From water marks to colored threads, governments are constantly adding new features to paper money to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters. Now a longhorn beetle has inspired yet another way to foil cash fraud, as well as to produce colorful, changing billboards and art displays.
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy have developed a novel mucoadhesive hyaluronic acid (HA) nanofibre delivery system which could help to prevent the transmission of HIV.
By Alexander Chilton
6 Nov 2014
Engineers at the University of Utah have developed a handheld sensor using a new carbon nanotube material which enables the rapid detection of toxic gases, deadly explosives and illegal drugs.
By Alexander Chilton
5 Nov 2014
Xilinx, Inc. today announced the expansion of its 20 nm portfolio with shipment of the Kintex® UltraScale™ KU115 FPGA. As the flagship of the Kintex UltraScale family, the KU115 offers the highest DSP count available in a single programmable device, doubling the DSP resources previously available. This DSP-optimized KU115 FPGA targets data center compute acceleration and signal processing applications including data center, video and medical imaging, broadcast systems, and radar.
A novel jelly-like substance developed by Kansas State University researchers was recently issued a U.S. patent. The substance may be used for biomedical applications, ranging from cell culture and drug delivery to repairing and replacing tissue, organs and cartilage.
Molecular Imprints Inc. (MII), the market and technology leader for nanopatterning solutions, today announced it has demonstrated a low cost fabrication process for high performance touch sensors for the display market using an innovative metal mesh structure.
"On the one hand, ABC transporters causes diseases such as cystic fibrosis, while on the other hand they are responsible for the immune system recognising infected cells or cancer cells," explains Professor Robert Tampé from the Institute for Biochemistry at the Goethe University.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have received a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to develop a technique that they believe will significantly improve the efficiencies of photovoltaic materials and help make solar electricity cost-competitive with other sources of energy.
Fraunhofer FIT demonstrates a mobile wireless system that monitors the health of elderly people in their own homes, using miniature sensors. Besides non-invasive sensors this platform integrates technology to take a blood sample and to determine specific markers in the patient's blood. At its core is the home unit, a compact device located in the patient's home. It incorporates the necessary software as well as sensors and the analytical equipment. Visit us at MEDICA, November 12 – 15, 2014, Hall 10, booth G05.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Graphene Subscription" subscription to their offering.
Researchers at the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University London (QMUL), are using a Malvern Panalytical Zetasizer Nano to provide particle size and charge data that is being used in the development of innovative hydrogel matrices for 3D cell culture.
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the JPK NanoWizard® AFM system at ITAV, the Institut des Technologies...
If you can uniformly break the symmetry of nanorod pairs in a colloidal solution, you’re a step ahead of the game toward achieving new and exciting metamaterial properties. But traditional thermodynamic -driven colloidal assembly of these metamaterials, which are materials defined by their non-naturally-occurring properties, often result in structures with high degree of symmetries in the bulk material. In this case, the energy requirement does not allow the structure to break its symmetry.
Stanford engineers have invented a device that can record when chemicals appear in water and in what concentration, without electronics, creating a simple and inexpensive sensor to find unknown sources of contaminations in streams.
Actions Semiconductor® Co., Ltd. today introduced a new quad-core system-on-a-chip (SoC) to provide primary processing, connectivity, enhanced battery life and other capabilities in computer tablets and set top boxes (STB). The new processor is most ideal for mid-tier, high volume Android® tablet manufacturer designs. It will be available in the USA, Asia, Europe and other locations in November 2014.