and the intentions of the growing community of professional 3d printing users and the scene looks bright.
In this sense, users once again showed less concern for less concrete possibilities such as enabling co-creation, increasing production flexibility,
This data supports the idea that 3d printing is less accessible in Europe where people without experience in 3d printing would feel less inclined to think of it as a possible solution,
D printing Mushtari is a wonderful example of how far this collaboration can bring us.
what real computer aided manufacturing is ultimately about s
#3d Systems Demos Virtual Surgeries and Soft 3d printed Models in New orleans On top of its massive 3d printing portfolio and Quickparts services, 3d Systems also has an extensive medical design and 3d printing wing.
By converting a patient medical imaging data into a 3d printable model, doctors are able to create a soft and flexible model via multi-material 3d printing.
is 3d Systemsgrasp of the evolving reality computing ecosystem, which encompasses 3d scanning, 3d printing, VR,
Both pieces of tech will be on display at the Annual Meeting for the American Urological Association in New orleans from today until May 19.
The microfish were manufactured with microscale continuous optical printing (COP), an advanced, high-resolution form of 3d printing that was created in Chen laboratory.
The COP printer functions at a rapid pace, and is able to produce hundreds of their microfish within seconds of printing.
What makes this printer so efficient is its digital micromirroring array device chip (DMD), containing millions of micromirrors that function separately from one another to cast the desired microfish design onto photosensitive material,
which is solidified then once exposed to UV LIGHT. This advanced process results in these 3d printed microfish, able to swim naturally through liquids,
since a egacy3d printer can still inspire advanced research studies and projects. The ultimate goal of Dr. Wong study is to demonstrate the technical feasibility of powering an FFF 3d printer using solar energy to manufacture functional
The findings from this work were used to design an ultraportable, plug-and-play, solar-powered 3d printing system suitable for transport to,
With access to a satellite internet connection photovoltaic panels, and a 3d printer, any plastic and possibly ceramics or even metal (with binder jetting or future wire melting technologies) objects could be produced anywhere in the world.
Even complex parts could be assembled in a second phase with internet instructions. What is interesting about Dr Wong latest project is focused that she on a very basic,
easy-to-find, and affordable 3d printer, as well as off the shelf items that can be stored easily in carry on luggage.
which would allow the application of this stimulation to the scaffold once implanted on the damaged bone site.
Using Envisiontec 3d bioplotter they were able to take their research to new levels creating very complex multilateral 3d structures following specific designs previously programmed on the computer. his is an incredible advantage
rom this, we were able to design an implant with a rigid sternal core and semi-flexible titanium rods to act as prosthetic ribs attached to the sternum.
e built the implant using our $1. 3 million Arcam printer. The printer works by directing an electron beam at a bed of titanium powder
in order to melt it. This process is repeated then building the product up layer-by-layer until you have a complete implant. 3d printing has significant advantages over traditional manufacturing methods, particularly for biomedical applications.
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function.
A model of the modified Leapfrog Printer used in production. 4d printing can be defined as the combined use of advanced 3d printing technology and the change of form over time.
On display at ORNL EERE Industry Day, is integrated a complete energy system, consisting of a 3d printed home with a small kitchenette,
#Freedee Printing Solutions Launches Hungary First 3d Academy 3d Academy may be one of the top trends in European 3d printing lately.
one of them is Freedee Printing Solutions, one of Hungary first 3d printing and 3d scanning service and retailer.
scalable 3d printer farm using Makerbot hardware and software, developed especially for schools and universities. At the 3d Academy, Freedee will have 10 Makerbot Replicators
and one Replicator Z18, complemented by several 3d scanners and educational materials. These will be used as a base for the courses aimed at the general public and for collaborations with public schools.
This 2004 story from ABC-TV's Catalyst program looked at the research of Professor Veena Sahajwalla of the University of NSW
which warms up the body core. As the warm blood leaves the core and travels toward the surface of the gills, it transfers its heat to the cold blood that is travelling back from the gills where it has absorbed oxygen from the water.
Wegner likens the system to a car radiator and says the exchange stops the heat from nearing the gill surface where it would be cooled by the water flow through the gills.
"The core message is using evidence to drive healthcare reform, "says Professor Marc Tennant of the University of Western australia,
They then used the computer's predictions to run practical experiments to test the results.
Their innovative Hydrelio Floating PV system allows standard PV panels to be installed on large bodies of water such as:
#Spot Glaucoma With Your Smartphone Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, have developed a method to diagnose glaucoma from smartphone images.
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, have announced the development of a new and simple method to detect glaucoma early enough to prevent blindness.
Software developed at the IISC greatly simplifies the procedure by using software to rapidly analyse images which can be taken with a handheld fundus camera
or even with a smartphone camera. e calculate parameters like cup-to-disc ratio to identify potentially glaucomatous conditions,
Seelamantula says mass screening of fundus images by semiskilled people is possible with pre-screening software. he software allows rapid screening of the images and highlights those that need the attention of the specialist.
but there is interest in making it suitable for mass application by converting the Java-based software into an Android app for example,
evaluate toxicity and display the results in one simple process. Dr. Wang Zhiping, Director of research Programs at Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTECH
such as ejector pins for iphones, watch springs for expensive hand-wound watches, trial medical implants,
which phosphates are added at key sites to influence the function of PER2. This hosphoswitchleads to two alternative fates for PER2:
After seven days there was a sixfold increase in the formation of new blood vessels in the mouse back muscles
and reset the cell programming. Dr Ciro Chiappini, first author of the study from the Department of Materials, added:"
"Instead of optically based sensing, the shape-changing probes are designed to operate in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum,
"Our data were taken in vitro. And some potential applications of the sensors may not be biological at all.
respectively So placing two different populations of GEMS at the same site makes it possible to track changes in two different variables at the same time--a capability the researchers demonstrated by placing GEMS with two different dimensions in the same location and detecting
effectively measuring a panel of potential biomarkers simultaneously, rather than just one, to better differentiate between different pathologies,
#Graphene Manufacturer Angstron Develops Cost-Effective Thermal Foil Sheets for Smartphones Graphene Manufacturer Angstron Develops Cost-Effective Thermal Foil Sheets for Smartphones Published on March 30,
2015 at 8: 42 AM Most smartphone users swipe and tap their way from app to app,
navigating their mini mobile computing world with ease. Very few think about the technology beneath their screens that conducts heat away from internal electronic components
and batteries to help maintain optimal performance. With the number of smartphone users expected to reach more than 2 billion worldwide by 2016,
manufacturers are being challenged to find new thermal management methods. Dayton Ohio-based Angstron Materials, Inc. has developed a family of cost-effective thermal foil products that can be customized for handheld devices and other products.
or greater thermal conductivity. iniaturization results in less space to dissipate heat generated from today high-performance processors,
which are suited for use in a range of applications including tablets, lap tops, flat screen TVS and EMI shielding s
Programming self-assembly by base-pairing alone is like writing computer code in machine language. The hope is that this new approach will make it easier to bend DNA origami toward practical ends,
in much the same way the advent of higher-level computer programming languages spurred advances in software engineering.
#Electroluminescence with Phosphor Nanoparticles Holds Promise for Modern Lighting Light-emitting diodes (LEDS) are the modern lighting devices used in lamps, signals, signs or displays.
Breast tissue is stained computationally using data from infrared imaging without actually staining the tissue, enabling multiple stains on the same sample.
Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois Using a combination of advanced microscope imaging and computer analysis,
The computer then translates spectral information from the microscope into chemical stain patterns, without the muss or fuss of applying dyes to the cells. e're relying on the chemistry to generate the ground truth
and act as the upervisorfor a supervised learning algorithm, said David Mayerich, first author of the study.
The ability to apply stains uniformly across multiple samples could make these initial image processing steps significantly easier and more robust.
This allows the user to simply tune to a required stain for as many different stains as are necessary all without damaging the original tissue sample,
Aizenberg is also co-director of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology and a core faculty member at Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, leading the Adaptive Materials Technologies platform there.
After using computer simulations to test their novel approach, in collaboration with Prof. Anna C. Balazs from the University of Pittsburgh, Aizenberg team conducted proof-of-concept experiments in which they successfully separated thrombin, an enzyme in blood plasma that causes the clotting of blood
Currently, colors on computer and iphone screens come from dye materials pre-placed on the pixels.
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, wearable and electronic displays.
The initial target market is Cell Phone and Tablet glass surfaces. Tungstenglass is based a borosilicate glass that is infused with tungsten and carbon nanotubes.
visit http://info. xradia. com/Xradia-Ultra-Load-Stage. html. ZEISSTHE Carl Zeiss Group is an international leader in the fields of optics and optoelectronics.
ZEISS is present in over 40 countries around the globe with about 40 production facilities, over 50 sales and service locations and service locations and approximately 20 research and development sites.
Users are supported for software for system control, image capture and editing. The Microscopy business group has sales companies in 33 countries.
Application and service specialists support customers around the globe in demo centers and on site.
Additional production and development sites are in Oberkochen, Gottingen and Munich, as well as in Cambridge in the UK and Peabody, MA and Pleasanton, CA in the USA.
exterior shell and a conductive iron-nickel core. In a paper published this week in the Journal of Applied Physics
National Centre for Basic Sciences, mixed nickel oxide and iron oxide as a hybrid material and fabricated the novel core/shell nanostructure electrode."
In Singh's experiment, the core/shell hybrid nanostructure was fabricated through a two-step method. Using a standard electro-deposition technique,
eventually developing a highly porous iron oxide-nickel oxide hybrid shell around the iron-nickel core."
"The advantage of this core/shell hybrid nanostructure is that the highly porous shell nanolayer provides a very large surface area for redox reactions
"The remarkable electrochemical performances and material properties suggest that the iron oxide-nickel oxide hybrid core/shell nanostructure could be a reliable and promising candidate for fabricating the next generation lightweight, low-cost
An EPFL spin-off company, Nanolive, has developed the 3d Cell Explorer first-ever microscope that allows users to see inside living cells without any prior sample preparation,
by using MRI-like technology and proprietary software that uses holographic algorithms. The microscope is called the 3d Cell Explorer.
It combines state-of-the-art hardware with cutting-edge imaging software to record stunning 3d images of entire living cells within seconds and with a higher resolution than any conventional microscope available in the market.
The photographic"slices"are recombined then using clever holography software that digitally"stains"the cells, labeling its different parts.
The software, called STEVE, is now available for download and can be used to"travel"virtually inside cells.
It allows the user to digitally"paint"any part of a scanned cell. This is possible because it can automatically define all the different parts of a cell based on an optical property called the"refractive index".
allowing users to explore changes in the cell in real time. Through STEVE, the stains can be modified constantly by the user,
saved and reused for other cells.""Starting from today, scientists, medics and students all around the world will be enabled to travel inside 3d cells in full color by simply downloading STEVE on their laptop"says Nanolive CEO Yann Cotte.
Nanolive SA was founded in November 2013 at the EPFL Innovation Park (Lausanne) by Yann Cotte (CEO) and Fatih Toy (scientific advisor),
https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=rpputm u pm. In addition to imaging the structures at high-resolution, the team microscopy technique gathered precise measurements of the cell electrochemical performance. his technique allows us to follow subtle nano-sized structural
The study also used resources at Center for Nanophase Materials sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at ORNL.
and now sells Nanosave N1-Organic from their website and it is available directly from Amazon.
It has proven to be one of the best selling oil products in the Nanosave N1 lineup. http://www. amazon com/nanosave Video Link:
. a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university and the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science at Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS), has developed an entirely new,
as well as specific sites where Nano-85 and the P domain formed bonds. According to Hansman,"this is,
"Interestingly, the investigators found that the site where Nano-85 bound to the P domain was hidden actually under the viral particle's surface."
"From the virus's point of view, this could be a strategy to keep potentially vulnerable sites protected from attack,
#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,
3d shaped true multitouch panel for automotives, being the first to bring much anticipated touch applications to dashboards and paneling.
The demonstrator provides an example of multifunctional display with 5 finger touch realized in IML technology.
New possibilities for design Specifically designed for automobile center consoles and dashboards, household machines, wearable devices, industrial user interfaces, commercial applications and consumer devices,
#Touch-Sensitive Flexible Silicone Stickers Worn on the Skin Can Help Control Mobile devices Someone wearing a smartwatch can look at a calendar
A method currently being developed by a team of computer scientists from Saarbrücken in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie mellon University in the USA may provide a solution to this problem.
and executes commands and thus controls mobile devices. Depending on the type of skin sticker used, applying pressure to the sticker could, for example,
'The stickers allow us to enlarge the input space accessible to the user as they can be attached practically anywhere on the body,
Users can also design their iskin patches on a computer beforehand to suit their individual tastes.'
Users can therefore decide where they want to position the sensor patch and how long they want to wear it.'
For example, a keyboard sticker could be used to type and send messages. Currently the sensor stickers are connected via cable to a computer system.
According to Steimle, inbuilt microchips may in future allow the skin-worn sensor patches to communicate wirelessly with other mobile devices.
The publication about'iskin'won the'Best Paper Award'at the SIGCHI conference, which ranks among the most important conferences within the research area of human computer interaction.
The researchers will present their project at the SIGCHI conference in April in Seoul Korea, and beforehand at the computer expo Cebit,
which takes place from the 16th until the 20th of March in Hannover (hall 9, booth E13) E
forming a water-soluble nanoparticle with the drug hidden in its core. These nanoparticles are highly soluble in blood
The former have a shell that is bonded directly to the core, but yolk-shell particles feature a void between the two equivalent to where the white of an egg would be.
the aluminum core continuously shrinks to become a 30-nm-across olk, which shows that small ions can get through the shell.
Computer-assisted technology developed especially for this purpose combines the advantages of both methods and suppresses unwanted noise.
while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
the teams led by the two Dresden physicists have managed to combine all the advantages of both methods in their nanoscope. e have developed software with a special demodulation technology with whichn addition to the outstanding resolution of near-field
The team is led by principal investigator Ali Passian of ORNL Quantum Information system group. The novel hybrid photonic mode-synthesizing atomic force microscope,
Passian This unique microscope will enable users to analyze samples ranging from engineered nanostructures and nanoparticles to naturally occurring plant cells, biological polymers and tissues.
which exceptional topological data could be procured, thereby promoting basic research in sustainable biofuels. This made the ORNL scientists to visualize several other applications.
Until now, a major limitation for FXS has been a lack of mathematical methods to efficiently interpret the data.
and physical bioscientist Peter Zwart have introduced new mathematical theory and an algorithm, which they call ulti-tiered iterative phasing (M-TIP),
to solve the reconstruction problem from FXS data. Their code can quickly determine general structure in only a few minutes on a desktop computer.
This approach is an important step in unlocking the door to new advances in biophysics and has the promise of ushering in new tools to help solve some of the most challenging problems in the life sciences. hese are exciting times,
Deciphering FXS with M-TIPPART of the challenge of generating a model from fluctuation scattering data stems from the fact that,
inverting FXS data requires the recovery of the three-dimensional intensity information as well. The team new-TIPALGORITHM alternatingly projects a model to agree with the FXS data along with any prior known constraints about the solution, such as density upper and lower bounds, size,
and/or symmetry, and can simultaneously determine the intensities, complex phases, and molecular structure. n order to develop a robust and efficient FXS reconstruction algorithm,
we had to solve a number of non-trivial mathematical problems, says Donatelli of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Division. eriving the relation between structure
and FXS data involves a substantial amount of harmonic analysis and linear algebra and we also needed to develop several new computational tools,
such as a fast and reliable polar Fourier transform. iven that FXS is still a relatively new technique,
To compensate for the lack of such data Donatelli, Sethian and Zwart tested their method on simulated FXS data on various test shapes,
including a model of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel (plgic). Their-TIPALGORITHM was able to quickly produced accurate, high-resolution reconstructions of these shapes from their corresponding FXS data.
CAMERA: Innovation through Cross-Disciplinary Sciencethis work is part of a new project being undertaken by CAMERA (The Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications.
CAMERA is a joint effort between DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of Basic energy Sciences.
Led by Sethian, CAMERA brings together mathematicians, experimental scientists, computer scientists, and software engineers to develop and deliver new mathematical tools
and software to data and imaging challenges at the DOE facilities, including work at synchrotron light sources and nanoscience research centers.
OE light sources offer a rich environment for tackling wonderful math problems whose solutions can make a major impact on fast moving sciencesays Sethian. ombining Zwart insight into the problem with Donatelli
background in harmonic analysis and iterative phasing algorithms set the stage for a new way to think about reconstruction from FXS data. he Future of FXSBEAMTIME at the LCLS was awarded recently to the authors as part of a large multi-institutional collaboration to collect FXS data
from several different biological specimens. This will allow the researchers the opportunity to test and,
if necessary, tune their reconstruction techniques on experimental data. ltimately, the goal is to provide the scientific community with a powerful new tool to determine the structure and dynamics of nano-sized particles in a routine,
but this is an important breakthrough. he researchers emphasize that FXS data may also be collected using an ultrabright synchrotron light source from particles cryogenically frozen in place.
The work was supported by DOE Office of Science (Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of Basic energy Sciences) and by the National institute of health e
SSRL and LCLS are DOE Office of Science User Facilities. The researchers combined and analyzed hundreds of X-ray images from about 150 protein crystals to reveal the atomic-scale details of the joined structure.
#EPGL Challenges Google in Smart Contact lens Revolution EP Global Communications, Inc. announces a challenge to Google to confirm it is speed up to with EPGL in the smart contact lens revolution.
A year ago, Google announced with great fanfare that it had developed a smart contact lens for monitoring glucose levels.
Google also announced that they possess technology for an"Autofocus"contact lens. Various executives from Google were quoted as saying that smart contact lenses could help millions of people in the future
and other technology writers and industry executives have predicted a multi-billion dollar market is coming.
EPGL fully agrees with Google on this point. EPGL has several patents pending now in the smart contact lens arena
Today, EPGL is issuing a challenge to Google to update the world on their smart contact lens progress
EPGL is challenging Google to make an announcement by August 31, 2015 that it has solved for the critical Silicone Hydrogel mass market production challenges as EPGL has."
"Google is an incredible company with incredibly talented engineers and executives. We have nothing but respect for them,
however, you can just collect the amount of data you need and the number of proteins you want to pass through the pore
#MRI SCANNERS can Non-Invasively Steer Cells with Nanoparticles to Tumour Sites Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI SCANNERS have been used since the 1980s to take detailed images inside the body-helping doctors to make a medical diagnosis
which have been injected with tiny super-paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIOS), to both primary and secondary tumour sites within the body.
The study, published today (date) in Nature Communications shows that cancer mouse models injected with immune cells carrying SPIOS and armed with the cancer killing oncolytic virus (OV)
#Universitat Jaume I Patents Graphene-Based Catalysts for Energy conversion and Storage Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I have developed materials based on graphene that can catalyse reactions for the conversion and storage of energy.
Thus, the patented materials can be used both in the development of catalysts as well as storage batteries or other energy types p
postdoctoral fellow Dong Li and their colleagues have added the two new technologies-both variations on SIM-to the set of tools available for super-resolution imaging.
"In traditional SIM, the sample under the lens is observed while it is illuminated by a pattern of light (more like a bar code than the light from a lamp).
Computer software then extracts the information in the moiré images and translates it into a three-dimensional, high-resolution reconstruction.
He says SIM has received not as much attention as other super-resolution methods largely because those other methods offer more dramatic gains in spatial resolution.
But he notes that SIM has offered always two advantages over alternative super-resolution methods including photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM),
SIM, however, is different.""I fell in love with SIM because of its speed and the fact that it took so much less light than the other methods,
"Betzig says. Betzig began working with SIM shortly after the death in 2011 of one of its pioneers, Mats Gustafsson,
who was a group leader at Janelia. Betzig was convinced already that SIM had the potential to generate significant insights into the inner workings of cells,
and he suspected that improving the technique's spatial resolution would go a long way toward increasing its use by biologists.
Gustafsson and graduate student Hesper Rego had achieved higher-resolution SIM with a variation called saturated depletion nonlinear SIM
Saturated depletion enhances the resolution of SIM images by taking advantage of fluorescent protein labels that can be switched on and off with light.
or more to generate data for the final image. The principle is very similar to the way super-resolution in achieved in STED or a related method called RESOLFT,
"Instead, the new method, called patterned photoactivation nonlinear SIM, begins by switching on just a subset of fluorescent labels in a sample with a pattern of light."
The combined effect of those patterns leads to final images with 62-nanometer resolution--better than standard SIM and a threefold improvement over the limits imposed by the wavelength of light."
I have to take the data in a tenth of a second, or else it will smear out,
Patterned photoactivation nonlinear SIM captures the 25 images that go into a final reconstruction in about one-third of a second.
The team used patterned photoactivation nonlinear SIM to produce videos showing structural proteins break down and reassemble themselves as cells move
Betzig's team also reports in the Science paper that they can boost the spatial resolution of SIM to 84 nanometers by imaging with a commercially available microscope objective with an ultra-high numerical aperture.
by combining the high numerical-aperture approach with patterned photoactivatable nonlinear SIM, Betzig and his colleagues could follow two proteins at a time with higher resolution than the high numerical aperture approach offered on its own.
Betzig's team is continuing to develop their SIM technologies, and say further improvements are likely.
For now, scientists who want to experiment with the new SIM methods can arrange to do so through Janelia's Advanced Imaging Center,
it should be fairly straightforward to make the SIM technologies accessible and affordable to other labs."Most of the magic is in the software, not the hardware,
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