• Carbon Nanotubes: Notable Developments of 2009

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:24:02
    : Man's Next Migration by Dr . Spencer Home Man's Next Migration Book Feedback Blog Think Tank Join ThinkTank News Links Featured News Space Exploration Today Habitable Planets Technology Updates News Archive Weekly Newsletter Forum Recent Posts Thread List Active Topics Free Membership Subscriptions Exclusive Premier Members Member Scholarship About Us Global Team Space Center Skydets Login Logout Forgot Password Carbon Nanotubes : Notable Developments of 2009 January 10, 2010 Space Age Technology by Goldilocks Mission Blog Ever since scientists discovered the incredulous tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and its unique properties , the wonder material has found numerous applications in various technologies but has yet to fulfill its part in what made it famous the first time , the

  • Modifying Graphene Via A Classic Route

    Updated: 2011-08-31 22:23:34
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  • Modeling and Simulation of Nano/Microsystems Contest

    Updated: 2011-08-31 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 1 Oct 2011 - 31 Oct 2011, Ann Arbor, United States. Organized by National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network computation, NNIN/C, project at Michigan.

  • Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy

    Updated: 2011-08-31 00:00:00
    Course: 28 Oct 2011, Uxbridge, Greater London, United Kingdom. Organized by ETCbrunel.

  • Big Idea: Darpa Challenge Inspires 4 Plans to Make Computers 40x More Efficient | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-30 17:50:00
    Last October China’s Tianhe-1A took 
the title of the world’s most powerful supercomputer, capable of 2.5 petaflops, meaning it can perform 2.5 quadrillion operations per second. It may not hold the top spot for long, as IBM says that its 20-
petaflop giant Sequoia will come online next year. Looking ahead, engineers have set their sights even higher, on computers a thousand times as fast as Tianhe-1A that could model the global climate with unprecedented accuracy, simulate molecular interactions, and track terrorist activity. The biggest hurdle to super-supercomputing is energy. Today’s supercomputers consume more than 5 megawatts of power. Exascale computers built on the same principles would devour 100 to 500 megawatts—about the same as a small city. At current prices, the electric bill alone for just one machine could top $500 million per year, says Richard Murphy, computer architect at Sandia National Laboratories. To avoid that undesirable future, Murphy is leading one of four teams developing energy-efficient supercomputers for the Ubiquitous High-Performance Computing program organized by the military’s experimental research division, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa. Ultimately the agency hopes to bring serious computing power out of giant facilities and into field operations, perhaps tucked into fighter jets or even in Special Forces soldiers’ backpacks... Image: Built-in cooling pipes will keep IMB's new Blue Waters super-computer running smoothly. Courtesy of NCSA

  • IEEE Nano 2012 International Conference on NANOtechnology (IEEE NANO 2012)

    Updated: 2011-08-30 00:00:00
    Conference: 20 Aug 2012 - 23 Aug 2012, International Convention Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Organized by the University of Birmimgham.

  • Vital Signs: And Down She Goes | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-28 16:20:00
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  • Video - The First Fully Stretchable OLED

    Updated: 2011-08-26 05:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Next Video The First Fully Stretchable OLED Researchers at UCLA demonstrate their fully stretchable OLED . They achieved the feat by sandwiching a carbon nanotube-polymer blend on either side of a light-emitting plastic . 08.26.2011 Video by UCLA Read the Article Channels Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business TR10 TR35 MIT News Letters from The Editor From the Editor 08 23 2011 Pushing the Limits of the Touch Screen 08 23 2011 HP's New Touchpad Tablet 07 08 2011 Google's Perspective on Malware's Rise 06 21 2011 Seeing Robotics with New Eyes 06 21 2011 Blocks Computing A new

  • Video - Hologram Method Used to Study Neurons

    Updated: 2011-08-26 05:00:00
    Pierre Magistretti of the Brain Mind Institute at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne explains how holographic microscopy works.

  • Nanosurf Forms Chinese Joint Venture to Serve Local Market

    Updated: 2011-08-25 15:39:55
    Nanosurf, a leading provider of atomic force microscopes (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STM), and Suzhou Haizisi (Hzs) Nano Technology Co. Ltd., a high-tech company specialized in system...

  • International Conference On Nano Science and Technology

    Updated: 2011-08-25 00:00:00
    Conference: 20 Jan 2012 - 23 Jan 2012, Hotel Taj Krishna, Hyderabad, Road No,1, Banjara Hills, Andhra Pradesh, India. Organized by International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI).

  • 3 Spacecraft That Refuse to Quit | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-24 17:30:00
    Engineers design probes with a certain lifespan in mind, but some hardy robots just keep going. The tradition begun by the Voyager twins, which outlasted their missions to Jupiter and Saturn by decades and are now reporting from the edges of the solar system, continues today: In March a combination of luck and solid engineering allowed the Stardust probe to complete its second comet-chasing mission. Here is how it and two other plucky space explorers have defied retirement... Deep Impact 
Original Mission: 
The $333 million probe, 
launched in 2005 to 
shoot a copper slug 
into the heart of comet 
Tempel 1, revealed 
organic molecules and water ice. 
Secrets to Survival: 
A surplus of fuel onboard and a flawless debut performance.
Second Life: Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory restarted the probe’s thrusters in November 2007, sending it on a new mission to survey comet Hartley 2. 
Current Status: After a successful comet flyby last November, Deep Impact awaits orders for yet another mission... Image courtesy of Courtesy NASA.

  • Video - Robots that Learn from People

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano 中文 in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Next Video Robots that Learn from People Pieter Abbeel has programmed robots to learn how to perform tasks without detailed instructions . One robot can fold laundry , while others can fly model helicopters or tie sutures . 08.23.2011 Video by Robert Brilliant Read the Profile Channels Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business TR10 TR35 MIT News Letters from The Editor From the Editor 08 23 2011 Pushing the Limits of the Touch Screen 08 23 2011 HP's New Touchpad Tablet 07 08 2011 Google's Perspective on Malware's Rise 06 21 2011 Seeing Robotics with New Eyes 06 21 2011 Blocks

  • Video - Pushing the Limits of the Touch Screen

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    An engineer has rigged up several devices that enable a touch interface to respond to nuances such as pressure.

  • Video - Affordable Speech Synthesizers

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Ajit Narayanan, founder of Invention Labs and one of the 2011 TR35, has designed a low-cost tablet-based speed synthesizer system called Avaz.

  • Video - Stem Cells and Entrepreneurs

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    How Cellular Dynamics International is commercializing the new technology of induced pluripotent stem cells.

  • Video - Seeing the Future of the Office Internet

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Cisco's chief futurist predicts digital avatar assistants—and more.

  • Video - How Scientists Make Heart Cells

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    CDI scientists explain how they made David Ewing Duncan's beating heart cells in a petri dish and why it's a significant feat.

  • Video - Networking Patients to Combat Chronic Diseases

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Paul Wicks, director of R&D at PatientsLikeMe, discusses his innovative work.

  • Video - Printing Parts

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Systems that print mechanical components with metal ­powder could be used to build lighter, more efficient airplanes.

  • Video - From the Editor

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Technology Review features the TR35, 35 innovators under the age of 35, in its September/October 2011 issue.

  • Video - The Science of IPS Cells

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Biologist James Thompson and others discuss the discovery of IPS cells: the science and the potential for research and personalized medicine.

  • Video - Analyzing Your Sleep

    Updated: 2011-08-23 05:00:00
    Ben Rubin, cofounder and CTO of Zeo and part of the 2011 TR35, has developed a consumer device that detects the user's phase of sleep.

  • PSST-2012, Porous Semiconductors - Science and Technology, 8th International Conference

    Updated: 2011-08-22 00:00:00
    Conference: 25 Mar 2012 - 30 Mar 2012, Malaga, Spain. Organized by Institute for Material Science of the University of Valencia.

  • The Space Elevator conference and io9

    Updated: 2011-08-19 06:12:27
    Over at io9, they have a summary posted about the recently completed Space Elevator Conference.  I’ll be doing my own in the near future, but thought I would link to this for your enjoyment. You should especially check out the brief interview with Mark Haase.  Mark is a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati and [...]

  • Asylum Research Win MT-10 Award for Electrochemical Strain Microscopy

    Updated: 2011-08-18 23:40:41
    Asylum Research, the technology leader in Scanning Probe and Atomic Force microscopy, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have just received the prestigious Microscopy Today Innovation (MT-10)...

  • Anasys Instruments Win 2011 Innovation Award for AFM-IR Technology

    Updated: 2011-08-17 02:14:10
    Anasys Instruments' AFM-IR system has been recognized by Microscopy Today in the receipt of the 2011 Innovation Award. It was presented to CEO, Roshan Shetty, at the 2011 M&M Annual conference...

  • Registration Now Open for International Symposium on SPM and Optical Tweezers

    Updated: 2011-08-17 01:31:44
    JPK Instruments are happy to announce that registration is now open for the tenth annual international symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and optical tweezers. The...

  • Bio World 2011

    Updated: 2011-08-15 00:00:00
    Conference: 30 Nov 2011 - 1 Dec 2011, Shanghai, China. Organized by IMAPAC.

  • Cell Culture Engineering World

    Updated: 2011-08-15 00:00:00
    Conference: 1 Dec 2011, Shanghai, Shanghai (munic.), China. Organized by IMAPAC.

  • The 2011 Strong Tether Competition

    Updated: 2011-08-13 22:16:41
    The 2011 Space Elevator Games - Strong Tether Challenge was held yesterday, August 12th, at the 2011 Space Elevator Conference. This competition is part of the NASA Centennial Challenges program, a program funded by Congress and run by NASA, with the purpose of fostering new technologies.  Successful competitors are awarded prize money.  For the Strong Tether [...]

  • 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Magnetism | DISCOVER Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-12 17:45:00
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  • 2011 Space Elevator Games - Strong Tether Competition - is Friday

    Updated: 2011-08-12 06:45:43
    On Friday, August 12th, the next installment of the Strong Tether Competition of the Space Elevator Games, one of the NASA Centennial Challenges, will take place.  It will be held on the first day of the Space Elevator Conference and is part of the ISEC theme this year of “Longer, stronger tethers - 30MYuri or bust!” It looks like we have [...]

  • Thin, Flexible Circuit Sticks to Skin Like a Temporary Tattoo | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-08-11 22:26:51
    , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS When Life Gives You Spider Silk , Make Artificial Skin Cod Have Strange Immune Genes Different From Other Animals Thin , Flexible Circuit Sticks to Skin Like a Temporary Tattoo What’s the : News Keeping track of what’s happening inside the body often requires a great deal of equipment outside it : Just think of the tangle of sensors in any hospital room . Now , though , engineers have developed an ultra-thin electrical circuit that can be pasted onto the skin just like a temporary tattoo . Once it’s served its purpose , you can simply peel it off . These patches could be

  • Space Elevator Conference begins Friday!

    Updated: 2011-08-11 19:01:56
    Friday, August 12th, marks the official start of the 2011 Space Elevator Conference.  I’ve posted about this conference on this blog ad nauseum so will just refer you to some links (here, here, here, here and here). If you live in the Seattle area and haven’t yet registered, it’s not too late.  And, if you’re into [...]

  • 11th International Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures

    Updated: 2011-08-11 00:00:00
    Conference: 3 Oct 2011 - 7 Oct 2011, Russian Federation.

  • The Space Elevator Analysis Spreadsheet

    Updated: 2011-08-10 07:05:47
    Long-time space elevator fan Maurice Franklin has created a very interesting document, the Space Elevator Analysis Spreadsheet.  He explains it as follows: The Space Elevator Analysis Spreadsheet provides you with the ability to calculate the characteristics of a Space Elevator and vary the inputs to those calculations.  Thus the spreadsheet allows you to see the impact [...]

  • Bruker Nano Surfaces Launch Online Store for AFM Probes

    Updated: 2011-08-10 02:19:17
    The Bruker Nano Surfaces division has launched a brand new website for atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes at www.brukerAFMprobes.com. Bruker, the company that has recently brought you Dimension...

  • 11th International Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures

    Updated: 2011-08-10 00:00:00
    Conference: 3 Oct 2011 - 7 Oct 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation.

  • Meta'12

    Updated: 2011-08-10 00:00:00
    Conference: 19 Apr 2012 - 22 Apr 2012, Paris, France. Organized by Said ZOUHDI.

  • Asylum Research Install First Cypher AFM in China

    Updated: 2011-08-09 23:58:00
    Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM), announced today that it has installed the first Cypher AFM system in China at the South China Normal...

  • Official Space Elevator Conference Poster released

    Updated: 2011-08-08 18:21:09
    It’s still not too late to register - the 2011 Space Elevator Conference, to be held at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington, is only a few days away.  This year’s conference is going to be very good and somewhat different in than in year’s past - an entire day, Friday, is going to [...]

  • "Health and Environment Safety of nanotechnology enabled consumer products".

    Updated: 2011-08-08 00:00:00
    Workshop: 21 Sep 2011 - 22 Sep 2011, York, United Kingdom. Organized by Food and Environment Research Agency, York, UK.

  • Nanotechology's impact on mass spectrometry

    Updated: 2011-08-04 15:18:41
    A move toward smaller and smaller sample sizes is leading to a new generation of mass spectrometry instrumentation, reports Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN). From a specific application point of view, novel nanoflow separation methodologies are ramping up the speed and precision with which researchers are able to validate biomarkers, as per the recent issue of GEN (www.genengnews.com/gen-articles/nanoliter-volumes-push-ms-to-new-lows/3741)........

  • JPK's NanoWizard AFM Used to Characterize Polymeric and Biological Materials at Chemnitz University of Technology

    Updated: 2011-08-04 12:29:30
    JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to report on the research work from the Chemical Physics group...

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