Efforts to link nanotubes have usually begun with the most familiar kind, cylinders whose structure is equivalent to one or more rolled-up sheets of a layered crystal like graphite. Now researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) and the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, have found a completely new …
NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s mobile phone giant, has achieved 2.5 gigabits-per-second packet transmission in a fourth-generation radio access field experiment. This speed is 6,510 times faster than the current third-generation FOMA mobile series, the Sankei Shimbun reported Friday. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per …
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who recently reported that DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes could serve as sensors in living cells now say the tiny tubes can be used to target specific DNA sequences. Potential applications for the new sensors range from rapid detection of hazardous biological agents to simpler and more efficient forensic …
Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have succeeded in growing mature taste receptor cells outside the body and for the first time have been able to successfully keep the cells alive for a prolonged period of time (10-14 days). The establishment of a viable long-term model opens a range of new opportunities to increase …
A unique low cost disposable solid-state catheter that can measure swallowing pressure has been developed by a University of South Australia research team using intelligent manufacturing processes that eliminate the infection risks posed by existing catheters. Believed to be the first of its kind in the world, the catheter is one of the new products …
Funded under the European Commission’s FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative of the IST programme, MICRON set out to build a total of five to ten micro robots, just cubic centimetres in size. one fully functional robot that the project did achieve could be tested in three different scenarios. “The first was a medical or …
Nanorex is showing several new atomically precise designs Nanorex Inc. is the leading provider of computational modeling tools made specifically for the design and analysis of productive nanosystems. Nanorex’s first product, nanoENGINEER-1™, is a 3D nanomechanical CAD program. nanoENGINEER-1, the most powerful nanomechanical engineering software on the planet, is an Open Source (GPL) project sponsored …
In March 2006, LiftPort hopes to set up a HALE system in Utah’s Mars DesertResearch Station and maintain it for three weeks. Then, later in thespring, Laine says he wants to test a 2-mile (3.2-km) tether withrobots scaling to at least half way up. Laine aims to produce a functioning space elevator by 2018 – …
A robotic lifter, measuring 5-foot-6 (170 centimeters) in length, grabbed onto the ribbon and pulled itself up to altitudes of more than 1,500 feet (460 meters), besting the previous record by 500 feet. Laine is gearing up for a test of a different type. In cooperation with the Mars Desert Research Station and a team …
Yongfa Fan, a doctoral student in RIT’s microsystems engineering Ph.D. program, accomplished imaging rendered to 26 nanometers a size previously possible only via extreme ultraviolet wavelength, Smith says. By capturing images that are beyond the limits of classical physics, the breakthrough has allowed resolution to smaller than one-twentieth the wavelength of visible light, he adds. …
Georgia Tech researchers have created a highly sensitive atomic forcemicroscopy (AFM) technology capable of high-speed imaging 100 timesfaster than current AFM. This technology could prove invaluable formany types of nano-research, in particular for measuringmicroelectronic devices and observing fast biological interactions onthe molecular scale, even translating into movies of molecularinteractions in real time. It can scan …