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#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
and therefore less-polluting vehicles. One of our wildest dreams for the nanomaterials we are developing is that they could be used to make the super-strong lightweight cables that would make possible the construction of a space elevator
Automakers have started introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles which only emit water when driven. But making hydrogen which mostly comes from natural gas requires electricity from conventional carbon dioxide-emitting power plants.
and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles. Nanoporous carbon materials can also adsorb gas pollutants work as environmental filters
#New nanocomposites for aerospace and automotive industries The Center for Research in Advanced Materials (CIMAV) has developed reinforced graphite nanoplatelets seeking to improve the performance of solar cell materials.
which can contain suspensions of silver nanoparticles (but don't drink them you'll go blue). Why are they good for medical detection?
Obviously such vehicles must be small enough to be injected into the eyeball for example with a syringe.
called coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). By focusing these laser beams onto the nanodiamond, a high-resolution CARS image is generated.
Using an in-house built microscope, the research team was able to measure the intensity of the CARS light on a series of single nanodiamonds of different sizes.
The nanodiamond size was measured accurately by means of electron microscopy and other quantitative optical contrast methods developed within the researcher's lab. In this way,
they were able to quantify the relationship between the CARS light intensity and the nanoparticle size.
Consequently, the calibrated CARS signal enabled the team to analyse the size and number of nanodiamonds that had been delivered into living cells,
#Tracking heat-driven decay in leading electric vehicle batteries Rechargeable electric vehicles are one of the greatest tools against rising pollution and carbon emissions and their widespread adoption hinges on battery performance.
and aluminum (NCA) offers high enough energy density a measure of the stored electricity in the battery that it works well in large-scale and long-range vehicles including electric cars and commercial aircraft.
Crucially the high heat of vehicle environments can intensify these telltale degradation tracks and even cause complete battery failure.
which is above the operating temperature for most vehicles Bak said. But that temperature threshold dropped for a highly charged battery suggesting that operating at full energy capacity accelerates structural degradation and vulnerability.
#Flexible paper electrodes with ultra-high loading for lithium-sulfur batteries With the rapid development of portable electronic devices, electric automobiles,
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and has exciting potential for the car space and defense industries. Current powder metallurgy or liquid processing methods fail to achieve uniform processing says research leader Junfeng Guo who is from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
The research could be used to develop an extremely sensitive micromechanical way to measure acceleration of a car
Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,
One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer and even in skyscrapers Tour said.
In a newly published article in the journal ACS Advanced Materials & Interfaces, researchers Ravi Saraf and Chieu Van Nguyen describe a thin-film sensor that can detect tumors too small and deep
"said Professor Andrea Ferrari, Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.""This is a significant step forward to enable fully wearable and flexible devices.
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#Atomically thin material opens door for integrated nanophotonic circuits A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity
Supercapacitors have an expanding range of applications as their capabilities increase from powering computer memory backup to powering electric vehicles.
"It creates exciting opportunities for mobile power supplies for many applications from cell phones to electric vehicles. v
#Used-cigarette butts offer energy storage solution A group of scientists from South korea have converted used-cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be integrated into computers handheld devices electrical vehicles and wind turbines to store energy.
Nano-supercapacitors for electric cars More information: Preparation of energy storage material derived from a used cigarette filter for a supercapacitor electrode Nanotechnology iopscience. iop. org/0957-4484/25/34/345601 5
#Nanoscale details of electrochemical reactions in electric vehicle battery materials Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions,
or positive electrode, of electrical vehicle batteries-as the battery charged.""We wanted to catch
enabling electric vehicles to travel farther before needing to be recharged. Many previous methods used to analyze such battery materials have produced data that average out effects over the entire electrode.
and individual particles) under two different charging scenarios-rapid (like you'd get at an electric vehicle recharging station),
when plugging in your vehicle at home overnight). These animated images of individual particles, taken while the electrode is charging,
In 2012 Drs Felice Torrisi Tawfique Hasan and Professor Andrea Ferrari at the Cambridge Graphene Centre invented a graphene ink
a two-coherent-laser technique called"coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy,"or CARS. By using CARS in conjunction with a light amplifier made of four tiny gold nanodiscs,
Halas and Zhang were able to measure single molecules in a powerful new way. LANP has dubbed the new technique"surface-enhanced CARS,"or SECARS."
"The two-coherent-laser setup in SECARS is important because the second laser provides further amplification,
His research is centered on building better lithium ion batteries, primarily for personal electronics and electric vehicles. He is focused on the anode
#Chemists seek state-of-the-art lithium-sulfur batteries When can we expect to drive the length of Germany in an electric car without having to top up the battery?
Whether or not the future of automotive traffic belongs to the softly purring electric car depends largely on the development of its batteries.
the lithium-sulfur battery still presents several major challenges that need to be resolved until it can be integrated into cars.
and neutral environment) makes these nanoparticles an ideal vehicle for the controlled activation of therapeutics directly inside the cells Raymo says.
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At a 90â°impact angle the nanotubes deformed along the radial direction essentially being smashed like the front of a car in a head-on collision.
Even heads-up displays on vehicle dashboards could soon be a reality. The new technology also has major medical implications.
This understanding could inform the emerging use of nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering genes across cellular membranes."
Lithium ion batteries are the rechargeable battery of choice for portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. But they present problems.
Batteries in electric vehicles are responsible for a significant portion of the vehicle mass. And the size of batteries in portable electronics limits the trend of downsizing.
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
and development of electrical vehicles, space-launch vehicles and portable electronic devices. By being able to store
like that needed to start a vehicle or heavy-construction equipment. Although more work needs to be done,
or an electric car powered by energy stored in its chassis, or a home where the dry wall and siding store the electricity that runs the lights and appliances.
It doesn't make sense to develop materials to build a home, car chassis, or aerospace vehicle if you have to replace them every few years
because they go dead.""Westover's wafers consist of electrodes made from silicon that have been treated chemically so they have nanoscale pores on their inner surfaces
There have also been recent press reports of several major efforts to develop multifunctional materials or structural batteries for use in electric vehicles and for military applications.
This has significant implications for industries including electronics and electric vehicles which are always trying to squeeze longer discharges out of batteries."
Microelectronics to electric vehicles can benefit from energy storage devices that offer high power and high energy density. That's why researchers are working to develop a device that offers both.
I can see it being a little buggy at first but if this catches on and theres a market for this
and drive virtual vehicles too using virtual pedals and steering wheels. The options are unlimited with this combo. very exciting times for the human race.
what you need to make it workmy mum in-law got a fantastic white Cadillac CTS-V Sedan by working part time off of a home computer...
what no spacefaring vehicle ever has: offer reliable affordable and regular round-trip access to low Earth orbit.
The vehicle would have a fuselage reminiscent of the Concorde and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2
when he was a young engineer working with Rolls-royce as part of a team tasked with developing a reusable spacecraft for British aerospace.
Rolls-royce and The british government doubtful that an easy and economical solution existed canceled the program's funding.
Imagine a fleet of these vehicles whisking payloads to LEO on a daily basis . If multiple countries operate their own fleets there will eventually be multiple payload deliveries per day.
No one will fly astronauts/cosmonauts up to the ISS on an unmanned vehicle. Other than that good article.
and hit this vehicle. I read that they had a breakthrough in developing materials for the engines to enable them to survive the intense heat
I want to see vehicles that can mine asteroids. Its 2013 and we still havent even dug up that Monolith on the Moon.@
so light for its size it will not get as hot as other re-entry vehicles like the space shuttle (1100k vs 2000k).
Driverless cars will go to pick up your order from a cookless Mcdonald and drop your cloths off at the oporatorless drycleaning machine built into a 20ft shipping container.
Pets cars and family members are all scannable Asda wrote in a blog post. Asda sends digital files of the scans to a facility where they're printed then shipped back to the Asda store.
#Massive CT SCANNER Will Glean Safety Insight From Wrecked Cars Computed tomography (CT SCANNERS are great for diagnosing problems in people but what about cars?
The Fraunhofer Development Center is using the biggest CT SCANNER it can find to analyze wrecked cars.
That sounds good but how do you fit a car in a CT SCANNER? Apparently you just get a bigger scanner.
Fraunhofer is building a giant scanner that it says can be used for cars as well as to detect damage to airplane wings
A crashed car is hoisted onto a turntable. As it turns two X-ray detectors on either side scan it
or failure of specific parts across an entire car showing which where forces were directed and how each part of a car's structure reacted.
The question is: will the giant scanners actually fit in any existing crash test labs? This article written by Stephen Edelstein was published originally on Motor Authority a publishing partner of Popular Science.
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#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
A European union-funded research project spearheaded by the Swedish Defense research agency FOI aims to sniff out the telltale signs of bomb-making through the sewer system.
This article originally appeared in the October 2013 issue of Popular Science. my gf's aunt just got an awesome 6 month old Volkswagen Touareg by working parttime off of a pc.
I bought a great new Audi Quattro from earning $6538 this-4 weeks past and would you believe 10k this past-munth. it's by far the best work
The elderly obese man had drugs in his system as he stepped in front of the bus that squished him running away from his angry wife with that machete.
It does not show deaths from chronic health problems caused by drug use nor accidents (car crashes falls) nor suicides while intoxicated.
last saturday I bought a new Chevrolet from having earned $4701 this-last/4 weeks
The Rani Ki Van stepwell in India took approximately two weeks to get all the detail. Still other sites are collected incidentally.
Here cars use cameras and lasers to provide detailed travel maps capturing the curve of the road and details down to a centimeter accuracy.
either disable the attacking vehicle or cause any explosions to detonate prematurely with no American lives lost.
Provided of course the vehicle hasn't sprung a leak. We've been meaning to do this for a while says Adam Rein the company's lead director and cofounder over the buzz of the air compressor.
And instead of pouring concrete foundations and erecting a multistory tower a few people with a truck can inflate the airship on site
So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.
#For Car Buyers, The Repo Man Is Just A Click Away The problem with cars is that they move.
in order to track down repossessed vehicles. Now The New york times reports that some lenders are protecting their investments by making sure the cars are never really out of their control.
Thanks to GPS phone apps and ignition locking devices lenders can remotely shut down the car of someone who's behind on payments.
Note: This is a totally normal and not eerily dystopian thing to do. These devices mean lenders always know where the car is
and can alert the owners if they are behind on payments. Often the shutdown of a car leads to an immediate loan payment
if the borrower is capable though because these are typically subprime loans that isn t always the case.
These devices are distinct from previous attempts in car hacking not in function but in initiation.
Attempts to hack a car often involve gaining access to the car's controls without the driver's knowledge.
With lenders installing ignition-locking devices as a loan condition the cars are sold instead effectively pre-hacked d
and stature is so iconic that it launched a series of commercial vehicles. Now the Army wants to fill its light and fast shoes
and to do so they looked at three different vehicles last week during exercises in Fort Benning Georgia. Together the vehicles would enable the Army to do forcible entry missions
The first vehicle is in essence a light tank. Creatively titled Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) it s an armored vehicle that can be dropped from cargo planes.
The United states hasn't had a light parachutable tank since they retired the M551 Sheridan in 1996 and even then its performance was underwhelming;
The next vehicles is the ultra-lightweight combat vehicle (ULCV. The ULCV is in essence a turbo jeep.
It will carry a full nine person infantry squad along with their equipment up to 3200 pounds total.
The vehicle itself will weigh no more than 4500 pounds making the fully loaded and crewed vehicle under 8000 pounds.
It has to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter so that the crew can drive right in
or out and the vehicle should drive for at least 250 miles at full weight while also being able to survive a rollover.
While the current solicitation for the ULCV doesn't specify it a previous solicitation wanted the vehicle to to incorporate a medium caliber weapon into squad operations.
and engaging hardened enemy bunkers light armored vehicles and dismounted personnel in machine gun and sniper positions.
Together these vehicles will let the Army arrive from the sky and start fighting on day one all
while waiting for heavier vehicles and reinforcements to arrive. If they all work as expected the vehicles would add greatly to
what the Army can do early on in a war with the light tanks protecting the landing zone the combat vehicle carrying soldiers to the fight
and the light reconnaissance vehicle seeking out hidden dangers. Of course the Marines may already be there.
and soon they ll deploy vehicles too o
#Solar Car Powers Your House When It's Parked A team of twenty students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The netherlands entered the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2013 a six-day solar race
across Australia's Outback in the new Michelin Cruiser Class. Practicality was paramount for these entries
and opened the sloping rear compartment where the car's guts--motors controller etc. --were housed in little more than a couple of glorified wooden cigar boxes leaving vast amounts of empty space between the rear wheels.
Plenty of room for groceries and no need to sneak around in the dark of night to go shopping though the car does have headlights and strips of red LED taillights.
and out requires an ability to fold oneself into the low seats. It s a maneuver reminiscent of climbing in and out of Nascar stock cars through the window:
At about 14 km h the system settles into cruise mode which is as quiet as the whir of any electric vehicle.
but coming to a full stop unleashes the grinding symphony of traditional disc brakes. The unusual shape was a compromise between aerodynamics and comfort for at least two people as required by the cruiser class specifications.
The 60-kw battery sheathed in a bright yellow casing runs down the center of the vehicle
Stella is CO2-neutral and the first energy-positive car in the world. The solar array charges while the car is in motion as well as
when it is parked. We get more energy out of the car than is needed to drive it said de Renet.
That power as much as twice what the car uses can be returned to the grid. The system uses a Wi-fi protocol for vehicles 802. 11p to see where the driver cannot.
While some of the newest cars available at dealerships today use radar and cameras to detect other cars
and objects they can't transmit around corners. Wi-fi as you probably know from using it in your house for phones laptops
and gaming systems in different rooms can. Stella s sensors picked up on the signal being transmitted by a nearby speed sign
and alerted the driver on a screen fixed to the clean knob-less dashboard that the limit was 25 mph.
A tall van blocked the view of a traffic light but the V2i system onboard Stella alerted the driver to the red light before anyone in the car could see it.
As of July Stella has a permanent license plate and permission to drive on public roads s
Boeing will receive $4. 2 billion to build its CST-100 spacecraft a vehicle it has been working on for the past four years
Despite not being chosen for the program Sierra nevada plans to further develop its Shuttle-esque vehicle the Dream Chaser perhaps as a resupply vehicle or for commercial space flight t
How To Test A Self-Driving Car In May 2012 Google's self-driving car underwent a classic American teenage ritual.
The car passed but apparently not without a little lobbying from its parent. As state officials have monitored the robot car's mileage on public roads Google has lobbied for the car to get different tests
and to report different accident figures than the DMV wants a new series of reports finds.
Harris'work offers a detailed sense of the car's abilities. It's also a look at Google's lobbying the extent
You can see excerpts there of the car's 2012 Nevada driving test with notes and checkmarks just like you might have gotten as a nervous 16-year-old.
That's where you can see what situations the Google car is good at and in
For Quartz Harris reported on Google's lobbying not to have to report#how often its cars turn over the controls to their human drivers
The car is designed to routinely cede control when it encounters situations it can't handle.
when its cars get into accidents while a human not its algorithms is driving. The California DMV disagreed.
Once assembled in the shop the walls are shipped flat by truck to the construction site.
A team of university engineers has created a vehicle headlight that adjusts itself so that drivers can keep their high beams on even
when other cars are coming toward them. To the driver the light still looks extra-bright.
To make headlights appear dimmer to oncoming drivers the system tracks other cars and turns off only the beams that are aimed at those drivers.
whether it's cars raindrops street signs or anything else within 1 to 2. 5 milliseconds according to Carnegie mellon University.
Some car companies have created already and sold high beams that appear dimmer to other carss. Although they seem to be illegal in the U s.)Those adaptive high-beams work in much the same way aiming many beams of light at the world
(and probably too expensive and delicate) to go into cars now. The university plans to install it into a truck for testing next year.
It will take a few more years yet to miniaturize the light enough for ordinary cars s
#The Helmet That Could Change Football For decades football players have worn rigid unyielding helmets that protected the skull
and humans teaming up in separate vehicles. By the 2030s humans with robot copilots could fly alongside robots remotely controlled by humans u
so that they can travel safely through skies without hitting other vehicles. Google s driverless car program is an obvious touchstone for this project but it s a limited one.
Cars on roads travel in close proximity and only move in two dimensions. Aircraft operate in vast empty skies
and do so on three axes. Training a car to sense and avoid other cars#is simpler than doing the same for an aircraft.
Still Google s development and prior experience with cars is a strong sign that this work will continue and ultimately yield fruit.
Michael Toscano CEO of#the Association for Unmanned Vehicle systems International said thatit s worth noting that Google tested this technology in Australia first.
While the FAA clearly wants drones to sense and avoid other aircraft its been slow to implement changes
and create a regulatory framework that lets innovation like this happen stateside. If the drone industry wants to change the world it ll need an FAA that lets it deliver.
and moves instead of say having an airbag you use once and throw away. That saves a lot of mass you would need to fly on a mission which in turn saves on cost.
#Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar energy Used car batteries can leech chemicals and create lead pollution
In newly published research the scientists show that recycled lead from car batteries works as well as fresh lead
The group's work demonstrates that the perovskite created from the lead in just one old car battery could provide materials for 30 households-worth of solar energy cells.
The research Environmentally-responsible fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells from recycled car batteries was published recently online by the journal Energy and Environmental science.
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#Meet Harley davidson's First Electric motorcycle For 111 years, the Harley davidson has been known for many thingsreedom, leather,
This fall, before the motorcycle goes into production, Harley will take it on a tour of 30 dealers on both coasts to get feedback.
Harley-davidson Project Livewire Engine: Clutch-less electric motor Horsepower: 74 Fuel economy: n/a Price: n/a Range:
92 mph Car News You Should Care About 1) Ford will add adaptive steering into some models in 2015.
The technology, thus far limited to luxury vehicles, varies the steering ratio with the speed, making parking easier
and adding stability at high speeds. 2) Toyota has donated 208 used Camry Hybrid batteries to Yellowstone national park,
year) that mounts to the roof of Audi a4 and S4 sedans, and enables semi-autonomous driving on highways. 4) Honda has started using 3-D visualization technology co-developed with tech firm 3dx CITE for crash simulations.
Originally created for animated film, the software also allows for easier design changes. This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of Popular Science i
The Mistral class ship is designed to carry up to 700 troops, over 60 land vehicles, and around 30 light helicopters within landing distance of a coast, where they will (in peaceful situations) arrive
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