"could lead to ultracompact optical systems such as advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same photolithography techniques used to manufacture computer microchips."
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras, and displays;
As well as offering new opportunities for industry, it will stimulate the search for even better basic catalysts
Catalysts come in multiple forms including: acids, solid metal nanoparticles, and large protein molecules or enzymes in human bodies.
Ninety percent of industrially important chemicals are made using catalysts. It is a major field in applied science;
an extremely useful chemical in industry for making plastics. his study opens a new way for designing metal-based catalysts with complexities, for example, geometry and composition, promoters and poisons, defects,
#Inexpensive new carbon-based catalysts can be tuned fine Researchers at MIT and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new type of catalyst that can be tuned to promote desired chemical reactions,
Catalysts enhance the rate of a chemical reaction but are consumed not in the process. As a result, the repeated action of very small amounts of a catalyst can have large and long-lasting effects.
By finding a way to make this material tunable in the same ways as molecular catalysts
In addition to their possible uses in fuel cells, such new catalysts could also be useful for enhancing chemical reactions,
invisibility cloaks could prove useful for 3d displays s
#Physicists discover spiral vortex patterns from electron waves In their new study("Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses),
and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function."
#New frontiers in 3d printing Three dimensional printing is revolutionizing the production of new devices and structures, including soft robots,
for the first time, allow for the simultaneous control of composition and geometry during printing. Lewis is a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university and the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS.
The goal of integrating different material and structural properties within printed objects has demanded the invention of new, flexible printing platforms.
This is a crucial step in creating a new generation of foldable electronics-think a flat-screen television that can be rolled up for easy portability-and implantable medical devices.
The researchers used mouse embryonic fibroblast cells to determine biocompatibility; that, along with the fact that the stretchability of gold nanomesh on a slippery substrate resembles the bioenvironment of tissue
Electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.
it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor, as the optical signals have to be converted into electric signals again.
but also with latest processors, Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford university adds. The new memory can store data for decades even
and our approach can define a new speed limit for future processors, by delivering extremely fast on-chip optical data storage In addition,
With low-cost fabrication, long-term stability and a wide palette of colors, they have become a building blocks of the display technology,
Unlike most 3-D printing, this technique does not require photoinitiators, compounds that promote photoreactivity
"If we can use SPRNT to screen for drugs that specifically disrupt the functioning of these proteins,
Using mouse models, the researchers tested their sunblock against direct ultraviolet rays and their ability to cause sunburn.
potentially outperforming traditional monitoring tools such as cardiac event monitors. The researchers published a paper on their patent-pending process in Advanced Materials.
which is similar in scope to 3-D printing but different in that material is removed instead of added.
"We are trying to add more types of sensors including blood pressure and oxygen saturation monitors to the low-cost patch
They are expected also to be used for precise color matching in light-emitting devices and displays,
These attributes should lead to new LEDS and display devices not only with precisely matched colors--better color accuracy and brightness--but also with improved performance lifetime and improved ease of manufacturing."
"QDS are already in use in display devices (e g. Amazon Kindle and a new Samsung TV
we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
"He said that a key next step for the project is to identify the right industry partners to work with to manufacture the full-scale quantum processor chip.
Such a full-scale quantum processor would have major applications in the finance, security and healthcare sectors, allowing the identification
These microscopic widgets could be customized into incredibly sensitive chemical detectors or long-lasting catalysts, to name a few possible applications.
next-generation health monitoring devices such as electronic stick-on tattoos (see for instance"wearing single-walled carbon nanotube electronics on your skin",a"temporary tattoo to monitor glucose levels"or"graphene nanosensor tattoo
on teeth monitors bacteria in your mouth")."In order for these wearable sensor devices to become fully integrated into sophisticated monitoring systems,
faster processors and more storage space. Standard memory devices are based on electrons which are displaced by applying voltage.
especially in printing highly viscous and sticky biological and polymeric materials where friction and contamination are major obstacles.
and make the processor work.""This architecture gives us the dense packing 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."
"Ultimately, the structure is scalable to millions of qubits, required for a full-scale quantum processor."
"Background In classical computers, data is rendered as binary bits, which are always in one of two states:
#Researchers create transplantation model for 3-D printed constructs Using sugar, silicone and a 3-D printer,
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.
Using an open-source 3-D printer that lays down individual filaments of sugar glass one layer at a time
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
The facile ability to form discrete cell-containing layers validates the application of this novel printing technique to form complex, layered and viable 3d cell structures.
The rats were asked to choose between two identical visual shapes by pressing their nose against one of them on a touchscreen (similar to an ipad), in exchange for rewards in the form of sugar pellets.
Full open access research for mall-Molecule-Driven Direct Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblasts into Functional Neuronsby Xiang Li, Xiaohan Zuo, Junzhan Jing, Yantao Ma,
The brain tissue here was mouse cerebral cortex. The rapid freezing method is able to prevent the water in the tissue from forming crystals,
DARPA portfolio of neurotechnology programs includes the Restoring Active Memory (RAM) and Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) programs,
mouse model of Alzheimer disease developed at the RIKEN BSI by Takaomi Saido team. After showing how Scales treatment can preserve tissue,
-based screen in which the activity of each gene under investigation was knocked down, or silenced, to examine its effects on mitochondrial calcium levels.
and represent it on a computer screen. In this article, Inserm researchers, using MRI, have succeeded in detecting natural shear waves in the brain using computational techniques borrowed from seismologists
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have shown successfully neuroprotection in a Parkinson mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
The Ohio-based company says its printing system can package potent drug doses of up to 1, 000 milligrams into individual tablets.
battery and display technology are all going to receive big overhauls. What likely to be includedthe big advancement with the iphone 6s we are likely to see is Force Touch screen technology reports Business Insider.
Apple debuted this new type of display with the Apple Watch and new Macbook earlier this year,
where the device can detect different pressures used when touching the screen. For example, when using the Apple Watch,
you can press down with slightly more force to change the watch face. Even though it hasn been announced yet,
While Apple fiddling around with the screen technology, it also expected that both models will receive a higher screen resolution for a clearer display.
It also rumoured that they will finally have a sapphire glass screen which will help keep it protected from scratches and shattering when dropped.
Apple has been putting a lot of emphasis on the iphone as a photography device, and that looking to take a step even further with the iphone 6s.
so don expect any new screen sizes or a new design. At best, they might introduce a new colour,
and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens,
Google also invented a new typeface called roduct Sansthat is meant to resemble the simple printing in a grade-school book.
The overhaul also will change the appearance of the letter that Google uses as its shorthand logo on the smaller screens of smartphones and other mobile devices.
he told Motherboard. ur biggest initial worry was about whether it would stay on the tail,
People in intensive care are hooked already up to a host of monitors, which together keep track of numerous parameters including heart rate and levels of glucose and oxygen in the blood.
People in intensive care are hooked already up to a host of monitors which keep track of things such as heart rate and levels of glucose and oxygen in the blood.
Van der Wiel hopes the research will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems such as pattern recognition
Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.
It works like a scaffold, allowing the printing of intricate patterns that would collapse without its support such as nested Russian-doll-like structures and thin
Printing into supportive gel gets around that challenge preventing the creations from sagging or buckling before they solidify.
and diagnosis. Catheline hopes his technique will eventually help doctors diagnose diseases and monitor the success of their treatment.
An invisibility cloak built for a mouse could hide warm bodies from predators with thermal vision
using it to hunt down their prey. e want to simulate the scene of catching a mouse,
leaving a 2. 7-centimetre-wide cavity in the middle for the toy mouse. The camera was placed on one side.
The germanium sent infrared rays from behind the mouse on a curved path around the cavity, then bent them back into straight lines for the camera,
#Your Pill Is Printing: FDA Approves First 3-D-Printed Drug In a first, the Food and Drug Administration has given approval to a drug that is produced on a 3-D printer.
The pill, produced by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, treats seizures. It's expected to hit the market in the first quarter of 2016.
"The new tablets are manufactured using 3-D printing, which creates objects by very precisely spewing out one layer of a substance on top of another. 3-D printing is being used to make all sorts of things these days."
"The FDA had approved previously medical devices made with 3-D printing. The company that makes Spritam says the 3-D-printed version of the drug allows it to dissolve more quickly,
which makes it easier to swallow.""Another benefit of the process, says Aprecia, the drug's maker, is that it allows a high drug load up to 1,
Aprecia says it based its printing platform on technology that originated at the Massachusetts institute of technology o
They manufactured the implant with a $1. 3 million metal printer at a government-run lab. The printer uses an electron beam to melt titanium powder,
The printer then paints each layer of the device one on top of another.""As each layer is fused,
As metallic printers become more common, she wrote, so will printed 3-D implants. Surgeons typically use a combination of flat plates,
The 3-D printing technology allowed the surgeons to create an implant that"fitted like glove"in the man's chest, Dr. Jose Aranda
We can use them to make more efficient displays for mobile devices, sensors with greater resolution,
When the DWLS is done printing, a much thicker layer of liquid crystal is applied, amplifying the pattern on the underlying thin film.
just like a regular printer. And it can also vary the intensity of the light.
Down to earth applications In addition to astronomy, the DWLS has found use in creating geometric phase holograms for use in mobile displays, holographic imaging,
For example, Escuti's university startup company, Imagineoptix Corporation, has created technologies ranging from an ultra-efficient pocket projector the size of a few quarters to components for active photonic hardware supporting internet traffic."
But electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.
it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor, as the optical signals have to be converted into electric signals again.
but also with the latest optical processors. The new memory can store data for decades even
Observing a mouse spinal cord through a microscope the researchers could watch in real time which cells were activated
but the way this hardware was built you can probably imagine putting it in a mobile phone,
#A Typing Test To Diagnose Parkinson's Whether it on a keyboard, a smartphone, or even a credit card reader, you spend a lot of your day typing.
they've developed software that can gauge the speed at which a typist is tapping the keyboard to help diagnose Parkinson disease.
--and that mostly has to do with the complexity of the engines hardware. If you look at a launch vehicle
requiring extra hardware and additional fuel. But with Rutherford, the engines turbopumps get a much more condensed energy source.
a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground, his assault rifle trained on a nearby building.
The Marine glances at the vital statistics on the heads-up display. The heart rate of his point man has spiked suddenly up to 110.
Using a mouse mounted on the handguard of his M-16, the SIGINT specialist silently clicks open the video feed from the point man's head-mounted camera.
The Marine pushes out an alert to the rest of the platoon and then switches from dual-display mode to left-only as he raises his weapon to his eye.
and if he had a heads-up display, he could hold a weapons system, keep his head about him,
"Having eyes glued to a screen can cause a SIGINT Marine not to see real-world objects that might be relevant.
It was recorded on seismic monitors as far away as Norway. Even two days after the quake, strong aftershocks are rattling the region,
#A Team Of MIT Bartender Robots Serves Beer More Efficiently Using robots, a team at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory has solved an ancient problem:
Recently, researchers have looked to DNA as a method to store large amounts of digital information that are saved currently on hard drives.
Our hard drives may seem pretty stable for now, but because of what they're made of,
our hard drives can store up to five terabytes of data, encoded with the zeros and ones of binary code.
if the DNA would be able to retain information longer than a hard drive does now
The project, called Restoring Active Memory (RAM), could help people suffering from traumatic brain injury. The Defense department research wing shared both milestones last week at a conference called ait, What?
#The Future Of The DNA Hard drive Back in August at a chemistry conference, the worlds of science fiction and fact merged with the announcement of a technological advancement in data storage.
After all, imagine being able to store the entirety of the world data on one hard drive.
This stability can provide far more than just a hard drive to last the ages. Because DNA is always present in a variety of biological environments
the idea of a personal DNA hard drive within the body may also be possible. According to Dr. Narayan, it already happening at the microbial level. everal years ago researchers built the first self-replicating bacterial cell
There also another reason why this personalized biological hard drive may not be the best option. We do not yet have the technology to read it.
There is little doubt the future of the DNA hard drive is bright. Yet while the biological aspects may be suited perfectly for a variety of applications
For Dr. Narayan, the answer to the future of the DNA hard drive is clear. NA as a medium for archival storage may have place in digital storage.
The colorful little widget monitors the amount of electricity that comes through it, then reports that use to your phone.
and Phone for Outlet Space is No more Samsung has released a monitor with a charging station at the base where users can wirelessly charge their phones.
The wireless charging station won take away from the monitor ability to display content, or even change the lines of the design,
Instead of dealing with either issue, users just set their phones at the base of the monitor
The monitor has multiple features catering to movie lovers and gamers. For workers, there a blue screen option where it will lower the amount of blue light emitted from the screen to help protect a user lens.
The monitor will also prevent flicking to occur that would strain user eyes. The screen has a smooth tracking system for all the action of today movies and games.
This prevents motion blur and ghost images to linger on screen. A user will automatically make these changes to the screen when switching to a game or movie.
The monitor will also auto-detect these changes to improve visuals based on the activity of the user.
For further information and updates about where to get the charging monitor and how much you can expect to pay,
check in at the Samsung blog. Samsung s
#This Museum Offers Special Glasses to Colorblind Visitors The museum experience relies on visuals. You step into the space expecting to see something new to lose yourself in stunning compositions anderhaps most importantlyivid colors.
But not all museum visitors can perceive color the same way. Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago can now pick up a pair of Enchroma glasses
and see artworks in their full color spectrum for the first time. By adjusting the separation within red and green coneshe colorblind condition occurs
and recharges using a micro USB cable. The Stylograph comes with a leather covered notebook with specially patterned paper that will help record the digital notes.
when youe watching the screen in front of you. On top of this, Amazon also purports a more comfortable version of augmented reality as well,
bypassing authentication such as a login screen. A second example of attack is called heap feng shui where attackers hijack the control of a browser by manipulating its memory layout.
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced.
Catalysts can split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms, a process required for fuel cells.
detailed in Nature Communications, is a significant step toward lower-cost catalysts for energy production, according to the researchers. hat unique about this paper is that we show not the use of metal particles, not the use of metal nanoparticles,
Wee getting away with very little cobalt to make a catalyst that nearly matches the best platinum catalysts.
Tour said single-atom catalysts have been realized in liquids, but rarely on a surface. his way we can build electrodes out of it,
He noted platinum-carbon catalysts still boast the lowest onset voltage. o question, theye the best.
and the liquid crystalline phases that are used to create an image on certain electronic displays,
#Promising technique improves hydrogen production of affordable alternative to platinum Scientists have demonstrated that microwaves can help create nanostructured molybdenum disulfide (Mos2) catalysts with an improved ability to produce hydrogen.
"The microwave-assisted strategy could be a viable way to design advanced molybdenum disulfide catalysts for hydrogen production
Earth-abundant materials that could provide low-cost alternatives to platinum-based catalysts. Platinum is an extremely efficient catalyst for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
#Researchers create transplantation model for 3-D printed constructs Using sugar, silicone and a 3-D printer,
-D printing. But rather than printing a whole construct directly, the researchers fabricated sacrificial templates for the vessels that would be inside the construct.
Using an open-source 3-D printer that lays down individual filaments of sugar glass one layer at a time
Scientists have experimented for decades with a class of catalysts known as zeolites that transform alcohols such as ethanol into higher-grade hydrocarbons.
Instead, an energy-producing"hydrocarbon pool"mechanism allows the zeolite catalysts to directly produce longer hydrocarbon chains from the original alcohols."
In the healthcare industry, these printers are used by dentists to create replicas of jaws and teeth as well as some finished dental implants and orthopedic surgeons have tested them to make customized hip replacements.
A roll up keyboard for use with a smart watch has also been designed. iskin's thin,
soft and flexible design presents new possibilities for mobile interaction that have not been possible with existing hardware, according to co-developer Martin Weigel."
"The researchers also looked at the process in a mouse model and found that Grb2 depletion results in the development of multiple tumors in the vicinity of a primary tumour,
and reprogram your hard drive, this virus reprogrammed the genetic machinery of the M1t1 strep into a more virulent form,
Bogyo's team has developed ways of conducting high-throughput screens of small molecules to speedily test their ability to inhibit
whose lab is adept at using mouse models of C. difficile infection. The researchers incubated Toxin B in a solution either containing
Bogyo and colleagues tested ebselen in a mouse model that more accurately mimics a clinical scenario in
which has a technology that uses an inkjet printer to deposit flexible circuits onto plastic.
And the inkjet printing fabrication process suggests how a network of sensors could be deposited over a flexible layer and folded over a prosthetic hand."
"If the fluorescence molecules glow, this indicates that the mouse is developing chronic epileptic seizures, "says the molecular biologist Prof.
and sending whole messages using printed QWERTY-style keyboard interfaces. Depending on what level of control the user requires,
and offers great stability. here are many catalysts that are sophisticated considerably more than nickel and often involving obscure and expensive precious metals,
For the prototype that was put on display in Tokyo last month, they altered the transparent oxides used for the negative electrode to achieve incredibly thin, transparent electrodes.
another possibility for the technology is self-charging smartphone screens made from transparent lithium-ion batteries.
because wee hit the limit for how fast electrons can travel between the processor and the memory."
"There no point using faster processors if the limiting factor is the shuttling of information to-and-from the memory-the so-called Von-neumann bottleneck,"one of the researchers,
"It stores data using the same material that found in rewritable CDS and DVDS-a phase-change alloy of germanium-antimony-tellurium known as GST."
and solid state, this magnet material displays physical phase transitions when gradually cooled right down to almost freezing."
because it displays properties that have yet to be found in nature, the complex nanomagnet structure has the potential to provide new methods of information transfer and memory storage,
which means they now have the ability to build the world's first quantum processor chip and, eventually, the first silicon-based quantum computer.
we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,
and painless way to screen for the disease. We've seen the idea of a breathalyser being used to detect different types of cancer before,
the researchers tested for the first time to pre-treat undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells with mitomycin C a drug already prescribed to treat cancer.
#One dollar blood test using gold nanoparticles outperforms PSA screen for prostate cancer, study suggests The simple test developed by University of Central Florida scientist Qun"Treen"Huo holds the promise of earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers among men.
and metal-free catalysts can reduce cost while improving performance,"said Liming Dai, professor of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University and senior author of the study."
or surpassed that of expensive platinum/metal oxide-based catalysts. And, it had better long-term stability.
or outperformed most previously reported metal-free catalysts, even recently developed carbon-based catalysts with metals.
Moving forward, Dai's team has begun to further optimize the process while also investigating other graphitic carbon materials co-doped with different elements for possible use in other energy and environmental technologies.
Dai's lab previously developed carbon-based catalysts that perform comparably or better than more expensive metal-based catalysts used in alkaline and acidic fuel cells and in dye-sensitized solar cells."
"Maybe it's time to push for metal-free catalysts in commercial devices, "Dai said d
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