#University of Houston researchers create fatigue-free, stretchable conductor: Material moves foldable electronics, new implantable medical devices a step closer Abstract:
Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Houston and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity,
including from the University of Exeter, has developed techniques that will allow the first memory chip that can capture light.
from the University of Exeter's Engineering department said:""With our prototype we have, for the first time,
"Professor Wolfram Pernice, from the Institute of Physics at Mnster University and who led the work said:"
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal."
"said Sahar Mashid, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study."
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
#A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work A team of scientists at the University of Washington
Now researchers from the University of Zurich, Switzerland have made a breakthrough by obtaining the first nanometer (one billionth of a meter) resolved image of individual tobacco mosaic virions
"said Jean-Nicolas Longchamp, the primary author and a postdoctoral fellow of the Physics department at the University of Zurich, Switzerland."
#Wearable electronic health patches may now be cheaper and easier to make A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-performing wearable patches
The University of Texas at Austin is committed to transparency and disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest.
The university investigator who led this research, Nanshu Lu, has submitted required financial disclosure forms with the university.
Lu is cofounder and scientific adviser for Stretch Med Inc.,a medical device company in which she has an equity partnership.
the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Oregon State university."
#Scientists pave way for diamonds to trace early cancers Physicists from the University of Sydney have devised a way to use diamonds to identify cancerous tumours before they become life threatening.
researchers from the University investigated how nanoscale diamonds could help identify cancers in their earliest stages."
and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.
#Researchers from Kiel and Bochum develop new information storage device Scientists from Kiel University and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
"Six plus seven makes three-plus one carried over",calculated Professor Hermann Kohlstedt, Head of the Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University.
In an experiment researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have got an artificial atom to survive ten times longer than normal by positioning the atom in front of a mirror.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have placed an artificial atom at a specific distance in front of a short circuit that acts as a mirror.
of Paris at Sorbonne University, Dr. Vasily Stolyarov from the Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in Superconducting Systems at MIPT,
and their colleagues from Paris-Saclay University studied the emergence of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states bound around single magnetic atoms embedded in a two-dimensional superconductor.
The Laboratory was set up in 2014 using funds from a mega grant awarded to Alexander Golubov, a professor at the University of Twente (Netherlands.
Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
#Researchers transform slow emitters into fast light sources Researchers from Brown University, in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard, have developed a new way to control light from phosphorescent emitters at very high speeds.
Discussions are now under way for tests to be carried out at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV.
New Option to Diagnose Leukemia Iranian researchers from Tarbiat Modarres University designed a biosensor that enables the early diagnosis of leukemia in the test sample by using naked eyes.
The trio, working at the University of Innsbruck and the IQOQI, suggest overcoming the challenges by detaching the logical qubit from the physical implementation.
"explains co-author Philipp Hauke from the Institute for Theoretical physics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria."
a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division and the University of California (UC) Berkeley who is leading this research."
Nanoparticles were fabricated in the Australian National University by e-beam lithography followed by plasma-phase etching.
who served an internship in the University as a part of Presidential scholarship for studying abroad.
"In our experimental research me and my colleague Polina Vabishchevich from the Faculty used a set of nonlinear optics methods that address femtosecond light-matter,
#Magnetic Nanosorbents Eliminate Fluoride from Water Researchers from Tehran University of Medical sciences used low-cost and available raw materials for the laboratorial production of nanosorbents with high efficiency in elimination of fluoride from contaminated water.
senior author Jeffrey Long, a UC Berkeley professor of chemistry and faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."
#Chameleon-like artificial'skin'shifts color on demand Borrowing a trick from nature, engineers from the University of California at Berkeley have created an incredibly thin,
Developed by engineers from the University of California at Berkeley, this chameleon-like artificial skin"changes color as a minute amount of force is applied.
an HHMI early career scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used a single automated process to synthesize 14 distinct classes of small molecules from a common set of building blocks.
"researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Kanazawa University describe how they have built the new AFM system optimized for live-cell imaging.
Now, engineers from the University of Pennsylvania and Exxonmobil have teamed up to answer this question. With a vested interest in the chemistry and performance of lubricants, scientists at Exxonmobil worked with scientists at Penn
Now, engineers from the University of Pennsylvania and Exxonmobil have teamed up to answer this question. In their experiments, the tip of an atomic force microscope stands in for an individual point of roughness on engine surfaces.
Cyborg insect research led by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is enabling new revelations about a muscle used by beetles for finely graded turns.
By strapping tiny computers and wireless radios onto the backs of giant flower beetles and recording neuromuscular data as the bugs flew untethered,
#Spherical nucleic acids set stage for new paradigm in nanomedicine drug development A research team led by Northwestern University nanomedicine expert Chad A. Mirkin
"Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
Currently on sabbatical from the University, Desimone has focused on bringing the technology to market, while also creating new opportunities for graduate students to use the technique for research in materials science and drug delivery at UNC and NCSU.
and defects, says a Texas A&m University biomedical engineer who is part of the team developing the biomaterial.
led by the University of Sydney. The researchers from the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems,(CUDOS) based at the University of Sydney published their results in Nature Communications today("Enhancing
and inhibiting stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic integrated circuits")."from left: Professor Benjamin Eggleton, Thomas Bttner and Moritz Merklein, researchers from CUDOS at the University of Sydney with the chalcogenide photonic chip.
This breakthrough is a fundamental advance for research in photonic chips and optical communications, said Moritz Merklein,
lead author from the Universitys School of Physics. In optical communications systems optical nonlinearities are regarded often as a nuisance,
I am delighted our CUDOS team at the University of Sydney in collaboration with our CUDOS colleagues at the Australian National University have achieved this fundamental important result t
#Putting batteries on stage spotlights performance at the nanoscale Used in everything from electric vehicles to laptop computers,
Gorodetsky of the University of California at Irvine (UCI) turned to squid skin for inspiration.
has been demonstrated recently by a research group at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Vibrant optical colors are generated from ultra-thin single layer silicon films deposited on a thin aluminum film surface with a low cost manufacturing process.
#Artificial hand able to respond sensitively thanks to muscles made from smart metal wires Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of natures book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire.
The research team led by Professor Stefan Seelecke from Saarland University and the Center for Mechatronics and Automation Technology (Zema) is using a new technology based on the shape memory properties of nickel-titanium alloy.
In the Journal of Applied Physics("Elastocaloric effect of Ni-Ti wire for application in a cooling device"),a team of researchers from Technical University of Denmark report that the elastocaloric effect opens the door to alternative forms
lead author and a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark. In terms of basic underlying concepts, the elastocaloric effect is associated with the"martensitic phase transformation,
the new nanobot engineered at the University of Illinois at Chicago is a far cry from Robocop.
Chemists from Brown University have come up with a way to make new nanomaterials from a silicon-based compound.
Koski lab/Brown University)" Silicon-based compounds are the backbone of modern electronics processing, "said Kristie Koski, assistant professor of chemistry at Brown,
But this is something that we do not know yet"Researchers from the University of Tübingen, the University of Manchester,
#Novel nanoparticle therapy promotes wound healing (w/video)( Nanowerk News) An experimental therapy developed by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University cut in half the time it takes to heal
"said Koray Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University's Mccormick School of engineering.""So the amount of material that is available for light emission or light absorption is limited very.
#Next important step toward quantum computer with quantum dots Physicists at the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge have succeeded in linking two completely different quantum systems to one another.
Dr. Michael Khl from the Institute of Physics at the University of Bonn.""Then we stored the direction of polarization of the photon".
and his team at Washington University in St louis were able to see blood flow, blood oxygenation, oxygen metabolism and other functions inside a living mouse brain at faster rates than ever before.
Thickening agent pectin in a starring role The ETH scientists, together with a collaborator at the University of Salerno, Italy,
and the University of California Los angeles (UCLA), have discovered a new resonance phenomenon in a dielectric elastomer rotary joint that can make the artificial joint bend up and down,
Jianwen Zhao/Harbin Institute of technology in Weihai, University of California-Los angeles)" The dielectric elastomer is a kind of electro-active polymer that can deform
in collaboration with bioengineers at Mcgill University, uncovered a new kind of synergy in the development of the nervous system,
"In collaboration with the Program in Neuroengineering at Mcgill University, Dr. Charron's team developed an innovative technique to recreate the concentration gradients of guidance cues in vitro,
The researchers, led by Danielle Benoit at the University of Rochester and Hyun Koo at the University of Pennsylvanias School of dental medicine
Graphic by Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester. click on image to enlarge) We had two specific challenges,
In 2014, researchers in South korea at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics along with Samsung Advanced Institute of technology, the Department of Nano Applied Engineering at Kangwon National University, the Department of energy Science
at Sungkyunkwan University, and Materials science department at California Institute of technology California, USA have formulated a new method for creating a novel and much more efficient TE alloy.
The first author, originally from SMART, is now with the University of Southampton. L-R:
and boron nitride (Nanowerk News) The research group led by Professor Yuichi Ikuhara (also appointed as a professor at Tokyo University), Associate professor Zhongchang Wang and Assistant professor Chunlin Chen at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research
, Tohoku University (AIMR), in collaboration with Group Leader Takashi Taniguchi at the National Institute for Materials science (NIMS) and Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC), succeeded for the first time in identifying the atomic structure and bonding mechanism in coherent interfaces between diamond
and the University of Wisconsin synthesized a highly active and durable class of electrocatalysts by exploiting the structural evolution of solid Pt-Ni bimetallic nanocrystals into porous cage-like structures or nanoframes.
The step forward follows research by the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge and the unexpected discovery of a previously unknown arrangement of molecules in plant cell walls.
Professor Ray Dupree from the University of Warwick, one of the researchs authors, says:""Using advanced NMR techniques we found that the xylan polymer,
"The structure of the xylan was ascertained by creating 2d maps of the molecular structure of the woody stalks of thale cress in the UKS most advanced solid-state Nuclear Magnetic resonance (NMR) Facility, based at the University of Warwick.
Professor Paul Dupree of the University of Cambridge (son of Professor Ray Dupree) says"For the first time we have been able to study the arrangement of molecules in woody plant materials.
Only recently has it become possible due to the ability to grow suitable experimental plants at the University of Cambridge and the availability of the powerful NMR facility in Warwick.
co-researcher Professor Steven Brown of the University of Warwick says: The NMR Facility is a flagship national success for shared equipment and multi-disciplinary research.
#Scientists a step closer to developing renewable propane (Nanowerk News) Researchers at The University of Manchester have made a significant breakthrough in the development of synthetic pathways that will enable renewable biosynthesis of the gas propane.
In this latest study, published in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels("A microbial platform for renewable propane synthesis based on a fermentative butanol pathway"),scientists at the Universitys Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB
working with colleagues at Imperial College and University of Turku, have created a synthetic pathway for biosynthesis of the gas propane.
more sustainable forms of energy as well as using biotechnology techniques to produce synthetic chemicals are currently being developed at The University of Manchester.
but scientists at the University have developed an alternative microbial biosynthetic pathway to produce renewable propane.
The team led by Nigel Scrutton and Dr Patrik Jones from Imperial College, modified existing fermentative butanol pathways using an engineered enzyme variant to redirect the microbial pathway to produce propane as opposed to butanol.
a cancer biologist and an assistant professor of biomedical sciences and pathobiology at the Virginiaaryland College of Veterinary medicine. t was astounding.
She is also an assistant professor of biological sciences In virginia Tech College of Science. t exciting to see things no one else has seen before,
#Electrical control of quantum bits in silicon paves the way to large quantum computers (Nanowerk News) A University of New south wales (UNSW)- led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time,
The purified silicon was provided through collaboration with Professor Kohei Itoh from Keio University in Japan n
#New ways to see light and store information (Nanowerk News) Reseachers from the University of Cologne,
Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK) have developed a method that significantly prolongs the lives of charges in organic electronic devices("Organic Electronics:
Yajun Gao and Professor Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht from the University of Cologne have made now substantial progress in this field in collaboration with researchers from Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
Chemists at ITBM, Nagoya University have developed a novel iridium catalyst that enables highly para-selective borylation on benzene,
Nagoya University and the JST-ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project have developed a bulky iridium catalyst that selectively directs a boron moiety to the opposite side of mono-substituted benzene derivatives.
ITBM, Nagoya University) Metal-catalyzed C-H borylation of aromatic rings is considered an efficient way to introduce functional groups to make functional molecules via a boryl moiety.
This week in the journal Applied Physics Letters("Metamaterial electromagnetic energy harvester with near unity efficiency"),researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada report a novel design for electromagnetic energy harvesting based on
The work was coordinated from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and participated by Ramón y Cajal Researcher Dr Inhar Imaz and ICREA Research Prof Daniel Maspoch from the ICN2 Supramolecular Nanochemistry & Materials Group.
which has been coordinated from University of Aveiro (Portugal). The results have been published in Advanced Functional Materials in an article entitled"Lanthaniderganic Framework Nanothermometers Prepared by Spray-Drying".
Now a chemist from the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with chemists from Oxford university has invented a compound
Thomas Just Sørensen is Associate professor at the Department of chemistry, Nanoscience Centre, University of Copenhagen. Together with his English team and his Copenhagen partner, Tom Vosch, he has published the articles:"
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#Bio-inspired eye stabilizes robot's flight without need for an accelerometer Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement-Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille
Computer scientists at Saarland University are studying the potential use of the human body as a touch sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices.
Computer scientists at Saarland University are studying the potential use of the human body as a touch sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices.
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.
a Phd student in the team led by Jürgen Steimle at the Cluster of Excellence at Saarland University.
more accurate and more flexible than existing methods has been developed by scientists at Imperial College London("BASIC:
According to recent findings by environmental scientists at Radboud University, the location of the agricultural lands used to grow these biofuel crops has a major impact on the greenhouse gas emission they ultimately produce.
Pieter Elshout and fellow environmental scientists at Radboud University have demonstrated how long it takes for the advantages that biofuels offer over fossil fuels to earn a return on this initial emission On the global scale,
From Western europe to the tropics Elshout, a Phd candidate at Radboud University, explains: Nineteen years sounds like a long time,
Now researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a simple way to do exactly that.
Xiao-Min Lin et al, taken using a scanning electron microscope at the University of Chicago) The findings open the way for scientists to design membranes with tunable electrical,
Fernando Bresme, professor of chemical physics at the Imperial College in London and a leading theorist on soft matter physics.
Yoke Khin Yap, a professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, has worked with a research team that created these digital switches by combining graphene and boron nitride nanotubes.
#Artificial blood vessels become resistant to thrombosis Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation.
head of the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University proposed a solution to the problem.
an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at the University of Melbourne, was published today in Advanced Materials("Multifunctional Thrombin-Activatable Polymer Capsules for Specific Targeting to Activated Platelets").
"Through a combination of high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (CRYO EM) and a unique methodology for image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules
Last year a multi-discipline research team led by South korea Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) director Young Hee
A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has produced recently some promising results toward that goal,
and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a methodology to temporarily enhance the stiffness of a long, high-aspect-ratio flexible microneedle (e g.,<
Imperial College London and the University of Buenos aires have published the results of a study testing a silicon nanodevice in the journal Nature Communications("Non-plasmonic nanoantennas for surface enhanced spectroscopies with ultra-low
and structure,"said Dr Emiliano Cortes, from the Department of physics at Imperial College London, one of the authors of the study."
and functions for sustaining microbial life (Nanowerk News) A new study led by bioengineers at the University of California,
says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Albertas Faculty of medicine & Dentistry. Were moving towards a very logical type of treatment for genetic diseases,
says John Slater, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware. Now, Slater and a team of researchers from Duke university, Baylor College of Medicine and Rice university have developed an image-based,
cell-derived patterning strategy that produces arrays of homogeneous cells with anatomical properties that mimic the cells from
& Astronomy at Stony Brook University, is one outside earths solar system at 100 light years away.
Stanimir Metchev, a Physics & Astronomy Professor at Western University in Canada and at Stony Brook University, is a co-investigator on the scientific study,
and optoelectronics devices("Observation of tunable bandgap and anisotropic Dirac semimetal state in black phosphorus").The research team operating out of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH),
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University, explained:""Over the last decade, we have established an ecosystem for photonic quantum technologies,
"The University of Bristol's pioneering'Quantum in the Cloud'is the first and only service to make a quantum processor publicly accessible
NUS)( click on image to enlarge) The team from the National University of Singapore (NUS)- Mr Li Changjian, a graduate student from the NUS Graduate school for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Assistant professor Ariando and Professor
who is a Phd graduate from NUSNNI, working with Professor Hans Hilgenkamp at the MESA+Institute of the University of Twente in The netherlands.
Drexel University researchers are testing an array of new combinations that may vastly expand the options available to create faster, smaller, more efficient energy storage, advanced electronics and wear-resistant materials.
That order was imposed by Michel W. Barsoum, Phd and Yury Gogotsi, Phd, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and head of the Drexel Nanomaterials Group
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory along with collaborators at Binghamton University and the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin show that La1-xsrxcro3 (LSCO) is a new p-type TCO with considerable potential.
a professor of physics at Tsinghua University in China who was involved not in this work. The three areas, he says,
Now Northwestern University engineers have examined a wide variety of surfaces that can do just that--and, better yet,
#Information storage and retrieval in a single levitating colloidal particle Thanks to this new technique developed by scientists at the University of Zurich,
Professor of Physical chemistry at the University of Zurich, succeeded in the controlled spatial manipulation of matter on the nanometer scale.
Inspired by this result, Michi-To Suzuki and Ryotaro Arita from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, in collaboration with Hiroaki Ikeda from Ritsumeikan University in Japan, investigated the mechanism of electron pairing in 2si2
imec associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.
A fine-grain version of the proven meander interconnect technology was developed by the CMST lab at Ghent University
who is also the Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of California Berkeley,
Alivisatos and Ralph Nuzzo of the University of Illinois are the corresponding authors of a paper in ACS Photonics describing this research entitled Quantum dot Luminescent Concentrator Cavity Exhibiting 30-fold Concentration.
The success of this Cdse/Cds nanoparticle-based LSC system led to a partnership between Berkeley Lab, the University of Illinois, Caltech and the National Renewable energy Lab (NREL) on a new solar
#Biodiesel made easier and cleaner with waste-recycling catalyst Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.
"Professor Matthew Rosseinsky, Professor of Inorganic chemistry at the University of Liverpool, who was not part of the study,
and Bioengineering at Tufts University and their collaborators have developed successfully a 3-dimensional (3d) tissue-engineered model of bone marrow that can produce functional human platelets outside the body (ex vivo).
and food supplements Researchers at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) developed a nanostructured system capable of protecting the active compounds of juices and nutritional supplements from high temperatures during the pasteurization process,
"said the university academic. In addition to improving retention of betacarotene in thermal processes, the use of nanocapsules can be applied to other antioxidants in processes such as sterilization or UHT.
which aims to promote the culture of industrial property in the university. This scientific development is in the process of patenting.
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