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the new mobile device would likely cost ten times less, around $10, 000.0

#Team reveals molecular structure of water at gold electrodes When a solid material is immersed in a liquid the liquid immediately next to its surface differs from that of the bulk liquid at the molecular level.

David Prendergast a staff scientist in the Molecular Foundry and researcher in the Joint Center for Energy storage Research (JCESR) has developed computational techniques that allow his team to accomplish this translation Using supercomputer facilities at Berkeley Lab

and IBM Almaden Research center focuses on block copolymers a special class of polymers that under the proper conditions, will segregate on a microscopic scale into regularly spaced"domains"of different chemical composition.

Just recently, Intel Corp. announced that it had in production a new generation of chips with a 14-nanometer minimum feature size.

working with IBM, demonstrated a new measurement technique*that uses low energy or"soft"X rays produced by the Advanced Light source at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to probe the structure of the BCP film from multiple angles.

and refining computer models.""Our measurements are both fairly time-consuming, so they're not something industry can use on the fab floor,

and let the computers figure it out.""""It's just so expensive and time-consuming to test out a new process,

Using powerful supercomputers researchers at UWA discovered that graphene nanoflakes can significantly enhance the rates of a range of chemical reactions.

The National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded scientist theorized correctly that he could adapt it to separate carbon nanotubes rolled sheets of graphene (a single atomic layer of hexagonally bonded carbon atoms) long recognized for their potential applications in computers

and tablets smart phones and other portable devices photovoltaics batteries and bioimaging. The technique has proved so successful that Hersam

high energy densities for future flexible electronic devices such as smart electronics and roll up displays. y

#New self-assembly method for fabricating graphene nanoribbons First characterized in 2004 graphene is a two-dimensional material with extraordinary properties.

and optimization of the device which is based on a phosphor screen and single-walled carbon nanotubes as electrodes in a diode structure.

Our simple'diode'panel could obtain high brightness efficiency of 60 Lumen per Watt which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption said Norihiro Shimoi the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.

The electrons then fly through the vacuum in the cavity and hit the phosphor screen into glowing.

Thus the new flat-panel device has compared smaller energy loss with other current lighting devices which can be used to make energy-efficient cathodes that with low power consumption.

Postdoctoral researcher Menno Veldhorst lead author on the paper reporting the artificial atom qubit says It is really amazing that we can make such an accurate qubit using pretty much the same devices as we have in our laptops and phones.

and meticulously planned using computer design software. Using the software the researchers design three-dimensional frameworks of the desired size

and shape built from linear DNA sequences which attract and bind to one another in a predictable manner.

This capability should open up entirely new strategies for fields ranging from computer miniaturization to energy and pathogen detection n

In my opinion the best nanosystems are going to be done by 3-D printing because it would bypass the problems of standard microfabrication Velsquez-Garca says.

3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together

The new structures can lead to sensors and chips for future devices like smartphones computers and medical equipment.

Their experiments show that future computer chips could be based on three-dimensional arrangements of nanometer scale magnets instead of transistors.

to computer logic architectures that replicate the versatility and response time of a biological neural network.""While more investigation needs to be done,

touted as a transformational replacement for current hard drive technologies such as Flash, SSD and DRAM. Memristors have potential to be fashioned into nonvolatile solid-state memory

#New research points to graphene as a flexible low-cost touchscreen solution New research published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials suggests that graphene-treated nanowires could soon replace current touchscreen technology

The majority of today's touchscreen devices such as tablets and smartphones are made using indium tin oxide (ITO)

Researchers from the University of Surrey and AMBER the materials science centre based at Trinity college Dublin have demonstrated now how graphene-treated nanowires can be used to produce flexible touchscreens at a fraction of the current cost.

Using a simple scalable and inexpensive method the researchers produced hybrid electrodes the building blocks of touchscreen technology from silver nanowires and graphene.

and bendable smart displays poses a challenge to manufacturers. They want to offer consumers flexible touchscreen technology but at an affordable and realistic price.

At the moment this market is limited severely in the materials to hand which are both very expensive to make

Lead author Dr Izabela Jurewicz from the University of Surrey commented Our work has cut the amount of expensive nanowires required to build such touchscreens by more than fifty times as well as simplifying the production process.

Co-author Professor Jonathan Coleman AMBER added This is a real alternative to ITO displays and could replace existing touchscreen technologies in electronic devices.

Even though this material is cheaper and easier to produce it does not compromise on performance.

Gallium nitride micro-rods grown on graphene substrates Bendy light-emitting diode (LED) displays and solar cells crafted with inorganic compound semiconductor micro-rods are moving one step closer to reality thanks to graphene and the work of a team of researchers in Korea.

and optoelectronics devices such as flexible and wearable LED displays for commercial use said Yi. Explore further:

Because picene displays its high carrier mobility when exposed to oxygen the researchers hope to investigate its properties under varying levels of oxygen exposure

Facile Catalytic Growth on Bifunctional Natural Catalysts and Their Applications as Scaffolds for High-Rate Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

"A tool like this could be interfaced with a laptop to provide high-quality screening capability to save lives in poor countries in remote parts of the world,

"Personal electronic devices such as smart phones, ipads, etc. can last much longer before recharging.""In addition to potential commercial applications, there are many military uses for the technology.

The researchers have shown that these display similar properties to those of a classic p-n-junction

and electricity better than any other known materialas potential industrial uses that include flexible electronic displays, high-speed computing, stronger wind turbine blades,

with the transistor and display processing steps that Plastic Logic has developed already for flexible electronics.

The new prototype is an active matrix electrophoretic display, similar to the screens used in today's e readers,

except it is made of flexible plastic instead of Glass in contrast to conventional displays, the pixel electronics,

or backplane, of this display includes a solution-processed graphene electrode, which replaces the sputtered metal electrode layer within Plastic Logic's conventional devices,

bringing product and process benefits. Graphene is more flexible than conventional ceramic alternatives like indium-tin oxide (ITO) and more transparent than metal films.

For this prototype, the backplane was combined with an electrophoretic imaging film to create an ultra-low power and durable display.

"We are happy to see our collaboration with Plastic Logic resulting in the first graphene-based electrophoretic display exploiting graphene in its pixels'electronics,

This will target the realisation of an advanced, full colour, OELD based display within the next 12 months h

and light along the same tiny wire a finding that could be a step towards building computer chips capable of transporting digital information at the speed of light.

S protein displays is much lower than ours, "says Burkhard.""The homogeneity of our vaccine is much higher,

"Every single protein chain that forms our particle displays one of the pathogen's protein molecules that are recognized by the immune system,

We took a mouse malaria parasite and put in its DNA a piece of DNA from the human malaria parasite that we wanted our vaccine to attack.

That allowed us to conduct inexpensive mouse studies to test the vaccine before going to expensive human trials."

which are prevalent in electronic displays), future applications of this technique to other industries appears straight forward."

The method reported in the journal ACS Nano could someday vastly improve the outlook for patients.

Using a handheld Raman scanner in a mouse model that mimics human GBM the researchers successfully identified

Supercapacitors have an expanding range of applications as their capabilities increase from powering computer memory backup to powering electric vehicles.

#Conductive nanofiber networks for flexible unbreakable and transparent electrodes Transparent conductors are required as electrodes in optoelectronic devices, such as touch panel screens, liquid crystal displays, and solar cells.

Examples of applications are large displays, large interactive touch screens, photovoltaic solar panels, light-emitting diode panels, smart phones,

and tablets a

#Biomimetic photodetector'sees'in color (Phys. org) Rice university researchers have created a CMOS-compatible biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red green

Researchers use aluminum nanostructures for photorealistic printing of plasmonic color palettes More information: Zheng B. Y. Wang Y. Nordlander P. and Halas N. J. 2014) Color-Selective and CMOS-Compatible Photodetection Based on Aluminum Plasmonics.

and for flexible displays and touch screens. They can be used in rubberlike electronic devices that, unlike paperlike electronic devices, can stretch as well as bend.

the new holograms could have applications in 3d displays and information storage devices, among others.""This experiment is inspired by the very unique optical properties shown by the Lycurgus cup,

"Furthermore, this concept can be applied as the basis to produce dynamic three-dimensional color displays. In the area of informatics, these holographic configurations could store information in subwavelength areas.

This means that optical data storage devices such as CDS, DVDS or Blu-ray could potentially expand their storage limits."

"Future research is focused on the study of mechanisms for the tuning the plasmonic effect for display applications,

"The main goal is the integration of new modulation schemes to produce ultra-thin displays and dynamic holograms

#Graphene rubber bands could stretch limits of current healthcare New research published today in the journal ACS Nano identifies a new type of sensor that can monitor body movements

and high catalytic activity that make them excellent candidates for industrial catalysts. Now, researchers in Singapore have developed a simple chemical process to grow uniform pentagonal nanorods composed of gold and copper.

The nanorods were examined as catalysts for this reaction using the model substrates p-toluene sulphonamide and benzyl alcohol."

and better recyclability compared to commercially available catalysts, "Ying says. Beyond catalysis, Ying predicts these new materials could be useful in electronics, chemical sensing and even biomedicine.

"Being able to keep mobile devices working for longer, or do away with batteries completely by tapping into the stray energy that is all around us is an exciting concept.

which offer the possibility of mass production by using the conventional printing technology and working with low-cost materials.

It was made by inkjet printing of an organic field-effect transistor (OFET) and subsequent functionalization of the insulator with specific antibodies.

The Biofet designed at ICN2 represents an important starting point for the design and fabrication of flexible organic biosensing devices by inkjet printing.

Formation of organic thin-film transistors through room-temperature printing More information: Mariana Medina-Sánchez Carme Martínez-Domingo Eloi Ramon Arben Merkoçi.

His team has made ultrathin nanowires that can monitor and influence what goes on inside cells.

#Used-cigarette butts offer energy storage solution A group of scientists from South korea have converted used-cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be integrated into computers handheld devices electrical vehicles and wind turbines to store energy.

Florian Libisch and Professor Joachim Burgdörfer (TU Vienna) provided computer simulations to calculate how the energy of the electrons changes in both materials

The only difference is the ones we used are much more precise due to a sophisticated system of hardware and software.

"The paper notes that this in operando approach could be applied in other fields, such as studies of fuel cells and catalysts,

and has become essential to the integrated circuits and transistors that run most of our computers.

For example it might eventually be embed possible to these printed flexible optoelectronic devices into clothes packaging wall papers posters touch screens or even buildings.

Everybody with a printer at home will be able to print their own artificial eye and physically stick it to a flexible mobile phone Felice said.

This represents a strong limitation for flexible electronics in a wide range of applications from active matrix displays to ultrafast light detectors and gas sensors.

and can be printed by a standard inkjet printer. The graphene-based ink enables cost-effective printed electronics on plastic.

and does not require much processing after printing. We used a simple sonication and centrifugation process to unveil graphene potential in inks

which can be hidden in cell phones and mobile devices.""PETN has more nitro functional groups and is more electron deficient than the DNT we detected in our experiments,

#Supercomputers reveal strange stress-induced transformations in world's thinnest materials (Phys. org) Interested in an ultra-fast unbreakable and flexible smart phone that recharges in a matter of seconds?

A Columbia University team used supercomputers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to simulate

#An anti-glare anti-reflective display for mobile devices? If you've ever tried to watch a video on a tablet on a sunny day,

you know you have to tilt it at just the right angle to get rid of glare or invest in a special filter.

which continue to plague even the best mobile displays today. Valerio Pruneri and colleagues note that much effort has been poured into anti-reflective and anti-glare technology.

But for the most part, that hasn't included an integrated anti-glare, anti-reflective display. Users still typically have to dish out extra cash for a filter

or filmome of questionable effectivenesso lay on top of their glass screens so they can use the devices in bright light.

But the existing technique doesn't work well with glass, the material of choice for many electronic displays

further research is needed to ensure that the surface can withstand heavy touchscreen use, they say.

used cancer cells and mouse models to compare the effects of the self-assembling nanoparticle in MRI scanning against commonly used imaging agents

"In previous LANP research, other geometric disc structures were used to create powerful optical processors. Zhang said the quadrumer amplifiers are a key to SECARS,

cleaner and less power-hungry technologies since the days the personal computer fit atop a desk,

since way to smaller and smaller laptops, smartphones and devices that most of us carry around in our pockets.

and share electrons level of control that makes them ideally suited for computer-like circuitry."

She adds that these biosensors will need to be integrated with optical components, with electronics for reading out the measurements, software to process all data,

#Chirality-controlled growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes Recently, Professor Li Yan's research team developed a novel strategy to produce single-walled carbon nanotubes with specific chirality by applying a new family of catalysts,

The catalysts, tungsten-based bimetallic alloy nanoparticles of non-cubic symmetry, have high melting points and consequently are able to maintain their crystal structure during the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process,

The (12,6) SWNTS are synthesized directly at an abundance of>92%by using W6co7 catalysts. Experimental evidence and theoretical simulation reveal that the good structural match between the carbon atom arrangement around the nanotube circumference

"Employing tungsten-based alloy nanocrystals with unique structure as catalysts paves a way for the ultimate chirality control in SWNT growth.

#Metal particles in solids aren't as fixed as they seem memristor study shows In work that unmasks some of the magic behind memristors and"resistive random access memory,

"or RRAMUTTING-edge computer components that combine logic and memory functionsesearchers have shown that the metal particles in memristors don't stay put as previously thought.

cheaper chips and computers inspired by biological brains in that they could perform many tasks at the same time.

Computers built with memristors would encode information in these different resistance values, which is in turn based on a different arrangement of conducting filaments.

such as a proposal last year by researchers at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) for materials that could be cut out as flat panels

uses 3-D printing technology that can be implemented now i

#New approach may be key to quantum dot solar cells with real gains in efficiency (Phys. org) Los alamos researchers have demonstrated an almost fourfold boost of the carrier multiplication yield with nanoengineered quantum dots.

Even heads-up displays on vehicle dashboards could soon be a reality. The new technology also has major medical implications.

Currently, memory used in computers and phones is made with silicon substrates, the surface on which memory chips are built.

so we can make more complicated circuits for computers and circuits.""The next step for Zhou and his team will be to build more complicated circuits using a CNT

where they enable three-dimensional imaging for a vast array of applicationsranging from biological tissue, technical devices such as catalysts, fossils to antique works of art.

such as the fine structures of cell components or modern catalysts and batteries. Until now, such fine details could only be rendered visible with the aid of electron microscopes

With the aid of special computer software researchers combine these images to form a three-dimensional picture,

#Shatterproof screens that save smartphones University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could change the face of smartphones, literally,

by making their displays shatterproof. In a recently published scientific paper, researchers demonstrated how a transparent layer of electrodes on a polymer surface could be extraordinarily tough and flexible,

and replace conventional touchscreens, according to Yu Zhu, UA assistant professor of polymer science. Currently used coatings made of indium tin oxide (ITO) are more brittle,

"The annoying problem of cracked smartphone screens may be solved once and for all with this flexible touchscreen. The team's findings are published in the American Chemical Society's journal ACS Nano in the article titled"A Tough and High-performance Transparent Electrode from a Scalable and Transfer-Free Method

Taox-capped Pt nanoparticles as efficient catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells More information: Covert thermal barcodes based on phase change nanoparticles Scientific Reports 4 Article number:

This paper describes a new nanoparticle-based covert barcode system in which a selected panel of solid-to-liquid phase change nanoparticles with discrete and sharp melting peaks is added in a variety of objects such as

which can be used to screen for diabetes in resource-poor settings has been developed by researchers and tested in diabetic patients,

A low-cost, reusable sensor which uses nanotechnology to screen for and monitor diabetes and other conditions, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Cambridge, for use both in clinics and home settings.

The sensors use nanotechnology to monitor levels of glucose, lactate and fructose in individuals with diabetes or urinary tract infections

Earlier this year, clinical trials of the sensors were carried out at Addenbrooke's Hospital to monitor glucose levels in 33 diabetic patients.

"These sensors can be used to screen for diabetes in resource-poor countries, where disposable test strips and other equipment are simply not affordable,

First made in the 1990s as a material that might be useful for building computer chips leaky oxides were rejected as undesirable because of their charge-leaking behavior.

#Flexible transparent thin film transistors raise hopes for flexible screens (Phys. org) he electronics world has been dreaming for half a century of the day you can roll a TV up in a tube.

Their two settingsn or offictate the 1s and 0s of computer binary language. Thin film transistors are a particular subset of these that are used typically in screens and displays.

Virtually all flat-screen TVS and smartphones are made up of thin film transistors today; they form the basis of both LEDS and LCDS (liquid crystal displays."

"This could make a transparent, nearly invisible screen,"said Andreas Roelofs, a coauthor on the paper and interim director of Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials."

"Imagine a normal window that doubles as a screen whenever you turn it on, for example."

"To measure how good a transistor is, you measure its on-off ratioow completely can it turn off the current?

so you could make not just a screen but an entire flexible and transparent TV or computer."

Using a computer program, they were able to customize the chemical building blocks of the DNA sequence

such as a laptop whose casing serves as its battery, or an electric car powered by energy stored in its chassis,

The device monitors these changes the magnitude of which are directly related to the concentration/number of markers in the patient blood

and absorption properties Solar thermal panels developed at EPFL are are dressed up in unique and patented new materials.

Researchers created a stronger black coating that retains its original color and thereby its absorption properties much longer than traditional panels.

The color black is at the key element of thermal panels because it can absorb up to 90%of the energy it receives.

and the panel becomes less efficient. Engineers have developed an innovative process that deposits thin layers of 3 different materials that are more resistant,

It abandons the black chromium that was used for panels currently on the market in favor of a multilayer composite of cobalt for its corrosion resistance, manganese for black,

along with software developed by Asylum Research and his lab made it possible to study the growth in situ or in place.

which was designed to inject DNA into mouse zygotes (single-cell embryos consisting of a fertilized egg)."

#Liver-like device via 3-D printer (Phys. org) Nanoengineers at the University of California San diego have developed a 3-D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins

The biofabrication technique uses a computer projection system and precisely controlled micromirrors to shine light on a selected area of a solution containing photosensitive biopolymers and cells.

Woven into uniforms the battery-like supercapacitors could power displays or transistors used for communication.

and display the translated version. It's not the first gadget to tinker with the idea

or 3-D painting#(you know like printing) could also be used to make entirely new parts.

A 3-D Printer Made From E waste#The circle of electronic life: useless printer scraps become a way to print scraps of other things!

Resourceful 33-year-old inventor Kodjo Afate Gnikou of the West african country Togo has created a cheap DIY 3-D printer out of electronic waste scavenged from junk yards.

Gnikou is part of Woelab a hackerspace in the city of Lomã as well as a geographer and an occasional maintenance technician according to a crowd funding page for his project.

All together the printer ended up costing him about $100 a far cry from the hundreds or thousands of dollars you'd shell out to buy one.

He and his printer system are#part of this year's NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Paris proposing to use e waste to make 3-D printers that would print tools to colonize Mars. euronews

and a simple computer interface shows the most important information about#the liquids in#a giant colored circle:

#Watch A 3-D Printer Make A Pizza#This summer we heard about a 3-D printer for food developed with NASA funding

Now#lo and behold the printer has shown up at SXSW Eco and we caught a short demonstration from the makers a group from#Systems and Materials Research Corporation.

The printer#served up a pie made with dough#ketchup and cream cheese(?.The printer is still in its earliest stages so the creators haven't quite perfected the process.

Instead of making a classic slice they're showing off the proper levels of pizza viscosity with similar ingredients:

the printer lays down a layer of dough from a stock of simple non-perishable ingredients then layers the sauce (ketchup) and cheese (cream cheese) on top.

send up a printer instead of boxes of food and you save space plus you give the astronauts a home-cooked meal.

Here you can see the printer laying down the cheese layer and one of the printer technicians being directed to add more pressure.

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#An Open-source Hive To Save The Bees#You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies continuing to die at unprecedented rates

The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.

Each hive contains an open source sensory kit The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK) which can transmit to an open data platform:

#Somebody Modded A Piano To Play The Game'Doom'Video For better or worse the 1993 demon-blasting video game Doom is one of the most influential games ever.

a piano rigged to act like a keyboard for the game. A team of game developers got together and wired keys in the piano to a PC running the game.

When players hit certain notes it's the equivalent of hitting certain keyboard commands. Each white key corresponds to an action like moving while each black key fires.

C-sharp to shoot frantically at the hell-beasts. A screen in the front of the piano shows the action.

Gamasutra LOL Knee deep on piano o

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