#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.
#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.
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,
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 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,
& 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.
Scientists at the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have devised an ultra-thin invisibility"skin"cloak that can conform to the shape
a George Holmes University Professor of physics. ou don have to do this on the fly. aving a way to know what youe inputting into an unknown situation is important.
Collaborators on the project are from the University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Princeton university, and Johns hopkins university.
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering) In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials("3d Printed Anatomical Nerve Regeneration Pathways),
"said University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor Michael Mcalpine, the study's lead researcher.""Someday we hope that we could have a 3d scanner
#Darwin on a chip Researchers of the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology and the CTIT Institute for ICT Research at the University of Twente in The netherlands have demonstrated working electronic circuits that have been produced in a radically new way,
Moving away from designed circuits The approach of the researchers at the University of Twente is based on methods that resemble those found in Nature.
The system, designed by by scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, has the potential to fine-tune temperature distribution
said Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Houston and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity,
#Permanent data storage with light The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) and the universities of Münster, Oxford, and Exeter.
the University of Münster, Oxford university, and Exeter University have developed now the first all-optical, nonvolatile on-chip memory. ptical bits can be written at frequencies of up to a gigahertz.
This allows for extremely quick data storage by our all-photonic memory, Professor Wolfram Pernice explains.
and recently moved to the University of Münster. he memory is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
#Pushing the limits of lensless imaging Using ultrafast beams of extreme ultraviolet light streaming at a 100,000 times a second, researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
"explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher.""The computer emulates the lens."
Zürch and a team of researchers from Jena University used a special, custom-built ultrafast laser that fires extreme ultraviolet photons a hundred times faster than conventional table-top machines.
"Valentyn Volkov is the co-lead author, a visiting professor from the University of Southern Denmark.
"Professor David Wright, from the University of Exeters 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:
Ph d.,the Benjamin Mayhugh Associate professor of Mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota. The work is described in the August 12, 2015 issue of Nano Letters("3d Printed Programmable Release Capsules".
#Ultrathin graphene oxide lens could revolutionise next-gen devices Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, collaborating with Monash University,
have developed an ultrathin, flat, ultra-lightweight graphene oxide optical lens with unprecedented flexibility. The ultrathin lens enables potential applications in on-chip nanophotonics
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
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,
"An international team, formed by scientists at the Italian Institute of technology (Italy), the University Jaume I (Spain),
the IBM research lab Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) demonstrated a radically new approach to manipulate the light emission of quantum dots.
#Flexible microfluidic tactile sensor for robotics, electronics and healthcare applications A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of engineering has developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile
#Ultrafast lasers offer 3-D micropatterning of biocompatible hydrogels Tufts University biomedical engineers are using low energy,
Schmidt's lab at UC Santa cruz worked with researchers at Brigham Young University and UC Berkeley to develop the system.
according to research that has primarily been conducted at the University of Gothenburg. Nuclear fusion is a process
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Iceland has been to study a new type of nuclear fusion process.
"says Leif Holmlid, Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg. No radiation The new fusion process can take place in relatively small laser-fired fusion reactors fuelled by heavy hydrogen (deuterium.
#A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work A team of scientists at the University of Washington
#Tattoo-like 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
#Highest efficiency hydrogen production under natural sunlight Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Miyazaki University have produced hydrogen under natural sunlight at an energy conversion efficiency of 24.4,
The University of Tokyo) and Associate professor Kensuke Nishioka (Miyazaki University) used concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules,
#Brightness-equalized quantum dots improve biological imaging Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have introduced a new class of light-emitting quantum dots (QDS) with tunable and equalized fluorescence brightness
Alfred Leitenstorfer at the University of Konstanz (Germany) has succeeded in doing just that. They demonstrated a first direct observation of the so-called vacuum fluctuations by using short light pulses
The research team at the University of Konstanz developed these technologies in-house and also an exact description of the results based on quantum field theory.
Now researchers at the University of Rochester have demonstrated a key achievement in shrinking photonic devices below the diffraction limit--a necessary step on the road to making photonic circuits competitive with today's technology.
"said Kenneth Goodfellow, a graduate student in the laboratory of the Quantum Optoelectronics and Optical Metrology Group, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, New york."
#Developing a nanoscale'clutch'A model microscopic system to demonstrate the transmission of torque in the presence of thermal fluctuations-necessary for the creation of a tiny'clutch'operating at the nanoscale-has been assembled at the University of Bristol as part of an international collaboration (Nature
Dr Paddy Royall of the University of Bristol said:""This device looks a lot like a washing machine,
In addition to the experiments performed at the University of Bristol, physicists at the University of Düsseldorf have developed model computer simulations to further investigate torque coupling at the nanoscale.
This enables the measurement of nanomachine efficiency, which is small but can be optimised through careful control of the system parameters.
Professor Hartmut Loewen of the University of Düsseldorf d
#A quantum logic gate in silicon built for the for the first time (w/video) The significant advance, by a team at the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature("A two-qubit logic gate in silicon"."
""What we have is a game changer, "said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW."
But the UNSW team-working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan's Keio University-has done just that for the first time.
researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic
Meni Wanunu, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, says the group work with graphene membranes may significantly improve on commercial membranes used for water purification,
At the University of Hamburg these exotic magnetic structures were recently found to exist in ultrathin magnetic layers and multilayers,
Now researchers from the University of Hamburg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel have demonstrated that skyrmions can be detected much more easily because of a drastic change of the electrical resistance in these magnetic whirls("Electrical detection of magnetic skyrmions by tunnelling non-collinear magnetoresistance".
Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also
In collaboration with theoretical physicists from the University of Kiel the researchers were able to identify the origin of the resistance change in the magnetic whirl:
Stefan Heinze from the University of Kiel. When the electrons are travelling through a magnetic whirl,
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and simulation and is the result of an international cooperation involving researchers from the Institute of Structural biology (ISB, CEA/CNRS/Joseph Fourier University) in Grenoble, France, Purdue University, USA,
Francesco Ricci, of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, senior co-author of the study.""This DNA nanomachine can be modified in fact custom
Valle-Blisle of the University of Montreal, the other senior co-author of the paper.""It is rapid,
Kevin Plaxco of the University of California, Santa barbara.""The materials needed for one assay cost about 15 cents,
Ricci at the University of Rome and first-author of the paper.""For example, we could adapt our platform
Kendra Frederick, a former Whitehead postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern,
Atif Shamim and Swanlund Chair Professor John Rogers of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, reports their findings in the October 6, 2015 online edition of Advanced Functional Materials
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