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and computer simulation and modeling. They are currently working on adapting the engineering lessons learned from the study of Saharan silver ants to create flat optical components,

and fireflies use flash communication systems, Yu adds. rgans evolved for perceiving or controlling electromagnetic waves often surpass analogous man-made devices in both sophistication and efficiency.

and touchscreen electronics. The scientists synthesized the materials at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)

and x-ray scattering at the National Synchrotron Light source--both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

"This tool allows us to apply drugs as needed directly to the site of injury, which could have broad medical applications,

and transported a patch of the nanowire carpet on water droplets that were used used to deliver it to the site of injury.

The nanowire patches adhere to the site of injury through surface tension Gao said. The magnitude and wave form of the electromagnetic field must be tuned to obtain the optimum release of the drug,

"By the time the drug diffuses from the site out into the rest of the body it is in amounts that are undetectable in the usual tests to monitor the concentration of drugs in the bloodstream."

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000 Qubit Processor and Is discussed in the Economist June 23rd, 2015leti to Present Solutions to New Applications Using 3d Technologies at SEMICON West Letiday Event, July 14:

electronic devices June 22nd,2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology: 4-D printing to advance chemistry, materials sciences and defense capabilities June 18th, 2015discoveries Nanometric sensor designed to detect herbicides can help diagnose multiple sclerosis June 23rd, 2015sweeping lasers snap together

nanoscale geometric grids: New technique creates multilayered, self-assembled grids with fully customizable shapes and compositions June 23rd,

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"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.

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#World#s 1st Full-Color, Flexible, Skin-Like Display Developed at UCF A breakthrough in a University of Central Florida lab has brought those scenarios closer to reality.

flexible thin-film reflective display. Chanda research was inspired by nature. Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.

But animals like chameleons, octopuses and squids are born with thin flexible, color-changing displays that don need a light source their skin. ll manmade displays LCD, LED,

CRT are rigid, brittle and bulky. But you look at an octopus, they can create color on the skin itself covering a complex body contour,

and create a skin-like display? As detailed in the cover article of the June issue of the journal Nature Communications,

full-color tunable display. His method is groundbreaking. It a leap ahead of previous research that could produce only a limited color palette.

And the display is only about few microns thick, compared to a 100-micron-thick human hair.

Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,

computers and mobile devices that have considered displays thin by today standards but monstrously bulky in comparison.

But the potentially bigger impact could be whole new categories of displays that have never been thought of. our camouflage

your clothing, your fashion items all of that could change, Chanda said. hy would I need 50 shirts in my closet

Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area. his is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,

The same team have discovered recently that Graphexeter is also more stable than many transparent conductors commonly used by, for example, the display industry.

The use of soft, stretchable material would enable a new generation of wearable devices that fit themselves to the human body.

Now, Professor Takao Someya's research group at the University of Tokyo's Graduate school of Engineering has developed an elastic conducting ink that is easily printed on textiles and patterned in a single printing step.

"Our team aims to develop comfortable wearable devices. This ink was developed as part of this endeavor, "says Someya."

The results demonstrate a powerful operando technique--from the Latin for"in working condition"--that may revolutionize research on catalysts, batteries, fuel cells,

They conducted x-ray studies at the National Synchrotron Light source (NSLS) and electron microscopy at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), both DOE Office of Science User Facilities."

and distribution of catalysts affect their efficiency and durability,"said study coauthor Ralph Nuzzo of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."

we can better determine the ideal design of future catalysts--especially those that drive energy-efficient reactions without using expensive and rare materials like platinum."

but several different types of catalysts,"said coauthor and Yeshiva University scientist Anatoly Frenkel, who led the x-ray experiments."

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PEMFC are leading candidates to power the space shuttle and other mobile applications even down to mobile phones,

it can poison the platinum catalysts that are important to driving the fuel cell. In the heart of a fuel cell, CO binds tightly to platinum

which contains impurities (e g. carbon monoxide) that poison precious metal catalysts (e g. platinum) only at low temperatures (less than 120°C)

Mother Nature can build very efficient catalysts. Environmental mechanisms sourced from Canadelectrochimcanadelectrochim is a small Research and development company located in Calgary,

the common computer chip material June 29th, 2015x-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:

the common computer chip material June 29th, 2015x-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:

the common computer chip material June 29th, 2015x-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:

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and Water Markets June 26th, 2015artificial Intelligence An important step in artificial intelligence: Researchers in UCSB's Department of Electrical and Computer engineering are seeking to make computer brains smarter by making them more like our own May 11th, 2015making robots more human April 29th, 2015lifeboat Foundation launches Interactive Friendly AI April 6th,

2015nanotubes self-organize and wiggle: Evolution of a nonequilibrium system demonstrates MEPP February 10th, 2015fuel Cells X-rays and electrons join forces to map catalytic reactions in real-time:

New technique combines electron microscopy and synchrotron X-rays to track chemical reactions under real operating conditions June 29th, 2015buckle up for fast ionic conduction June 16th, 2015a protective shield for sensitive catalysts:

2015philips Introduces Quantum dot TV with Color IQ Technology from QD Vision: Manufacturer is first to offer quantum dot displays for both TVS and monitors June 30th,

2015carnegie Mellon chemists characterize 3-D macroporous hydrogels: Methods will allow researchers to develop new'smart'materials June 30th, 2015discoveries Chitosan coated,

"This technology excites me because it opens the door to measuring the tiniest protein motions,

In this research, printing graphite electrode modified with silica and gold nanoparticles was used as an appropriate bed for the production of biosensors to detect four-strand structure of DNA

SARS or MERS, could also benefit from the user friendly chip and its rapid results. is award is truly helping our lab become translational,

what are referred to as tetragonal sites of the crystal structure. Due to their different configurations of electrons, these tetrahedra become elongated along the crystallographic c-axis for nickel,

Peninsula of orthorhombic state At a mixture ratio of 85%nickel and 15%copper, the spinel system displays a kind of narrow peninsula of orthorhombic state in the phase diagram where the observed Anm

and assembling them on a computer into a three-dimensional mapping. But so far there has been no comparable technique for imaging 3d magnetic structures on nm length scales.

the physicists were successful in reconstructing the magnetic features on the computer in three dimensions."

or protein subunits that have multiple sites for inactivation, but that are linked inextricably, this method allows for killing

approximately half the energy required to run computer servers, is used for cooling purposes alone. A couple of years ago, a research team led by Johan Liu,

such as highly Efficient light Emitting Diodes (LEDS), lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes. Graphene-based film could also pave the way for faster, smaller, more energy efficient, sustainable high power electronics."

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But the atoms that moved out of position altogether take time to return to their original sites.

In a paper published July 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Zongfu Yu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,

#Better memory with faster lasers DVDS and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light, with data"recorded"in those two atomic states.

the work may lead to better, faster computer memory systems with larger storage capacity. The research, done in the laboratory of Ahmed Zewail, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics, will be published in the July 28 print issue of the journal ACS Nano.

"Today, nanosecond lasers--lasers that pulse light at one-billionth of a second--are used to record information on DVDS and Blu-ray disks,

"Despite revealing such limits, the research could one day aid the development of better data storage for computers,

Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.

RAM, which is used to run the programs on your computer, can record and rewrite information very quickly via an electrical current.

whenever the computer is powered down. ROM storage, including CDS and DVDS, uses phase-change materials and lasers to store information.

Although ROM records and reads data more slowly, the information can be stored for decades. Finding ways to speed up the recording process of phase-change materials

and then rewrite a DVD. Although these applications could mean exciting changes for future computer technologies,

Additional planned applications include using smart acoustic structures, such as logic gates that can control acoustic waves by altering their propagation, for communication systems in environmental conditions too extreme for conventional electronic devices and photonic structures."

#Researchers Build a Transistor from a Molecule and A few Atoms A team of physicists from the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) and the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany, the NTT

Basic Research Laboratories (NTT-BRL), Japan, and the U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), United states, has used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms.

Kiyoshi Kanisawa, a physicist at NTT-BRL, used the growth technique of molecular beam epitaxy to prepare this surface.

A summary of the research, conducted in mouse and human cells, appears online July 14 in the journal ACS Nano.

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or LEDS, have helped to improve the performance of devices ranging from television and computer screens to flashlights.

For example, recent LANP plasmonic research has led to breakthroughs in color-display technology, solar-powered steam production and color sensors that mimic the eye."

'"Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy,

an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work.

"We performed a comprehensive analysis using computer models of wireless power systems and found that MRFE could ultimately be five times more efficient than use of metamaterials and 50 times more efficient than transmitting through air alone,

and not affected by electromagnetic waves from nearby mobile phones or from the motion of nearby steel objects.

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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

and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faster than current machines. The Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter--the smallest on record--for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information.

Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues describe their invention today in the journal Nature Photonics Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers

data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection. Eventually, the technology could reach home computers

and mobile devices and improve applications from gaming to video streaming.""Light is the fastest thing you can use to transmit information,

"says Menon.""But that information has to be converted to electrons when it comes into your laptop.

In that conversion, you're slowing things down. The vision is to do everything in light.""Photons of light carry information over the Internet through fiber-optic networks.

But once a data stream reaches a home or office destination, the photons of light must be converted to electrons before a router

or computer can handle the information. That bottleneck could be eliminated if the data stream remained as light within computer processors."

"With all light, computing can eventually be millions of times faster, "says Menon. To help do that, the U engineers created a much smaller form of a polarization beamsplitter

(which looks somewhat like a barcode) on top of a silicon chip that can split guided incoming light into its two components.

Before, such a beamsplitter was over 100 by 100 microns. Thanks to a new algorithm for designing the splitter,

Menon's team has shrunk it to 2. 4 by 2. 4 microns, or one-fiftieth the width of a human hair and close to the limit of what is physically possible.

mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life

and generate less heat than existing mobile devices. The first supercomputers using silicon photonics--already under development at companies such as Intel

and IBM--will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic. Menon believes his beamsplitter could be used in those computers in about three years.

Data centers that require faster connections between computers also could implement the technology soon, he says s

#What makes cancer cells spread? New device offers clues (Nanowerk News) Why do some cancer cells break away from a tumor

and travel to distant parts of the body? A team of oncologists and engineers from the University of Michigan teamed up to help understand this crucial question.

The researchers were then able to take the sorted cells that were highly mobile and begin to analyze them on a molecular level."

"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.

and biology,"says study co-senior author Euisik Yoon, Ph d.,professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of biomedical engineering and director of the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility at the U-M College of Engineering."

#Scientists print low cost radio frequency antenna with graphene ink (Nanowerk News) Scientists have moved graphene--the incredibly strong and conductive single-atom-thick sheet of carbon--a significant step along the path

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.

The antenna performed well enough to make it practical for use in radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and wireless sensors,

from AIP Publishing("Binder-free highly conductive graphene laminate for low cost printed radio frequency applications")."These scanning electron microscope images show the graphene ink after it was deposited

/University of Manchester) The study demonstrates that printable graphene is now ready for commercial use in low-cost radio frequency applications,

They accomplished this by first printing and drying the ink, and then compressing it with a roller,

which enabled efficient radio frequency radiation, was one of the most exciting aspects of the experiment,

and 3. 5 millimeter across and radiated radio frequency power effectively, said Xianjun Huang, who is the first author of the paper and a Phd candidate in the Microwave and Communcations Group in the School of Electrical and Electronic engineering.

like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,

Most commercial RFID tags are made from metals like aluminium and copper, Huang said, expensive materials with complicated fabrication processes that increase the cost."

"Graphene based RFID tags can significantly reduce the cost thanks to a much simpler process and lower material cost,

The University of Manchester and BGT Materials Limited team has plans to further develop graphene enabled RFID tags,

#Printing 3-D graphene structures for tissue engineering Ever since single-layer graphene burst onto the science scene in 2004,

"Supported by a Google Gift and a Mccormick Research Catalyst Award, the research is described in the paper"Three-dimensional Printing Of high-Content Graphene Scaffolds for Electronic and Biomedical Applications","published in the April

"We've expanded that biomaterial tool box to be able to optimize more mimetic engineered tissue constructs using 3-D printing

and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.

Many researchers see improved interconnection of optical and electronic components as a path to more efficient computation and imaging systems.

Phaedon Avouris, a researcher at IBM and co-author of the paper, says, he combination of these two materials provides a unique system that allows the manipulation of optical processes.

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.

#Toward'green'paper-thin, flexible electronics (Nanowerk News) The rapid evolution of gadgets has brought us an impressive array of smart products from phones to tablets,

and robots more intuitive would be to endow machines with the ability to read their users'emotions

and respond with a computer version of empathy. Most current efforts toward this goal analyze a person's feelings using visual sensors that can tell a smile from a frown, for example.

used high performance computing to introduce a new technique, where the time required for the calculations increases linearly with the number of atoms,

which has limited options for B-cell-based vaccine programming. Using Cellsqueeze circumvents this problem and by being able to separately configure delivery and activation,

but the algorithms that handle sound and image processing are inspired by biology, says Professor yvind Brandtsegg at NTNU.

while Tidemann is at the Department of Computer and Information science. But they have overlapping interests.

But he is accomplished also an programmer and uses this knowledge to make music. Conversely, Tidemann made a drumming robot for his doctoral project.

Learning The robot has already been on display in Trondheim and Arendal where visitors were able to affect its learning.

The day before it was put on display in Trondheim, we worked through the night until eight in the morning.

Between the two displays, they worked on improving the way the robot organizes its memories.

Based on this definition, computers that play chess, like IBMS Deep Blue, can be defined as intelligent,

Not in a vacuum Many artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, myself included, believe that true intelligence cant occur in a vacuum it is a consequence of adapting

What is artificial life? These are the big questions, Tidemann says. But we believe that the right way to reach for the holy grail of AI is to implement biologically inspired models in a machine,

the researchers inserted the equivalent of a computer programme into the DNA of the bacterial cells.

Jérôme Bonnet's team in Montpellier's Centre for Structural Biochemistry (CBS) had the idea of using concepts from synthetic biology derived from electronics to construct genetic systems making it possible to"programme"living cells like a computer.

the cornerstone of genetic programming The transistor is the central component of modern electronic systems. It acts both as a switch and as a signal amplifier.

In informatics, by combining several transistors, it is possible to construct"logic gates, "i e. systems that respond to different signal combinations according to a predetermined logic.

such as smartphones, rely on the use of transistors and logic gates. During his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford university in the United states

But with only 171 monitoring stations at fixed sites nationwide large areas of the country remain uncovered.

and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites. Fifty static devices were deployed also around London Heathrow Airport to record 22 months in the life of one of the busiest airports in the world. his was the first time technology like this had been tested in real-world situations as a high-density network,

Jones and colleagues had to develop new smart software methods capable of separating local pollution events from background signals (pollution transported from long range)

The team has been working with Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants developers of world-leading air quality modelling software combining the unprecedented level of data created by the pollution-monitoring studies with model output to enhance the understanding

and data processing is carried out in real-time using cloud computing software similar to that developed by the Cambridge team. hen the project started in 2006 there were lone voices calling for a different approach to air quality monitoring,

Citizens across Europe will be involved in data collection through personal monitors and in community decision-making to choose monitoring solutions for spaces such as schools

The second image, 50 picoseconds after excitation, displays a low density skin that returns to the original density at later times This result has significant implications beyond our basic understanding of the melting process.

and processors alike demand consistently high quality for their intermediate and final products. The properties of these goods usually also have to meet specific requirements.

Computer simulation of the harmonic emissions produced by a nano-spiral when it is being illuminated by infrared light.

picking up a telephone, or using cooking and eating utensils, become frustrating and nearly impossible feats due to reduced gripping strength and motor control in the hand.

however, thanks to soft, wearable robotic systems and the Wyss Institute's"from bench to bedside"translational approach that has enabled the glove's potential end users to be involved in every step of testing and development.

The holistic approach ensures that technology development goes beyond achieving functionality to also incorporate social and psychological elements of design that promote translation and seamless adoption by its intended end users."

"Science benefits from an environment that allows access to valuable insights that can only be gained by working with actual potential end users of a developing technology,

because electrons can freely travel around by moving in and out of the empty sites. In this organic material,

A hybrid LED is expected to be a next-generation illumination device for producing flexible lighting and display,

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