flat-screen TVS, gaming consoles, laptops, electric bikes, and air conditioners, while reducing the cost of manufacturing.
if you take the area of the plane and the solid angle of light coming out from that plane, that is fixed,
Cossairt says. hat that means is that if you take the 3-D image size
With his new colleagues at Lincoln Lab Krieger has performed experiments at radar frequencies using a one-dimensional array of sensors deployed in a parking lot
when you re walking through the airport and you hit the moving walkway. When you get off
and transport are important processes in solar-cell devices so understanding what limits these may well help the design of better materials
These illicit products which include electronics, automotive and aircraft parts, pharmaceuticals, and food can pose safety risks and cost governments and private companies hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
or consumers. conomists tend to think what drives international price differences are things like transportation costs, information costs, tariffs, cultural differences, and other factors,
In an incubator at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the renamed Sample6 tailored the product for the food industry before relocating to its current headquarters in Boston Seaport District,
Further down the road, he says, a goal is to transform diagnostics into something more accessible to the public perhaps even leading to at home diagnostics. undamentally,
and charging them requires plug-in infrastructure that s still sparse in the United states. Now MIT spinout XL Hybrids is upfitting (and retrofitting) gas and diesel commercial vans and trucks with fuel-saving add-on electric powertrains
The system s powertrain includes an electric traction motor a lithium-ion battery advanced power converters
and other connecting components that attach to the powertrains of traditional General motors and Ford cargo delivery and shuttle vans as well as cutaway trucks.
-and-go traffic of urban areas. Over the past year XL Hybrids co-founded by Clay Siegert SM 09
and other companies have started retrofitting vehicles with electric powertrains. But XL Hybrids innovation comes from targeting commercial fleet vehicles with a good value proposition all around Hynes says offering low-cost equipment quick installation savings on gas and oil and easy integration.
and maintenance and the time employees spend filling up at gas stations. Also downsizing engines: An XL Hybrids electric motor adds torque to an existing powertrain meaning a customer can reduce the size of the engine from say a 6-liter to a 4. 8-liter
and get better acceleration which can save hundreds or thousands of dollars upfront Hynes says.
and more than 95 percent of transportation fuel is oil. So he quit his job in 2008 with the aim of starting a company to cut oil consumption.
With rising innovations in batteries and advanced power inverters and motors Hynes backed into a technological solution with retrofitted electric powertrains.
the researchers took advantage of albumin function as a transporter of molecules called fatty acids. Albumin has binding pockets that can capture fatty, hydrophobic molecules,
and a bicycle-powered charging system for cellphones and lanterns. Davide Zaccagnini a vascular surgeon and program manager for the Science Monks and Technology Leadership Program says he was motivated to join because
It even being used in helicopter extraction and rescue missions. Finding steady success with its military customers, Atlas is now expanding its Charlestown, Mass.
Also, the APA can function as a backup for a helicopter if something goes awry with the primary hoist:
Instead of flying the helicopter back to base for a working hoist, rescuers can store the APA in a seat compartment,
when you get the chance to enable something you couldn do before like continue a helicopter rescue operation
In a conventional Time of Flight camera, a light signal is fired at a scene where it bounces off an object
and thus provides a promising alternative route for n demandmolecular sensing, says Cognet, who was not part of the research team.
For example, in trying to prevent the buildup of ice on an airplane wing, the contact time of raindrops is critical:
crews sprayed seawater on the reactors to cool them to no avail. One possible reason:
and quite sophisticated mechanism may open new routes for manipulating particles and cells in an elegant manner.
while resting and are unable to mentally replay a route they have just run as normal mice do.
and in no particular order indicating that the mice were not replaying the route they had just run.
#Finding blood clots before they wreak havoc Life-threatening blood clots can form in anyone who sits on a plane for a long time is confined to bed
including materials used in aircraft, oil wells, and other critical industrial applications. Metal fatigue, for example which can result from an accumulation of nanoscale cracks over time s probably the most common failure modefor structural metals in general
a research director at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and a Morocrafts advisory board member. t provides not only more transparency but also a connection between consumers and artisans,
and research scientist Arnold Heynen, in collaboration with scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Roche pharmaceuticals.
created by Alea Mills at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Using electrophysiological biochemical, and behavioral analyses, the MIT team compared this 16p11.2 mouse with
a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily attached to a bike and powered by pedaling, the low-cost,
cast-iron sheller allowed farmers to process their corn 10 times faster in one day, as opposed to weeks when done by hand.
This machine resembles a stationary bike, with a wooden seat and a hand-cranked sheller at its side.
Moreover, it required dismantling used bikes, which are valuable commodities for Tanzanians. That when Wu engineered a solution. e were building this pedal-powered machine,
In D-Lab, she modified the sheller into a $30 dd-onfor a bike by constructing a bike stand
and gears on the upper part of the bike to attach and detach devices. Now not only could farmers process all their maize in one day,
but they also retained their bikes for other uses. In 2009, Wu continued developing the device
or a bike-powered butter churner that couldn find a market. But GCS is now furthering development on a motorized multicrop thresher eveloped by a team of students that the Bill
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
An onboard control system has software to track the route and manage the cameras. On the software side, computer vision and machine-learning algorithms stitch together the images, extract features,
An additional major advantage is the ability to bring these models on commercial airplanes, whereas real parts of bombs are allowed never.
The training set costs approximately $7, 000 and may be shipped as ordinary luggage on commercial flights.
and our reliance on that convenient, high-energy density resource will likely continue for decades to come, especially in the transportation sector.
that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,
This kind of data can be used to ease the flow of urban traffic and optimize retail setups.
which meant that it would not disrupt graphene's electrical transport properties. By not doping the graphene sheet
but simply placing it on the layer of yttrium iron garnet they ensured that graphene's excellent electrical transport properties remained unchanged.
Are formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes. Their paper was published in Nano Letters an ACS journal.
E-jet printing refers to a technique called electrohydrodynamic jet described as a micro/nanomanufacturing process that uses an electric field to induce fluid jet printing through micro/nanoscale nozzles.
High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots Formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes Nano Lett. Article ASAP.
if focus is on transport of solar power from North africa and Southern Europe to Northern europe.""Reducing energy losses during electric power transmission is one of the most important factors for the energy systems of the future,
They can power a defibrillator open the emergency slides on an aircraft and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles.
These chaperones, called nuclear transport receptors, have the property of lubricating the strands and relaxing the barrier, letting the larger molecules through.
It is important as we are exposed more and more to nanoparticles in our everyday lives through different routes such as inhalation direct contact or ingestion.
#Bending but not breaking in search of new materials Making a paper airplane in school used to mean trouble.
In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage a submarine complete with crew is shrunk in size so that it can navigate through the human body enabling the crew to perform surgery in the brain.
This scenario remains in the realm of science fiction and transporting a surgical team to a disease site will certainly remain fiction.
Imagine that the host of a dinner party tries to get his guests'attention by giving a single tap of his oyster spoon on his crystal glass.
We developed an innovative self-assembly route which could surpass the conventional thermodynamic limit in chemical synthetic systems explains Sui Yang lead author of the Nature Nanotechnology paper and member of Zhang's research group.
The bottom-up route fills these requirements. Starting with a solution of colloidal nanorods Yang and Ni built on the common self-assembly technique used to build nanoparticles.
But seen from the side three distinct layers are revealed with sulfur atoms in their own planes above and below the molybdenum.
What we see in the images are short 5-to 6-nanometer planes and a lot of edge as though the material had drilled bore holes all the way through.
We see anodization as a route to materials for multiple platforms in the next generation of alternative energy devices Tour said.
or airport scanners used to sense explosives or chemical threats. Zang says scanners with the new technology"could be used by the military police,
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.
and devices in the development of programmable circuits, appears in the prestigious journal Nature Nanotechnology under the title"Long-range charge transport in single G-quadruplex DNA molecules."
which helped to verify the efficacy of its application in a pilot 100 litre digester.
and thereby prevent life-shortening permanent damage to their already vulnerable airways. Thanks to a nearly $1. 3 million grant from the National Science Foundation
Bicycles and Airplane propellers This is only possible because light has an intrinsic angular momentum, the spin. Similar to a pendulum which can swing in one particular plane
""A simple plane wave has the same polarization everywhere, "says Arno Rauschenbeutel, "but when the intensity of the light changes locally, the polarization changes too."
The rotational plane of the light wave pivots by 90 degrees.""Then, the direction of propagation is perpendicular to the spin, just like a bicycle, moving into a direction
which is perpendicular to the axes of the wheels.""By checking the wheels'direction of rotation clockwise
whether a bicycle moves right or left when looking at it from the side. It is exactly the same with the beams of light in the ultra-thin glass fibre.
and everything is defined in planes. In many applications you want the three-dimensionality: 3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together
""Our research focuses on understanding the physics of thermal transport on submicron length-scales in the presence of an interface,
"Our study focused on a variety of crystals that have controlled differences in thermal transport properties, such as Si, doped Si,
Wilson and Cahill also studied the effect of interfaces on nanoscale thermal transport.""It's been well known for 75 years that the presence of a boundary adds a thermal boundary resistance to the heat-transfer problem,
but it's always been assumed that this boundary resistance was localized to the interface and independent of the thermal transport properties of the underlying material,"Cahill added."
Stacked compounds are ideal for charge transport since this configuration has the largest charge transport anisotropy.
Charge transport anisotropy is a phenomenon where electrons flow faster along a particular crystallographic direction due to close molecule-molecule interactions.
while maintaining exceptional ability to transport charges. This is achieved thanks to clever nanoengineering of the active layer inside the device.
one can achieve significantly higher charge transport and electricity than had previously been possible using the same materials.
This means that the transport of electric charges occurs with a very little energy loss. Previous studies have reported that there is a percolation threshold for the amount of carbon nanotubes necessary to transport efficiently electric charges in a device.
Then you could unload the remaining cargo at the destination.''However this still requires fine-tuning.
The interfaces separating the different crystalline regions determine the transport electrical and radiation properties of the material as a whole said Pratik Dholabhai principal Los alamos National Laboratory researcher on the project.
Srtio3 can be viewed like a layer cake with alternating planes of Sro and Tio2. Thus in principle when matching Srtio3 with another material there is a choice as to
The observed relationship between the termination chemistry and the dislocation structure of the interface offers potential avenues for tailoring transport properties
#Engineers show light can play seesaw at the nanoscale University of Minnesota electrical engineering researchers have developed a unique nanoscale device that for the first time demonstrates mechanical transportation of light.
or a runner or could be used as part of a gyroscope for navigation Li said.
Graphene has superb electronic transport properties and has an intrinsically high surface-to-volume ratio
The researchers'familiarity with thin films and ionic transport enabled them to exploit chemistry, rather than temperature,
Li said the group has also been working with industry to see how these findings might apply in the transportation and consumer electronics sectors.
The team details its research in"Energy-filtered cold electron transport at room temperature, "which is published in Nature Communications on Wednesday, Sept. 10."
In fluorinated graphene the fluorine atoms do stick up out of the plane of carbon atoms but the physical changes in height paled in comparison to the changes of local energy each fluorine atom produced.
You could say it's like trying slide over a smooth road versus a bumpy road.
#Rethinking basic science of graphene synthesis shows route to industrial-scale production A new route to making graphene has been discovered that could make the 21st century's wonder material easier to ramp up to industrial scale.
Now, a team of Penn State scientists has discovered a route to making single-layer graphene that has been overlooked for more than 150 years."
and disentangle generation, transport, and different loss mechanisms throughout the entire bias range.""The output of this new technique is the precise reproduction of the device's current density-voltage curve through the entire voltage range between the bias extremes.
and solar cells to be developed for highly integrated electronic and optical circuits within a single atomic plane."
have a crystalline structure and better electrical transport properties, "Wang says.""Factor in a femtosecond charge transfer rate
Here, the researchers demonstrated that it is possible to construct multicolor holograms from a single plane.
This projection is so wide that it is not even possible to display it on a plane,
During the formation of nanowires scientists noted an increase in the expression of electron transport genes but no corresponding increase in the expression of pilin genes.
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 nanowires are outer membrane and periplasmic extensions of the extracellular electron transport components PNAS www. pnas. org/cgi/doi/10.1073
and composition by a seed-mediated growth route,"explains lead researcher Jackie Ying from the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.
Nokia worked with the QMUL team to create an energy harvesting prototype (a nanogenerator) that could be used to charge a mobile phone using everyday background noise such as traffic,
A high-performance EC electrode must have high electrical conductivity, a high ion-accessible surface area, a high ionic transport rate and high electrochemical stability.
exceptional mechanical flexibility and unique hierarchical porosity, ensuring the efficient transport of electrons and ions and enabling the highest gravimetric energy densities of 127 watt hours per kilogram and volumetric energy density of 90 watt hours per liter.
when he was a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab."The other thing we see at airports is the use of swabs to check for explosive residue,
Monolayer materials experience strain on atomic scales demanding different investigative expertise than that of the average demolition crew.
Whether or not the future of automotive traffic belongs to the softly purring electric car depends largely on the development of its batteries.
and the arrangement of the atoms in one of the planes of the nanocrystal catalyst facilitates the (n,
and transport their guest molecules through the membrane of living cells to sequentially deliver their cargo.
Although the transport of molecules inside cells with nanoparticles has been achieved previously using various methods researchers have developed nanoparticles capable of delivering
and exchange their cargo. This interaction enables the energy transfer between the internalized molecules says Raymo director of the UM laboratory for molecular photonics.
Under the right conditions the reversibility of these weak noncovalent contacts allows the supramolecular constructs to exchange their components as well as their cargo.
The author thought the inner surface property was the base for confined transportation. Their work
Since use of the battery that is a powerful electric source for portable electric devices has expanded to a variety of new areas such as transportation
#Nanoparticles could provide easier route for cell therapy UT Arlington physics researchers may have developed a way to use laser technology to deliver drug and gene therapy at the cellular level without damaging surrounding tissue.
which is used commonly in the semiconductor industry to help route electricity. They observed the metal atoms becoming charged ions, clustering with up to thousands of others into metal nanoparticles,
Applied together these strategies might provide a practical route to nanostructures exhibiting carrier multiplication performance approaching the limits imposed by energy conservation n
Other groups of scientists have assembled such planes of nanoparticles, essentially floating them on a liquid surface,
or to control the transport of molecular or nanoscale objects through liquid interfaces. For example, said Gang,
they can measure a red beacon signal that the dye gives offbut in this case, unlike a traffic signal,
The arrangement provides huge amounts of accessible surface area96 square meters per gram of hybrid fiberor the transport and storage of charges.
and machine applications like dancing martial arts flying a plane helicopter or even space ships of the future!!!
We're looking at a revolution in transportation he says. For Bond the engine represents the beginning of the world's first fully reusable spaceship a new kind of craft that promises to do
The vehicle would have a fuselage reminiscent of the Concorde and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2
and blast out of the atmosphere like a rocket. On the return trip Skylon would touch down on the same runway it launched from.
That price would even undercut the $50 million sum that private spaceflight company Spacex plans to charge to launch cargo on its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.
and his crew plan to turn to public and private investors for the remaining $3. 6 billion necessary to complete the engine
which they say could be ready for flight tests in the next four years. Building the craft itself would require a much heftier investment:
They can haul more cargo and more fuel than single-stage craft. Rockets also offer reliability on average only one out of 20 launches fail in part
Spacex CEO Elon musk told an audience at the National Press Club in 2011 that private spaceflights would need to follow a model closer to that of airlines.
If planes were not reusable very few people would fly he said. Spacex plans to make rocket stages reusable
Hempsell says Skylon could potentially make 100 flights annually which if true could in its first year recoup the money spent in R&d
supersonic aviation. It could enable an aircraft to fly anywhere in the world in under four hours says Bond.
When air strikes an engine at five times the speed of sound it can heat up to nearly 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
If and when the engine passes flight tests one of Reaction engines'plans is to license the technology to a potential partner in the aerospace industry.
It all starts with regular SSTO flights. Very awesome breakthrough on heat exchange. This single breakthrough will ripple through a host of applications.
This saves on the weight of oxygen that would otherwise be needed for the flight through the atmosphere.
Most aircraft are designed to fly with a nose up angle of attack. This way the fuselage generates lift.
Since the engine inlet is extremely sensitive to the direction of airflow at high mach numbers it is angled down 7 degrees
but then they wouldn't have a convenient place for the rear landing gear and having the engines close to the ground makes them easier to service.
4. If LOX is an oxidiser for at least part of the flight where is the tank?
5. If LOX is used for part of the flight its weight needs to be factored in. Not just the weight of liquid hydrogen.
or a taxi service to the ISS. The Space program should be about exploration beyond Earth.
what you are requesting just a few years down the road. A cheap launch system is needed desperately for support of deep space missions and other needs.
and British flag together with the Reaction engines logo on the side of the fuselage in the picture at the beginning of the article.
I can see a Reaction engines/Rolls royce partnership (I think RR was involved originally in Skylonâ#predecessor project HOTOL) providing the engines a Boeing/Lockheed martin/Any other building the airframe EADS providing the avionics or any other subsystem.
#In Japan, Eight People With Two Laptops Launch A Telescope Into Orbit A new low-cost highly automated rocket from Japan's space agency launched Saturday with just eight crew members and two laptops on-site.
#FAA Panel Recommends Lifting Ban On Gadget Use During Flights After receiving countless complaints abuse towards flight attendants who are only doing their jobs
whether electronic gadgets actually are dangerous during a flight's takeoff and landing. A 28-person advisory panel just concluded its study
the airplane's speed means that you'll be switching from tower to tower faster than your phone
Instead devices in airplane mode meaning devices with all their radios (Wi-fi Bluetooth and cellular) turned off would be just fine to use.
and flipped your gadget to airplane mode watch away. Gadget manufacturers have been campaigning for years for a change in the FAA's policy
when the plane is below 10000 feet). Amazon especially is annoyed as its Kindle ebook reader suffers a distinct weakness compared with physical books given that you aren't currently allowed to use a Kindle during part of your flight.
Amazon has tested previously interference on its own by testing an airplane packed full of Kindles as an Amazon representative told the AP.#The advisory panel's decision is likely to be implemented by the FAA;
the FAA not only created the panel but also had a hand in selecting some of the members
By Thursday all of the scientists at Palmer will be sent home leaving the station with a skeleton crew of about a dozen contractors;
because supplies including scientific equipment take a long involved route from a port in Long beach California south to the port in Punta arenas where they re loaded onto the Gould.
Fraunhofer is building a giant scanner that it says can be used for cars as well as to detect damage to airplane wings
Train derailments hurricanes and other unfortunate happenings all get simulated at the Texas A&m site.
and Android#that can be used for the detection of radioactivity in everyday life such as exposure on airplanes from medical patients or from contaminated products.
Schmale developed his unmanned aerial vehicles with a colleague at Virginia Tech as an alternative to costly manned research flights.
The old fiber would be only a single-lane highway says Fontaine. Now we can add multiple lanes.
but it will lead you down a road you don't want to be on. A fertilized egg or an embryo or even a fetus have the POTENTIAL to develop into a person given the right circumstances
Plus they could use it as practice/tests for going to mars. It's about time the space faring governments of the world start building an infrastructure on the lunar surface that will support long term duration stays ship yards fuel generation and processing navigation stations for terrestrial navigation
and lasers to provide detailed travel maps capturing the curve of the road and details down to a centimeter accuracy.
choosing their own routes; swarming to interdict enemy vessels; and escorting/protecting naval assets. In the demonstration the Navy boats first escorted a high value unit simulating a ring of robotic bodyguards around a vessel in a narrow part of the sea.
Then with the support of a manned helicopter overhead designating a contact of interest for the boats to intercept they swarmed around their target.
Replacing the crew with robotic controls means the Navy needs 40 to 50 fewer people for a 13-ship exercise.
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