• Sony Announces 3D 720p OLED-Based Head Mounted Display

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:02:52
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Sony Announces 3D 720p OLED-Based Head Mounted Display Sony is launching a head mounted display HMZ-T1, an upcoming display that uses two OLED screens to produce a 720p 3D picture right in front of your . eyes two 0.7-inch OLED displays show twin 1280-by-720 images , producing a high definition 3D picture with no crosstalk This simulates a 150-inch 3D HDTV seen from 12 feet away Expected to be in stores by Christmas with a price of about US$780. It has very fast 0.01 millisecond response times , rendering smooth life-like video of the fast-moving images in games or when watcing action movies or . sports If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by bw

  • Detecting protein-protein interactions using graphene

    Updated: 2011-08-31 19:50:30
    Home Introduction Detecting protein-protein interactions using graphene Tweet Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Technical Research Researchers developed a new way to detect protein-protein interactions using graphene . This kind of detection is used to monitor how a disease-related protein interacts with libraries of small peptides . The idea is to mix a tagged peptide with Graphene Oxide , which quenches the fluorescent signal from the pyrene-bound peptide when pyrene stacks onto its flat surface . Then , when adding the protein that needs to be tested you can find out whether it binds to the peptide by seeing whether the tagged peptide leaves the graphene oxide and the fluorescent signal . returns via C EN Aug 31, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Graphene

  • Tiny oxygen generators boost effectiveness of anticancer treatment

    Updated: 2011-08-31 19:45:33
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Tiny oxygen generators boost effectiveness of anticancer treatment Researchers have created and tested miniature devices that are implanted in tumors to generate oxygen , boosting the killing power of radiation and . chemotherapy The technology is designed to treat solid tumors that are hypoxic at the center , meaning the core contains low oxygen . levels This is not good because radiation therapy needs oxygen to be effective , said Babak Ziaie , a Purdue University professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering . So the hypoxic areas are hard to kill . Pancreatic and cervical cancers are notoriously hypoxic . If you generate oxygen you can increase the effectiveness of radiation

  • Solar industry responsible for lead emissions in developing countries

    Updated: 2011-08-31 19:00:02
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  • Ion armageddon: Measuring the impact energy of highly charged ions

    Updated: 2011-08-31 19:00:02
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  • Different views of the tablet future for Android and Apple

    Updated: 2011-08-31 18:16:56
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Different views of the tablet future for Android and Apple Sasha Pallenberg from the specialist Internet site Netbooknews has repeated his prediction that sales of tablet computers using Android would surpass those of the iPad by the end of next . year This prediction seems to be for unit sales volume and depends upon the success of 100 and cheaper tablets and 200 tablets . Dollar volume market share would then still see Apple iPad tablet dominance lasting . longer Jeff Orr , from the sector company ABI Research , noted that tablet computers which run on the Android operating system owned by Google have managed to occupy 20 percent of the growing . market He added however that while many vendors have introduced

  • Solar industry responsible for lead emissions in developing countries

    Updated: 2011-08-31 18:09:39
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Solar industry responsible for lead emissions in developing countries A study by Chris Cherry , assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering University of Tennessee found that solar power heavily reliant on lead batteries has the potential to release more than 2.4 million tons of lead pollution in China and India . Lead poisoning causes numerous adverse health effects , including damage to the central nervous system , the kidneys , the cardiovascular system , and the reproductive system . In children , blood lead concentration is associated with learning impairments , as well as hyperactive and violent . behavior World production of new lead is 6 million tonnes a year , and workable reserves total

  • Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Inexpensive Technique for Making High Quality Nanowire Solar Cells

    Updated: 2011-08-31 17:49:04
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Inexpensive Technique for Making High Quality Nanowire Solar Cells Peidong Yang , a chemist with Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division , led the development of a solution-based technique for fabricating core shell nanowire solar cells using the semiconductors cadmium sulfide for the core and copper sulfide for the shell . These inexpensive and easy-to-make nanowire solar cells boasted open-circuit voltage and fill factor values superior to conventional planar solar cells . Together , the open-circuit voltage and fill factor determine the maximum energy that a solar cell can produce . In addition , the new nanowires also demonstrated an energy conversion efficiency of

  • Japan's 13 month maintenance schedule shutting down most of the remaining reactors and Germany could face blackouts with nuclear exit

    Updated: 2011-08-31 17:20:28
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Japan's 13 month maintenance schedule shutting down most of the remaining reactors and Germany could face blackouts with nuclear exit 1. Only 11 nuclear reactors will be operating in Japan with a combined power generation capacity of 9.864 GW in early September , which represents 20 of the country's total installed capacity of 48.96 GW spread over 54 reactors according to Platts calculations . Tuesday Platts calculations were made as Japan's Kyushu Electric and Shikoku Electric are scheduled to shut two nuclear reactors in western Japan in early . September Japan's Kyushu Electric said Tuesday it plans to start three-month-long scheduled maintenance at its 890 MW No.2 Sendai nuclear power plant in the country's

  • Harry Reid Announces the World’s First Hybrid Solar-Geothermal Power Plant

    Updated: 2011-08-31 17:00:02
    Filed under: Energy News

  • Release of “Personal 3D Viewer”, a Head Mounted Display Equipped with High Definition OLED Panel by SONY

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:09:30
    Release of “Personal 3D Viewer”, a Head Mounted Display Equipped with High Definition OLED Panel by SONY

  • Hydrogen powered prototype vessel for inland waterways: Canal boat runs on fuel cell drive

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:00:04
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  • Solar Integrator designation makes Exergetic Energy eligible bidder for $75 million federal work

    Updated: 2011-08-31 16:00:04
    Filed under: Energy News

  • Juniper claims Mobile Payments Market to Hit $670 Billion by 2015

    Updated: 2011-08-31 15:50:26
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Juniper claims Mobile Payments Market to Hit 670 Billion by 2015 A new study Mobile Payments Strategies : Opportunities Markets 2011-2015 was performed by Juniper Research and they predicts that the total value of mobile payments for physical an digital items along with Near Field Communication NFC transactions and money transfers will hit a staggering 670 billion by the year 2015 which is up from 240 billion this . year Our analysis shows that emerging segments such as physical goods payments , NFC and money transfers will fuel market growth by a factor of 2.7 times by 2015. Digital goods is the largest segment and , although forecast to more than double , it is not growing as quickly as some of the newer

  • Electricity Home Rule Could Save D.C. Billions, Create Over 14,000 Jobs

    Updated: 2011-08-31 15:00:02
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  • Freedom Urges the Public To Say No To Fossil Fuels

    Updated: 2011-08-31 15:00:02
    Filed under: Energy News

  • Japan has wind lens turbine design that generates triple the power of regular wind turbines

    Updated: 2011-08-31 14:51:19
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 Japan has wind lens turbine design that generates triple the power of regular wind turbines Japanese researchers say that they've discovered a simple way to make wind turbines up to three times as efficient . By placing a wind lens' around the turbine blades , they claim that wind power could become cheaper than . nuclear Kyushu University professor Yuji Ohya spoke of the merits of the 112-meter diameter structures being able to increase energy output two or three fold as well as being about to reduce the dreaded noise pollution so often associated with wind turbines , and improve safety . too The futuristic design was unveiled at Yokohama Renewable Energy International Exhibition 2010. The ultra efficient Wind

  • MXene – A New Family of 2-D Nanosheets of Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides

    Updated: 2011-08-31 14:44:07
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 MXene A New Family of 2-D Nanosheets of Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides While searching for new materials for electrical energy , storage a team of Drexel University materials scientists has discovered a new family of two-dimensional compounds proposed to have unique properties that may lead to groundbreaking advances in energy storage . technology The research team recounts transformed three dimensional titanium-aluminum carbide , a typical representative of a family of layered ternary carbides called MAX phases , into a two dimensional structure with greatly different properties . MAX phases , known as ductile and machineable ceramics , have been researched by Prof . Barsoum’s lab for more than a

  • DBM Energy Lithium metal polymer reported by cost 9 times less

    Updated: 2011-08-31 14:43:25
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 DBM Energy Lithium metal polymer reported by cost 9 times less Wall Street Daily DBM Enery has developed a battery-powered electric car capable of driving 450 kilometers 279 miles on a single charge . By comparison , the Nissan Leaf has a range of 160 kilometers 99 miles per charge and Chevrolet’s Volt , about 70 kilometers 43 miles DBM Energy’s new advanced battery Kolibri is constructed with a special lithium metal polymer . Early reports suggest this battery will cost 89 less than existing batteries and will only need to be replaced approximately every 20 . years Autoblog covered the Kolibri battery tests Wall Street Daily DBM Enery has developed a battery-powered electric car capable of driving 450

  • Development of Industry’s most Compact and Lightest Quick Chargers for EV

    Updated: 2011-08-31 14:10:10
    Development of Industry’s most Compact and Lightest Quick Chargers for EV

  • UK Bank Launches Fund to Help Farmers Tap into Renewable Energy

    Updated: 2011-08-31 13:00:02
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  • New design boosts graphene's light harvesting by 20 times

    Updated: 2011-08-31 12:53:37
    Home Introduction New design boosts graphene's light harvesting by 20 times Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research A new study finds that by combining graphene with metallic nanostructures , there was a 20-fold enhancement in the amount of light the graphene could harvest and convert into electrical power . The team which included last year's Nobel Prize-winning scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov says that these new graphene cell devices can be incredibly fast tens or potentially hundreds of times faster than communication rates in the fastest Internet cables currently in use . The problem was the cell devices' low efficiency as graphene absorbs very little light around 3 They now found that this problem can be solved by combining graphene with tiny metallic structures

  • An Aeroponic Green Thumb: Click and Grow

    Updated: 2011-08-31 12:00:01
    Filed under: Energy News

  • Blog - We Know the Google NexusOne Can Survive a Hard Vacuum Because Someone Shot It into Space

    Updated: 2011-08-31 12:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review September October 2011 Subscribe now The TR35 Get a glimpse of the future of technology with this year's selection of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Streetbook Growing Heart Cells Just for You Letters From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 44 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video We Know the Google NexusOne Can Survive a Hard Vacuum Because Someone Shot It into Space A consortium of students and NASA is sending phones into low earth orbit because they're as good or better than conventional nanosatellites Christopher Mims 08 31

  • Suntan polyester film capacitors win good markets in India.

    Updated: 2011-08-31 11:36:08
    . Capacitors Blog offer all kinds of capacitors infomations . Index Search TagCloud GuestBook Admin Suntan polyester film capacitors win good markets in . India Posted August 31,2011 The electronic device design and assembly industry , specially for Capacitive Discharge Ignition System , proper switch mode power supply SMPS lighting systemsshare large in India , which require Millions film capacitors . As per a customer of Suntan , Vishay Epcos were ruling this market but due to price pressure more and more manufacturers are looking at other options . The key is dielectric should be maintained or bettered as compared to Standards of Vishay Epcos , so the right option is limit . While more and more manufacturers are coming to Suntan for looking for replacements and new crossings as Suntan

  • Several Solar Power Companies are going bankrupt

    Updated: 2011-08-31 08:53:03
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Several Solar Power Companies are going bankrupt It was considered the great hope of the solar industry and a poster child for the government’s efforts to remake the U.S . economy with clean-tech as a . linchpin Now , after about 1 billion invested by venture capitalists , Solyndra Inc . has gone bust . The Fremont , Calif . company , which received a 535 million federal loan guarantee in 2009 in addition to its massive venture capital support . They will lay off 1,100 full-time and temporary employees . Solyndra was a victim of the aggressive Chinese solar manufacturing pricing policies , which have hurt it , Evergreen , SpectraWatt and a number of other solar manufacturers , 8221 wrote the DOE spokesman in an

  • Global biofuels production increased 17% in 2010

    Updated: 2011-08-31 08:14:36
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Global biofuels production increased 17 in 2010 Global production of biofuels increased 17 percent in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters 28 billion gallons US , 667 million barrels of oil up from 90 billion liters 24 billion gallons US in 2009. Biofuels provided 2.7 of all global fuel for road transportation—an increase from 2 in 2009. The two biofuel alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation largely consist of ethanol and biodiesel . The world produced 86 billion liters 23 billion gallons US of ethanol in 2010, 18 more than in 2009. World biodiesel production rose to 19 billion liters 5 billion gallons US in 2010, a 12 increase from 2009. The United States and Brazil remain the two

  • Mechanical Energy Scavenging from Flying Insects

    Updated: 2011-08-31 08:01:25
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 31, 2011 Mechanical Energy Scavenging from Flying Insects piezoelectric devices have been used to generate power from a live insect Cotinis nitida Green June Beetle during its tethered . flight They measured available deflection , force and power output from oscillatory movements at different locations on a beetle with an unmounted piezoelectric beam and showed that up to 115 microwatts power generation is possible . Two initial generator prototypes were fabricated , mounted on a beetle , and harvested 11.5 microwatts and 7.5 microwatts in device volumes of 11.0 mm3 and 5.6 mm3 respectively , from 85 Hz-100 Hz wing strokes . A final prototype was designed to enable minimum disturbance of free-flight while maximizing

  • Solar Power Water Splitting Catalyst Found

    Updated: 2011-08-31 07:05:53
    A team of scientists from the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville has determined that an alloy formed by a 2 percent substitution of antimony in gallium nitride has the right electrical properties to enable solar light energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.  The technical description is called the photoelectrochemical [...]

  • Offices Go Mobile

    Updated: 2011-08-31 05:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review September October 2011 Subscribe now The TR35 Get a glimpse of the future of technology with this year's selection of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Streetbook Growing Heart Cells Just for You Letters From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 44 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video Business Offices Go Mobile Mobile devices are changing employees' expectations about when , how , and where they'll . work Wednesday , August 31, 2011 By Erica Naone Audio The number of white-collar employees working from outside the office has been .

  • Graphene can be used to create artificial muscles?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:15:45
    Home Introduction Graphene can be used to create artificial muscles Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers managed to fabricate electrochemical actuators based on flexible graphene paper . These kinds of devices can convert electrical energy into mechanical energy through stretching or contraction , behaving like artificial muscles . This has all sorts of potential applications in healthcare and nanotechnology . The graphene-paper actuators lengthen in response to applied voltage , due to changes in the carbon–carbon bond length . The team managed to increase the response by magnetizing the paper using Fe 3 O 4 . nanoparticles via MaterialsReview Aug 31, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Graphene electrochemical actuators photo Graphene paper a

  • Coal Shortages Speed Up China’s Clean Power Plans

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:00:03
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  • Falling Solar Panel Costs are Great for Buyers, Bad for Producers (sort of)

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:00:03
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  • Energy Impact of Light Bulbs (Infographic)

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:00:03
    Filed under: Energy News

  • Innovative, New Approach to Low-Head, Low-Flow Water Power

    Updated: 2011-08-31 01:00:03
    Filed under: Energy News

  • United nuclear generation up in July and Japan will begin reactor restarts just before the year ends

    Updated: 2011-08-30 23:54:37
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 United nuclear generation up in July and Japan will begin reactor restarts just before the year ends 1. For the first time in four months , U.S . nuclear generation in 2011 exceeded the monthly generation in 2010. Nuclear generation in July 2011 was 0.6 percent higher than the same month in 2010. For the first seven months in 2011, U.S . nuclear stations generated 452.3 billion kWh , 3.1 percent lower than 2010. The July capacity factor was 96.2 percent compared to 95.7 percent in 2010 and 97.3 percent in 2009. 2. Economy , Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda said he expects the reactivation of nuclear reactors whose operations were suspended for scheduled checkups to begin this . year According to the

  • NASA assessing procedures to leave space station vacant which brings increased risk of space station loss

    Updated: 2011-08-30 23:25:52
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 NASA assessing procedures to leave space station vacant which brings increased risk of space station loss Space flight now Engineers are evaluating what steps are necessary to safeguard the International Space Station should the orbiting lab be temporarily evacuated in the wake of last week's Soyuz rocket failure . NASA officials are hopeful Russia will return the venerable Soyuz booster to service in time to avert such a circumstance , which would put the space station at increased risk in the event of serious equipment . malfunctions Engineers are analyzing what's needed to keep the station alive in case astronauts have to pull out of the international laboratory , according to Michael Suffredini , NASA's

  • Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight

    Updated: 2011-08-30 23:15:13
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight Scientists from the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville have determined that an inexpensive semiconductor material can be tweaked to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight . Using state-of-the-art theoretical computations , the UK-UofL team demonstrated that an alloy formed by a 2 percent substitution of antimony Sb in gallium nitride GaN has the right electrical properties to enable solar light energy to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen , a process known as photoelectrochemical PEC water splitting . When the alloy is immersed in water and exposed to sunlight , the chemical bond between the hydrogen and oxygen molecules

  • World's first polyurethane blade reinforced with carbon nanotubes is lighter and stronger and eight times tougher

    Updated: 2011-08-30 22:38:25
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 World's first polyurethane blade reinforced with carbon nanotubes is lighter and stronger and eight times tougher Blades installed in a 400W wind turbine generator . A post-doctoral researcher at Case Western Reserve University has spearheaded an effort to build the world’s first polyurethane wind turbine blade reinforced with carbon . nanotubes Advanced materials with higher strength to mass ratios could enable larger area rotors to be cost-effective . Carbon nanotube based composites could enable larger rotor . blades The idea behind all this is the need to develop stronger and lighter materials which will enable manufacturing of blades for larger rotors , 8221 Loos said in a news release . Loos built the

  • Vitamin C could be helpful for asthmatic children

    Updated: 2011-08-30 22:11:22
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 Vitamin C could be helpful for asthmatic children Depending on the age of asthmatic children , on their exposure to molds or dampness in their , bedroom and on the severity of their asthma , vitamin C has greater or smaller beneficial effect against asthma , according to a study published in the Clinical and Translational . Allergy 0.2 grams of vitamin C asthmatic children aged 7 to 10 years by 20-40 Drs Mohammed Al-Biltagi from the Tanta University in Egypt and Harri Hemila from the University of Helsinki in Finland analyzed the effect of 0.2 grams per day of vitamin C on 60 asthmatic children aged 7 to 10 years . The effect of vitamin C on the forced expiratory volume per one second FEV1 was modified by age

  • Cycling fast: vigorous daily exercise recommended for a longer life

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:46:37
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 Cycling fast : vigorous daily exercise recommended for a longer life A study conducted among cyclists in Copenhagen , Denmark1 showed that it is the relative intensity and not the duration of cycling which is of most importance in relation to all-cause mortality and even more pronounced for coronary heart disease mortality . The study presented today at the ESC Congress 2011, concluded that men with fast intensity cycling survived 5.3 years longer , and men with average intensity 2.9 years longer than men with slow cycling intensity . For women the figures were 3.9 and 2.2 years longer , respectively . The groups were adjusted for differences in age and conventional risk factor . levels Current

  • Graphene goes plasmonic and could increase internet communication speeds by ten times to 10 gigabits per second

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:09:52
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 Graphene goes plasmonic and could increase internet communication speeds by ten times to 10 gigabits per second Scanning electron microscopy micrographs of the graphene devices with plasmonic nanostructures . Researchers have discovered a crucial recipe for improving the characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in the next generation of pholtovoltaic devices for telecommunications and energy . harvesting In the new research , the team combined graphene with metallic nanostructures , leading to a twenty-fold enhancement in the harvesting of light to create energy . This paves the way for future advances in high-speed internet development and other . communications Nature Communications

  • Higgs Boson has less than 5% probability now across energy range - the leading alternate theories are Technicolor

    Updated: 2011-08-30 17:34:15
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 30, 2011 Higgs Boson has less than 5 probability now across energy range the leading alternate theories are Technicolor CERN scientists declared that over the entire range of energy the Collider had explored—from 145 to 466 billion electron volts—the Higgs boson is excluded as a possibility with a 95 . probability The probability of nonexistence is not overwhelming—there is still a 5 chance that the Higgs is hiding somewhere within this energy range . And , more importantly , the lower energy range from 114 to just under 145 billion electron volts , a region of energy that Fermilab has determined , through earlier experiments , may harbor the Higgs , has not been ruled out . But the Higgs is quickly running out of

  • Blog - Down on the Farm, Will Robots Replace Immigrant Labor?

    Updated: 2011-08-30 15:51:00
    You'd think that the most challenging, lowest-paid labor in the U.S. was safe from automation, but as robots become increasingly sophisticated, that could change.

  • Development of Infrared Image Sensor Capable of Contact-less Temperature Measurement of an Object

    Updated: 2011-08-30 10:51:51
    Development of Infrared Image Sensor Capable of Contact-less Temperature Measurement of an Object and Producing Thermal Images

  • Development of Multilayer Ceramic Coils with Industry’s Highest Inductance Values by TDK-EPC

    Updated: 2011-08-30 09:07:47
    Development of Multilayer Ceramic Coils with Industry’s Highest Inductance Values by TDK-EPC

  • Launch of a Compact 1.3-Micrometer Band 40Gbps EML Module by Mitsubishi Electric

    Updated: 2011-08-30 08:44:44
    Launch of a Compact 1.3-Micrometer Band 40Gbps EML Module by Mitsubishi Electric

  • Al Gore likens climate change sceptics to racists

    Updated: 2011-08-30 07:21:58
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard August 29, 2011 Al Gore likens climate change sceptics to racists Al Gore , the former US vice president , has predicted that in years to come people who are sceptical about climate change will be seen in the same way as racists . In an interview on UStream , Mr Gore likened the debate over climate change to the Civil Rights movement in the US in the . 1960s He said that in order for climate change advocates to secure action over global warming they must win the conversation against . deniers I remember again going back to my early years in the South , when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding , there were two things that really made an impression on me , he told Climate Reality Project collaboator Alex . Bogusky My

  • Bit O’ Trouble on the Biomass and Cellulosic Front

    Updated: 2011-08-30 07:09:42
    University of Illinois at Champaign’s Praveen Kumar has some non-enthusiast news, “While we are looking for solutions for energy through bioenergy crops, dependence on water gets ignored, and water can be a significant limiting factor.” Kumar, the Lovell Professor of civil and environmental engineering at UI Champaign said, “There are many countries around the world [...]

  • Graphene has powerful adhesion qualities

    Updated: 2011-08-29 17:56:08
    Home Introduction Graphene has powerful adhesion qualities Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research According to a new research by University of Colorado Boulder scientists , graphene has powerful adhesion qualities . This means that graphene-based mechanical devices such as gas separation membranes are possible . Graphene's adhesion energies are several orders of magnitude larger than those in typical micromechanical . structures via KurzweilAI Aug 29, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Pressurized graphene membranes photo Graphene nanobubbles could lead to smaller and more powerful transistors Graphene based membranes for gas separation being developed at MIT Graphene can be used to create artificial muscles SiO2 can be used to improve a Graphene based FET ,

  • Better Models for Better Oil Well Control

    Updated: 2011-08-29 11:54:09
    Steinar Evje published a paper in the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis with a new analysis of a mathematical model that has applications to study gas kicks in deep-water oil wells. To explain a dangerous gas kick, consider the deeper the well the higher the pressures will be, and are higher the risks associated with [...]

  • Release of “Panorama Camera 180-View”, Fish-eye lens equipped Security Camera by TAMRON

    Updated: 2011-08-29 08:47:15
    Release of “Panorama Camera 180-View”, Fish-eye lens equipped Security Camera by TAMRON

  • An RNA Switch for Stem Cells

    Updated: 2011-08-29 05:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Technology Review September October 2011 Subscribe now The TR35 Get a glimpse of the future of technology with this year's selection of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Streetbook Growing Heart Cells Just for You Letters From the Editor Graphiti Notebooks Demo Hack To Market Q A Photo Essay Business Impact Reviews From the Labs 44 Years Ago in TR Blogs Video Missing : link Large RNA molecules called lincRNAs turn out to have an important role in controlling the function and fate of embryonic stem cells , like those pictured here . Credit : Nature Biomedicine An RNA Switch for Stem Cells A new study reveals

  • Development of Industry’s Highest Sensitivity 1/3-Type Progressive-Scan CCDs for Security Cameras

    Updated: 2011-08-26 10:39:57
    Development of Industry’s Highest Sensitivity 1/3-Type Progressive-Scan CCDs for Security Cameras

  • Update of Natural Gas in the Eastern US

    Updated: 2011-08-26 07:13:52
    The Marcellus Shale formation that extends across eight U.S. states has a new estimate out from the US Geological Survey (USGS).  The new estimate of the reserve was increased from 42 times to 72 times from the previous assessment done in 2002.  Nine years will change a perspective. Before looking into this, keep in mind [...]

  • Video - The First Fully Stretchable OLED

    Updated: 2011-08-26 05:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Next Video The First Fully Stretchable OLED Researchers at UCLA demonstrate their fully stretchable OLED . They achieved the feat by sandwiching a carbon nanotube-polymer blend on either side of a light-emitting plastic . 08.26.2011 Video by UCLA Read the Article Channels Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business TR10 TR35 MIT News Letters from The Editor From the Editor 08 23 2011 Pushing the Limits of the Touch Screen 08 23 2011 HP's New Touchpad Tablet 07 08 2011 Google's Perspective on Malware's Rise 06 21 2011 Seeing Robotics with New Eyes 06 21 2011 Blocks Computing A new

  • Video - Hologram Method Used to Study Neurons

    Updated: 2011-08-26 05:00:00
    Pierre Magistretti of the Brain Mind Institute at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne explains how holographic microscopy works.

  • Introduction of “AMULET” Digital Mammography System, Featuring World’s Smallest Pixel Pitch by Fujifilm

    Updated: 2011-08-26 01:27:51
    Introduction of “AMULET” Digital Mammography System, Featuring World’s Samllest Pixel Pitch by Fujifilm

  • A Tri Alpha Fusion Update

    Updated: 2011-08-25 07:11:31
    Brian Wang found through Talk Polywell a pdf file of a presentation given at the ICC/US-Japan CT Workshop in Seattle Washington on August 16, 2011.  It’s a treasure of an update on the dual pinch approach to fusion confinement, well worth a look. Tri Alpha started as a brainchild of Professor Rostoker and for some [...]

  • Development of High-Performance Low Power LCD CMOS MCU by OKI Semiconductor

    Updated: 2011-08-25 06:55:16
    Development of High-Performance Low Power LCD CMOS MCU by OKI Semiconductor

  • Suntan New Brochure and Sample Box are Coming!

    Updated: 2011-08-24 12:48:41
    Capacitors Blog offer all kinds of capacitors infomations . Index Search TagCloud GuestBook Admin Suntan New Brochure and Sample Box are Coming Posted August 24,2011 Suntan always focuses on synchronously refreshing the technical specification between our website and the paper brochure sample box , which makes customer know more detailed information about our components and Suntan . brand This time we updated the brochure of Rectifier Diode M7 and Trimming Potentiometer first , M7 brochure photo as below . Plastic Film Capacitor is under construction , and other series will show up soon Meanwhile , as for the sample box , we put some more typical samples into the box such as radial and axial film capacitor , X2 capacitor , radial and SMD E-caps . We hope this would give customer a more

  • How Good Is That Biomass?

    Updated: 2011-08-24 07:12:03
    Observers, journalists and investors don’t always know the finer details of the qualities of biomass destined for making fuel.  The question of how much useable starch and sugar there is in batch is quite significant to the cost basis of raw materials. Seed companies are already coming out with hybrids of plants that are much [...]

  • Video - Robots that Learn from People

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Next Video Robots that Learn from People Pieter Abbeel has programmed robots to learn how to perform tasks without detailed instructions . One robot can fold laundry , while others can fly model helicopters or tie sutures . 08.23.2011 Video by Robert Brilliant Read the Profile Channels Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business TR10 TR35 MIT News Letters from The Editor From the Editor 08 23 2011 Pushing the Limits of the Touch Screen 08 23 2011 HP's New Touchpad Tablet 07 08 2011 Google's Perspective on Malware's Rise 06 21 2011 Seeing Robotics with New Eyes 06 21 2011 Blocks

  • Video - Pushing the Limits of the Touch Screen

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    An engineer has rigged up several devices that enable a touch interface to respond to nuances such as pressure.

  • Video - Affordable Speech Synthesizers

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Ajit Narayanan, founder of Invention Labs and one of the 2011 TR35, has designed a low-cost tablet-based speed synthesizer system called Avaz.

  • Video - Stem Cells and Entrepreneurs

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    How Cellular Dynamics International is commercializing the new technology of induced pluripotent stem cells.

  • Video - Seeing the Future of the Office Internet

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Cisco's chief futurist predicts digital avatar assistants—and more.

  • Video - How Scientists Make Heart Cells

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    CDI scientists explain how they made David Ewing Duncan's beating heart cells in a petri dish and why it's a significant feat.

  • Video - Networking Patients to Combat Chronic Diseases

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Paul Wicks, director of R&D at PatientsLikeMe, discusses his innovative work.

  • Video - Printing Parts

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Systems that print mechanical components with metal ­powder could be used to build lighter, more efficient airplanes.

  • Video - From the Editor

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Technology Review features the TR35, 35 innovators under the age of 35, in its September/October 2011 issue.

  • Video - The Science of IPS Cells

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Biologist James Thompson and others discuss the discovery of IPS cells: the science and the potential for research and personalized medicine.

  • Video - Analyzing Your Sleep

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Ben Rubin, cofounder and CTO of Zeo and part of the 2011 TR35, has developed a consumer device that detects the user's phase of sleep.

  • A Stakeholders Guide to Energy and Fuels

    Updated: 2011-08-22 07:04:21
    To answer uncounted emails that basically ask, “What do you think . . .” your humble writer offers a basic guide for your reference.  To start, all government intrusions included, energy and fuels are going to be provided to people with market systems. What people are paying for by buying is – energy assisted work. [...]

  • Suntan Upcoming Exhibition: ElectronicAsia 2011 in Hong Kong

    Updated: 2011-08-21 07:30:34
    Suntan will attend the ElectronicAsia in Hong Kong. Below is the detailed date and address. As former, this time we will take enough samples and catalogs. Welcome new or old customers to visit our booth and strengthen our business relationship by a direct face to face communication!ElectronicAsiaBooth No.: 5F-G24 , 2 booth, 18 sq M, two side open.Date: 13-16 October 2011Address: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.

  • Graphene is better than glass for neural stem cell growth

    Updated: 2011-08-21 05:10:45
    Home Introduction Graphene is better than glass for neural stem cell growth Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from Korea report that graphene is better than glass for human neural stem cells hNSCs growth exhibiting a greater ratio of neurons to glial cells . When using graphene as a substrate , cells grew well and stuck well on the graphene , and the substrate could deliver currents to the neural cells , which may be useful for neural . stimulation via Materials-View Aug 21, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Neural stem cell on graphene image Graphene can be used to guide stem cell fate Graphene guides stem cell fate photo New research aims to use Graphene to build better neural implants Graphene can be used to make Organic PV cells About

  • SMCs - new revolutionary graphene based energy devices

    Updated: 2011-08-20 06:56:55
    Home Introduction SMCs new revolutionary graphene based energy devices Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Ultracapacitors Nanotek Instruments and its subsidiary Angstron Materials developed a new graphene-based energy storage device something between a battery and a supercapacitor . The new device is called graphene surface-enabled lithium ion-exchanging cells , or surface-mediated cells SMCs Nanotek says that even the first generation devices which aren't optimized yet feature fast recharge cycles and already outperform both supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries . Recharge time is 10 times faster than supercapcitor and 100 times faster than lithium ion while energy capacity is the same as Li-ion batteries and 30 times higher than conventional . supercapacitors SMCs gets

  • Graphene can be chemically doped using nitrogen atoms

    Updated: 2011-08-20 05:37:29
    Home Introduction Graphene can be chemically doped using nitrogen atoms Tweet Technical Research New research shows that graphene can be chemically doped using nitrogen atoms which suggests that graphene electronics can use processes used in silicon based technology . The research also confirmed that you can use other elements such as Boron to complementary dope . graphene As is the case in Silicon , the extra nitrogen atoms do not significantly modify the basic structure of graphene . sheets The research team from the US and Korea say that nitrogen-doped graphene may be more chemically reactive then non-doped graphene and could potentially be used in applications like chemical sensors , transistors and other electronics . devices via NanotechWeb Aug 20, 2011 Login register to post

  • Oxygen adsorption in graphene can be controlled using a field-effect transistor

    Updated: 2011-08-20 01:36:39
    Home Introduction Oxygen adsorption in graphene can be controlled using a field-effect transistor Tweet Spintronics Technical Research Graphene can adsorb oxygen onto its surface which changes graphene's electronic transport properties This can be useful for Spintronics devices but the adsorption is difficult to control . Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a way to control the adsorption of oxygen by applying an electric field to a Graphene-based field-effect transistor FET The density of carriers electrons and holes in the FET can be tuned by applying an electric field to the gate of the device and , when oxygen molecules then adsorb onto the device , the conductivity of the FET . changes via NanotechWeb Aug 20, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar

  • A Big North Sea Oil Discovery

    Updated: 2011-08-19 15:54:19
    Statoil has confirmed their new oil field discovery will be classified as a giant oil field discovery.  Two reservoir zones called the Aldous and Avaldsnes are believed to be communicating the petroleum. Combined the discovery should come in between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.  Note that’s ‘recoverable’ – making for [...]

  • New energy storage device could recharge electric vehicles in minutes

    Updated: 2011-08-19 15:25:55
    (PhysOrg.com) -- It has all the appearances of a breakthrough in battery technology, except that it’s not a battery. Researchers at Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc., in Dayton, Ohio, have developed a new paradigm for designing energy storage devices that is based on rapidly shuttling large numbers of lithium ions between electrodes with massive graphene surfaces. The energy storage device could prove extremely useful for electric vehicles, where it could reduce the recharge time from hours to less than a minute. Other applications could include renewable energy storage (for example, storing solar and wind energy) and smart grids.

  • Suntan Upcoming Exhibition: ElectronicAsia 2011 in Hong Kong

    Updated: 2011-08-19 12:22:40
    Suntan will attend the ElectronicAsia in Hong Kong. Below is the detailed date and address. As former, this time we will take enough samples and catalogs. Welcome new or old customers to visit our booth and strengthen our business relationship by a direct face to face communication!ElectronicAsiaBooth No.: 5F-G24 , 2 booth, 18 sq M, two side open.Date: 13-16 October 2011Address: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre.

  • Iron as a Catalyst Is Improved Again

    Updated: 2011-08-18 07:11:47
    Iron as a catalyst is making news, especially in Europe where the element is suspected to have a role in the catalyst for the Rossi E-Cat.  That might be the case as scientists at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique Varennes, Québec, Canada (INRS) have published a paper in Nature Communications showing an iron [...]

  • Suntan offers Diode Rectifier M7

    Updated: 2011-08-17 09:12:19
    Capacitors Blog offer all kinds of capacitors infomations . Index Search TagCloud GuestBook Admin Suntan offers Diode Rectifier M7 Posted August 17,2011 Suntan offers the broadest line of innovative diode rectifier-- M7. No matter from maximum repetitive peak reverse voltage or maximum dc blocking voltage,rectifier M7 is better than rectifier M1-M6. Technically speaking , diode rectifier M7 can replace diode rectifier M1-M6. Both the quality and the price of our M7 are very competitive in the market . It will be a great choice for surface mounted . applications Diode Rectifier M7 : Features Reverse voltage 50 to 1000 Volts forward current 1.0 Ampere The plastic package carries Underwriters Laboratory Flammability Classification 94V-0 For surface mounted applications Low reverse leakage

  • New insight about the interactions between electrons in bilayer graphene

    Updated: 2011-08-12 08:10:24
    Researchers from the University of Manchester (in partnership with other scientists at the Universities of Moscow, Nijmegen and Lancaster) published some new information about the interactions between electrons in bilayer graphene.The researchers utilized superior quality bilayer graphene instruments that were fabricated by suspending graphene sheets in vacuum (this method could remove majority of the unnecessary scattering methods of electrons in graphene, thus improving the electron to electron interaction effect). read more

  • Discussing Graphene advantages and potential in electronics

    Updated: 2011-08-11 12:53:02
    Dr. Bhagawan Sahu from the Microelectronics research center in Texas, Dr. Bhagawan Sahu is working on creating digital circuits made from graphene. Check out this interesting interview with Dr. Sahu - where he discusses the fundamental advantages of using graphene in electronics, and the potential for creating the first commercially available graphene digital microprocessors by 2023.

  • Astronomers - Fullerene and Graphene in space?

    Updated: 2011-08-11 10:59:26
    Home Introduction Astronomers Fullerene and Graphene in space Tweet Technical Research A team of astronomers say they detected the first sighting of C70 Fullerene molecule in space , and possible Graphene molecules , too . They say that collisional shocks powered by the winds from old stars in planetary nebulae could be responsible for the formation of fullerenes and . graphene According to the scientists , fullerenes and graphene are formed from the shock-induced i.e . grain-grain collisions destruction of hydrogenated amorphous carbon grains HACs Such collisions are expected in the stellar winds emanating from planetary nebulae . The existence of these molecules does not depend on the stellar temperature , but on the strength of the wind . shocks via ScienceDaily Aug 11, 2011 Login

  • New method to produce graphene nanoriboons

    Updated: 2011-08-10 09:47:29
    Home Introduction New method to produce graphene nanoriboons Tweet Graphene applications Graphene production Technical Research Scientists from The University of Nottingham , UK , developed a new self-assembly based method to create sulphur-terminated graphene nanoribbon within a single-walled carbon nanotube . The team have demonstrated that carbon nanotubes can be used as nanoscale chemical reactors and chemical reactions involving carbon and sulphur atoms held within a nanotube lead to the formation of atomically thin strips of carbon , known as graphene nanoribbon , decorated with sulphur atoms around the . edge These ribbons have some interesting physical properties and they are suitable for applications in electronic and spintronics devices more so than regular' . graphene via

  • Researchers suggest a simple way to count graphene sheets

    Updated: 2011-08-10 09:43:21
    Home Introduction Researchers suggest a simple way to count graphene sheets Tweet Graphene production Technical Research Researchers from University of California , Riverside suggest a new simple method to count graphene sheets . Usually , when graphene is made by chemical vapor deposition CVD it results in multiple layers of sheets , and some defects and wrinkles . Current techniques to count the sheets such as Raman and atomic force microscopy are limited in size and need . calibration The new method exploits the fact that graphene quenches fluorescence . The idea is to coat an area of graphene on a surface with a fluorescent polymer dye to allow visualization with a simple fluorescence microscope . The data processing is then quite . straightforward via MaterialsViews Aug 10, 2011 Login

  • $15 billion worth of Graphene from a box of cookies...

    Updated: 2011-08-04 15:29:02
    . Home Introduction 15 billion worth of Graphene from a box of cookies . Tweet Financial Technical Research Video Researchers from Rice University had a meeting in which they discussed the possibility of making graphene out of sugar . Chemist James Tour said you can actually make it from any carbon source including a girl scout cookie . So they dared him to do it and he did , inviting a troop of Houston Girl Scouts to see how it's : done Tour says that a 2 x2 graphene costs about 250 today and from one box of cookies you could make a 157,800m 2 graphene sheet which will be worth over 15 billion 15,290,697,674 to be exact . The graphene itself was made by carbon deposition on copper foil : putting a cookie in a furnace 1050 degrees on a copper foil decomposes the carbon sources the graphene

  • Graphene and Tin composite material can be used to make better battery electrodes

    Updated: 2011-08-04 12:32:33
    Home Introduction Graphene and Tin composite material can be used to make better battery electrodes Tweet Graphene applications Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a graphene and tin composite material that can be used to make battery electrodes . Tin turns into nanopillars when heated at 300 degrees and these nanopillars widen the gap' between graphene layers . This leads to better performing electrodes faster charging This is still an early stage technology current prototypes only last for about 30 charge . cycles via Engadget Aug 04, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Graphene and Tin battery electrode photo Strained graphene leads to pseudo-magnetic fields Vorbeck and Targray introduces new Graphene-based Li-Ion materials

  • New research aims to use Graphene to build better neural implants

    Updated: 2011-08-04 12:23:45
    Home Introduction New research aims to use Graphene to build better neural implants Tweet Graphene applications Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng , an assistant professor from Wayne State University received a five-year , 475,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the potential of graphene for neural implants that can be used to treat disorders and diseases such as blindness , deafness , epilepsy , spinal cord injury , and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's . He hopes to check out whether graphene can be used to make reliable , high-performance , long-term implantable electrode . systems Currently electrodes are used to stimulate connections between brain parts , but these typically stop working after a few weeks because scar tissue forms around the electrode , and the materials that

  • Korea's Pusan University purchased a graphene PECVD system from Aixtron

    Updated: 2011-08-04 08:10:41
    Aixtron announced that Korea's Pusan National University (PNU) purchased an AIXTRON 4-inch Black Magic PECVD system. The system will be used for the production of graphene and carbon nanotubes - for research on renewable energy devices. The system was already installed at Pusan's National Core Research Center (NCRC). Professor Kwang-Ho Kim explains that their reserach focuses on developing novel hybrid structures containing CNT and Graphene which utilize the unique physical and electronic properties of these materials. These structures are applied in electronic devices such as solar cells and sensors.

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