News tagged with ferrofluid
Sophisticated nano-structures assembled with magnets (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- What do Saturn and flowers have in common? As shapes, both possess certain symmetries that are easily recognizable in the natural world. Now, at an extremely small level, researchers from ...
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Look ma, no hands: Engineers invent a magnetic fluid pump with no moving parts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Used in Hollywood and the advertising industry to create exotic special effects, ferrofluids are seemingly magical materials that are both liquid and magnetic at once. In a study published ...
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Vascular composites enable dynamic structural materials
Taking their cue from biological circulatory systems, University of Illinois researchers have developed vascularized structural composites, creating materials that are lightweight and strong with potential for self-healing, ...
Jul 26, 2011 |
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'Liquid pistons' could drive new advances in camera lenses and drug delivery (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A few unassuming drops of liquid locked in a very precise game of "follow the leader" could one day be found in mobile phone cameras, medical imaging equipment, implantable drug delivery devices, ...
Jan 10, 2011 |
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Nanoparticle thermotherapy as a chemotherapy alternative
Using hyperthermia, Virginia Tech engineering researchers and a colleague from India unveiled a new method to target and destroy cancerous cells. The research was presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Physical ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 23, 2010 |
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'Ferropaper' is new technology for small motors, robots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 05, 2010 |
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New technology could boost disease detection tests' speed and sensitivity (w/ Video)
A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 07, 2009 |
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New method for magnetic manipulation of cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic technology could help address a major problem that bioengineers face as they try to create new tissue: getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Magnetic nano-'shepherds' organize cells
The power of magnetism may address a major problem facing bioengineers as they try to create new tissue -- getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth of blood vessels to nourish ...
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Mar 31, 2009 |
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RBH Adds Five New Speakers to Their Signature Line
RBH has just announced that they are adding five new speakers to their Signature Line. These five new speakers were made to compliment RBH´s existing Signature Reference freestanding lineup.
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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Magnetism shepherds microlenses to excavate 'nanocavities'
A Duke University engineer is "herding" tiny lenses with magnetic ferrofluids, precisely aligning them so that they focus bursts of light to excavate patterns of cavities on surfaces. Such photolithographically ...
Mar 30, 2006 |
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