelectric polarization as they are made thinner. f you make a strontium titanate film very thin,
and switchable polarization had occurred in ultrathin films of strontium titanate grown by a University of Wisconsin team led by Chang-Beom Eom.
fabricated epitaxial films of strontium titanate, spread across a substrate of the same material, no thicker than the size of these polar nanoregions.
The electrical boundary conditions in the films drastically changed, forcing the polar nanoregions to interact between themselves
which polar nanoregions are controlled by careful engineering of film defect structure, he said. his may provide a path toward devices with reduced dimension where ferroelectricity is coupled to other properties, such as magnetism.
Eom is a world leader in growing epitaxial single crystalline films and Gruverman is a pioneer in nanoscale studies of ferroelectric materials.
The two researchers developed a film made of molybdenum disulfide (Mos2), only 0. 7 nm in thickness.
By combining ionic liquids with nanopores on molybdenum disulfide thin films, they hope to create a cheaper DNA sequencing platform with a better output.
"You end up with this sloppy black goop that you have to spread out very thinly as a film 20 to 60 microns thick on aluminum foil,
The scientists made a film of a liquid crystal molecule called 5cb, which de Pablo called the"fruit fly"of liquid crystal research
Floating on top of the film was made a membrane of molecules resembling those found in the membranes of biological cells.
"This disturbance on the membrane--the imprint of the protein fibers--is transmitted down through the liquid crystal film,
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:"
just a touch could make the entire film or droplet crystallise. t's like a domino effect,
The technology mirrors that seen in the Star wars film The empire strikes back where Luke Skywalker is given a robotic prosthetic arm that restores his ability to feel.
which look remarkably similar to the star of 1986 film Short circuit, could be used to carry casualties to safety while under fire.
With caterpillar-style tracks and a head on top of a flexible neck, they look remarkably like Johnny Five-the malfunctioning mechanical star of the Short circuit films.
'From Ocean's Eleven to Star trek, weapons that wipe out enemy electronics are a staple of science fiction films.
Professor Park and his colleagues have designed ferroelectric films that mimic the grooved, microscopically'mountainous'structure of human fingertip skin.
the films are able to detect touch and temperature using sensing electric charges. The authors tested the e skin's response to sensory changes created by water droplets
the Home Gateway will provide the link between the two. he system is based on NFC tags that track people in the home to adjust devices accordingly as they move around re-streaming a film from living room TV to kitchen tablet whilst
"The metamaterial consists of silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film.
The major challenge they faced was that vanadium dioxide of sufficiently high quality had never been grown in a thin film form on the scale required to be of use to industry--the wafer scale.
The Penn State team reports in the online journal Nature Communications that they are the first to achieve growth of thin films of vanadium dioxide on 3-inch sapphire wafers with a perfect 1
we can perform flux calculations to determine the optimal combination that would give an ideal 1 to 2 vanadium to oxygen ratio in the film.
The team solved this by using an electrochemical technique to grow an ultrathin film of hundreds of thousands of small and rough tungsten-oxide islands directly onto a steel surface."
"So the recent film The Martian, which involved an astronaut stranded on Mars growing potatoes
For example many movie inspired console games use third-person character action where the player can directly control the star of the film
#Tiny metal illarssurvive 1, 100 degrees Celsius Scientists have produced a thin film out of a new class of metal alloys that can survive very high temperatures and extreme pressures.
Then, using the focused ion beam (FIB) technique, the scientists cut out microcylinders on the surface of the film.
Staphylococcus aureas, etc) the film has been designed to detect are present, it will turn blue. Patients can then snap a shot of the film with their smartphone camera
and send it off to a medical professional for analysis, wherever in the world they may be.
and the films can safely be disposed of after use by burning, long-term it could have a tremendous impact on the diagnosis and monitoring of infectious diseases worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries.
and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji Film has produced a low-cost particulate magnetic tape with a record density of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch,
That's why researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films have developed an alternative,
or 120 frames per second slomo films at 820p. It also takes 12 megapixel stills.
and antimicrobial bioactive films can improve product shelf life and safety, she said. otato peels have high phenolic content, a natural compound for plant protection,
In subcritical water medium, starch can be modified to influence the film properties, such as its tensile strength
The next step is to test the films on packaging of ready-to-eat meat. With international interest on whether the subcritical method would also work on cassava (the starchy root of a tropical tree),
Another researcher in Saldaña lab is looking at adding nanoparticles on the films. Right now
there a maximum amount of antioxidants/antimicrobials that the film can hold, but with nanoparticles, more could be added
the late American film critic who lost his jawbone to cancer, is autograft. This is basically a euphemism for cutting a piece of bone out of one part of the body
This pressure comes from stretching of the elastomer film, which in turn stretches the capsules and compresses them to release the drugs.
However, since their discovery a quarter of a century ago, their potential for large-scale industrial use has been limited due to difficulties in producing linings, thin films,
The two researchers developed a film made of molybdenum disulfide (Mos2), only 0. 7 nm in thickness.
By combining ionic liquids with nanopores on molybdenum disulfide thin films they hope to create a cheaper DNA sequencing platform with a better output.
detailed in a paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C is based on a mechanically robust nanostructured layer of porous glass film.
it consists of chalcopyrite (a material used in device grade thin film solar cells) that has been coated with a thin, transparent, conductive oxide film of titanium dioxide (Tio2.
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:"
or antidots, in thin films of manganite. It was discovered that the edges of the antidots were magnetic."
The magnetic phase state at the edges of the antidots raised the metal-to-insulator phase transition temperature of the manganite film.
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,
Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.
The two researchers developed a film made of molybdenum disulfide (Mos2), only 0. 7 nm in thickness.
By combining ionic liquids with nanopores on molybdenum disulfide thin films, they hope to create a cheaper DNA sequencing platform with a better output.
including temporary tattoo films. The cutter is programmable so the size of the patch and pattern can be customized easily.
on a multilayered film where the magnetic moments are aligned normal to the plane. They used ion beam irradiation to modify the interface between the dots
and the film to allow"imprinting"of the magnetic moments of the dots into the film.
#Dielectric film has refractive index close to air The refractive indices of naturally occurring materials are limited, and there exists an index gap between indices of air and available solid materials.
and high-stiffness materials can serve as high-quality optical films in multilayer photonic structures, waveguides, resonators,
Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a dielectric film that has optical and electrical properties similar to air
But now researchers have developed a film made of aluminum oxide that has a refractive index as low as 1. 025 but that is mechanically stiff."
"The key to the film's performance is ordered the highly spacing of the pores, which gives it a more mechanically robust structure without impairing the refractive index,
The researchers make the film by first using a nanolithography developed in Chang's lab to create highly-ordered pores in a polymer substrate.
and allows us to design the refractive index of the film.""Regardless of the how thick the coating is,
the film itself is approximately one micrometer thick.""The steps in the process are potentially scalable,
Film in 4-D with ultrashort electron pulses Physicists of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich shorten electron pulses down to 30 femtoseconds duration.
and the electron pulses then results in a film showing the atomic motion within the substance.
The Optical Society) By precisely etching tiny features--smaller than a wavelength of light--onto a silicon film one thousand times thinner than a human hair, the researchers were able to select the range of colors the material would reflect,
In place of slits cut into a film they instead etched rows of ridges onto a single
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