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"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.
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#World#s 1st Full-Color, Flexible, Skin-Like Display Developed at UCF A breakthrough in a University of Central Florida lab has brought those scenarios closer to reality.
flexible thin-film reflective display. Chanda research was inspired by nature. Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.
But animals like chameleons, octopuses and squids are born with thin flexible, color-changing displays that don need a light source their skin. ll manmade displays LCD, LED,
CRT are rigid, brittle and bulky. But you look at an octopus, they can create color on the skin itself covering a complex body contour,
and create a skin-like display? As detailed in the cover article of the June issue of the journal Nature Communications,
full-color tunable display. His method is groundbreaking. It a leap ahead of previous research that could produce only a limited color palette.
And the display is only about few microns thick, compared to a 100-micron-thick human hair.
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
computers and mobile devices that have considered displays thin by today standards but monstrously bulky in comparison.
But the potentially bigger impact could be whole new categories of displays that have never been thought of. our camouflage
your clothing, your fashion items all of that could change, Chanda said. hy would I need 50 shirts in my closet
Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area. his is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,
The same team have discovered recently that Graphexeter is also more stable than many transparent conductors commonly used by, for example, the display industry.
The use of soft, stretchable material would enable a new generation of wearable devices that fit themselves to the human body.
Now, Professor Takao Someya's research group at the University of Tokyo's Graduate school of Engineering has developed an elastic conducting ink that is easily printed on textiles and patterned in a single printing step.
"Our team aims to develop comfortable wearable devices. This ink was developed as part of this endeavor, "says Someya."
The results demonstrate a powerful operando technique--from the Latin for"in working condition"--that may revolutionize research on catalysts, batteries, fuel cells,
They conducted x-ray studies at the National Synchrotron Light source (NSLS) and electron microscopy at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), both DOE Office of Science User Facilities."
and distribution of catalysts affect their efficiency and durability,"said study coauthor Ralph Nuzzo of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
we can better determine the ideal design of future catalysts--especially those that drive energy-efficient reactions without using expensive and rare materials like platinum."
"The XAS and TEM data, analyzed together, let us calculate the numbers and average sizes of not one,
but several different types of catalysts,"said coauthor and Yeshiva University scientist Anatoly Frenkel, who led the x-ray experiments."
"For the first time, the operando approach was used to correlate data obtained by different techniques at the same stages of the reaction."
"A relatively straightforward mathematical approach allowed them to deduce the total number of ultra-small particles missing in the TEM data."
"We took the full XAS data, which incorporates particles of all sizes, and removed the TEM results covering particles larger than one nanometer--the remainder fills in that crucial subnanometer gap in our knowledge of catalyst size
Added Stach,"In the past, scientists would look at data before and after the reaction under model conditions, especially with TEM,
"Each round of data collection took six hours at NSLS, but will take just minutes at NSLS-II,
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PEMFC are leading candidates to power the space shuttle and other mobile applications even down to mobile phones,
it can poison the platinum catalysts that are important to driving the fuel cell. In the heart of a fuel cell, CO binds tightly to platinum
which contains impurities (e g. carbon monoxide) that poison precious metal catalysts (e g. platinum) only at low temperatures (less than 120°C)
Mother Nature can build very efficient catalysts. Environmental mechanisms sourced from Canadelectrochimcanadelectrochim is a small Research and development company located in Calgary,
the common computer chip material June 29th, 2015x-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:
the common computer chip material June 29th, 2015x-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:
the common computer chip material June 29th, 2015x-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:
the common computer chip material June 29th, 2015x-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:
and Water Markets June 26th, 2015artificial Intelligence An important step in artificial intelligence: Researchers in UCSB's Department of Electrical and Computer engineering are seeking to make computer brains smarter by making them more like our own May 11th, 2015making robots more human April 29th, 2015lifeboat Foundation launches Interactive Friendly AI April 6th,
2015nanotubes self-organize and wiggle: Evolution of a nonequilibrium system demonstrates MEPP February 10th, 2015fuel Cells X-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:
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2015philips Introduces Quantum dot TV with Color IQ Technology from QD Vision: Manufacturer is first to offer quantum dot displays for both TVS and monitors June 30th,
2015carnegie Mellon chemists characterize 3-D macroporous hydrogels: Methods will allow researchers to develop new'smart'materials June 30th, 2015discoveries Chitosan coated,
"This technology excites me because it opens the door to measuring the tiniest protein motions,
In this research, printing graphite electrode modified with silica and gold nanoparticles was used as an appropriate bed for the production of biosensors to detect four-strand structure of DNA
as well as data gathering for clinical trials or epidemiological studies. For the impact his project will have in the field of translational medicine
SARS or MERS, could also benefit from the user friendly chip and its rapid results. is award is truly helping our lab become translational,
what are referred to as tetragonal sites of the crystal structure. Due to their different configurations of electrons, these tetrahedra become elongated along the crystallographic c-axis for nickel,
Peninsula of orthorhombic state At a mixture ratio of 85%nickel and 15%copper, the spinel system displays a kind of narrow peninsula of orthorhombic state in the phase diagram where the observed Anm
and assembling them on a computer into a three-dimensional mapping. But so far there has been no comparable technique for imaging 3d magnetic structures on nm length scales.
the physicists were successful in reconstructing the magnetic features on the computer in three dimensions."
or protein subunits that have multiple sites for inactivation, but that are linked inextricably, this method allows for killing
approximately half the energy required to run computer servers, is used for cooling purposes alone. A couple of years ago, a research team led by Johan Liu,
such as highly Efficient light Emitting Diodes (LEDS), lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes. Graphene-based film could also pave the way for faster, smaller, more energy efficient, sustainable high power electronics."
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But the atoms that moved out of position altogether take time to return to their original sites.
Our results demonstrate that the application of green chemistry principles may allow the synthesis of nanoparticles with biodegradable cores that have higher antimicrobial activity and smaller environmental impact than metallic silver nanoparticles.
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment."
and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores.""The researchers used the nanoparticles to attack E coli, a bacterium that causes food poisoning;
In a paper published July 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Zongfu Yu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
#Better memory with faster lasers DVDS and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light, with data"recorded"in those two atomic states.
Using ultrafast laser pulses that speed up the data recording process, Caltech researchers adopted a novel technique, ultrafast electron crystallography (UEC),
In doing so, they discovered a previously unknown intermediate atomic state--one that may represent an unavoidable limit to data recording speeds.
By shedding light on the fundamental physical processes involved in data storage the work may lead to better, faster computer memory systems with larger storage capacity.
The research, done in the laboratory of Ahmed Zewail, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics, will be published in the July 28 print issue of the journal ACS Nano.
These two states represent 0s and 1s of digital data.""Today, nanosecond lasers--lasers that pulse light at one-billionth of a second--are used to record information on DVDS and Blu-ray disks,
by driving the material from one state to another, "explains Giovanni Vanacore, a postdoctoral scholar and an author on the study.
The speed with which data can be recorded is determined both by the speed of the laser--that is,
--and to how fast data can be recorded, regardless of the laser speeds used.""Even if there is a laser faster than a femtosecond laser,
"Despite revealing such limits, the research could one day aid the development of better data storage for computers,
Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.
RAM, which is used to run the programs on your computer, can record and rewrite information very quickly via an electrical current.
whenever the computer is powered down. ROM storage, including CDS and DVDS, uses phase-change materials and lasers to store information.
Although ROM records and reads data more slowly, the information can be stored for decades. Finding ways to speed up the recording process of phase-change materials
and understanding the limits to this speed could lead to a new type of memory that harnesses the best of both worlds.
and then rewrite a DVD. Although these applications could mean exciting changes for future computer technologies,
Additional planned applications include using smart acoustic structures, such as logic gates that can control acoustic waves by altering their propagation, for communication systems in environmental conditions too extreme for conventional electronic devices and photonic structures."
#Researchers Build a Transistor from a Molecule and A few Atoms A team of physicists from the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) and the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany, the NTT
Basic Research Laboratories (NTT-BRL), Japan, and the U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), United states, has used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms.
Kiyoshi Kanisawa, a physicist at NTT-BRL, used the growth technique of molecular beam epitaxy to prepare this surface.
A summary of the research, conducted in mouse and human cells, appears online July 14 in the journal ACS Nano.
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or LEDS, have helped to improve the performance of devices ranging from television and computer screens to flashlights.
For example, recent LANP plasmonic research has led to breakthroughs in color-display technology, solar-powered steam production and color sensors that mimic the eye."
'"Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy,
He said Zheng's data allowed a deeper analysis because his experimental setup selectively filtered high-energy hot electrons from their less-energetic counterparts.
an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work.
"We performed a comprehensive analysis using computer models of wireless power systems and found that MRFE could ultimately be five times more efficient than use of metamaterials and 50 times more efficient than transmitting through air alone,
electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
But even a"giant"stretch of the new conducting sheath-core fibers causes little change in their electrical resistance
Because the rubber core is stretched along its length as the sheets are being wrapped around it,
said the structure of the sheath-core fibers"has further interesting and important complexity.""Buckles form not only along the fiber's length,
and rubber core directions, enabling the electrical resistance of the sheath-core fiber to be insensitive to stretch."
"By adding a thin overcoat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers and then another carbon nanotube sheath,
or twice the width of a human hair--to much larger sizes, depending on the size of the rubber core."
"The rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available, "she said."
"Besides solar energy, the ability to upconvert two low energy photons into one high energy photon has potential applications in biological imaging, data storage and organic light-emitting diodes.
and not affected by electromagnetic waves from nearby mobile phones or from the motion of nearby steel objects.
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The National Science Foundation, the U s army Corps of Engineers, an Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Allocation and the Blue waters petascale supercomputer system at University of Illinois supported parts of this research h
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faster than current machines. The Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter--the smallest on record--for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information.
and shuttle data with light instead of electrons. Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues describe their invention today in the journal Nature Photonics Silicon 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. Eventually, the technology could reach home computers
and mobile devices and improve applications from gaming to video streaming.""Light is the fastest thing you can use to transmit information,
"says Menon.""But that information has to be converted to electrons when it comes into your laptop.
In that conversion, you're slowing things down. The vision is to do everything in light.""Photons of light carry information over the Internet through fiber-optic networks.
But once a data stream reaches a home or office destination, the photons of light must be converted to electrons before a router
or computer can handle the information. That bottleneck could be eliminated if the data stream remained as light within computer processors."
"With all light, computing can eventually be millions of times faster, "says Menon. To help do that, the U engineers created a much smaller form of a polarization beamsplitter
(which looks somewhat like a barcode) on top of a silicon chip that can split guided incoming light into its two components.
Before, such a beamsplitter was over 100 by 100 microns. Thanks to a new algorithm for designing the splitter,
Menon's team has shrunk it to 2. 4 by 2. 4 microns, or one-fiftieth the width of a human hair and close to the limit of what is physically possible.
The beamsplitter would be just one of a multitude of passive devices placed on a silicon chip to direct light waves in different ways.
By shrinking them down in size, researchers will be able to cram millions of these devices on a single chip.
mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life
and generate less heat than existing mobile devices. The first supercomputers using silicon photonics--already under development at companies such as Intel
and IBM--will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic. Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years.
Data centers that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon, he says s
#What makes cancer cells spread? New device offers clues (Nanowerk News) Why do some cancer cells break away from a tumor
and travel to distant parts of the body? A team of oncologists and engineers from the University of Michigan teamed up to help understand this crucial question.
The researchers were then able to take the sorted cells that were highly mobile and begin to analyze them on a molecular level."
"says study co-lead author Yu-Chih Chen, a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical engineering and Computer science at the University of Michigan College of Engineering.
and biology,"says study co-senior author Euisik Yoon, Ph d.,professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of biomedical engineering and director of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility at the U-M College of Engineering."
#Scientists print low cost radio frequency antenna with graphene ink (Nanowerk News) Scientists have moved graphene--the incredibly strong and conductive single-atom-thick sheet of carbon--a significant step along the path
Researchers from the University of Manchester, together with BGT Materials Limited, a graphene manufacturer in the United kingdom, have printed a radio frequency antenna using compressed graphene ink.
The antenna performed well enough to make it practical for use in radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and wireless sensors,
from AIP Publishing("Binder-free highly conductive graphene laminate for low cost printed radio frequency applications")."These scanning electron microscope images show the graphene ink after it was deposited
/University of Manchester) The study demonstrates that printable graphene is now ready for commercial use in low-cost radio frequency applications,
They accomplished this by first printing and drying the ink, and then compressing it with a roller,
which enabled efficient radio frequency radiation, was one of the most exciting aspects of the experiment,
and 3. 5 millimeter across and radiated radio frequency power effectively, said Xianjun Huang, who is the first author of the paper and a Phd candidate in the Microwave and Communcations Group in the School of Electrical and Electronic engineering.
like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,
Most commercial RFID tags are made from metals like aluminium and copper, Huang said, expensive materials with complicated fabrication processes that increase the cost."
"Graphene based RFID tags can significantly reduce the cost thanks to a much simpler process and lower material cost,
The University of Manchester and BGT Materials Limited team has plans to further develop graphene enabled RFID tags,
#Printing 3-D graphene structures for tissue engineering Ever since single-layer graphene burst onto the science scene in 2004,
"Supported by a Google Gift and a Mccormick Research Catalyst Award, the research is described in the paper"Three-dimensional Printing Of high-Content Graphene Scaffolds for Electronic and Biomedical Applications","published in the April
"We've expanded that biomaterial tool box to be able to optimize more mimetic engineered tissue constructs using 3-D printing
and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.
Many researchers see improved interconnection of optical and electronic components as a path to more efficient computation and imaging systems.
Phaedon Avouris, a researcher at IBM and co-author of the paper, says, he combination of these two materials provides a unique system that allows the manipulation of optical processes.
a researcher at IBM and the University of Minnesota, says, ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand.
#Toward'green'paper-thin, flexible electronics (Nanowerk News) The rapid evolution of gadgets has brought us an impressive array of smart products from phones to tablets,
and robots more intuitive would be to endow machines with the ability to read their users'emotions
and respond with a computer version of empathy. Most current efforts toward this goal analyze a person's feelings using visual sensors that can tell a smile from a frown, for example.
used high performance computing to introduce a new technique, where the time required for the calculations increases linearly with the number of atoms,
which has limited options for B-cell-based vaccine programming. Using Cellsqueeze circumvents this problem and by being able to separately configure delivery and activation,
but the algorithms that handle sound and image processing are inspired by biology, says Professor yvind Brandtsegg at NTNU.
It is designed to learn entirely from sensory input with no predefined knowledge database, so that its learning process will resemble that of a human child in early life.
while Tidemann is at the Department of Computer and Information science. But they have overlapping interests.
But he is accomplished also an programmer and uses this knowledge to make music. Conversely, Tidemann made a drumming robot for his doctoral project.
Learning The robot has already been on display in Trondheim and Arendal where visitors were able to affect its learning.
The day before it was put on display in Trondheim, we worked through the night until eight in the morning.
Between the two displays, they worked on improving the way the robot organizes its memories.
Based on this definition, computers that play chess, like IBMS Deep Blue, can be defined as intelligent,
Not in a vacuum Many artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, myself included, believe that true intelligence cant occur in a vacuum it is a consequence of adapting
What is artificial life? These are the big questions, Tidemann says. But we believe that the right way to reach for the holy grail of AI is to implement biologically inspired models in a machine,
the researchers inserted the equivalent of a computer programme into the DNA of the bacterial cells.
Jérôme Bonnet's team in Montpellier's Centre for Structural Biochemistry (CBS) had the idea of using concepts from synthetic biology derived from electronics to construct genetic systems making it possible to"programme"living cells like a computer.
the cornerstone of genetic programming The transistor is the central component of modern electronic systems. It acts both as a switch and as a signal amplifier.
In informatics, by combining several transistors, it is possible to construct"logic gates, "i e. systems that respond to different signal combinations according to a predetermined logic.
such as smartphones, rely on the use of transistors and logic gates. During his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford university in the United states
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