#First hospital light fixture to kill bacteria safely, continuously becomes commercially available in North america Indigo-Clean#is a light fixture manufactured through an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland,
automatic data acquisition and simple data processing are involved. High quality and highly reproducible MALDI-MS spectra results can be obtained using this method
and the tissue beneath it--enhancing biometrics and information security for smartphones and other devices. Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iphone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger's surface,
"Within the realm of biometrics and information security, the group's work is particularly significant, Horsley said."
"Beyond biometrics and information security purposes, the new technology is expected to find many other applications, including"low-cost ultrasound as a medical diagnostic tool or for personal health monitoring,
as well as quantum cloud communications and distributed quantum computing.""We are fortunate to verify a decades-old theoretical prediction by Professor Jeff Shapiro of MIT,
which could allow information contained in quantum bits-qubits-to be shared between many elements on chip,
a key requirement to scale up the power of a quantum computer. The ability to create non-local entangled electron pairs--known as Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs--on demand has long been a dream.
which can be used as quantum bits--the qubits, or bits used in quantum computing--remain entangled even
when they have been separated between the quantum dots. We confirm this separation by measuring a superconducting current that develops
albeit more complex, device to prepare entangled electron pairs to teleport qubit states across a chip."
#New storage cell for solar energy storage, nighttime conversion The innovation is an advancement over the most common solar energy systems that rely on using sunlight immediately as a power source.
Those systems are hindered by not being able to use that solar energy at night or when cloudy conditions exist.
The UT Arlington team developed an all-vanadium photo-electrochemical flow cell that allows for efficient and large-scale solar energy storage even at nighttime.
and use solar power, "said Fuqiang Liu, an assistant professor in the Materials science and engineering Department who led the research team."
"As renewable energy becomes more prevalent, the ability to store solar energy and use it as a renewable alternative provides a sustainable solution to the problem of energy shortage.
It also can effectively harness the inexhaustible energy from the sun."The work is a product of the 2013 National Science Foundation $400,
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
"We have demonstrated simultaneously reversible storage of both solar energy and electrons in the cell, "Dong Liu said."
"Release of the stored electrons under dark conditions continues solar energy storage, thus allowing for unintermittent storage around the clock."
said that the research should allow solar energy storage to be done in a much higher capacity and on a much larger scale."
"Using an all-vanadium photo-electrochemical cell gives our energy storage an edge over other systems,
A longer term opportunity lies in quantum computing, set to revolutionize the way we handle and encrypt data. a
PLA is also one of the few plastics that are suitable for 3d printing. However, PLA is not yet a full alternative for petroleum-based plastics due to its cost.
physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones, enabling people to mimic bats
The diaphragms in the new devices are graphene sheets a mere one atom thick that have the right combination of stiffness,
Graphene consists of carbon atoms laid out in a hexagonal, chicken-wire arrangement, which creates a tough,
"There's a lot of talk about using graphene in electronics and small nanoscale devices, but they're all a ways away,
because we've worked out how to make the graphene and mount it, and it's easy to scale up."
"Arrayarraytwo years ago, Zhou built loudspeakers using a sheet of graphene for the diaphragm, and since then has been developing the electronic circuitry to build a microphone with a similar graphene diaphragm.
One big advantage of graphene is that the atom-thick sheet is so lightweight that it responds well to the different frequencies of an electronic pulse, unlike today's piezoelectric microphones and speakers.
This comes in handy when using ultrasonic transmitters and receivers to transmit large amounts of information through many different frequency channels simultaneously,
Graphene membranes are also more efficient, converting over 99 percent of the energy driving the device into sound,
"Graphene is a magical material; it hits all the sweet spots for a communications device, "he said.
The use of graphene allows the authors to obtain very flat frequency responses in a wide range of frequencies,
"Zettl noted that audiophiles would also appreciate the graphene loudspeakers and headphones, which have a flat response across the entire audible frequency range."
"A number of years ago, this device would have been darn near impossible to build because of the difficulty of making freestanding graphene sheets,
"But over the past decade the graphene community has come together to develop techniques to grow,
transport and mount graphene, so building a device like this is now very straightforward; the design is simple
the MU Informatics Institute and the Bond Life sciences Center to analyze vast genomic data sets and to formulate the design of RNAMINER.
"One of the major hurdles in the area of bioelectronics or implants is that the interface between the electronic device
It's an advance that could have huge implications for everything from photography to solar power.
meaning it can gather a lot of light energy, and then scatters the light over a very large area,
this one very small optical device can receive light energy from all around and yield a surprisingly strong output.
Given the nanoresonator's capacity to absorb large amounts of light energy, the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency.
In addition, Yu envisions simply letting the resonator emit that energy in the form of infrared light toward the sky,
and could enable new technologies in light sensing and solar energy conversion, "Yu says s
#Better memory with faster lasers By studying the effect of femtosecond laser pulses on the types of materials used to make DVDS,
and deliver a payload of drug, "said Cassandra Callmann, a graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San diego,
The technology has continuous monitoring capabilities making it ideal for development as a wearable device. This could help improve the lives of millions of people by enabling them to constantly monitor their glucose levels without the need for an implant.
This wearable device would then be just one step from a product which sends alerts to smart phones
and are able to combine that genetic mapping with large sample sizes. The collaboration of leading scientists from around the world, who have agreed to pool their data
whereby HIV exploits the regulatory process between BST2 and ILT7 to limit the body's antiviral response,
"This work means there's an opportunity to use composite metal foam to develop safer systems for transporting nuclear waste, more efficient designs for spacecraft and nuclear structures,
termed phosphorene, in the same simple way as the Nobel-prize winning discovery of graphene. Unlike graphene, phosphorene is a semiconductor, like silicon,
which is the basis of current electronics technology.""Because phosphorene is so thin and light,
When the lubricant materials--graphene and diamond-like carbon (DLC)--slid against each other, the graphene began rolling up to form hollow cylindrical"scrolls"that helped to practically eliminate friction.
These so-called nanoscrolls represented a completely new mechanism for superlubricity a state in which friction essentially disappears."
The experimental setup consisted of small patches of graphene (a two-dimensional single-sheet form of pure carbon) sliding against a DLC-coated steel ball.
The graphene-DLC combination was registering a very low friction coefficient (a ratio that measures the force of friction between two surfaces),
This led to their discovery of the graphene nanoscrolls, which helped to fill in the blanks.
when the graphene patches were in an unscrolled state, "Deshmukh said. The computational scientists had an idea to overcome this issue.
The graphene patches spontaneously rolled around the nanodiamonds, which held the scrolls in place and resulted in sustained superlubricity.
The simulations showed that water suppresses the formation of scrolls by increasing the adhesion of graphene to the surface.
it would leave the graphene and nanodiamonds on one side of a moving part, and diamond-like carbon on the other side.
the graphene nanoscrolls could potentially work in humid environments as well.""Arraythe team's groundbreaking nanoscroll discovery would not have been possible without a supercomputer like Mira.
a biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who specializes in such research
"The network of silver nanowires is so fine that almost no light for solar energy conversion is lost in the cell due to the shadow,
has become vital in genomics applications, ranging from cloning research to forensic analysis to paternity tests.
"explained corresponding author Sam Thiagalingam, Phd, associate professor of genetics & genomics, medicine and pathology & laboratory medicine at BUSM.
it is trained on a massive data setctually three different data sets containing more than 120,000 already captioned images.
"With the demonstrated success of the first three missions, we're able to shift our focus from initial checkouts of the vehicle to testing of experimental payloads."
with a wingspan of 15 feet (4. 6 m) and a payload bay the size of a pickup-truck bed.
both X-37bs could fit inside the payload bay of NASA's now-retired space shuttle orbiter.
Top 10 Space Weapons"OTV missions allow us to examine a payload system or technology in the environment in which it will perform its mission,"
The payloads flying to orbit aboard the X-37b on this mission are not a total mystery:
"The NASA payload, called the Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space experiment, will study how exposure to the space environment affects nearly 100 different types of materials.
featuring Big data with special guest Robert Delong, but it will only be the froth on an evening of festivities.
and failed attempts of the 90s virtual reality (VR) is back, with current technology finally ready to match its science fiction-level ambition.
The resurgence of virtual reality gizmos aimed at gadget buyers like you and me, in the form of head-mounted displays (HMDS
re-piqued) consumer interest in virtual reality. Sony entered the budding space with the announcement of its Project Morpheus headset in March last year.
Today, after months of preparation, Fove is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter seeking to raise US$250, 000.
and how can it complement the virtual reality experience? ove uses infrared light to illuminate your eye, regardless of eye color, Lochlainn Wilson,
Razer, a high-end gaming hardware maker with a cult following of hardcore gamers, recently announced its own VR headset, OSVR (the name stands for pen-Source Virtual reality.
Razer CEO, speaking at the recent Consumer electronics Show (CES) in Las vegas, said that he hopes the headset will speed the development of the virtual reality platform by allowing developers to hack it as they please.
when it debuted on the crowdfunding platform. For game developers, Fove is compatible with Unity, Unreal,
#DM Blade Supercar has 3d printed Chassis: The Arduino of Cars Last year we saw Local Motorsstrati, a compact car with a 3d printed body, seats, windshield and support structures.
Divergent Microfactories (DM) Blade prototype supercar looks much better and is apparently much more powerful than the Strati,
That where 3d printing comes in. The Blade chassis is made of off-the-shelf carbon fiber tubes that are connected by 3d printed aluminum nodes.
These nodes are like pipe fittings allowing for chassis and other frames in a variety of shapes and sizes.
#Fove VR Headset Locks Onto Your Gaze Fove is the first virtual reality headset to feature eye-tracking--meaning, among other things,
"Fove enables users to truly immerse themselves into virtual reality worlds by allowing instant and precise user interface control using sight,
Virtual reality is said the future Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics. The technology will spread to other sectors after it establishes a firm foundation in gaming,
The 7nm chips are the result of the first program out of IBM's 2014 US$3 billion investment in research--a five-year investment that aims to push the limits of chip technology to meet the needs of cloud computing
and big data systems. Using 7nm chips will allow the placement of more than 20 billion Sige switches on fingernail-sized chips,
Dynamite Comes in Small Packages As companies increasingly move to the cloud and toward leveraging big data,
said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. n our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins
The technological importance of measuring biometric information is increasing in line with remarkable developments in information technology such as big data.
and can tell who you are In a novel twist in cybersecurity, scientists have developed a self-cleaning,
#3d printed Heart Model Makes Surgery Safer and Less Dangerous Three-dimensional printing technology has just found yet another use, this time it heart surgery.
and turned them into a format that the 3d printer can read. Kim patient Esther Perez was born with a ventricular septal defect (a physical hole in the wall
In addition to surgical planning, 3d printing has also been used for other medical applications according to a recent article on Med Device Online
oncologists were able to use a 3d printed model that mimics the density of organs in a patient body,
As 3d printing becomes cheaper, medical professionals are hoping to include 3d printers into their regular toolset i
#New high-speed 3-D microscope gives deeper view of living things Opening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research, Elizabeth Hillman,
and flow-cell cytometry systemsll applications where molecular biology is delivering tools and techniques, but imaging methods have struggled to keep up.
The BAT has the potential to bring affordable wind energy to these communities and industries. The first model will provide enough electricity for a small community,
The BAT has the potential to bring affordable wind energy to these communities and industries. The first model will provide enough electricity for a small community,
The BAT has the potential to bring affordable wind energy to these communities and industries. The first model will provide enough electricity for a small community,
The addition of payload equipment does not affect the BAT performance. Scaling up Altaeros was founded in 2010 at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
NSF SBIR program director. his technology has the potential to avoid many of the key challenges facing traditional wind turbines. i
#Laser-induced graphene#super#for electronics Rice university scientists advanced their recent development of laser-induced graphene (LIG) by producing
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour discovered last year that firing a laser at an inexpensive polymer burned off other elements and left a film of porous graphene, the much-studied atom-thick
since their work to make vertically aligned supercapacitors with laser-induced graphene on both sides of a polymer sheet.
The flexible stacks show excellent energy storage capacity and power potential and can be scaled up for commercial applications.
But the graphene retains its ability to move electrons quickly and gives it the quick charge
#Fujitsu develops ring-type wearable device capable of text input by fingertip Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a compact and lightweight wearable ring-type device that offers handwriting-input
The ring-type wearable device that Fujitsu Laboratories developed identifies the fingertip movements users make as they write in the air
The ring-type wearable device can be used to enter numbers and take notes using handwriting in the air. In addition an NFC tag reader enables the operator to tap on a tagged object to display the appropriate information on a relevant operations details or instructions.
a step toward creating devices in work aimed at developing quantum computers and communications technologies. Optical metamaterials harness clouds of electrons called surface plasmons to manipulate
Quantum computers would take advantage of phenomena described by quantum theory called uperpositionand ntanglement. Instead of only the states of one and zero that exist in conventional computers,
Computers based on quantum physics would have quantum bits, or ubits, increasing the computer capacity to process, store,
which is promising for quantum computing. The spin can be either por ownforming the quantum superposition of the up and down states representing a new technology for processing information.
or graphenes could stabilize the polysulphides by physically trapping them. But in an unexpected twist, they discovered metal oxides could be the key.
and graduate students Connor Hart and Quan Pang also discovered that graphene oxide seems to work by a similar mechanism.
Software developed by Fraunhofer researchers will ensure an optimum use of the available wind energy at any time.
it is critical that the available wind energy is used in the best possible way. In order to calculate the optimal sailing route, researchers from Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML, a division of Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
Energy storage lies in swapping the conventional electrode materialraphiteor a thin sheet of lithium-metal foil
3d printed plastic lens arrays and a moveable focusing mechanism to reduce the size, weight and cost of the CPV system
To focus sunlight on the array of cells, the researchers embedded them between a pair of 3d printed plastic lenslet arrays.
Looking at carbon-based graphene another atom-thick material with promise for chip development, researchers speculated that silicon atoms could be structured in a broadly similar way.
Akinwande, who also works on graphene transistors, sees value in silicene relationship to silicon, which chipmakers already know how to work with. part from introducing a new player in the playground of 2-D materials, silicene,
#Graphene displays clear prospects for flexible electronics Published in the scientific journal Nature Materials, University of Manchester and University of Sheffield researchers show that new 2d esigner materialscan be produced to create flexible, see-through and more efficient electronic devices.
The new research shows that graphene and related 2d materials could be utilised to create light emitting devices for the next-generation of mobile phones,
One-atom thick graphene was isolated first and explored in 2004 at The University of Manchester.
new possibilities for graphene based optoelectronics have now been realised. Freddie Withers, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, who led the production of the devices,
which could open the door to quantum computers and long-distance cryptographic systems. Photons that enter these nanoscale funhouses bounce back and forth up to 10
A long coherence time is essential for quantum computing systems and long-range cryptographic networks. ur research demonstrates a technique to extend the storage time of quantum memories in solids that are coupled efficiently to photons,
which is essential to scaling up such quantum memories for functional quantum computing systems and networks, said MIT Dirk Englund,
Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineeringsilicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
Data centers that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon, he says.
The new findings using a layer of one-atom-thick graphene deposited on top of a similar 2-D layer of a material called hexagonal boron nitride (hbn) are published in the journal Nano Letters.
The hybrid material blocks light when a particular voltage is applied to the graphene, while allowing a special kind of emission and propagation,
Light interaction with graphene produces particles called plasmons while light interacting with hbn produces phonons.
The properties of the graphene allow precise control over light, while hbn provides very strong confinement and guidance of the light.
says, his work represents significant progress on understanding tunable interactions of light in graphene-hbn.
The work is retty criticalfor providing the understanding needed to develop optoelectronic or photonic devices based on graphene and hbn,
#How to make continuous rolls of graphene Graphene is a material with a host of potential applications,
the need for a scalable and cost-effective method for continuous manufacturing of graphene films. That could finally change with a new process described in the journal Scientific Reports by researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan.
MIT mechanical engineering Associate professor A. John Hart, the paper senior author, says the new roll-to-roll manufacturing process described by his team addresses the fact that for many proposed applications of graphene
Making such quantities of graphene would represent a big leap from present approaches where researchers struggle to produce small quantities of graphene often pulling these sheets from a lump of graphite using adhesive tape,
or producing a film the size of a postage stamp using a laboratory furnace. But the new method promises to enable continuous production,
That could finally unleash applications for graphene, which has unique electronic and optical properties and is one of the strongest materials known.
and elsewhere to make graphene using a small vacuum chamber into which a vapor containing carbon reacts on a horizontal substrate,
where the graphene is formed on the ribbon. The chamber is heated to approximately 1, 000 degrees Celsius to perform the reaction.
high-quality single layer of graphene is created. When rolled 20 times faster, it still produces a coating,
but the graphene is of lower quality, with more defects. Some potential applications, such as filtration membranes
may require very high-quality graphene, but other applications, such as thin-film heaters may work well enough with lower-quality sheets,
So far, the new system produces graphene that is ot quite equal to the best that can be done by batch processing,
Further work on details such as pretreatment of the substrate to remove unwanted surface defects could lead to improvements in the quality of the resulting graphene sheets
such as between higher production rate and graphene quality. Then, he says, he next step is to understand how to push the limits,
Hart says that while this study focuses on graphene, the machine could be adapted to continuously manufacture other two-dimensional materials,
which his group is also studying. his is high-quality research that represents significant progress on the path to scalable production methods for large-area graphene,
It has the potential to lead to significantly lower production costs for graphene, if it can be scaled to larger copper-foil widths. d
multi-rotor UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) that uses its own structural elements to store fuel. e realized that the structures of these drones were hollow inside,
the ycoptercan fly for up to 4 hours (or 2. 5 hours if carrying a 1 kg payload) per single charge,
called Horizon Energy systems. y removing the design silos that typically separate the energy storage component from UAV frame development,
In addition to answering longstanding questions about human development and improving the odds that scientists will one day be able to generate artificial organs from stem cells,
and reasonable energy density, representing a promising prototype liquid redox battery with both high energy density and power density for energy storage.
This combination is a real winner considering that the battery is designed mostly for use in hybrid electric vehicles and energy storage for renewable energy sources.
a senior investigator with NHGRI Translational and Functional genomics Branch and head of the Developmental Genomics Section. hat we have done is to establish an entire pipeline for knocking out many genes and testing their function quickly in a vertebrate
so it can be integrated it into ultra-small renewable energy devices, such as solar cells, data storage hardware and advancing quantum computing. uow195685 o one in the scientific community believed silicene paper could be made
because silicon always adopt diamond-like structure but not honeycomb structures, he said. t also very unstable when exposed to oxygen.
These new phenomena rely on the transport of thermal energy, in contrast to the conventional application of magnetic fields, providing a new,
This opens new avenues of research such as using genomics to plan conservation and management actions for at-risk species. Constructing a whole genome sequence of the bighorn sheep will also help by providing a reference for new studies,
The findings were published in BMC Genomics. Miller plans to continue his research in conservation genomics through a postdoctoral position at Yale university working with giant Galapagos tortoises,
using genomic methods learned over the course of his Phd to identify individuals that can be part of a captive breeding program u
To explain simply, it extracts power from bacteria the process delivers enough energy to run a paper-based biosensor with nothing more than a drop of bacteria-containing liquid.
which a paper-based battery would create enough energy to run the biosensor. Such sensors do not require a lot of power few microwatts would be enough.
While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges.
Biofuels synthesized from the sugars in plant biomass help mitigate climate change. However jet fuels have stringent requirements that must be met. et fuels must be oxygen-free,
Ours is the first process to generate true drop in aviation biofuels. Scown cites the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) on the importance of drop in aviation biofuels. n a 2014 report
the IPCC pointed out that drop in biofuels are the only viable alternative to conventional jet fuels,
she says. f we want to reduce our dependence on petroleum, air travel is going to require renewable liquid fuels
but hold that there still important incentives to encourage investments. ee shown in this study that biorefineries can use inexpensive catalysts to produce a suite of hydrocarbon fuels and lubricants,
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