Technology News

September 9, 2016

Advancing 'Materials That Compute'

Printed Graphene For Paper Electronics

Team Tricks Solid Into Acting as Liquid

Graphene and Extraordinary 2-D Semiconductor

Latest Headlines

updated 1:14am EDT

Fish 'Biowaste' Converted to Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

Sep. 6, 2016 — Large quantities of fish are consumed in India on a daily basis, which generates a huge amount of fish 'biowaste' materials. In an attempt to do something positive with this ... read more

New Perovskite Research Discoveries May Lead to Solar Cell, LED Advances

Sep. 7, 2016 — 'Promising' and 'remarkable' are two words a scientist has used to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites. Perovskites are optically active, ... read more

Wearable Integrated Thermocells Based on Gel Electrolytes Use Body Heat as Power Source

Sep. 6, 2016 — Electronics integrated into textiles are gaining in popularity: Systems like smartphone displays in a sleeve or sensors to detect physical ... read more

Getting Real With Nanotubes

Sep. 5, 2016 — Carbon nanotubes show potential, but also many challenges, for the manufacture of flexible, wearable electronics, according to a ... read more

For First Time, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon

Sep. 2, 2016 — For decades, scientists have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power. Now, for the first time, ... read more

Are Carbon Nanotubes the Next in-Line for the Manufacture of Wearable Electronics?

Sep. 5, 2016 — Carbon nanotubes show potential, but also many challenges, for the manufacture of flexible, wearable electronics, according ... read more

Engineers Use Microwaves to Produce High-Quality Graphene

Sep. 1, 2016 — Engineers have found a simple method for producing high-quality graphene that can be used in next-generation electronic and energy devices: bake the compound in a ... read more

Making the Switch, This Time With an Insulator

Sep. 1, 2016 — Physicists have demonstrated a new approach to low-power computer memory. They've demonstrated a new way to switch magnetic moments -- or direction of magnetization -- of electrons in a thin film of ... read more

Electronic Circuits Printed at One Micron Resolution

Sep. 1, 2016 — A research team has developed a printing technique for forming electronic circuits and thin-film transistors (TFTs) with line width and line spacing both being 1 ?m. Using ... read more

Shape of 'Molecular Graphene' Determines Electronic Properties

Aug. 31, 2016 — Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) form an important class of molecules, which can be regarded as small graphene species and which play a prominent role in the development of ... read more

Wearable Device Delivers Automatic Support for Weak Muscles

Avatar Robot Staves Off Sick Children's Isolation

U.S. Olympic Hopefuls Get Boost from Track Tech

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Comes With Iris Scanner

Containing Our 'Electromagnetic Pollution'

Sep. 8, 2016 — Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere -- that's been the case since the beginning of the universe. But the proliferation of electronics in recent decades has contributed both to the volume of ... read more

Magnetism Under the Magnifying Glass

Aug. 31, 2016 — Being able to determine magnetic properties of materials with sub-nanometer precision would greatly simplify development of magnetic nano-structures for future spintronic devices. In a new article, ... read more

Standing Still May Help Improve Antennas That Scan in All Directions

Aug. 30, 2016 — Antennas often need to trace circles in the sky. For example, radar arrays atop air-traffic control towers rotate to sweep signals in all directions. Now, electrical engineers are working out a new ... read more

Gold from Old Phones Is Real Prospect Thanks to Chemical Advance

Aug. 30, 2016 — Vast quantities of gold could be salvaged from old mobile phones using a simple chemical method, a study ... read more

Swarm Robots Can Learn by Simply Observing

Aug. 30, 2016 — It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without being told what to look for, according to ... read more

A Device to Control 'Color' of Electrons in Graphene Provides Path to Future Electronics

Aug. 29, 2016 — A device made of bilayer graphene is one step forward in a new field of physics called ... read more

Development of Chemical Sensing Material That Enables Smartphones to Detect Toxic Gases

Aug. 25, 2016 — A chemical sensing material has been developed whose electrical conductivity dramatically increases when exposed to toxic gases, report ... read more

A Nanoscale Wireless Communication System Via Plasmonic Antennas

Aug. 25, 2016 — A nanoscale wireless communication system uses plasmonic antennas to produce greater control and increased efficiency to an approach eyed for next-generation 'on-chip' communications ... read more

Extending Battery Life for Mobile Devices: 'Braidio' Tech Lets Mobile Devices Share Power

Aug. 25, 2016 — Computer science researchers have introduced a new radio technology that allows small mobile devices to take advantage of battery power in larger devices nearby for ... read more

Promising Route to the Scalable Production of Highly Crystalline Graphene Films

Aug. 25, 2016 — Researchers discovered a procedure to restore defective graphene oxide structures that cause the material to display low carrier mobility. By applying a high-temperature reduction treatment in an ... read more

The First Autonomous, Entirely Soft Robot

Aug. 24, 2016 — A team of researchers with expertise in 3-D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3-D-printed robot ... read more

Silicon Nanoparticles Trained to Juggle Light

Aug. 23, 2016 — Silicon nanoparticles based devices would allow to transmit, reflect, or scatter incident light in a specified direction, depending on its intensity. They could be integrated into microchips that ... read more

Analog DNA Circuit Does Math in a Test Tube

Aug. 23, 2016 — Researchers have created strands of synthetic DNA that, when mixed together in a test tube in the right concentrations, form an analog circuit that can add, subtract and multiply as the molecules ... read more

Battery You Can Swallow Could Enable Future Ingestible Medical Devices

Aug. 23, 2016 — Non-toxic, edible batteries could one day power ingestible devices for diagnosing and treating disease. One team reports new progress toward that goal with their batteries made with melanin pigments, ... read more

Stretchy Supercapacitors Power Wearable Electronics

Aug. 23, 2016 — A future of soft robots or smart T-shirts may depend on the development of stretchy power sources. But traditional batteries are thick and rigid -- not ideal properties for materials that would be ... read more

World's Most Efficient AES Crypto Processing Technology for IoT Devices Developed

Aug. 22, 2016 — Our research group has discovered a new technique for compressing the computations of encryption and decryption operations known as Galois field arithmetic operations, and has succeeded in developing ... read more

New Theory Could Lead to New Generation of Energy Friendly Optoelectronics

Aug. 22, 2016 — Researchers have created a new theoretical framework which could help physicists and device engineers design better optoelectronics, leading to less heat generation and power consumption in ... read more

Attosecond Science Opens New Avenues in Femtochemistry

Aug. 17, 2016 — Attosecond Science is a new exciting frontier in contemporary physics, aimed at time-resolving the motion of electrons in atoms, molecules and solids on their natural timescale. Electronic dynamics ... read more

Genetically Modified Soil Bacteria Work as Electrical Wires

Aug. 16, 2016 — Scientists have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct electricity, but are thousands of times thinner than a human ... read more

Researchers Resolve a Problem That Has Been Holding Back a Technological Revolution

Aug. 16, 2016 — Researchers have cleared that obstacle by developing a new way to purify carbon nanotubes -- the smaller, nimbler semiconductors that are expected to replace silicon within computer chips and a wide ... read more

Thursday, September 8, 2016