"said Ranjan J. Perera, Ph d.,associate professor and scientific director of Analytical Genomics and Bioinformatics at Sanford-Burnham's Lake Nona campus in Orlando."
The app's minimal processing footprint means it could also run on smart watches or in augmented reality glasses.
fat or muscles--a trait that clinicians exploit for tissue repair. With better identification of MSCS
and move about inside a laser-generated surface'plume'1--findings that can advance additive manufacturing techniques used to print three-dimensional (3d) objects.
Researchers investigating the feasibility of 3d printed implant materials often turn to magnesium-aluminum (Mg-Al) alloys
"Our chemical analysis of the transport rates and distribution of vaporized species in the plume offers improved understanding of critical laser processes, including those used in additive manufacturing,
and other sensory roles--with high precision, to create novel hybrid bioelectronic devices, "said Professor Steve Evans,
this area of research could revolutionise renewable energy production. Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield,
Specifically principal investigator Albert R. La Spada MD Phd professor of cellular and molecular medicine chief of the Division of Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics and associate director of the Institute for Genomic medicine
which often occurs in patients using left ventricular assist devices (LVADS). The researchers said this is due to the device remaining outside the bloodstream.
or muscle--a trait that scientists have tried to exploit for tissue repair. In a new study that should make it easier to develop such stem-cell-based therapies a team of researchers from MIT
and Genomics (CBGP UPM-INIA) has shown that by the contact of a plant with a strain of the Colletotrichum tofieldiae microorganism previously isolated this plant can increase the number size
Inspired by recent advancements in micron-scale 3d printing he and a USC Viterbi research team that included chemical engineering
The material is made of graphene nanoribbons, atom-thick strips of carbon created by splitting nanotubes, a process also invented by the Tour lab
This scanning electron microscope image shows the network of conductive nanoribbons in Rice university's high-density graphene nanoribbon film.
The graphene-infused paint worked well, Tour said, but where it was thickest, it would break down
This scanning electron microscope image shows a closeup of the nanoribbon network in Rice university's high-density graphene nanoribbon film.
but testing showed the graphene nanoribbons themselves formed an active network when applied directly to a surface.
Our idea is to create a biosensor that can transmit electrical signals through the membrane said María José Retamal a Ph d. student at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and first author of the paper.
A team from The Institute of Cancer Research London and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge produced the first detailed images of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C). The APC/C
Dr David Barford who led the study as Professor of Molecular biology at The Institute of Cancer Research London before taking up a new position at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge said:
While the idea of concentrating solar energy is not new transmitting it flexibly to a customizable location via fiber-optic cables is the really unique aspect of this project.
and solar energy work environmental engineers for waste treatment and stabilization mechanical engineers to build actuators and moving parts and electrical engineers to design control systems Linden said.
In late December tests at CU-Boulder showed the solar energy directed into the reaction chamber could easily boil water
because we have a high interest in developing countries and expertise in all of the renewable energy technologies as well as sanitation.
or from huge rotating machines akin to wind turbines that sit above water, said Ozgur Sahin, Ph d,
#Safe drinking water Via Solar power Desalination Natasha Wright, an MIT Phd student in mechanical engineering, has designed a solar powered system that makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
She designed a village-scale desalination system that runs on solar power. Since her system is powered by the sun,
and provide backup for renewable energy sources that produce intermittent output, such as wind and solar power. But Chiang says the technology is suited also well to applications where weight
The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy Center for Energy storage Research, based at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Source:
at very limited input power levels 10 nanowatts to 1 microwatt for the Internet of things. The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company University Shuttle Program.
such as labeling cells or new types of TV screens, exploit quantum dotsfluorescence a property that is much more difficult to control,
Among nanomaterials, carbon-based nanoparticles such as carbon nanotubes and graphene have shown promising results, but they suffer from relatively low electrical conductivity,
and flywheels tend to be less efficient, or simply too complex to be reduced practical when to very small sizes. e are in a sweet spot,
and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
#Harvard Engineers Create a 3d printed Autonomous Robot Using a 3d printer, Harvard engineers have developed one of the first soft robots that moves autonomously.
#New Technology Could Transform Solar energy Storage Chemists at UCLA have developed a new technology that is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
The new design is inspired by the way that plants generate energy through photosynthesis. iology does a very good job of creating energy from sunlight,
To capture energy from sunlight, conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics
though, the UCLA research has proven that inexpensive photovoltaic materials can be organized in a way that greatly improves their ability to retain energy from sunlight.
The netherlands is not a top producer of solar power, although installed solar capacity jumped 50%last year, according to estimates.
Renewable energy now accounts for a little less than 9%of electricity used in the country. The project developers believe about 20%of the country roads would be suitable for solar panel installations.
and it managed to raise $2. 2 million in a crowdfunding effort last year. Solar Roadways developed its first road panel in 2009 and with the help of additional grants, finished up an experimental solar-paneled parking lot last year.
It plans to use money from its successful crowdfunding to take the version of the panels it used for that project into production i
where to find the talent to manage the technologies that make smart cities possible. Johannesburg South africa's largest city--recently unveiled its approach,
The program is a big part of the early phase of its smart city plan, and is expected to train 1,
The need for IT professionals in the futureand nowcity officials recognize the need for professionals with the right technological capabilities to help make the smart city plan a reality.
Students selected for the program will have the opportunity to see smart cities connectivity in action in other countries.
"Related articlesant to get smart about smart cities? Check a university course catalogmicrosoft targets TV white spaces to improve education in Afric n
#Asia smart cities: Are they doing it right? In the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco city in Tianjin, China, Itron deployed one network that runs three meters--water, electricity and gas.
While India's goal of 100 smart cities typically comes to mind first when one thinks of Asian smart city initiatives,
the country is not alone in its efforts. Seoul, South korea's capital city is regarded by many as the"smartest"and best-connected city in the world, according to an Eco-Business article.
And China has aggressive strategies in place to build smart cities across the country. Council Lead Partners IBM Microsoft, andcisco and Associate Partner Siemens have been working with Chinese companies on national information security as well as technologies
and solutions to support the growth of smart cities there. Council Lead Partner Itron, meanwhile, completed installation of smart water, heat and gas meters and communication modules as well as its fixed network for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco city in Tianjin, China.
The need is certainly realone of the primary drivers for smart city upgrades throughout the world has been an influx of people from rural and outlying areas
which is expected to continue for at least 10 more years. Cities with their finite resources and budgets, have no choice
Navigant Research expects investments in smart city information and communications technology (ICT) will reach $63. 4 billion in the Asia Pacific region between 2014 and 2023.
"Rolling out smart cities is need a pressing across Asia. Leaders in developing Asia must cope with urbanization on an unprecedented scale,
what makes smart cities work, some experts in the field question"smart"technology as a universal fix-all."
Biswas also is among those who question the focus of India's smart cities program.""We are talking about 600 million people who do not have 24-hour access to electricity.
livable smart city is possible for both developed and developing cities, and that differences in needs can be accommodated with the right operating
The MPAN guide is an anomaly in a city often referred to as a"nanny state"due to its regulatory processes and often-crippling bureaucracy.
Essentially, you are crowdsourcing (or at least crowdstoring) the information. The catch is, of course, that you have to use Outlook for the categorization to happen.
#Where GE is putting its latest $10b investment GE announced it will invest another $10 billion into its green energy R&d program with an aim of boosting the output of its wind turbines (while cutting costs), increasing power plant efficiency and perhaps,
natural, renewable energy and power plants. On the natural gas front an area that many environmentalists would argue is not a green energy source GE will work on developing alternative technologies to replace water in the hydraulic fracturing process.#
The task force turned to crowdsourcing to develop a design for the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
#Where to find a 3d printer nearby The demand for 3d printers is on the rise. But, if you don't have access to one,
3d printing can seem expensive and inefficient, holding back your design. Fortunately, out of this need is growing new innovation for making 3d printers available for anyone with a design.
There's the 3d printing vending machine model, the DIY 3d printer, and now there's a website to find nearby 3d printers for quick turnaround on printing jobs. makexyz. com is a simple website that allows anyone with a 3d printer to rent out their services to anyone with printing needs.
The site shows all the 3d printing options nearby with the cheapest showing up first with all the details of the printer.
Need to print with full color sandstone? This is your place. The closest printer to me, for example, is a Prusa Mendel I2 that uses#ABS Plastic in numerous colors.
The price: 50 cents per cubic centimeter. If this worked for my design, I would upload the design to the website where it gives me a price that
Zak Stone reports for Fast Company that people with 3d printers have been eager to sign up: Already, more than 500 printers around the United states have signed up--with everything from homemade printers, to Makerbots, to $30, 000 professional machines.
Stone calls it a Kinko's for 3d printing. And he could be on to something. Could Fedex Kinko's
(or other printing service chains) become the Kinko's of 3d printing? With widespread stores already in place, a forward-thinking chain could make 3d printers available and more accessible.
It probably wouldn't make sense to put them in every store, but 3d printers in big cities and college towns, at least to start, could really help evolve their printing chain's brand.
But maybe makexyz, and other services, have beaten chains to the 3d printing demand, at least in these early stages of the technology.
Find a 3d printer close to you. via Fast Company Photo: Flickr/kakisse s
#Which city is getting Google's ultrafast Internet? Congratulations denizens of Austin, Texas, Google Fiber--the company's blazing fast gigabit broadband service--is coming to your city.
After some speculation, Google officially announced today that Austin would indeed become the second metropolitan area to get the service after the company first built up the infrastructure in Kansas city and surrounding communities,
and expand renewable energy production. For more details on the U s. smart grid plans, read: Administration Announces Grid Modernization Initiatives to Foster a Clean energy Economy and Spur Innovation Fact sheet:
Obviously, that's a big problem for a future that involves an Internet of things, in which devices of all kinds are connected smart
Desktop sequencers promise to democratize genomics, but it s difficult for researchers who aren t experts in sequencing technology to sort through the overheated marketing claims made in this fiercely competitive industry.
Filing a patent for a new energy storage and generation system, it seems Apple may be looking at new ways to add clean energy to its manufacturing processes.
In standard turbine design, wind energy is used to turn the unit's rotors, which then converts this type of power into electricity through powering machinery
and accounts for a problem faced by any system reliant on wind energy--the natural element's variability.
Described as the on-demand generation of electricity from stored wind energy, the patent application details a mechanism in
The variable nature of wind may interfere with on-demand generation of electricity from wind energy.
renewable energy sources to power its manufacturing chain. Image credit: Apple Insider Related:''Cliff'bill winners: wind, rum,
and Apple powering their data centers with solar panels and wind farms to retailers turning to rooftop solar and biogas to power their big box stores and distribution centers,
the number of U s. companies generating their own energy on-site is soaring. According to Wall street journal, since 2006 the number of electricity-generating units at commercial and industrial locations has quadrupled from about 10,000 to 40,000.
He said he expects the retailer to be paying as little for solar power as utility power in less than three years,
The King Adbullah City for Atomic and Renewable energy, the government organization also known as Ka-care that was set up in 2010 to oversee the country's renewable energy strategy,
Ka-care announced at the recent Fourth Saudi Solar energy Forum it plans to add 41 gigawatts of solar capacity--enough to generate a more than 20 percent of the country's power needs--by 2032.
The estimated $109 billion plan isn't just about building solar power plants. Instead, the government wants to build a solar industry, according to al-Sulaiman's presentation.
U s. fears unsafe nuclear reactors in China Diplomatic cables from Beijing say old designs lack passive cooling and pose a big risk.
and deploying modern technologies as it constructs as many as 100 nuclear reactors over the next 20 years nearly a quarter of the total of all reactors in the world today.
Growflex is a machine-to-machine network solution that includes battery -or solar-powered sensors that are distributed in a greenhouse or field.
#Leaked EU documents rank biofuel emissions higher than crude oil European union politics website Euractive has gotten its hands on official EU data reporting that many biofuel crops release more carbon dioxide than crude oil,
The numbers were intended for release in the spring when the EU presents new proposals on biofuels,
The European commission has defended long biofuels, despite dissent from Greenpeace and other environmental organizations. Its current biofuel roadmap demands that at least 5. 75%of all energy sold on the market of any member country be biofuel
boosted to 10%by 2020. However, also in the biofuel directive is that biofuel production should be sustainable,
and the new numbers suggest that it is not. The leaked data present higher carbon costs for biofuels because, for the first time,
the analysts incorporated the effects of indirect land use change (ILUC). ILUC is the rise in emissions
when forests and wetlands are destroyed to clear land to grow biofuel crops. And with ILUC added to the mix, it looks like some top biofuel crops are worse for the environment, in terms of carbon emissions, than crude oil.
The EU's default value for measuring carbon efficiency for oil from tar sands is 107g CO2 equivalent per megajoule of fuel (CO2/mj.
incorporating ILUC, for various biofuel crops, thanks to Euractive: Palm oil-105g Soybean-103g Rapeseed-95g Sunflower-86g Palm oil with methane capture-83g Wheat (process fuel not specified)- 64g Wheat (as process fuel natural gas used in CHP)- 47g
Corn (Maize)- 43g Sugar cane-36g Sugar beet-34g Wheat (straw as process fuel in CHP plants)- 35g 2g Ethanol (land-using)- 32g 2g Biodiesel (land-using)- 21g 2g Ethanol
(non-land using)- 9g 2g Biodiesel (non-land using)- 9g If European politicians recognize these figures
The top biodiesel crops--palm soybean, and rapeseed oil--are all the least energy efficient. However, they are also the cheapest to produce,
Solar power Bike path Opens In Netherlands This Week On November 12, 2014, The netherlands will proudly open up the world first public solar powered road.
The Internet of things will need more microwave bands with shorter wavelengths. Cell phones are need already to link to GPS and Wi-fi services on top of 4g and other cellular networks.
But dropping Evan off at day care triggered a wave of panic: We were once again in the dark.
We sent Evan to day care with a small laptop equipped with the receiver. While he was in his classroom,
as it allowed Evan some freedom from the typical type 1 diabetes regimen at day care.
Benjamin Brooks, a geophysicist with the USGS, has a different crowdsourcing approach in mind. Why not tap into the GPS sensors in people phones and navigation systems, he says.
with high earthquake hazards and minimal resources, is where a crowdsourcing approach would be most effective,
Creating a flexible energy storage that can be integrated into the fabric has been the goal of several research groups around the world.
Last year teams from China and the United states demonstrated a fiber-like supercapacitor made from both graphene
Although we will probably not be using energy storage textiles to power our smartphones any time soon due to the low energy density of the current technology,
Jost explains that she had started working on textile energy storage because she noticed the growing number of e textiles on the market that incorporated knitted components,
the artificial pancreas. It links data from an implanted blood-sugar sensor to a computer, which then controls how a pump worn on the hip dribbles insulin under the skin through a pipette.
Haidar group is one of a number of academic and corporate teams vying to create a closed-loop system for an artificial pancreas. ach patient is represented by a set of differential equations,
and insulin are coming together to create the artificial pancreas. Brian Herrick, diagnosed with type 1 at age 3,
The development of the technology has proceeded by measured steps, much like the progress toward the driverless carirst antilock brakes, next GPS navigation, then adaptive cruise control and self-parking.
Finally, at the end of the rainbow, the Google self-driving car. The first step toward a robotic pancreas came in 1964,
The first machine worthy of the name of artificial pancreas was Medtronic Minimed 530g which went on sale in the United states in 2014.
the secret sauce that allows the artificial pancreas to analyze, learn, and control. One of the first algorithmic techniques looked at the rate of change of blood sugar.
a medical geneticist who heads artificial pancreas research for the JDRF. A third kind of algorithm tries to model human physiology, for instance by considering how quickly food passes through your system
Tuning these algorithms requires big data, gathered from both the individual patient and the larger community of patients.
Now that the artificial pancreas is finally within reach, we can look back at this as the perfect case study of excessive technological optimism.
Just Like You The payload of a robot is a well-defined number that usually refers to how much mass its actuators
The payload of a human works in a similar way, except that sometimes we can cheat, by offloading the mass of an object to the ground,
#Graphene Heating system Dramatically Reduces Home energy Costs Breakthroughs in energy generation using nanomaterialsike their enabling of better supercapacitors
the company estimates that this graphene-based heating system can reduce energy costs by anywhere from 25 to 70 percent.
Xefro uses graphene-based ink that can be printed on a variety of materials and into just about any configuration.
The system takes advantage of graphene's minimal thermal mass so the heat can be turned on and off quickly,
and leverages graphene large surface area so that energy isn wasted in heating up the heater itself. he innovation is all about getting useable heat where it is needed,
explained Tim Harper, a founder of Xefro and co-inventor of the graphene heating element,
and systems before we finally arrived at graphene. o meet the company third criteria, that the material should be usable in a wide variety of shapes and sizes,
Harper and his collaborators turned to graphene inks. his is especially important for water heating, where we wrap the flexible graphene element around a hot water tank,
says Harper. y varying the ink formulation, we can change the resistivity of the heating element
and its thickness depending on the required application. nce Xefro made the decision to use graphene,
and ensure that most of the heat is emitted out into the room rather than simply heating up the wall behind the heater. hile graphene does offer some attractive properties for reducing wasted energy,
it is the combination of the graphene-based heating element with an electronic control system that provides the real cost savings. ecause graphene gives us an instant on/off response,
#Graphene coating Could Save Millions in Power plant Energy costs Earlier this week, we covered a company, Xefro,
that was applying graphene to a home heating system, producing energy savings over traditional systems. Now research out of MIT is showing that coating power plant condensers with graphene could make them more energy efficient.
In research published in the journal Nano Letters, the MIT team addressed one of the basic elements of steam-generated electricity:
and found that by layering their surfaces with graphene they can improve the rate of heat transfer by a factor of four.
The researchers believe that this graphene surface could improve condenser heat transfer so that an overall power plant efficiency could be improved by as much as 2 to 3 percent based on figures from the Electric power Research Institute."
The condensers gain efficiency because the the graphene resists the formation of films on the condensers.
The MIT researchers exploited the graphene coating hydrophobic qualities to ensure that the water formed into droplets.
the researcher found that the graphene coating offered a fourfold improvement in heat transfer compared to bare metal.
Most importantly, the graphene coating showed no sign of measurable degradation over the two-week period of the test.
since production of the graphene coating is based on standard chemical vapor deposition, a product based on this could be available within a year i
#Graphene Shines in World's Thinnest Light bulb Back in April, we covered news that graphene was going to make a commercial breakout of sorts as a coating in an LED light bulb to reduce its energy consumption
using graphene as the filament. e've created what is essentially the world's thinnest light bulb,
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications. n work published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology researchers suspended graphene above a silicon substrate by attaching it to two metal electrodes
and then passed current through the graphene-based filament, causing it to heat up. In the video below you can see an animated depiction of how the graphene filament operate.
The aim of creating integrated circuits that use photons rather than electrons sometimes called integrated photonic circuits,
But graphene makes all the difference. The international team demonstrated heating the graphene-based filament to 2500 Degree celsius,
so that it would glow brightly enough to be seen by the naked eye. The material success in this application depended on two of its properties:
Graphene unusual heat conduction was key to keeping the light emitter from destroying the chip it was built on.
The lack of conduction confines the heat within a small ot spotin the center of the graphene filament.
Graphene transparency was behind the discovery that emitted spectrum of light emitted had peaks at certain wavelengths.
occurred because of interference between the light emitted from the graphene filament and the light reflecting off the silicon substrate beneath it.
#Wind turbines Power Liquid-air Energy storage One startup energy company is looking to reinvent not only wind energy, but also energy storage.
Keuka Energy recently launched a 125-kilowatt prototype vessel that uses its novel floating wind turbine design paired with liquid-air energy storage to create a steady source of electricity.
Unlike traditional wind turbines, which have three blades and a central gearbox, Keuka turbine is a pinwheel of aluminum blades that sits atop a floating V-shape platform containing liquid air.
Liquid-air energy storage, also sometimes called cryogenic energy storage, is a long-term energy storage method: electricity liquefies air to nearly-200°C and then stores it at low pressure.
When the energy is needed, the liquid air is pumped to a high level of pressure and heated to a gas state.
liquid-air energy storage requires a significant amount of electricity to make the liquid air, limiting its usage by utilities.
Keuka is not the only startup looking to advance liquid-air energy storage. In 2014, General electric signed an exclusive global licensing deal with Highview Power storage,
Another similar technology that has gained more traction is compressed-air energy storage which does not have the energy density of liquid air,
Compressed air, while a cheap form of energy storage once built, is still expensive to build and geographically limited;
Bright Energy is developing a system that would use offshore renewable energy to store compressed air in vessels in the ocean.
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