An international research team based at The University of Texas at Dallas has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to over 14 times their initial length and
Researchers also contributed from universities in Florida, China and Brazil l
#Reshaping the solar spectrum to turn light to electricity: UC Riverside researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun's spectrum to make solar cells more efficient A huge gain in this direction has now been made by a team of chemists at the University of California,
Riverside that has found an ingenious way to make solar energy conversion more efficient. The researchers report in Nano Letters that by combining inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals with organic molecules, they have succeeded in"upconverting"photons in the visible and near-infrared regions of the solar spectrum."
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and Columbia University team"Using a single symmetric molecule, an ionic solution and two gold electrodes of dramatically different exposed surface areas,
"says Jeff Neaton, Director of the Molecular Foundry, a senior faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division and the Department of physics at the University of California Berkeley,
Neaton and his colleagues at Columbia University have discovered a way to address both deficiencies.""Electron flow at molecular length-scales is dominated by quantum tunneling,
"In collaboration with Columbia University's Latha Venkataraman and Luis Campos and their respective research groups, Neaton and Liu fabricated a high-performing rectifier from junctions made of symmetric molecules with molecular resonance
"The Berkeley Lab-Columbia University team believes their new approach to a single-molecule diode provides a general route for tuning nonlinear nanoscale-device phenomena that could be applied to systems beyond single-molecule junctions
Also participating were Aleksei Aksimentiev, associate professor of physics and Karl Decker, graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Junli Hou and Wen Si, Fundan University, Shanghai, China; Thomas Walz, professor of cell biology and Rita de Zorzi, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical school.
The National Science Foundation, the U s army Corps of Engineers, an Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Allocation and the Blue waters petascale supercomputer system at University of Illinois supported parts of this research h
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
A team of oncologists and engineers from the University of Michigan teamed up to help understand this crucial question.
"says study co-lead author Steven G. Allen, an M d.-Ph d. student in the University of Michigan Medical school's Medical scientist Training program.
"says study co-lead author Yu-Chih Chen, a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical engineering and Computer science at the University of Michigan College of Engineering.
"says co-senior study author Sofia D. Merajver, M d.,Ph d.,scientific director of the breast oncology program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Researchers from the University of Manchester, together with BGT Materials Limited, a graphene manufacturer in the United kingdom, have printed a radio frequency antenna using compressed graphene ink.
/University of Manchester) The study demonstrates that printable graphene is now ready for commercial use in low-cost radio frequency applications,
said Zhirun Hu, a researcher in the School of Electrical and Electronic engineering at the University of Manchester."
It will bring many new applications to our daily life very soon,"added Kostya S. Novoselov, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, who coordinated the project.
The University of Manchester research team together with BGT Materials Limited, found a way to increase the conductivity of graphene ink without resorting to a binder.
The University of Manchester and BGT Materials Limited team has plans to further develop graphene enabled RFID tags,
Now a team of Northwestern University researchers has found a way to print three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.
Although the two materials are structurally similar both composed of hexagonal arrays of atoms that form two-dimensional sheets they each interact with light quite differently.
a researcher at IBM and the University of Minnesota, says, ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand.
Sheng Shen, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this research, says, his work represents significant progress on understanding tunable interactions of light in graphene-hbn.
has been discovered by researchers at Temple University and the University of Maryland. The researchers, Harsh Deep Chopra, professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Temple,
Gail Bishop, a professor of microbiology at the University of Iowa Carver School of medicine and director of the schools Center for Immunology and Immune-Based Diseases, says that this paper presents a creative new approach with considerable
#Nanotechnology helps protect patients from bone infection Leading scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered nanotechnology could hold the key to preventing deep bone infections,
led by the University of Sheffield School of Clinical Dentistry, showed applying small quantities of antibiotic to the surface of medical devices,
Professor of Biomaterials Sciences at the University of Sheffield, said: icroorganisms can attach themselves to implants
An international research team led by University at Buffalo engineers has developed nanotechnology that promises to make SERS simpler and more affordable.
and Zhejun Liu, Phd candidate, both at Fudan University in China. When a powerful laser interacts chemical and biological molecules,
#Powerful tool to control living cells at will by light A research group at the University of Tokyo has developed small photoswitching proteins that enable the highly accurate control of the activity of various intracellular molecules at will by irradiation with light.
in association with Montpellier Regional University Hospital and Stanford university, have transformed bacteria into"secret agents"that can give warning of a disease based solely on the presence of characteristic molecules in the urine or blood.
In this new work, the teams led by Jérôme Bonnet (CBS, Inserm U1054, CNRS UMR5048, Montpellier University), Franck Molina (Sysdiag, CNRS FRE 3690),
in association with Professor Eric Renard (Montpellier Regional University Hospital) and Drew Endy (Stanford university), applied this new technology to the detection of disease signals in clinical samples.
With this in mind, Jonesteam, together with industrial partners and other universities, has been developing low-cost pollution detectors that are small enough to fit in your pocket,
and they contain laser technology (developed by the University of Hertfordshire) to detect particulates from cars and lorries.
The current study uses technology Ott discovered as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota, in
Students and faculty at Vanderbilt University fabricated these tiny Archimedes spirals and then used ultrafast lasers at Vanderbilt and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington,
. who is also the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard, and Robert Wood, Ph d.,who is also the Charles river Professor of Engineering and Applied sciences AT SEAS.
has been fabricated by Professor Ken-ichi SAITOW (Natural science Center for Basic Research and development, Hiroshima University), Graduate student Yunzi XIN (Graduate school of Science, Hiroshima University),
"Professor Ken-ichi Saitow, Natural science Center for Basic Research and development, Hiroshima University and Graduate student Yunzi Xin, Graduate school of Science, Hiroshima University, have fabricated an Si QD hybrid LED.
"Researchers from the UAB and the University of Nottingham, in an article published today in Physical Review Letters,
#Researchers build world's first fully functioning single crystal waveguide in glass Researchers from Lehigh University,
Lehigh University) The article's lead author, Adam Stone, received his Ph d. in materials science and engineering from Lehigh in 2014.
and researchers from Kyoto University in Japan and Polytechnique Montreal in Canada. The group says its achievement will boost ongoing efforts to develop photonic integrated circuits (PICS) that are smaller, cheaper, more energy-efficient and more reliable than current networks that use discrete optoelectronic components--waveguides, splitters, modulators, filters
"After conducting experiments at Lehigh and at Kyoto University and Polytechnique Montreal, the group built a single crystal in glass,
A study done at The University of Akron may be able to make this a reality in the near future.
and Ming Xiao, graduate student, recently published a paper in a joint project with the University of California,
and UV radiation (Nanowerk News) RMIT University researchers have created wearable sensor patches that detect harmful UV radiation and dangerous, toxic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen dioxide (Small,"Stretchable
#3d printing of metal with microscale droplets A team of researchers from the University of Twente has found a way to 3d print structures of copper and gold,
Researchers from FOM and the University of Twente now made a major step towards high-resolution metal printing.
at the Indian Institute of technology and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. They were performed in standard lab conditions as well as in a vacuum, outside in the open air and at variable humidity, temperatures, times and seasons.
which included researchers from Boston College, UC Berkeley and China's University of Science and Technology, decided to focus on hematite's surface imperfections,
Co-author Allen, a scientist with Melbourne University in Australia, who led the theoretical and modeling aspects of the new imaging technique,
"Says co-author Marks, a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, "We are excited also quite by the possibilities of applying these to corrosion problems.
When working on a unique lithium-germanide battery with colleagues from the National University of Singapore,
the leader of the team at the National University of Singapore where the battery was developed."
Computations made by the group of Professor Thomas Heine from Jacobs University Bremen, which is involved also in the project,
and computer engineering and is moving to postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The paper describes how the engineers fabricated microtubes just 8 millimeters long and less than a hundredth of an inch wide.
The current study was supported by Kim's six-year, $400, 000 Faculty Early Career development Award from the National Science Foundation.
together with colleagues from the High Magnetic field Laboratories at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and at the Radboud University in The netherlands, published the new findings on niobium phosphide in the journal Nature Physics.
as well as the High Field magnet Laboratory at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and the Diamond Light source in Oxfordshire, England.
The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program. Ups and downs The circuit chief function is to regulate the voltages between the solar cell, the battery,
#New technique for'seeing'ions at work in a supercapacitor Researchers from the University of Cambridge, together with French collaborators based in Toulouse,
#Smart insulin patch could replace injections for diabetes Painful insulin injections could become a thing of the past for the millions of Americans who suffer from diabetes, thanks to a new invention from researchers at North carolina State university and the University
#Biomanufacturing of Cds quantum dots A team of Lehigh University engineers have demonstrated a bacterial method for the low-cost, environmentally friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot (QD) nanocrystals at room temperature.
supplied by Lehigh's Faculty Innovation Grant (FIG) and Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant (CORE) programs.
Such as it happens in the small town of Agliano d'Asti, where the University of Turin,
University of Turin, Faculty of agriculture) We started about one and a half years ago, explains Andrea Molino,
About 25 years ago a farmer, named Mario Boggio, gave some kilos of Piattella to the University of Turins germplasm bank,
#New device tracks chemical signals within cells Biomedical engineers at the University of Toronto have invented a new device that more quickly
A breakthrough in a University of Central Florida lab has brought those scenarios closer to reality.
Now researchers at the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) have made a crucial step toward nuclear spintronic technologies.
for the first time, an University of Zurich research team headed by Professor Ohad Medalia has succeeded in displaying the spatial structure of the transport channel in the nuclear pores in high resolution (Nature Communications,
are being developed by mechanical engineers at Drexel University as a part of a surgical toolkit being assembled by the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in South korea.
#University spinout signs deal to commercialize microchips that release therapeutics inside the body (Nanowerk News) An implantable,
Professor Andrei Rode, from The Australian National University (ANU).""We've created two entirely new crystal arrangements,
#Nanogenerator harvests power from rolling tires A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and a collaborator from China have developed a nanogenerator that harvests energy from a car's rolling tire friction.
University of Wisconsin-Madiso o
#Graphene flexes its electronic muscles Flexing graphene may be the most basic way to control its electrical properties, according to calculations by theoretical physicists at Rice university and in Russia.
said Arvind Raman, Purdue University's Robert V. Adams Professor of Mechanical engineering. In atomic force microscopy (AFM), a tiny vibrating probe called a cantilever passes over a material
nighttime conversion (Nanowerk News) A University of Texas at Arlington materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store large-scale solar energy even
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
researchers at University of Michigan Life sciences Institute and University of Texas Southwestern Medical center have discovered. The findings,
South korean researchers at the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Department of chemistry and Division of Advanced Materials science at Pohang University, have created a new LIB made from a porous solid
#Visualizing RNAI at work University of Tokyo and Kyoto University researchers have revealed the molecular mechanism of RNA interference (RNAI), the phenomenon by
which the synthesis of a specific protein is inhibited, by real time observation of target RNA cleavage at the single-molecule level.
a research group at the University of Tokyo (Professor Takuya Ueda, Professor Yukihide Tomari, Researcher Chunyan Yao and Research Associate Hiroshi M Sasaki,)
and at Kyoto University (Researcher Hisashi Tadakuma), has developed a single-molecule imaging assay for observing target RNA cleavage by RISC in a test tube in real time for the first time,
#'Invisible'protein structure explains the power of enzymes A research group at Ume University in Sweden has managed to capture
"Research on Bioenergy is an active field at Ume University. An important, practical application of the new knowledge can be enzymatic digestion of useful molecules from wooden raw materials,
"One of the strengths of Ume University is the open cooperative climate with low or no barriers between research groups.
The scientists synthesized Nb3site6 crystals in a laboratory at Tulane University (New orleans. They then separated them into two-dimensional layers, taking samples for further analysis by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray crystal analysis and other methods.
#A new approach to develop highly-potent drugs A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers suggests a new approach to develop highly-potent drugs
"In a new study, electrical engineers at the University of California, San diego have designed a cloaking device that is both thin
Fimiani was a student at the University of Trieste when she began this study at SISSA for her dissertation."
Dr. Zhang, Padmos and their collaborators from Northwestern University and University of California, Riverside combined a powerful x-ray from a mile-sized synchrotron facility with computer modelling based on density functional theory.
It was observed by a team of researchers including Gilles Hickson, an assistant professor at the University of Montreals Department of Pathology and Cell biology and researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, his assistant Silvana Jananji, in collaboration with Nelio
#Nanoscale light-emitting device has big profile University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size.
University of Oxford) Graphene promises to be a'wonder material'for building new technologies because of its combination of strength, flexibility, electrical properties,
Under a commercialisation programme devised by Isis Innovation, the technology commercialisation company of the University of Oxford,
A new technology--called"Sticky-flares"--developed by nanomedicine experts at Northwestern University offers the first real-time method to track
Aurasense, Inc.,a biotechnology company that licensed the Nanoflare technology from Northwestern University, and EMD-Millipore, another biotech company, have commercialized Nanoflares.
Now researchers from Korea University in Seoul, have developed an easy and microelectronics-compatible method to grow graphene
J. Kim/Korea University, Korea)" For integrating graphene into advanced silicon microelectronics, large-area graphene free of wrinkles, tears and residues must be deposited on silicon wafers at low temperatures,
"said Jihyun Kim, the team leader and a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological engineering at Korea University."
a researcher from University of Malaya who lead the project. Then, they wrapped the Ag/Tio2 nanoparticles in sheets of reduced graphene oxide (RGO), a thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
"researchers from MIT and the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil demonstrate a novel method for using nanoparticles
Eliana Martins Lima, of the Federal University of Goiás, is the other co-author. Both Brandl and Bertrand are trained as pharmacists,
says Frank Gu, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,
Experts at The University of Nottingham have discovered the first fully synthetic substrate with potential to grow billions of stem cells.
The University of Tokyo (concurrently serving as the Director of the Innovation Center of Nanomedicine,
"The study was led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet who collaborated with a group at Finland's Aalto University.
who directed the team at the Aalto University Computer science department. The possible applications are many. The team at Karolinska Institutet has made previously a DNA nano-caliper used for studying cell signalling.
along with graduate student Yanyan Wang at Texas A&m University (USA) has provided a solution. For the first time the researchers have been able to produce amphiphilic polycarbonate block copolymers in
a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University who was not involved with this study.
The latest breakthrough comes from Lu's collaboration with Kai Tan at the University of Iowa, a systems biologist and associate professor of internal medicine.
#Researchers design first artificial ribosome Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic cellular component,
or organelle, that produces all the proteins and enzymes within the cell. The engineered ribosome may enable the production of new drugs and next-generation biomaterials and lead to a better understanding of how ribosomes function.
Researchers at Purdue University have shown how an optical material made of aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) is able to modulate
visiting scholar Marcello Ferrera from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland; Shalaev and Boltasseva. Exposing the material to a pulsing laser light causes electrons to move from one energy level called the valence band to a higher energy level called the conduction band.
"says study first author Narayanan"Bobby"Kasthuri, of the Boston University School of medicine.""We had this clean idea of how there's a really nice order to how neurons connect with each other,
"said Patricia Dove, a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and the C. P. Miles Professor of Science in the College of Science."
and the connection to community support,"adds Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter, a professor of pediatrics at Cooper University Hospital in New jersey,
Researchers from the University of Kansas found that high doses of intravenously supplied Vitamin c effectively eradicates cancer cells in human subjects.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of medicine have discovered recently that lymphatic vessels do in fact go up into the brain,
Daniel Altman, senior economic editor at Foreign policy magazine and an adjunct professor at New york University's Stern School of business, called the bailouts"stupid"in a recent column."
but how much practical use it will be is less clear, notes Guy Cox, a microscopy specialist at the University of Sydney,
Scientists working at the University of Rostock in Germany proposed a similar idea in the early 1990s,
Today in Nature, a team led by Kim Lewis of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, report that the antibiotic,
says Gerard Wright, a biochemist at Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Canada, who was not involved with the study. obody knew
But medical microbiologist Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University, UK, urges caution because the drug has been tested against only a small number of lab strains.
#Phd students build brain-controlled FPV drone Two Phd students from University of Florida, Marvin Andujar and Chris Crawford, have built a mind-machine method to control a drone through a wearable electroencephalographic (EEG) Brain-Computer Interface device.
The Division of Multimedia Properties at University of Florid f
#Jaguar land rover Mind Sense research monitors brainwaves through the hands via sensors in the steering wheel Jaguar land rover has revealed the ixth Senseproject,
researchers at the University of Virginia School of medicine have determined that the brain is connected directly to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.
An international team of scientists led by Cardiff University researchers has provided the strongest evidence yet of
The breakthrough builds on two landmark studies led by members of the Cardiff University team, published last year in the journal Nature. ee finally starting to understand what goes wrong in schizophrenia,
says lead author Dr Andrew Pocklington from Cardiff University MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics. ur study marks a significant step towards understanding the biology underpinning schizophrenia,
based at Cardiff University MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics. This paper not only confirms their previous findings,
#Reprogramming of DNA Obeserved in Human Germ cells for First time A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome the suite of molecules attached to our DNA that switch our genes on and off is erased comprehensively in early primordial germ cells prior to the generation of egg
A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome the suite of molecules attached to our DNA that switch our genes on
Professor Azim Surani from the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, explains:
Craig Brierley University of Cambridgeimage Credit: The image is credited to the researchers/Celloriginal Research: Full open access research for Unique Gene Regulatory Network Resets the Human Germline Epigenome for Developmentby Walfred W c. Tang, Sabine Dietmann, Naoko Irie, Harry
#Researchers Discover Initiation Mechanism for Dendritic Spines Researchers from the University of Helsinki, ETH Zürich,
says project leader Pirta Hotulainen from the Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki. This research has been collaboration between many distinct research groups combining cell biology to neuroscience. o sole research group could have achieved such a comprehensive view of the dendritic spine initiation mechanism and show its importance for the brain function
The discovery by Tufts University biologists presents the first model of regeneration discovered by a nonhuman intelligence and the first comprehensive model of planarian regeneration,
also known as Lou Gehrig disease, has been discovered by scientists at the CHUM Research Centre and the University of Montreal.
and trigger the disease, said Alex Parker, CRCHUM researcher and associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Montreal.
All authors are affiliated with the CHUM Research Centre and the University of Montreal: Julie Veriepe, Lucresse Fossouo and J. Alex Parker.
University of Montrealimage Credit: The image is credited to the NIHORIGINAL Research: Abstract for eurodegeneration in C. elegans models of ALS requires TIR-1/Sarm1 immune pathway activation in neuronsby Julie Vérièpe, Lucresse Fossouo and J Alex Parker
In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain sciences in Leipzig, the University of Amsterdam and INSERM Caen have pinpointed the location of musical memory for the first time
says Jörn-Henrik Jacobsen, scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and the University of Amsterdam.
However, scientists at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Centre (SMNC) at Karolinska Institutet Department of Neuroscience in collaboration with colleagues at Linköping University, have created now an organic bioelectronic device that is capable of receiving chemical signals,
. E. P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies at Mcgill University and Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain. he realization that the biological basis for pain between men and women
The research was conducted by teams from Mcgill University, The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids), and Duke university,
said Michael Salter, M d.,Ph d.,Head and Senior Scientist, Neuroscience & Mental health at Sickkids and Professor at The University of Toronto,
and at the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University, was published today in the journal Neuron.
#Novel Disease Gene Linked to Neurodegenerative Disorders Identified Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) have discovered
but a University of Sydney undergraduate student Cleo Loi, 23, has proven that the phenomenon exists.
As an undergraduate student with no prior background in this, that is an impressive achievement, said Dr Murphy, also of CAASTRO and the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. hen they first saw the data,
Desmond Ramirez and Todd Oakley of the University of California at Santa barbara shone light on samples of skin from the octopus and within around 6 seconds,
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