"The researchers generated more than 40 different geometric designs, from single and multiple spirals and rings to spherical baskets, cubical boxes, peacocks, flowers, tents, tables and starfish.
Scientists could even arrange patterns with multiple layers, a bit like multi-floor buildings. This new pop-up technique has many advantages,
The rtms device is a flat, water bottle-sized magnet that we hold against the patient's scalp while they are reclining comfortably in a chair.
and getting around the house are much easier. Although we don't know for sure if these individuals have received the stimulation or placebo treatment,
but the window for action is closing rapidly,"Kennette Benedict, executive director of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said in a news conference this morning in Washington,
In the new study, the scientists used strips of graphene a few microns across and from 6. 5 to 14 microns in length, each spanning a trench of silicon like a bridge.
so that it had a flat bottom
#Water Droplet-Powered Computers Could Run Mini Science labs A computer made using water and magnets can move droplets around inside itself like clockwork,
to enable everyone to design new circuits based on building blocks we describe in this paper, or to discover new blocks,
Moreover, the researcher claimed that the router could even power the camera through a brick wall.
clean and flexible insulator for applications in a range of industries, including aerospace, oil and gas, RF-radar, automotive and building materials.
Following this, the resulting product was transferred to a rotating-wall bioreactor where an endothelium layer,
It designed to eventually replace the mirror in your bathroom helping you keep to keep an eye on yourself day to day
Don Ingber, founding director of the Wyss Institute, told The Guardian. e now have a window on the molecular-scale activities going on in human organs,
Mercedes-benz and Hyundai. Think of a fuel-cell car as an exhaust-free electric car with a little chemical factory producing the electrons in place of a battery.
Hyundai was the first out of the gate with the Tucson fuel-cell car last spring.
Sanchez-Yamagishi was a lead co-author of a 2014 paper in Nature("Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state)
It's called a Quantum Spin Hall State, "Sanchez-Yamagishi explains. That would have applications in quantum computing,
Diodes are fundamental building blocks of integrated circuits; they allow current to flow in only one direction.
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
To capture energy from sunlight, conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
To capture energy from sunlight, conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics
#New method for cheaper solar-energy storage Building on a unique idea, scientists have developed a cost-effective new method for converting
Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far, it isn a stretch to imagine creating more intricate designs like the shape of a hand with detailed fingers d
labor cost and the cost of the land to house them constitute the bulk of the expense.
labor cost and the cost of the land to house them constitute the bulk of the expense.
which the same room lighting systems could be used for both illumination and communication. The technology under development is called Li-Fi for light-based wireless communication,
those independent lasers cannot be used for room lighting or in displays, Ning said. single tiny piece of semiconductor material emitting laser light in all colors
and imbuing the system with the highly sought-after reliability that will prove foundational for the building of large-scale superconducting quantum computers.
2015the George washington University Opens Science and Engineering Hall, Largest Building of Its Kind in D c.:
2015announcements The George washington University Opens Science and Engineering Hall, Largest Building of Its Kind in D c.:
Here, the plasma is generated by flowing room air past an electrode supplied with 20 W of RF power at 200 mtorr.
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New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th, 2015symmetry matters in graphene growth:
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2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th, 2015chip Technology 30 years after C60:
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2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015clean energy future: New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015military Data structures influence speed of quantum search in unexpected ways:
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2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th,
2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015clean energy future: New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015clean energy future: New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015clean energy future: New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
"Click chemistry is similar to building new structures with building blocks. The blocks can be various chemical compounds,
whether you can somehow attach the right snaps to a given building block, "says Dr. Joanna Niedzi?
New creation could one day be used for demolition of cancer cells March 19th, 2015eu Funded PCATDES Project has completed its half-period with success March 19th, 2015imaging JPK reports on the use of optical tweezers in the Schieber Research Group at Illinois Institute of technology March 18th,
New creation could one day be used for demolition of cancer cells March 19th, 2015announcements NC State researchers create'nanofiber gusher':
New creation could one day be used for demolition of cancer cells March 19th, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Click!
22f, Tokyo Building, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Representative: Akira Tanae, President & CEO Founded:
and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft.""This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,
The semiconductor material also allowed the team to create a skin that was incredibly thin, perfectly flat,
More day-to-day applications could include sensors that would change color to indicate that structural fatigue was stressing critical components on bridges, buildings,
Study sheds light on why foreign STEM students stay in US or return home March 11th, 2015announcements Super-resolution microscopes reveal the link between genome packaging and cell pluripotency:
A brick wall at the nanoscale January 22nd, 2015atomic placement of elements counts for strong concrete:
and an international visiting research scholar at the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, who coordinated the research.
Damascelli and Giannetti have been awarded a Peter Wall Institute International Scholarship aimed at reinforcing their collaboration
Supercapacitors are a bridge between conventional capacitors and batteries, combining the advantageous properties of high power, high energy density and low internal resistance,
In addition, a high-efficient design has been made on a five-input-majority gate in a way that all QCA circuits can use it.
Grafysorber has been tested firstly industrially in a Romanian former refinery site, containing a basin with about 30.000 m3 of water contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons.
The headquarter is in Lomazzo (near Como), inside the Science and Technological Park of Comonext, where in June 2014 Directa Plus opened Le Officine del Grafene Graphene Factory, the largest European
such as seeking out cancer cells and binding to them, permeating the walls of blood vessels and tumor cells,
Building on patents previously granted to Nanotech, this patent secures integral intellectual property, which covers a range of diffractive
The device would be capable of measuring the temperature of a cell's interior June 7th, 2015ceramic Nanomembrane, New Material for Dehydration of Natural gas June 7th, 2015moving sector walls on the nano scale June 6th, 2015materials
The device would be capable of measuring the temperature of a cell's interior June 7th, 2015ceramic Nanomembrane, New Material for Dehydration of Natural gas June 7th, 2015moving sector walls on the nano scale June 6th,
Garmor Inc, Increases Capacity for Manufacturing Graphene oxide at Customer Sites June 2nd, 2015chip Technology Moving sector walls on the nano scale June 6th, 2015fei Launches New
and repulsive forces between DNA-linked particles to make dynamic, phase-shifting forms of nanomaterials May 25th, 2015scientists Use Nanoscale Building blocks and DNA'Glue'to Shape 3d Superlattices:
2015iranian Scientists Evaluate Dynamic Interaction between 2 Carbon nanotubes April 14th, 2015memory Technology Moving sector walls on the nano scale June 6th,
2015development of Gold nanoparticles That Control Osteogenic Differentiation of Stem Cells June 9th, 2015industrial Nanotech, Inc. Article About the Evolution of Roof Coatings in Durability+Design Magazine June 9th, 2015nanospace
Graphene and diamonds prove a slippery combination June 10th, 2015moving sector walls on the nano scale June 6th, 2015discoveries Nature Communications:
The material was then no longer flat but buckled due to changes of the internal stress in the layer during the etching process.
2015renishaw's invia confocal Raman microscope system is being used in conservation activities at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The netherlands June 16th, 2015solar cells in the roof and nanotechnology in the walls June 16th, 2015chip Technology
Capital Will be used to Support Partner & Customer Product Introductions and Increase Manufacturing Capacity June 16th, 2015solar cells in the roof and nanotechnology in the walls June 16th, 2015global Nanoclays Market Analysis
stretchable conductors using nano-accordion structure June 16th, 2015solar cells in the roof and nanotechnology in the walls June 16th, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Designer
Optimized printing process enables custom organic electronics June 16th, 2015solar cells in the roof and nanotechnology in the walls June 16th, 2015industrial Nanotech,
2015ais Introduces Industry 4. 0 Ready, Industrial Controls and Factory Automation HMI Touch-Panels, for Easy Visual, Control and Monitoring in Discrete and Process Automation Industries
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
but typically provides information only about topology at nanoscale resolution. A highly promising new version of scanning electron microscopy, called"high-resolution scanning electron microscopy,
2015cellulose from wood can be printed in 3-D June 17th, 2015solar cells in the roof and nanotechnology in the walls June 16th, 2015buckle up for fast ionic conduction June 16th,
Their discovery that there is a biological solution to a thermoregulatory problem could lead to the development of novel flat optical components that exhibit optimal cooling properties. uch biologically inspired cooling surfaces will have high reflectivity in the solar
Yu explains. o this may generate useful applications such as a cooling surface for vehicles, buildings, instruments,
and can be controlled with a simple electrical gate. The team, led by Dimitri Basov and Michael Fogler, professors of physics at the University of California,
but can be tuned with an electronic gate. The two kind of polaritons become coupled, a theoretical consideration determined and experimental evidence confirmed.
which grows graphene in an industrial cold wall CVD system, a state-of-the-art piece of equipment recently developed by UK graphene company Moorfield.
"We want to open up this therapeutic window."#"##Additional authors include Matthew Thompson in Gianneschi's chemistry research group and Christopher Barback, David Hall and Robert Mattrey in UC San diego's Moores Cancer Center.
All animal procedures were approved by UC San diego's institution animal care and use committee. Callmann holds a fellowship through the Cancer Researchers in Nanotechnology Program at UC San diego. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
the membranes act as a tunnel for sound, encapsulating the waves into local subwavelength regions. This arrangement allows the sound waves to pass through without accumulating a phase change
and an electrical gate electrode to modulate the current flow through the channel. In atomic-scale transistors, this current is extremely sensitive to single electrons hopping via discrete energy levels.
But atomically precise control of the gate which is crucial to transistor action at the smallest size scales is not possible with these approaches.
to assemble electrical gates from the+1 charged atoms with atomic precision and, then, to place the molecule at various desired positions close to the gates.
Stefan Fölsch, a physicist at the PDI who led the team, explained that he molecule is only weakly bound to the Inas template.
In our case, the charged atoms nearby provide the electrostatic gate potential that regulates the electron flow
when it is a large flat surface as used in Gap solar cells. The researchers have overcome this problem by making a grid of very small Gap nanowires, measuring five hundred nanometers (a millionth of a millimeter) long and ninety nanometers thick.
"For the nanowires we needed ten thousand less precious Gap material than in cells with a flat surface.
"This could help advance efforts to develop wireless power transfer technologies for use with electric vehicles, in buildings,
Thus, magnetic fields around the sensor are concentrated in the walls of this box.""In experiments, the developed system was able to clearly detect a steel ball with a diameter as small as 0. 3 mm.
similar to the way new pavement is compressed with a road roller. Compressing the ink increased its conductivity by more than 50 times,
#Expanding the code of life with new'letters'he DNA encoding all life On earth is made of four building blocks called nucleotides, commonly known as"letters,
The evolution of DNA containing the new building blocks endows the structures with new properties that could be useful in protein recognition n
#Exciton, exciton on the wall Researchers have observed, in metals for the first time, transient excitons the primary response of free electrons to light.
This discovery sheds light on the primary excitonic response of solids which could allow quantum control of electrons in metals, semiconductors,
Not to mention doing things like running up stairs or jumping rope. There is also no machine that is as good at analysing a football match
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.
public transport overcrowded, pavements heaving with people. But as well as the frustration, there a sinister side to the commute to work:
and sensitive enough to detect small changes in air quality on a street-by-street basis. Their findings are now informing research projects aimed at improving air quality in major cities across Europe and North america.
and static devices were attached to lampposts and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites.
whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
As in a wall, several layers of particles are placed on top of each other in an offset arrangement;
Analysis of the bioartificial limbs confirmed the presence of vascular cells along blood vessel walls and muscle cells aligned into appropriate fibers throughout the muscle matrix.
But now, in a new study, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford,
and how many south-facing, non-shaded rooftops could accommodate solar panels. They developed and consulted wind maps
that is sometimes referred to as the'new cornerstone of the manufacturing industry'.'However, at present, 3d printing is limited mostly to plastics.
When ground together for up to 20 minutes with a mortar and pestle, the chemical additives reacted with each other,
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
but typically provides information only about topology at nanoscale resolution. A highly promising new version of scanning electron microscopy, called"high-resolution scanning electron microscopy,
Wll/KIT) We have opened the door to a new room, says Professor Christof Wll, Director of KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG).
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage (Nanowerk News) The materials in most of todays residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics, rather than silicon,
The system is equipped also to treat the biological contaminants that Wright initially thought shed be treating,
Synthetic nanocomposites can mimic the characteristic brick -and-mortar-like structure of nacre, but combinations of stiffness, strength, toughness and desirable optical properties have remained difficult to achieve.
Scientists based in Aachen, Germany, report in the journal Angewandte Chemie("Hierarchical Nacre Mimetics with Synergistic Mechanical Properties by Control of Molecular Interactions in Self-Healing Polymers")that the introduction of tailored hydrogen bonds in the polymer
mortar by macromolecular engineering leads to an unprecedented combination of the relevant properties, which are perfectly tunable.
Co-authors are In-Ho Cho, an Iowa State assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering; and Jungwook Paek, who recently earned his Iowa State doctorate in electrical
The air pressure and the microtube's asymmetrical wall thickness created a circular bend. They further describe how they added a small lump of PDMS to the base of the tube to amplify the bend
Gate-first CMOS-compatible Ingaas Finfets on Si with excellent performance have been demonstrated and integrated seamlessly in a CMOS manufacturing flow.
and design so it can be integrated easily into manufacturing processes at existing factories.""said Hong.
such as regenerative braking in trains and buses, elevators and cranes. They are used also in flashes in mobile phones and as a complementary technology to batteries in order to boost performance.
These versatile cells act both as factories and warehouses, making and storing insulin in tiny sacs called vesicles.
They also behave like alarm call centers, sensing increases in blood sugar levels and signaling the release of insulin into the bloodstream. e constructed artificial vesicles to perform these same functions by using two materials that could easily be found in nature,
what has changed and what hasn't. By building up a series of snapshots at different time intervals,
In the process, special pores embedded in the nucleus membrane act as transport gates. These nuclear pores are among the largest and most complex structures in the cell
"We discovered a previously unobserved structure inside the nuclear pore that forms a kind of molecular gate,
This"molecular gate"is the so-called spoke ring, which is sandwiched between two other rings and extends inside the nuclear pores.
The gate itself consists of a fine lattice, which enables small molecules to slip through unobstructed.
Microchips Biotech will continue work on its flagship product, a birth-control microchip, backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
After that, the Gates Foundation took interest. It wasnt just a pie-in-the-sky idea anymore were really treating patients
The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.
the chimneys of the Duisburg Stahlwerke alone unleash several million tons of carbon dioxide. Fraunhofer has developed a process by
Kristian Kowollik from the environmental engineering department at ICT obtains specialty chemicals from the interim product connected with this,
well above the 80°C typical upper temperature window for exiting LIBS. In the tests, the batteries were cycled at temperatures between 298 K
and thus a fast Internet, have an inner channel made of glass with a high refractive index, surrounded by a cladding of glass with a low refractive index.
The difference in refractive index ensures that the light beam is reflected at the interface to the cladding.
These findings will help in the creation of future flat and flexible electronic devices. In recent decades, physicists have been actively studying so-called two-dimensional materials.
then the tip of the microscope would be as large as the Empire state Building. Illustration of the measuring principle:
which works by cloaking an object sitting on top of a flat surface. The cloak makes the whole system--object
and surface--appear flat by mimicking the reflection of light off the flat surface. Any object reflects light differently from a flat surface,
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower, like
and designing the building blocks for groundbreaking discoveries in biomedical applications. This experience invigorates my interest in this type of research,
University of Oxford) Graphene promises to be a'wonder material'for building new technologies because of its combination of strength, flexibility, electrical properties,
PCC 7002, a type of cyanobacteriaorganisms that make building blocks for new cells out of air, water, and sunlight.
ocean-dwelling bacterium and an organism useful for creating products used by people every day. The engineered bacterium not only accumulated this fatty acid
but we think there is a lot of room for discovery, both of fundamental properties of these structures as well as applications.
Nanoflares have been very useful for researchers that operate in the arena of quantifying gene expression. Aurasense, Inc.,a biotechnology company that licensed the Nanoflare technology from Northwestern University,
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
#New material forges the way for'stem cell factories 'If you experience a major heart attack the damage could cost you around five billion heart cells.
factories'-the mass production of human embryonic (pluripotent) stem cells. The £2. 3m research project
"We've just taken ferromagnetism off its pedestal. In a spintronic device you don't have to use a ferromagnet.
foldable and lightweight energy storage device that provides the building blocks for next-generation batteries needed to power wearable electronics and implantable medical devices (ACS Central Science,"Self-Assembled Multifunctional Hybrids:
the liquid begins to flow into the tube, pulled by a combination of surface tension in the liquid and adhesion between the liquid and the walls of the tube.
#Making polymer nanostructures from a greenhouse gas (Nanowerk News) A future where power plants feed their carbon dioxide directly into an adjacent production facility instead of spewing it up a chimney
Because it is very difficult to find building blocks to make hydrophilic polycarbonates, the researchers used a trick:
In the same vessel, they then change to a different building block, allyl glycidyl ether (AGE), an epoxide with a double bond in its side chain,
allowing for safe passage through the remainder of the gastrointestinal (GI TRACT. The material is also elastic,
the polymer gel dissolved, allowing for the safe passage of the small PCL pieces without obstruction.
Jewett. ur new protein-making factory holds promise to expand the genetic code in a unique and transformative way, providing exciting opportunities for synthetic biology and biomolecular engineering,
In electronics, silicon-based transistors are critical building blocks that switch power and amplify signals. An optical transistor could perform a similar role for light instead of electricity,
because the team headed by Ralph Ernstorfer and Simon Wall, scientist at the ICFO-Institut de Cincies Fotniques,
making room for the boron and nitrogen to fill the gaps. It was as if the oxygen was controlling the geometric structure,
promises to capture all those stray radio waves emitted back and forth between wireless phones and the towers through
when that would have demonstrated this on a large scale--the Tesla Tower, also known as Wardenclyffe, which reports at the time highlighted was being designed to draw millions of volts of electricity through the air from Niagara falls and feed it into cities, factories and private houses from the tops of towers, all without wires.
The project was completed never, at Tesla's own volition, with some suspecting that he put it to rest after recognizing its potential for misuse and destruction.
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