#Pushing the limits of lensless imaging Using ultrafast beams of extreme ultraviolet light streaming at a 100,000 times a second, researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
"explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher.""The computer emulates the lens."
Zürch and a team of researchers from Jena University used a special, custom-built ultrafast laser that fires extreme ultraviolet photons a hundred times faster than conventional table-top machines.
"Valentyn Volkov is the co-lead author, a visiting professor from the University of Southern Denmark.
"Professor David Wright, from the University of Exeters Engineering department said: With our prototype we have, for the first time,
Professor Wolfram Pernice, from the Institute of Physics at Mnster University and who led the work said:
or more, adds Professor Harish Bhaskaran from Oxford university in England, one of the lead co-authors,
Ph d.,the Benjamin Mayhugh Associate professor of Mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota. The work is described in the August 12, 2015 issue of Nano Letters("3d printed Programmable Release Capsules".
#Ultrathin graphene oxide lens could revolutionise next-gen devices Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, collaborating with Monash University,
have developed an ultrathin, flat, ultra-lightweight graphene oxide optical lens with unprecedented flexibility. The ultrathin lens enables potential applications in on-chip nanophotonics
Associate professor Baohua Jia, said. The researchers produced a film that is 300 times thinner than a sheet of paper by converting graphene oxide film to reduced graphene oxide through a photoreduction process. hese flexible graphene oxide lenses are mechanically robust
CMP Director, Professor Min Gu, said: he newly demonstrated laser nano-patterning method in graphene oxides holds the key to fast processing and programming of high capacity information for big data sectors.
Professor Dan Li, Co-director of the Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Material, which provided the graphene oxide film for this research said this work opens up a new high-tech application for graphene oxide
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal."
"said Sahar Mashid, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study."
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
"An international team, formed by scientists at the Italian Institute of technology (Italy), the University Jaume I (Spain),
the IBM research lab Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) demonstrated a radically new approach to manipulate the light emission of quantum dots.
#Flexible microfluidic tactile sensor for robotics, electronics and healthcare applications A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of engineering has developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile
a team of researchers led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck from NUS Department of Biomedical engineering achieves a significant technological breakthrough by adopting a liquid-based pressure sensing method in the design of such sensors.
#Ultrafast lasers offer 3-D micropatterning of biocompatible hydrogels Tufts University biomedical engineers are using low energy,
Ph d. Omenetto is associate dean for research, professor of biomedical engineering and Frank C. Doble professor at Tufts School of engineering and also holds an appointment in physics in the School of arts and Sciences.
The research team reported similar results in vitro and in a preliminary in vivo study in mice e
"said senior author Holger Schmidt, the Kapany Professor of Optoelectronics at UC Santa cruz.""We're detecting the nucleic acids directly,
Schmidt's lab at UC Santa cruz worked with researchers at Brigham Young University and UC Berkeley to develop the system.
according to research that has primarily been conducted at the University of Gothenburg. Nuclear fusion is a process
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Iceland has been to study a new type of nuclear fusion process.
"says Leif Holmlid, Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg. No radiation The new fusion process can take place in relatively small laser-fired fusion reactors fuelled by heavy hydrogen (deuterium.
#A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work A team of scientists at the University of Washington
senior author and UW physics professor Jens Gundlach.""We can really pick up atomic-scale movements that a protein imparts onto DNA."
according to co-author and UW physics doctoral student Jonathan Craig. They even discovered that these two steps involve sequential chemical processes that the protein uses to walk along DNA."
the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical engineering. anoparticles are large enough to keep from going through the skin surface,
said co-author Michael Girardi, a professor of dermatology at Yale Medical school. n fact, the indirect damage was worse
#Tattoo-like electronic health patches may now be cheaper and easier to make A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-performing wearable patches
Led by Assistant professor Nanshu Lu, the team's manufacturing method aims to construct disposable tattoo-like health monitoring patches for the mass production of epidermal electronics,
Deji Akinwande, an associate professor and materials expert in the Cockrell School, believes Lu's method can be transferred to roll-to-roll manufacturing."
#Highest efficiency hydrogen production under natural sunlight Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Miyazaki University have produced hydrogen under natural sunlight at an energy conversion efficiency of 24.4,
The research group of Associate professor Masakazu Sugiyama and Project Professor Katsushi Fujii (Graduate school of Engineering
The University of Tokyo) and Associate professor Kensuke Nishioka (Miyazaki University) used concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules,
says Associate professor Sugiyama. He continues, he CPV modules are comparatively expensive but if operated in countries with high solar irradiance it would be possible to generate solar electricity at low cost owing to the high energy conversion efficiency.
#Brightness-equalized quantum dots improve biological imaging Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have introduced a new class of light-emitting quantum dots (QDS) with tunable and equalized fluorescence brightness
an assistant professor of bioengineering at Illinois."Previously light emission had an unknown correspondence with molecule number.
Alfred Leitenstorfer at the University of Konstanz (Germany) has succeeded in doing just that. They demonstrated a first direct observation of the so-called vacuum fluctuations by using short light pulses
The research team at the University of Konstanz developed these technologies in-house and also an exact description of the results based on quantum field theory.
Now researchers at the University of Rochester have demonstrated a key achievement in shrinking photonic devices below the diffraction limit--a necessary step on the road to making photonic circuits competitive with today's technology.
"said Kenneth Goodfellow, a graduate student in the laboratory of the Quantum Optoelectronics and Optical Metrology Group, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, New york."
#Developing a nanoscale'clutch'A model microscopic system to demonstrate the transmission of torque in the presence of thermal fluctuations-necessary for the creation of a tiny'clutch'operating at the nanoscale-has been assembled at the University of Bristol as part of an international collaboration (Nature
Dr Paddy Royall of the University of Bristol said:""This device looks a lot like a washing machine,
In addition to the experiments performed at the University of Bristol, physicists at the University of Düsseldorf have developed model computer simulations to further investigate torque coupling at the nanoscale.
This enables the measurement of nanomachine efficiency, which is small but can be optimised through careful control of the system parameters.
Professor Hartmut Loewen of the University of Düsseldorf d
#A quantum logic gate in silicon built for the for the first time (w/video) The significant advance, by a team at the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature("A two-qubit logic gate in silicon"."
""What we have is a game changer, "said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW."
"We've demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate-the central building block of a quantum computer-and, significantly, done it in silicon.
But the UNSW team-working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan's Keio University-has done just that for the first time.
researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic
A team led by Cockrell School of engineering associate professor Christopher Ellison found that a synthetic coating of polydopamine--derived from the natural compound dopamine--can be used as a highly effective, water-applied flame retardant for polyurethane foam.
or selectivities, says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Karnik says graphene nanopores could be useful as sensors for instance,
Karnik and former graduate student Tarun Jain, along with Benjamin Rasera, Ricardo Guerrero, Michael Boutilier, and Sean Oern from MIT and Juan-carlos Idrobo from Oak ridge National Laboratory, publish their results today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology("Heterogeneous sub-continuum ionic transport in statistically isolated graphene nanopores").
Meni Wanunu, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, says the group work with graphene membranes may significantly improve on commercial membranes used for water purification,
assistant professor of applied and engineering physics, detail this new way to directly measure magnetic moments and how it may be used to break fundamental limits of spatial resolution that are imposed in purely optical magnetic measurements.
graduate student in the field of applied physics. t an exciting area to start looking at
At the University of Hamburg these exotic magnetic structures were recently found to exist in ultrathin magnetic layers and multilayers,
Now researchers from the University of Hamburg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel have demonstrated that skyrmions can be detected much more easily because of a drastic change of the electrical resistance in these magnetic whirls("Electrical detection of magnetic skyrmions by tunnelling non-collinear magnetoresistance".
Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also
and in this way we can measure the resistance at different positions in a skyrmionsays Christian Hanneken, a Phd student in the group of Prof.
In collaboration with theoretical physicists from the University of Kiel the researchers were able to identify the origin of the resistance change in the magnetic whirl:
Stefan Heinze from the University of Kiel. When the electrons are travelling through a magnetic whirl,
and developed a simple model for this effect as the Phd student Fabian Otte explains.
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and simulation and is the result of an international cooperation involving researchers from the Institute of Structural biology (ISB, CEA/CNRS/Joseph Fourier University) in Grenoble, France, Purdue University, USA,
the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Oregon State university."
Francesco Ricci, of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, senior co-author of the study.""This DNA nanomachine can be modified in fact custom
Valle-Blisle of the University of Montreal, the other senior co-author of the paper.""It is rapid,
Kevin Plaxco of the University of California, Santa barbara.""The materials needed for one assay cost about 15 cents,
but we are looking forward to improve our sensing platform even more"said Simona Ranallo, a Phd student in the group of Prof.
Ricci at the University of Rome and first-author of the paper.""For example, we could adapt our platform
says Susan Lindquist, a professor of biology at MIT, member of the Whitehead Institute, and one of the senior authors of the paper, which appears in the Oct 8 issue of Cell("Sensitivity-Enhanced NMR Reveals Alterations in Protein Structure by Cellular Milieus").
"Robert Griffin, an MIT professor of chemistry and director of the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, is also a senior author of the paper.
Kendra Frederick, a former Whitehead postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern,
and a professor at Florida State university. ou don have to crystallize the proteins, you don have to put them into a uniform solution.
an Associate professor of Electrical engineering at KAUST, tells Nanowerk. To complement existing designs for stretchable antenna systems
Atif Shamim and Swanlund Chair Professor John Rogers of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, reports their findings in the October 6, 2015 online edition of Advanced Functional Materials
Alexander Rohrbach conducts research at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and is an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg g
and electrons to read data Scientists from Kiel University and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
""Six plus seven makes three-plus one carried over",calculated Professor Hermann Kohlstedt, Head of the Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University.
"said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum, Dr Thomas Mussenbrock to describe the research results.
"The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk University in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal (Nature Communications,"Direct oriented growth of armchair graphene nanoribbons on germanium").
armchair edges,"said Michael Arnold, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison.""The widths can be very,
Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical center designed a new delivery system for these drugs that,
when coupled with a drug developed at the University of Rochester School of medicine and Dentistry, rid immune cells of HIV and kept the virus in check for long periods.
lead study author and professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience at Nebraska,
antifouling materials developed in the lab of Joanna Aizenberg, the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science and core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
#Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces A Tufts University chemist has discovered a way to select specific surfaces of single-crystal ice for study,
"said Mary jane Shultz, Ph d.,professor of chemistry in the School of arts and Sciences at Tufts University."
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
Developed by UW-Madison collaborators Zhenqiang"Jack"Ma, professor of electrical and computer engineering and research scientist Jung-Hun Seo, the high-performance phototransistor far and away exceeds all previous flexible phototransistor parameters,
Scientists and engineers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), headquartered at the University of New south wales (UNSW),
Now, the CQC2T collaboration, involving theoretical and experimental researchers from the University of Melbourne and UNSW, has designed such a device.
"says UNSW Scientia Professor Michelle Simmons, study co-author and Director of the CQC2T.""The great thing about this work,
"says University of Melbourne Professor Lloyd Hollenberg, Deputy Director of the CQC2T who led the work with colleague Dr Charles Hill."
and parallel operation essential for scaling up the size of the quantum processor,"says Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, Head of the UNSW School of Physics."
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
"said Ellington, professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and member of the UT Center for Systems and Synthetic biology."
The electron microscope images, created by scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory with partners from Stony Brook University and Rockefeller University,
an essential function for every living cell,"said Huilin Li, a biologist with a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University."
and provided by Roxana Georgescu in Michael O'Donnell's research group at Rockefeller University.
"several University of Delaware researchers show how a new peptide-based hydrogel could one day make that reconnection process easier to perform
and Joel Schneider, who was a professor at UD and now is in the Chemical Biology laboratory at the National Cancer Institute.
Also part of the study were researchers from Johns hopkins university School of medicine and the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at Johns Hopkins. Smith designed the peptide,
while he was a professor in UD's Department of chemistry and Biochemistry, and Darrin Pochan, professor and chair of UD's Department of Materials science and engineering.
Nagy-Smith did the microscopy using a transmission electron microscope at the National Cancer Institute to show how the fibers change
A Layered Manganese Oxide To Capture Sunlight for Water-Splitting Catalysis"),Assistant professor of Chemical engineering Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes details how this new material efficiently captures sunlight and then,
"said Mauricio Terrones, professor of physics, chemistry and materials science at Penn State.""We were previously able to dope graphene with atoms of nitrogen,
Konstantin Novoselov's lab at the University of Manchester UK, studied the transport mechanism of the sensors.
a team of bioengineers at Rice university and surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels that points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation.
The new study was performed by a research team led by Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice,
and Pavan Atluri, assistant professor of surgery at Penn. The study showed that blood flowed normally through test constructs that were connected surgically to native blood vessels.
Bioengineering graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct--a small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bear--using 3-D printing.
#Scientists discover the gene that will open the door for space-based food production Queensland University of Technology (QUT) scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production.
Professor Peter Waterhouse, a plant geneticist at QUT, discovered the gene in the ancient Australian native tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana, known as Pitjuri to indigenous Aboriginals tribes.
Professor Waterhouse made the discovery while tracing the history of the Pitjuri plant, which for decades has been used by geneticists as a model plant upon
"Professor Waterhouse, a molecular geneticist with QUT's Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, said scientists could use this discovery to investigate other niche
Professor Waterhouse said the team's findings also have implications for future genetic research back here On earth."
Professor Waterhouse said the fact that the N. benthamiana variety from central Australia had doubled its seed size also opened the door for investigations into how N. benthamiana could be used commercially as a biofactory,
Researchers around the world can access Professor Waterhouse's open source website to study the genomes of seven family members.
Dr Bally and Professor Waterhouse have lodged a patent on their study (Organisms with Modified Growth Characteristics and Methods of Making Them) and a research paper,
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
Jiang and his team--including postdoctoral scholar Mohammad J. Moghimi, graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere--are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves s
#Minuscule, flexible compound lenses magnify large fields of view Drawing inspiration from an insect's multifaceted eye,
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
Jiang and his team--including postdoctoral scholar Mohammad J. Moghimi graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere--are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves s
#New low-cost battery could help store renewable energy Wind and solar energy projects are growing at a respectable clip.
researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved the sensitivity of these materials,
an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois."This mechanical self-assembly strategy will enable a new class of 3d crumpled graphene-gold (Au) nanostructures.
a graduate student and first author of the study published in Nano Letters("Mechanically Self-Assembled, Three-dimensional Grapheneold Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoplasmonic Sensors").
ACES Director and research author Professor Gordon Wallace said that the breakthrough is significant progress in the quest to create a bench-top brain that will enable important insights into brain function,
Professor Wallace said. To create their six-layered structure, researchers developed a custom bio-ink containing naturally occurring carbohydrate materials.
Professor Wallace said. his paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution. 3d printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates
and prove to be an important practice to help reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer, Parkinson and other neurological diseases, according to researchers at Stony Brook University.
Stony Brook University researchers Hedok Lee, Phd, Helene Benveniste, MD, Phd, and colleagues, discovered that a lateral sleeping position is the best position to most efficiently remove waste from the brain.
Dr. Benveniste, Principal investigator and a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at Stony Brook University School of medicine, has used dynamic contrast MRI for several years to examine the glymphatic pathway in rodent models.
Assistant professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at Stony Brook developed the safe posture positions for the experiments.
Their colleagues at the University of Rochester including Lulu Xie, Rashid Deane and Maiken Nedergaard, Phd,
says Richard Futrell, a Phd student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive sciences at MIT,
a professor of cognitive science and co-author of the paper. e though it was probably true more widely,
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
and a Chinese-language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
Other scholars who have done research on this topic say the study provides valuable new information. t interesting and exciting work,
says David Temperley, a professor at the University of Rochester, who along with his Rochester colleague Daniel Gildea has authored co a study comparing dependency length in English
including Lohitash Karumbaiah of the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center, has developed a brain-friendly extracellular matrix environment of neuronal cells that contain very little foreign material.
an assistant professor of animal and dairy science in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental sciences. his is proof of concept that extracellular matrix can be used to ensheathe a functioning electrode without the use of any other foreign
and Mark Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, found that the extracellular matrix derived electrodes adapted to the mechanical properties of brain tissue
and is chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology and Emory University,
Charlene Betourney University of Georgiaimage Source: The image is credited to the researchersoriginal Research: Full open access research for mall-Molecule-Driven Direct Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblasts into Functional Neuronsby Xiang Li, Xiaohan Zuo, Junzhan Jing, Yantao Ma,
and James Fox all professors of biological engineering at MIT had identified the presence of a lesion,
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
the researchers predict that accumulation of the lesions would increase the mutation rate of a cell up to 30-fold,
and the large number of participants who reflect the general adult population rather than just college students.
an assistant professor in Psychological and Brain sciences at Dartmouth. motions are central to our daily lives
Unlike most previous research, the new study included a large sample size that reflects the general adult population and not just young college students;
four to 10 times the standard fmri experiment we were able to uncover responses that generalized beyond the training sample to new participants remarkably well. i
explains the study lead author, William Eric Sponsel, MD, of the University of Texas at San antonio, Department of Biomedical engineering.
explained letter co-author Paul Artes, Phd, of Plymouth University, Department of Eye and Visual Sciences.
Along with co-author Jonathan Denniss, Phd, University of Nottingham, Visual Neuroscience Group, their letter analyzed a new cohort of glaucoma patients in which hat essentially
Co-author Ted Maddess, Phd, of the Australian National University, Center of Excellence in Vision Science, explains that these patterns mimic structures found at the very back of the brain, known as ocular dominance columns.
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