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Harvesting Energy From Nature's Motions
By taking advantage of the
vagaries of the natural
world, engineers have
developed a novel approach
that they believe can more
efficiently harvest
electricity from the motions
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How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties
University of Utah chemists
demonstrated the first
conclusive link between the
size of catalyst particles
on a solid surface, their
... > full story
New Transparent Insulating Film Could Enable Energy-efficient Displays
Materials scientists have
found a way to transform a
chemical long used as an
electrical conductor a thin
film insulator potentially
... > full story
Applause For The SmartHand: Human-machine Interface Is Essential Link In Groundbreaking Prosthetic Hand
Professor Yosi
Shacham-Diamand of Tel Aviv
University's Department of
Engineering, working with a
team of European Union
... > full story
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Modified Bluetooth Speeds Up Telemedicine
November 5, 2009 — A telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data, such as medical images from patient to the health-care provider's mobile device for ... > full story -
Futuristic Communications Systems Could Help Protect Frontline Troops
November 4, 2009 — Researchers are working to develop futuristic communications systems that could help protect frontline troops. Building on work completed recently for the UK Ministry of Defence, the project is aimed ... > full story -
Hidden Solar Cells: 3-D System Based On Optical Fiber Could Provide New Options For Photovoltaics
November 3, 2009 — Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like ... > full story -
Digital 'Plaster' For Monitoring Vital Signs Undergoes First Clinical Trials
November 2, 2009 — A wireless digital "plaster" that can monitor vital signs continuously and remotely is being tried out with patients and healthy volunteers in a new clinical trial run by researchers in the UK. The ... > full story -
Robot Fish Could Monitor Water Quality
November 2, 2009 — Nature inspires technology as an engineer and an ecologist have teamed to develop robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments. Robotic fish -- perhaps ... > full story -
Research Continues On Secure, Mobile, Quantum Communications
November 2, 2009 — Researchers are investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater. They have conducted high data-rate experiments using an optical ... > full story -
Discovery May Lead To Precision Engineering Of Superconducting Thin Films For Electronic Devices
November 2, 2009 — Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to become superconducting, i.e., ... > full story -
Transforming Nanowires Into Nano-tools Using Cation Exchange Reactions
November 2, 2009 — A team of engineers has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale structures that are ... > full story -
Battery Of The Future: New Storage Material Improves Energy Density Of Lithium-ion Battery
October 30, 2009 — High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times – these visions of the future are being brought one ... > full story -
All-electric Spintronics Created
October 30, 2009 — Scientists have always attempted to develop spin transistors by incorporating local ferromagnets into device architectures. A far better and practical way to manipulate the orientation of an ... > full story
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