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Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Robots on a Chip

Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, ...


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 ...


Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The cooling of electronic components is playing an increasing role in the design process of electronic equipment such as mobile telephones, games computers and laptops. Wessel Wits, PhD student ...





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Chinese develop e-waste technology

Technology / Other

created Feb 15, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Chinese scientists say they have developed a recycling and recovery technology designed especially for disposal of printed circuit boards.


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 ...


New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products

New process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products

Chemistry /

created May 12, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That’s because researchers in Romania and Turkey have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly ...


New silver-based ink has applications in printed electronics

New silver-based ink has applications in printed electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ink developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows them to write their own silver linings.


Contact Through Silver Particles in Ink

Contact Through Silver Particles in Ink

Technology / Engineering

created May 06, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Modern cars are full of sensors. The optimum quantity of air in the intake tract of a combustion engine is regulated by thermoelectric flow sensors, for instance. They measure which quantities of a gas or ...


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 ...


Northwestern chemists take gold, mass-produce Beijing Olympic logo

Northwestern chemists take gold, mass-produce Beijing Olympic logo

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space.


Researchers develop an intelligent chip which regulates diabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists of the Electronic Technology group of the University of Seville (Spain), led by Professor José Manuel Quero, have completed the first phase of Mireia, a research project financed by the Plan Nacional del ...


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 ...


Hubble to receive high-tech James Webb Space Telescope technology

Hubble to receive high-tech James Webb Space Telescope technology

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Scientists and engineers now creating new technologies for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have realized they can be used to enhance the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in the upcoming servicing ...



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