Electric in Biological Technology

Nanotubes find niche in electric switches

HOUSTON -- (March 9, 2009) -- New research from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, finds that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators. The research, which appeared online t...

Researchers write protein nanoarrays using a fountain pen and electric fields

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Nanotechnology offers unique opportunities to advance the life sciences by facilitating the delivery, manipulation and observation of biological materials with unprecedented resolution. The ability to pattern nanoscale arrays of biological material assists studies of genomics, p...

CardioDynamics BioZ(R) ICG Technology Integrates with General Electric Healthcare's Centricity(R) Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System

GE Centricity(R) -- Third Largest U.S. Outpatient EMR with Nearly 10% Market Share SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CardioDynamics (Nasdaq: CDIC), the innovator and leader of BioZ(R) impedance cardiography (ICG) technology, today announced that the Comp...

Delft University of Technology rotates electron spin with electric field

Researchers at the Delft University of Technologys Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) have succeeded in controlling the spin of a single electron merely by using electric fields. This clears the way for a much simpler realization of the build...

Four steps toward securing more reliable electric power for Wisconsin

MADISON The only thing standing between Wisconsin and a blackout as widespread as last weeks Northeast power outage is our still-sluggish economy. If more people were working and businesses were operating near peak capacity, as they were in the late 1990s, Wisconsins overtaxed transmission grid co...

Engineers visualize electric memory as it fades

MADISON - While the memory inside electronic devices may often be more reliable than that of humans, it, too, can worsen over time. Now a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Argonne National Laboratory may understand why. The results are published in the early online...

Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact

...annels form much as they would in a cake batter. The bubbles and channels affect how well the cell converts light into electricity and how much of the electric current actually gets to the wires leading out of the cell. The number of bubbles and channels and their configuration can be altered by how much heat...

VIASPACE Pursuing Renewable Energy Business in Asia

...ble and alternative energy, is in discussions with potential customers in Asia and other regions seeking renewable and reliable sources of biomass for electric power generation. Chief Executive Dr. Carl Kukkonen commented: "We have generated strong interest in Asia for Giant King Grass as a dedicated r...

Marinus Pharmaceuticals Adds Two Life Sciences Veterans to its Board of Directors

... served for 15 years as founder and general manager of the venture capital investment firm. He also previously served as President and CEO of General electric Venture Capital Corporation and directed several of GE's lighting businesses as general manager before joining GE Venture Capital Corporation. Rein ha...

Video shows nanotube spins as it grows

...cope (FEM). A few atoms of metal catalyst were placed on the tip of the FEM's needle-like probe, and carbon nanotubes grew atop the metal catalyst. An electric current was passed lengthwise through the probe and nanotube, and it projected a bright, top-down image of the nanotube onto a phosphor screen. The br...

Charging ahead: University of Houston team revealing secrets of electricity-producing materials

...ructures remains challenging. The amount of power that can be harvested is still too low to actually power wearable devices, he says, unless efficient electric storage solutions, like nanocapacitors, also are conceived. Sharma says he would like to see wasted energy be harvested from a variety of sources....

Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance

...of metal and create unique nano- and micro-scale structures on the metal. "During its brief burst, the laser unleashes as much power as the entire electric grid of North America does, all focused onto a spot the size of a needle," said Guo. The unique nano-structures which are created from the laser a...

UCR physicist receives highest honor US government gives young scientists or engineers

...ntum confinement of atoms and charges to nanoscale systems. Her research team has shown that graphene can act as an atomic-scale billiard table, with electric charges acting as billiard balls. Her other research interests include superconductivity, thermal management and electronic transport in nanostruc...

Enerkem Announces World-Class Advanced Energy Research Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

...ocessing and research facilities. Facilities at the 233-hectare site include a Materials Recovery Facility, the Edmonton Composting Facility, the GEEP electric and Electronic Waste Recycling Facility, the Clover Bar Landfill, a leachate treatment plant, a landfill gas to electricity system, a construction and...

New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data

...Mai in addition to those already mentioned plans to analyze the properties of nanowires, which are critical to the operation of a family of nanoscale electric generators being developed by Wang's research team. Correcting for data errors in these structures will require development of a separate model using...

Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes

...dicine, and climatology. Until now, the analysis has been done using an isotope ratio mass spectrometer, which works by giving individual molecules an electric charge, then using a magnet to separate the isotopes by their massthe more neutrons, the more mass. One machine can cost as much as a million dollars....

Industry Leaders Will Gather to Discuss the Future of the "Hydrogen Economy" in Washington DC

...nd distribution industries. The conference will also offer opportunities for applications where hydrogen will play a key role, such as transportation, electric power generation and mobile battery-powered devices such as laptop computers and cell phones. For more information about "Hydrogen Productio...

UCF team's advanced nerve cell system could help cure diabetic neuropathy, related diseases

...able discovery and testing of new drug therapies. Nerve malfunctions, or neuropathies, involve a breakdown in the way the brain sends and receives electric signals along nerve cells. In mammals, these signals are able to travel long distances because of breaks in their myelin insulation called nodes of Ra...

New Generation Biofuels Signs Letter of Intent with Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) of Costa Rica

...ential licensing of NGBF technology and to the construction of its own biofuel production plants employing NGBF's process in Costa Rica for use in its electric generation plants. It is also the intent of the parties that the process outlined in this letter shall be completed within a period no longer than thr...

NIST discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity

...ing uses are in more efficient electrical transmission lines, which already have been successfully demonstrated by U.S. power companies, and increased electric power grid reliability. NIST has research programs in both these areas. Improved HTS thin-film conductors could also enable more powerful high-field p...

Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap

.... The device was a dual-gated field-effect transistor (FET), a type of transistor that controls the flow of electrons from a source to a drain with electric fields shaped by the gate electrodes. Their nano-FET used a silicon substrate as the bottom gate, with a thin insulating layer of silicon dioxide betw...

Scientists create metal that pumps liquid uphill

...conda femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years. During its brief burst, Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire electric grid of North America does, all focused onto a spot the size of a needlepoint, he says. The wicking process, which on Guo's metal moves at a quick o...

New rotors could help develop nanoscale generators

... future rotor-based machinery at nanoscale level. The research focused on rotating magnetic fields, which play an important part in machines like electric motors and generators. The difficulty for technology at the atomic scale is to replicate this property with rotors the size of small molecules. A numb...

SANYO Donates Air Purification Systems Effective Against Flu Viruses to New York Airports and Schools

...echnology visit http://us.sanyo.com/vw . About SANYO SANYO electric Co., Ltd. is a multi-billion dollar, global leader in providing solutions f...tions (a division of SANYO North America Corporation, a subsidiary of SANYO electric Co., Ltd.), based in Wood Dale, IL, provides laboratory equipment for pharm...

A New Era in the Application of Lab-on-a-Chip to Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnosis

...lly competitive biotechnology arena. The EFADchip technology uses electric field-assisted DNA hybridization to accelerate the detection of biological ...ferentiator of this technology is the use of a dielectric material for both electric field generation and capture probe DNA immobilization, thus avoiding advers...

Graphene yields secrets to its extraordinary properties

...100 times more mobile than in silicon. Graphene apparently owes this enhanced mobility to the curious fact that its electrons and other carriers of electric charges behave as though they do not have mass. In conventional materials, the speed of electrons is related to their energy, but not in graphene. Alt...

DNA gripped in nanopores

...ch 29 in Nature Physics . The movement of DNA under the influence of an electric field, electrophoresis, is caused by negatively charged groups in the basic...nd the DNA. These ions retard the movement of DNA under the influence of an electric field. The electrostatic forces and counteracting friction of the gel are i...

City of Baltimore to Evaluate New Generation Biofuels for Use in Boiler Applications

...aste water operations; reduction in use of fossil fuels; and increasing solar and other renewable energy applications. Through reduced purchases of electric power, steam, natural gas, chilled water and reduced maintenance costs the city realizes a savings of $5 million per year. Forward Looking State...

Nano-sandwich triggers novel electron behavior

...erial could open up a new world of possibilities in the emerging field of spintronics technology, which takes advantage of the magnetic as well as the electric properties of electrons in the design of novel electronic devices. A paper describing the material and its properties appears in the April 22 issue...

Dozens of New Clean Technology and Nanotech Products Unveiled at TechConnect World Expo in Houston, Texas, May 5-6

...ed the HS Reactor System(TM) Houston electric Cars (booth 930): the makers of the Zenn, the Zap, the Sky, and the Benjy Neighborhood electric Vehicles is displaying several of its latest model...lar (booth 1014): is showcasing the latest solar electric designs for residential and commercial installatio...

Pizza tossing art unlocks secrets of tiny motors

... operate on similar principles as pizza tossing. The tiny motors have the potential to be used for minimally invasive neuro-microsurgery. In these electric motors, the fixed component, the stator, is made to vibrate ultrasonically, and this causes the moveable part, the disc-like rotor, to be "tossed" bo...

Catching the lightwave: Nano-mechanical sensors 'wired' by photonics

...rs have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than the wavelength of light, that operate on photonic principles eliminating the need for electric transducers and expensive laser setups. The work reported in an April 26 advance online publication of Nature Nanotechnology ushers in a new gene...

Scientists moving closer to 'artificial noses'

...tride, are excited to resonate when exposed to an oscillating inhomogeneous electric field, and their vibration then measured. The alternating electric field required for this stimulation was produced between two gold electrode...

Thomson Reuters Commemorates World IP Week with Series of Strategic Intellectual Property Seminars Across the U.S.

... Thomas Marlow, Fairchild Semiconductor Keith Dilley, General electric Scott Forbes, Ph.D., General electric Barry Brager, Perception Partners Patrick Jewik, Townsend &...

TechConnect World Conference Showcases Houston Leaders May 3-7, at the George R. Brown Convention Center

...reds of companies, including Houston-based: ConocoPhillips, Ignite Solar, SmartCool Systems, Standard Renewable Energy, Neohydro Technologies, Houston electric Cars, Nissan Chemical, General Electric, and many others are exhibiting in the TechConnect World Expo. To reserve media credentials, please conta...

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

...such materials as lead zirconium titanate or strontium bismuth tantalate, which can instantly switch between different memory states using very little electric power. A tiny microwave antenna inside the card, when waved before a reader, reveals and updates stored information. For more than half a century, ...

New 'near-field' radiation therapy promises relief for overheating laptops

...r while the instrument's power and capacity increase. But heat generated by electric current can cause the circuits to melt and the laptop hardware to fail. ...d microscopic quantum models to calculate heat dissipation as a function of electric field, doping and temperature. "Most of the energy losses are dissipated...

X marks the spot: Ions coldly go through NIST trap junction

... required to allow ions to be grouped together efficiently for logic operations. As voltages are applied to different electrodes to move the ions, the electric fields restrain an ion as it moves between trapping zones. The fields created by the X-bridge are required for smooth transport through the junction a...

Spring 'blockbuster' movie now showing

...es promise to be smaller, faster and far more versatile than today's devices because among other advantages data storage does not disappear when the electric current stops. ...

UB engineers prove that carbon nanotubes are superior to metals for electronics

...Joules law, where resistance in a circuit converts electric energy into heat," said Basaran. "We are the first... works. "On the other hand, in carbon nanotubes, electric conduction happens in a very different, one-dimens...he limitations of conventional metals. "When an electric car finally is manufactured, its batteries probabl...