It is hoped that the device can generate electricity from eating, chewing and talking, and power a number of small-scale implantable or wearable electronic devices, such as hearing aids, cochlear implants, electronic hearing protectors and communication devices.
Sep 17th, 2014
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Scientists who created a deicing film for radar domes have now refined the technology to work as a transparent coating for glass.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Chemists have scored a scientific first: capturing moving images of a single molecule as it vibrates, or 'breathes', and shifts from one quantum state to another.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Using a quantum material called a correlated oxide, researchers have achieved a reversible change in electrical resistance of eight orders of magnitude, a result the researchers are calling 'colossal'. In short, they have engineered this material to perform comparably with the best silicon switches.
Sep 16th, 2014
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For the first time using a water-based solution, researchers have created a long-lasting and more efficient nuclear battery that could be used for many applications such as a reliable energy source in automobiles and also in complicated applications such as space flight.
Sep 16th, 2014
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What holds white, black, and red phosphorus together - and prevents it from falling apart, for example into much-sought-after atomically thin networks and nanowires? This is what scientists now found out using numerical modeling.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Newly-developed synthetic membranes provide a greener and more energy-efficient method of separating gases, and can remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, potentially reducing the cost of capturing carbon dioxide significantly.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Researchers have devised a new simulation technique which reliably predicts the structure and behaviour of different materials, in order to accelerate the development of next-generation batteries for a wide range of applications.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Researchers have developed a new model to study the motion patterns of bacteria in real time and to determine how these motions relate to communication within a bacterial colony. They chemically attached colonies of E. coli bacteria to a microcantilever, coupling its motion to that of the bacteria.
Sep 16th, 2014
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As well as providing new fundamental insights into this prototypical few-body problem, new research results have important implications for on-going atomic experiments aimed at detecting universality in the three-body system, and it opens new avenues towards the realisation of long-lived many-body states of trimers.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Ingenuity sparks strategic partnership with UAlberta professors.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Thin layer of picene molecules attached to a silver surface maintain their structure and function, demonstrating potential for electronic applications.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Ultrathin layers of metal oxides can change the way quantum dots behave, in some cases turning them into more efficient light emitters.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Nano-engineers have successfully engineered synthetic materials which encouraged bone formation in sheep.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Two solids made of the same elements but with different geometric arrangements of the atoms, or crystal phases, can produce materials with different properties. Coal and diamond offer a spectacular example of this effect. Researchers have now found that some crystals have an easier time of making the solid-solid transition, if they take it in two steps.
Sep 16th, 2014
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By passing nanoscale spheres and rods through a tiny hole in a membrane, researchers able to measure the electrical properties of those structures' surfaces.
Sep 16th, 2014
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