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Smart paint could revolutionize structural safety

An innovative low-cost smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mines and bridges before structural damage occurs is being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research team creates photoelectrowetting circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working together, Matthieu Gaudet and Steve Arscott from the University of Lille (IEMN lab) in France have built a circuit using a phenomenon known as photoelectrowetting, which allows a switch ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (45) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Development of positive electrode materials for low-cost and high-performance lithium-ion secondary batteries

Mitsuharu Tabuchi (Senior Researcher), Ionics Research Group, the Research Institute for Ubiquitous Energy Devices (Director: Tetsuhiko Kobayashi) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Light makes write for DNA information-storage device

Researchers have demonstrated a write-once-read-many-times information-storage device, made of DNA embedded with silver nanoparticles, that uses ultraviolet light to encode data.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene earns its stripes: New nanoscale electronic state discovered on graphene sheets

Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) have discovered electronic stripes, called 'charge density waves', on the surface of the graphene sheets that make up a graphitic superconductor. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Fighting Parkinson's with carbon nanoparticles

One of the problems affecting the human nervous system is dopamine deficiency. But testing of dopamine concentration is costly and requires sophisticated equipment not available in a doctor's office. Enter ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Battery electrode's 40,000 charge cycles look promising for grid storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers continue to improve solar and wind energy technologies, having a battery that can store the energy until it’s needed by the grid is another critical component for using ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 12 | with audio podcast weblog

Putting the squeeze on batteries (w/ video)

People depend on lithium-ion batteries every day to power cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices, and perhaps one day to run cars. This video shows how Craig Arnold, an associate professor of mechanical ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Team develops highly efficient method for creating flexible, transparent electrodes

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Montpellier team turns tables on robot-human interactions (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robots have entered a newer phase of serving, not obeying. for use in medical settings. Chapter one in robotics history encouraged a perception of clever little machines skating around with ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

New biosensor benefits from melding of carbon nanotubes, DNA

Purdue University scientists have developed a method for stacking synthetic DNA and carbon nanotubes onto a biosensor electrode, a development that may lead to more accurate measurements for research related to diabetes and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technology improves both energy capacity and charge rate in rechargeable batteries

Imagine a cellphone battery that stayed charged for more than a week and recharged in just 15 minutes. That dream battery could be closer to reality thanks to Northwestern University research.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Brain stimulator shown to reduce 'untreatable' epileptic seizures

Brain stimulation, already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor, has now been shown to offer significant relief to patients with intractable seizures ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Urine could be the answer to cheaper electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Urine can be an abundant fuel for electricity generation, according to British scientists in the first study of its kind.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Making sodium-ion batteries that are worth their salt

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although lithium-ion technology dominates headlines in battery research and development, a new element is making its presence known as a potentially powerful alternative: sodium.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Electrode

An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte or a vacuum). The word was coined by the scientist Michael Faraday from the Greek words elektron (meaning amber, from which the word electricity is derived) and hodos, a way.

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