Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A fragment of a superconducting thin film patterned with nano-loops measuring 150 nanometers on a side (small) and 500 nanometers on a side (large), where the nano wires making up each loop have a diameter of 25 nanometers. Brookhaven National Laboratory has fabricated thin films patterned …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Dr. Brian Amsden, a chemical engineering professor from Queen’s University, is developing a technique wherein cells from a patient’s body would be placed on a polymer prosthetic that stimulates cell growth. After the cells had established themselves sufficiently, the prosthetic would be implanted in the patient’s …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A Time Reversal Mirror to receive a short pulse of electromagnetic energy at an antenna and then shoot back toward the initial transmitter the same signal, but with its wave-form reversed in time. The technique is enabled by the use of an Arbitrary Waveform Generator, which …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The longtime goal of a $1,000 genome is still just out of reach, a Harvard University physicist is promising an even cheaper price–the ability to sequence a human genome for just $30. David Weitz and his team are adapting microfluidics technology that uses tiny droplets, a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software China is looking to add 120 gigawatts of hydroelectric power by 2015 to the current 197 gigawatts. China sees hydropower as a major part of its ambitious plan to increase use of non-fossil fuel by 15 percent, and improve the energy efficiency of its economy by …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software When will China become a developed country? First we have to consider which definition of developed country to use. The UN HDI (Human Development Index) is a statistical measure that gauges a country’s level of human development. It combines life expectancy, education, literacy and per capita …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software EEtimes reports that a series of functional 25-stage ring oscillators has been made by a team of researchers from the IBM Watson Research Center using silicon nanowire transistors with diameters down to 2.6-nanometers. The use of silicon nanowire transistors is proposed to allow the continued scaling …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 156 is up at theSpacewriter.com. This site provided the following (2 of the three were in the Carnival): 1. Japan had a successful liftoff of what could be the first successful deployment and operation of a solar sail. 2. An article on …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Jim Von Ehr is interviewed by Sander Olson for Nextbigfuture. Mr. Von Ehr founded the Zyvex Corporation in the 1990s in order to expedite the development of molecular manufacturing. He has recently spun off Zyvex into Zyvex Labs, Zyvex Performance Materials, and Zyvex Instruments. Mr. Von …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Robert Freitas and the nanofactory collaboration published a nanotechnology paper in February, 2010 Denis Tarasov, Natalia Akberova, Ekaterina Izotova, Diana Alisheva, Maksim Astafiev, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Optimal Tooltip Trajectories in a Hydrogen Abstraction Tool Recharge Reaction Sequence for Positionally Controlled Diamond Mechanosynthesis,” J. Comput. Theor. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Guest Post by Joseph Friedlander. I was looking up NASA Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) from 1 to 9 to better characterize the state of some upcoming inventions, and I thought about using them to comment upon how ordinary mental resistance to new inventions proceeds. Note that …