Month: November 2019

IMAGE: Extracting light modulation using the interfacial Pockels effect. view more  Credit: Prof Eiji Tokunaga, Tokyo University of Science Light is versatile in nature. In other words, it shows different characteristics when traveling through different types of materials. This property has been explored in various technologies, but the way in which light interacts with materials needs

IMAGE: This is a side-by-side look at platinum (left) and glassy carbon (right) thin-film electrodes for deep brain stimulation. view more  Credit: SDSU Imagine having an electrode embedded in your brain in a surgical procedure that involves drilling holes in your skull to implant it. Now imagine going through an MRI scan for medical evaluation, when

Ochre, one of Earth’s oldest naturally occurring materials, was often used as a vivid red paint in ancient rock art known as pictographs across the world. Despite its broad use throughout human history and a modern focus on how the artistic symbolism is interpreted, little research exists on the paint itself and how it was

France is one of the main international partners in research projects supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), which has cooperation agreements with 15 French funding agencies, universities, research institutions and companies. More than 120 research projects have been approved under the auspices of these agreements. To celebrate the partnership and stimulate new collaborations

Tracking the lateral position of single cells and particles plays an important role in evaluating the efficiency of microfluidic cell focusing, separation and sorting. Traditionally, the performance of microfluidic cell separation and sorting is evaluated either by analyzing the input and collected output samples requiring extra multiple steps of off-chip analysis or the use of

IMAGE: 1000 single nano-tube transistors on a chip view more  Credit: Aalto university Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. Carbon nanotubes are sheets of one atom-thick layer of graphene rolled up seamlessly into different sizes and shapes. To be able to use them in commercial products like

IMAGE:  Block diagram of Faraday effect measurement system using dual-comb spectroscopy. The signal comb (red line) passes through the sample and is superposed with the local comb (blue line). The vertical and… view more  Credit: ©The University of Electro-Communications, Kaoru Minoshima, and NEOARK Professor Kaoru Minoshima from the University of Electro-Communications and NEOARK Corporation have

IMAGE: This is a representation of the tapered fiber able to detecting simultaneously optical signals from different neurons. view more  Credit: Antonio Balena (IIT) Researchers from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and University of Salento, both in Lecce, Italy, and Harvard Medical School in Boston have developed a new light-based method to capture and pinpoint the

IMAGE: UMass Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements, right, after the ceremony in Denmark, where he received the Nils Foss Excellence Prize; with Qian Janice Wang of Aarhus (Denmark) University, who… view more  Credit: FOSS University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements was honored Monday in Hillerød, Denmark, with the 2019 Nils Foss Excellence

IMAGE: Aaron Becker, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, is leading a project to use swarms of tiny robots to break up blood clots. view more  Credit: University of Houston Pulmonary embolism causes between 200,000 and 300, 000 deaths in the United States every year, according to the National Institutes

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically-thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and compact electronic devices. By using specially-treated silicon surfaces to tailor the crystals’ size and shape, the researchers have found a potentially faster and less expensive way to produce next-generation semiconductor crystals for

IMAGE: Tunable chemotaxis of enzyme-coated protocells could lead to precision drug deliver. Illustration of protocells, called liposomes, that have enzymes (green) attached to their external surface moving through a microfluidic device…. view more  Credit: Ambika Somasundar, Penn State Synthetic protocells can be made to move toward and away from chemical signals, an important step for the

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 18, 2019–A scientific team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University has made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen. The newly discovered phase couples with a known phase to enable unique control over material properties–an advance that

Dr Tony Shien-Ping Feng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and his team invented a Direct Thermal Charging Cell (DTCC) which can effectively convert heat to electricity, creating a huge potential to reduce greenhouse effects by capturing exhaust heat and cutting down primary energy wastage. The new invention