Month: December 2019

IMAGE: Hans Zappe, Harry Levinson to lead SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS view more  Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and Cardiff, UK — Two new co-editors-in-chief will take the helm of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3) starting 1 January, 2020. Harry Levinson, a consultant at HJL Lithography, and Hans Zappe, the
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IMAGE: The book consists of 20 chapters including the four written by Professor Kim and covers the history, development, synthesis, and physiochemical properties of cucurbiturils, as well as their applications in… view more  Credit: Kimoon Kim (POSTECH) By invitation from the Royal Society of Chemistry, POSTECH professor Kimoon Kim (Director, IBS Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity)
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IMAGE: Understanding roughness at such microscopic levels allowed researchers to understand the mechanics of how soft surfaces adhere to them. view more  Credit: University of Akron College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering PITTSBURGH (Dec. 2, 2019) — Tires gripping the road. Nonslip shoes preventing falls. A hand picking up a pen. A gecko climbing a
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IMAGE: A green lower-energy laser light goes through silicon quantum dots, which the silicon quantum dots re-emit, or upconvert, into a higher-energy blue light. view more  Credit: Lorenzo Mangolini & Ming Lee Tang/UC Riverside Materials scientists at the University of California, Riverside and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that it is possible to
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IMAGE: Desorption of water isotopomers (H2O, HDO and D2O) from surfaces of isotope-mixed ice with various H/D compositions. view more  Credit: NINS/IMS The physicochemical and biological properties of hydrogen-bonded systems are significantly affected by nuclear quantum effects including zero-point energies of vibrational modes, proton delocalization, and tunneling effect. These originate from the extremely low nuclear mass
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IMAGE: Silicon nanocrystals are formed by a silane gas in a plasma process. view more  Credit: Lorenzo Mangolini/UC Riverside A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized phenomenon–the transfer of energy between silicon and organic, carbon-based molecules–in a breakthrough
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IMAGE: Future magnon torque based devices such as this could allow for faster electronic gadgets that require less power and do not overheat. view more  Credit: National University of Singapore Modern computer memory encodes information by switching magnetic bits within devices. Now, a ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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IMAGE: This is an illustration of aligned metallic carbon nanotubes in the team’s thermoelectric device. A temperature gradient causes an electrical current to flow. view more  Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used aligned “metallic” carbon nanotubes to create a device which converts heat to electrical energy (a thermoelectric
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This Batwoman review contains spoilers.  Batwoman Episode 8 In Batwoman’s (pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths) mid-season finale things get deadly as Mouse continue to impersonate Jake, Alice makes Catherine confess her sins to the world, and Sophie has some real talk with her husband. Sophie and Tyler were sidelined in this episode so they could deal with their
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This article contains Watchmen spoilers. Watchmen episode 7, “An Almost Religious Awe,” is the hour where the remaining big questions finally start getting answered. And in the case of its last scene, it may even answer a question that you might not even realize had been asked in the first place. But from its first
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It’s that time of the year again—white snow, slow roasted turkey, and plenty of holiday-themed movies and TV specials being cycled non-stop on your television screen. In the spirit of the holiday season, we’ve compiled a nifty, long list of these movies and TV specials to make sure that you don’t miss any of them!
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Xbox head Phil Spencer has indicated that Microsoft and the Xbox team have no plans on incorporating VR as they prepare for the release of Xbox Scarlett.  “I have some issues with VR,” said Spencer in an interview with Stevivor. “It’s isolating and I think of games as a communal, kind of together experience. We’re
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This Power Rangers Beast Morphers review contains spoilers. Power Rangers Beast Morphers Episode 20 Power Rangers Beast Morphers has finally figured out how to make Ben and Betty work properly. It may sound strange to start off a review of such a dramatic episode discussing the comedic side characters but it demonstrates why ‘Target Tower’ stands head and shoulders
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This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. “Regret and failure are a part of life, but what’s important is what you do after…” Several times now over this season, My Hero Academia has demonstrated that Sir Nighteye is a highly methodical character who thinks it’s important to take his time towards the takedown of Chisaki and
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