Computer-related injuries on the rise
..., from 11.6% in 1994 to a peak of 37.1% in 2003. By 2006, it had decreased to 25.1%. The decrease since 2003 corresponds to the replacement of heavier cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors with smaller and easier-to-lift liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors. Children aged According to Lara B. McKenzie, PhD...China Display Technologies, Inc. to Present at Roth Conference
...uny Electronics (Shenzhen) Company Limited ("SUNY") in China, designs, manufactures and markets small to mid-sized Light Emitting Diode (LED) and Cold cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) backlights for various types of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). Its products have applications in electronic consumer products...Digital vs. Analog Mammography
...be used to create display "windows" for masses and calcifications. The soft copy display provides a direct-view display of the digital image on cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors or liquid crystal display (LCD), allowing for unlimited manipulation of the contrast and brightness of the image, including im...EBI OsteoGen™-M (Mesh Cathode)
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...plied 1.2 volts leads to the effective electro-oxidation of water. This anodic half-cell could be easily paired with a catalytic hydrogen-producing cathode cell. This would result in a photoelectrochemical cell that produces pure hydrogen and oxygen from water and sunlight. ...ORNL researchers analyze material with 'colossal ionic conductivity'
...to be conducted." Solid oxide fuel cell technology requires ion-conducting materials -- solid electrolytes -- that allow oxygen ions to travel from cathode to anode. However, existing materials have not provided atom-scale voids large enough to easily accommodate the path of a conducted ion, which is much...MIT creates new material for fuel cells
...emical engineering; Ashcraft is a graduate student in the same department. Like a battery, a fuel cell has three principal parts: two electrodes (a cathode and anode) separated by an electrolyte. Chemical reactions at the electrodes produce an electronic current that can be made to flow through an applian...New decontamination system kills anthrax rapidly without lingering effects
...electrical phenomenon of cathodoluminescence. Numerous electron beams are generated by arrays of cold cathodes, each acting like the electron gun in a cathode ray tube. When an electron beam hits a powder phosphor, it luminesces and emits visible and/or non-visible light, explained Hisham Menkara, a senio...Microbial fuel cells turn on the juice
...ing him to connect two electrodes in the anode and cathode chambers with a conductive wire. In a hydrogen fuel cell, a membrane separates the anode and cathode chambers. When hydrogen meets the anode electrode...ons, with protons going across the membrane to the cathode chamber, and electrons passing over the wire betwe...Microbial biofilms evoke Jekyll & Hyde effects
...rkshop by Cristian Picioreanu, Delft University of Technology. This exploits the ability of bacteria to transfer electrons to metals, which can be the cathode of a fuel cell, via the minute tentacles called phili extending from their surface. ...MIT researchers build tiny batteries with viruses
...ange from the size of a grain of rice up to the size of existing hearing aid batteries. Batteries consist of two opposite electrodes - an anode and cathode - separated by an electrolyte. In the current work, the MIT team used an intricate assembly process to create the anode. Specifically, they manipul...New fuel cell catalyst uses 2 metals
...e oxygen reduction reaction process in a fuel cell, which determines how large a current will be generated in an electrochemical system similar to the cathode of a fuel cell. They found that their bimetallic nanodendrites, at room temperature, were two-and-a-half times more effective per platinum mass for t...MIT virus battery could power cars, electronic devices
...wire. In the latest work, the team focused on building a highly powerful cathode to pair up with the anode, said Belcher, the Germeshausen Professor of Mate...adding too much weight to the battery. In lab tests, batteries with the new cathode material could be charged and discharged at least 100 times without losing ...A supercharged metal-ion generator
...er you run the risk of heating the system so much the permanent magnets behind the target demagnetize, or the target starts to melt. So the magnet and cathode assembly have to be water-cooled. And commercial sputter guns the size we use are usually limited to an average power of about a thousand watts, one k...New Flexible Vacuum Controller from Varian, Inc. is Expandable and Easy to Use
...-users that require multi-point measurement and tracking of pressure, the XGS-600 can operate, display and process readings from hot filament and cold cathode high vacuum gauges (including UHV), as well as convection roughing gauges. For both data logging and controlling other elements of a system, the XGS-6...Argonne's Lithium-Ion Battery Technology to be Commercialized by Japan's Toda Kogyo
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...ctrode and strikes the light-absorbing polymer layer, electricity flows due to formation of pairs of electrons and holes that separate and move to the cathode and anode, respectively. These moving charges are the electrical current (photocurrent) generated by the cell and are collected by the two electrodes,...World's smallest radio fits in the palm of the hand...of an ant
...nergy, to begin with," says Zettl. "So electrons jump the physical gap from cathode to anode when you supply enough energy to the device from the battery." ... frequency, akin to a channel, by using the electrostatic field between the cathode and anode to tighten or loosen the nanotube, a process the researchers rela...Johnson Controls jumping further into hybrid-vehicle battery world
...excellence" for lithium-ion battery development, the company said. Current company research and development efforts on lithium-ion technology focus on cathode materials, new cell designs for better thermal management, modular designs that enable the integration of safety technologies, and cell balancing to e...EPH electrode, cathode from GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham Biosciences
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