Researchers have turned off a life-threatening allergic response to peanuts by tricking the immune system into thinking the nut proteins aren’t a threat to the body, according to a new preclinical study from Northwestern Medicine. The peanut tolerance was achieved by attaching peanut proteins onto blood cells and reintroducing them to the body — an …
The StratoSolar PV solution represents an opportunity to make today’s PV technology cost effective without the massive subsidy needed to drive the technology to commercial viability in the 15 to 20 years historical trends would indicate will be necessary. It also makes PV an affordable alternative for locations like Germany and Japan where PV is …
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to harvest energy from flowing water. Led by Rensselaer Professor Nikhil Koratkar, the study sought to explain how the flow of water over surfaces coated with the nanomaterial graphene could generate small amounts of electricity. Using a small sheet of the graphene coating, seen above …
Brillouin Energy second round of data reported March, 2011 Slide 6 is important because it shows both our upward discovery trend and because it depicts an important Company mile stone. Excess power output was increased to over 100%. For every watt going in two or more came out. For some of the time. We have …
Carnival of Space 204 is up at Astroswanny. Vintage Space considers Robert Zubrin’s declaration that we are now more prepared to go to Mars than we were to go to the Moon in 1961 when Kennedy pledged the nation to a landing on its surface. Meridiani Journal – The Cassini spacecraft has found the best …
Matthew Francis, PhD, Rising star of nanotech at UC-Berkeley 10:15-10:45am Building New Materials from Synthetically Modified Proteins Protein desirable properties – Rigid three dimensional structures for object positioning self assembled capabiliities to establish order over large lengths dynamic shape changes in response to external stimuli analyte binding with high specificity Lab working on site selective …
It was previously believed that as nanowires became smaller that the the thermoelectric figure of merit would improve, but new work shows that improving heat to electricity conversion in nanowires is not that simple. The prevailing notion that quantum confinement benefits the thermoelectric power factor is supported by the model when a single-subband dominates transport. …
Suvolta released its Powershrink CMOS transistor technology that it claims will reduce the power consumption of CMOS circuits. The firm’s Powershrink technology uses Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) CMOS transistors and DDC-optimised circuits and design techniques. The use of DDC allows chipmakers to reduce power supply voltages by up to 30 per cent and reduce power …
Guest post by reader Sebtal Introduction – Sebtal is a commenter to Nextbigfuture and has provided researched information. Sebtal felt that the Union of Concerned Scientists, who are a group that are against nuclear power had done a good job covering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. I am presenting Sebastian selected Fukushima Daiichi coverage from …
Gold-carbon nanoparticle interactions. (a) TEM image of the tip of a gold-carbon filament; (b) TEM image of encapsulated gold nanoparticles within the tip; (c) Initial gold-carbon nanoparticle configuration for a molecular dynamics simulation; and (d) molecular dynamics result after 10 ns showing wetting of a gold nanoparticle by carbon atoms in the 450K range. These …
Nanoletters – A Programmable Molecular Robot We have developed a programmable and autonomous molecular robot whose motion is fueled by DNA hybridization. Instructions determining the path to be followed are programmed into the fuel molecules, allowing precise control of cargo motion on a branched track. The molecular machine made of synthetic DNA moves between track …