Programmable molecular recognition based on the geometry of DNA nanostructures
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 27, 2011 Programmable molecular recognition based on the geometry of DNA nanostructures Nature Chemistry Programmable molecular recognition based on the geometry of DNA nanostructures Foresight Institute has a description of the DNA nanostructure work The wide assortment of nanostructures and nanomachines made possible by structural DNA nanotechnology are all based upon the molecular recognition code of the familiar DNA double helix . Initially this code was exploited to build atomically precise structures on the order of 20 nmm in size . Since the publication of the DNA origami technique by Paul W . K . Rothemund in 2006 it has been possible to fold a long single strand of DNA with the help of numerous short DNA
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 27, 2011 North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources presentation with updated Oil Forecast North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources presentation on the Bakken , Natural gas flaring and other topics 70 pages The 90 percentile upper range has increased by 100,000 barrels per day and the proven lower range has increased by 50,000 barrels per day and the probable is also up about 40,000 barrels per . day This new North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources projection above has several increases over the last forecast from just a few months ago below Why is Gas Flaring Dramatic surge in drilling rigs , wells drilled and gas produced Improved well-completion techniques increasing initial production rates Strong
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 26, 2011 Air pollution costs from Industry costs europe 86 to 145 billion pounds Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe 74 pages Air pollution continues to harm human health and our environment . One of the main findings of the EEA's European Environment Agency The European environment state and outlook 2010 report EEA , 2010 was that , despite past reductions in emissions , air quality needs to further improve . Concentrations of certain air pollutants still pose a threat to human health . In 2005, the European Union's Clean Air for Europe CAFE programme estimated that the cost to human health and the environment from emissions of regional air pollutants across all sectors of the
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 26, 2011 500 million Red Dragon Spacex Mars mission details Nature NASA is working with Space Exploration Technologies SpaceX to plan a mission that would search for evidence of life buried in the ice of Martian dirt . The NASA science hardware would fly to the Red Planet aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule , which the company is developing to ferry cargo and astronauts to and from the International Space Station . The Red Dragon mission , which could be ready to launch by 2018, would carry a cost of about 500 million or . less Christopher McKay , principal investigator at Ames for the Mars proposal , called Icebreaker' , says that the mission would target polar terrain where ice is present near the surface , similar to
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 26, 2011 Supersized Mars Rover will arrive at Mars to find targets for future searches for life starting in 8.5 months The car-size Curiosity rover blasted off atop its Atlas 5 rocket at 10:02 a.m . ET Saturday Curiosity is a beast of a rover . Weighing in at 1 ton , it's five times more massive than either of the last two rovers NASA sent to Mars , the golf-cart-size twins Spirit and Opportunity , which landed in 2004 to search for signs of past water . activity Curiosity has 10 scientific instruments , including a rock-zapping laser and equipment designed to identify organic compounds carbon-based molecules that are the building blocks of life as we know it . Some of these instruments sit at the end of Curiosity's
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 25, 2011 World’s First Proof of Single Atomic Layer Material with Zero Electrical Resistance A research group at the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics MANA proved that the electrical resistance of a metal single atomic layer on a silicon surface becomes zero by superconductivity . The work was done at . 2.8K Focusing on an indium single atomic layer arranged with a special structure on a silicon surface , the team led by Dr . Uchihashi observed for the first time in the world that the electrical resistance of this substance become zero , and the substance displays superconductivity , when cooled to a low temperature . Furthermore , when the current passing through this substance was increased 
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 25, 2011 Healthy neurons can integrate into diseased areas of mice brains Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder , an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely . believed Collaborators from Harvard University , Massachusetts General Hospital MGH Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BIDMC and Harvard Medical School HMS transplanted normally functioning embryonic neurons at a carefully selected stage of their development into the hypothalamus of mice unable to respond to leptin , a hormone that regulates metabolism and controls body weight . These mutant mice usually become morbidly obese , but
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Release of New series of Inrush current limiters for Input Circuits of Power Supplies
Those lithium-ion batteries we’ve come to appreciate in cell phones and other small portable electronics don’t last as long as one would like – the full charge shrinks a little with each recharge. Stanford researchers have developed part of a new dream battery with a new electrode that employs crystalline nanoparticles of a copper compound. [...]
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard November 24, 2011 First Implementation of 100 and 40Gbps Ultra-High-Speed Plug-and-Play Optical Communications Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and NTT Communications Corporation have conducted 100 and 40Gbps transmission tests in real field environments using existing installed optical fiber , and have demonstrated for the first time , plug-and-play functionality that greatly reduces the setup time previously required for configuring optical signals . This was achieved using a new technology developed by NTT which is able to auto-configure 100 and 40 Gbps ultra-high-speed . signals This research result enables 100 and 40 Gbps ultra-high-speed signals to be configured easily and automatically , similarly to the 1
Development of Capacitive-type Humidity Sensor for Air-Conditioning Systems by ALPS
Home Introduction Graphene foam can detect explosives and other dangerous chemicals Tweet Graphene applications Video Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered that graphene foam can outperform leading commercial gas sensors in detecting potentially dangerous and explosive chemicals . The foam is made from several graphene sheets grown on Nickel , which was later removed and is flexible , rugged and retains graphene's important . properties The new sensor successfully and repeatedly measured ammonia NH3 and nitrogen dioxide NO2 at concentrations as small as 20 parts-per-million . The graphene foam sensor is about the size of a postage stamp and the thickness of felt . Here's a video discussing the production method of the graphene : foam via Rensselaer Nov 24, 2011
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Erbium isn’t likely on most folks news watch list, but the rare earth element is used more than we realize and a material doping improvement has significant potential across a wide set of fields. Arizona State University researchers have created a new crystal material compound called erbium chloride silicate. Electrical engineering professor Cun-Zheng Ning at [...]
Home Introduction Ink jet printing may lead the way towards large-area graphene device production Tweet Graphene production Technical Research Transparency A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK demonstrated ink-jet printing as a viable method for large area production of graphene devices . The team produced a graphene-based ink by liquid phase exfoliation of graphite in N-Methylpyrrolidone , and used it to print thin-film transistors . The team also printed transparent conductive . patterns This research paves the way towards all-printed flexible and transparent graphene devices , on any . substrate Read more here Nov 23, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Optical micrograph of ink-jet printed graphene Vorbeck Materials , announces new
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Home Introduction Graphene nano ribbons could be used to create spin valves Tweet Graphene applications Spintronics Technical Research Researchers from China's Fudan University say that graphene nanoribbons could potentially be used to create spin valves one of the basic building blocks of spintronics They present a theoretic spin valve design that uses two hexagonal graphene nanoislands with zig-zag edges , which serve as the magnetic layers in the spin valve , connected by an armchair-type nanoribbon as the non-magnetic layer , through which the electrons can pass depending on the relative alignment of the spins in the . nanoislands They calcualte that this design enables stable spin configurations at certain energies , and there will be stable configurations in which the islands are
Scientists working at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken an important step towards understanding how nature makes plant food from nitrogen. For now feeding and fueling humanity uses synthesized ammonia in NH3 form by a process that requires high temperatures and pressures that consumes an estimated 1.5 percent of the world’s [...]
Dr. Ole Martin Løvvik of Oslo University’s Center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology in Norway has been studying the thermoelectric effect at the nanoscale for several years. Dr. Løvvik’s project in semiconductor physics is to develop oxidic thermoelectrics for generation of electricity from concentrated solar heat, waste heat from fuel cells and engines at high [...]
Many people, the media and press included, are getting progressively more misinformed about oil and gas field reservoir fracturing. So lets have a big picture review of what the situation is before making silly conclusions. Petroleum field hydraulic fracturing is simply forcing fluids and tiny sand sized solids into cracks the pressure creates. Fracking can [...]
Development of SMB-based Coaxial Connector with Molded Locking System for Automotive Application
Release of Energy Efficient Infrared LED Wireless Mouse, “IR LED Mouse” by ELECOM
Northwestern University engineers show in the journal Advanced Energy Materials they have developed technology that could hugely improve lithium batteries. The new anode technology suggests a cellphone battery might recharge in 15 minutes and last ten times longer. The scientists combined two chemical engineering approaches to address two major battery limitations — energy capacity and [...]
Home Introduction Graphene used as a transparent conducting layer for UV LEDs Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Transparency Researchers from Korea and the USA developed a Ultraviolet nitride UV LED that uses a few layers of graphene as a transparent conducting layer . They say that Graphene may prove better than the currently-used ITO as it performs better in terms of cost , transparency , and , heat and current spreading . Graphene also sports improved transmission in the . ultraviolet Graphene however suffers from reliability and degradation issues that must be further . investigated via Semiconductor-today Nov 09, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Graphene-based UV LED photo Bi-layer graphene may be better as a semiconductor Korean researchers
Home Introduction Metal nanostructures may boost graphene photodetectors Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research UK researchers say that introducing gold–titanium plasmonic nanostructures next to the electrical contacts of a graphene photodetector can significantly enhance its maximum voltage . The nanostructures convert incident light and into plasmonic oscillations and guide electromagnetic energy to the detector's p–n . junction The team performed several experiments to find the best geometries of the nanostructures . The best performance was given a comb structure see photo above which caused the photovoltage to increase by up to a factor of 20. via Nature Nov 09, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Graphene photodetector with gold and titanium New design
Home Introduction Dramatic optical limiting effect in graphene demonstrated Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from Singapore and the UK demonstrated a dramatic optical limiting effect in graphene using dispersed sub-oxidized graphene . While transparency in graphene is useful , having non-transparent or light limiting graphene also has its . applications The optical-limiting effect achieved using suspensions of carbon nanotubes or carbon black occurs through a damage' mechanism involving the development of microbubbles or microplasmas at high light fluence , which increases light scattering and breaks the optical . transparency via Nanowerk Nov 07, 2011 Login register to post comments Tweet Similar entries Sub-oxidized graphene dispersed in chlorobenzene Graphene
Home Introduction New security tags built using Vorbeck's graphene based inks to start shipping in Q1 2012 Tweet Graphene applications Vorbeck Materials says that MWV Packaging is set to launch the first graphene-ink based product in Q1 2012. The product is the Siren Technology security smart packaging which is currently in the last stages of field tests . The new security tags are more aesthetic and have an appealing design . The Siren labels will work inside retail stores like conventional electronic article surveillance systems EAS tags , used to identify items as they pass through a gate and also outside the store . All this while costing a few cents per . label MWV is using Vor-ink to build fully integrated conductive circuit consists of graphene which shows excellent conductivity at