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Microfluidic Pressure Probe Helps Understand Mechanism of Venus Fly Trap's Leaf Snapping

Plants lack muscles, yet in only a tenth of a second, the meat-eating Venus fly trap hydrodynamically snaps its leaves shut to trap an insect meal. This astonishingly rapid display of botanical movement has long fascinated biologists. Commercially, understanding the mechanism of the Venus fly trap's leaf snapping may one day help improve products such as release-on-command coatings and adhesives, electronic circuits, optical lenses, and drug delivery.

17 Nov 2012

Aliatec Studies Toxicity of Nanoparticles in Industrial Processes

Nanoparticles which float in the air may seem somewhat insignificant. Nevertheless, knowing them is a vital in many fields: for example, when evaluating individual or room filtration systems, the effectiveness of protection equipment for workers who handle potentially dangerous elements and the suitability of the handling practices of nanoparticles in industrial processes.

17 Nov 2012

Microscopic Devices Enable Manipulation of Infrared Light at High Speed

A device that looks like a tiny washboard may clean the clocks of current commercial products used to manipulate infrared light.

17 Nov 2012

Innovative Technique to Control Electrical Conductivity of Graphene

Researchers at the Nanoelectronics Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in joint work with a NIMS team headed by Dr. Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, a MANA Principal Investigator at the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, developed a novel technique for controlling the electrical conductivity of graphene.

17 Nov 2012

Omnetics Nano-Circular Connectors for High Reliability Applications

As design miniaturization evolves, mobile instruments, military, surveillance, and medical devices are being asked to go smaller and retain very high reliability. Miniature circuits and instruments are often highly portable and must fit into extremely tight spaces that require quick and easy cable connections in very rugged environments.

From Omnetics Connector Corporation 17 Nov 2012

Researchers Create Catheter for Cardiac Ablation Surgery Using Stretchable Electronics

Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering are part of a team that has used stretchable electronics to create a multipurpose medical catheter that can both monitor heart functions and perform corrections on heart tissue during surgery.

17 Nov 2012

Cheerios Effect Study Provides Insights into Nanoscale Engineering Processes

Small floating objects change the dynamics of the surface they are on. This is an effect every serious student of breakfast has seen as rafts of floating cereal o's arrange and rearrange themselves into patterns on the milk. Now scientists have suggested that this process may offer insight into nanoscale engineering processes.

17 Nov 2012

Pan European Networks Newsletter Discusses Graphene Power

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: XDSL) announced today that Pan European Networks has circulated a newsletter featuring contributions from mPhase Technologies and Professor Kostya Novoselov, a Nobel Prize winning researcher. Professor Novoselov was jointly awarded, with Andre Geim, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."

From MyPebble 17 Nov 2012