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Running electronics using light

Running electronics using light

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...


'Self-healing' polymer may facilitate recycling of hard-to-dispose plastic

'Self-healing' polymer may facilitate recycling of hard-to-dispose plastic

Chemistry / Polymers

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in The Netherlands are reporting development of a new plastic with potential for use in the first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards, electrical insulation, and other electronics ...


Plastic as a conductor

Plastic as a conductor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded in making plastics conductive and cutting ...


Strength through diversity

Strength through diversity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards - Fraunhofer researchers are showing ...


Information superhighway’s trash yields a super highway asphalt

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Discarded electronic hardware, including bits and pieces that built the information superhighway, can be recycled into an additive that makes super-strong asphalt paving material for real highways, researchers in China are ...