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Technologies Of The Year -- IBM's Millipede March Company leads the way to probe-based data storage that is cheaper, denser and more compact than current methods.   |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003 |
Nano light stores data in polymer Researchers from the University of Pisa in Italy have shown that it is possible to write lots of information in very little space using a thin film of polymer and polarized blue light. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2010
Andy Extance |
Polymer nanofibres smash energy record Nanogenerators that can scavenge energy from movement have come a step closer, after researchers in the US, Germany and China described the most efficient examples of such devices yet made. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2011
Elinor Richards |
Electricity - Any Time, Any Place An energy scavenger device that can convert both solar energy and movement energy into electricity to power portable electronics has been made by scientists from Korea and the US. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2005
Harry Goldstein |
The Race to the Bottom Can a polymath engineer at Nanochip Inc. beat IBM to market with the world's first consumer nano device? |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2011
Mark Anderson |
Footfalls for Phone Calls New tech could power portable gadgets with every step. The idea of harvesting body energy for portable electronics is certainly not new, although some of this technology is. |
Technology Research News
March 12, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Chip device gets to the point A major leap forward in science is the ability of researchers to manipulate matter atom by atom. The primary tool of this new trade is the atomic force microscope, an probe moved by a high-resolution positioner. Now researchers have made an inexpensive positioner-on-a-chip. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
Electricity at your fingertips Scientists in South Korea have made a conducting polymer as part of a thin-film thermoelectric device that can generate electricity from the temperature difference between your fingertips and the environment. |
CIO
July 15, 2003
John Edwards |
Sensitive Sensors Get those gigs. The State University of New York at Buffalo's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has developed sensors that could boost hard drive capacity by a factor of 1,000 -- without also driving up price. |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
AFM Tip Feels Nano-Surfaces Scientists in the US have developed an artificial fingertip that boosts the resolution of atomic force microscopy, a technique that opens a window onto the nanoscale world. |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
Nanogenerators for environmental sensors A nanomaterial-based, self-powered sensor that detects mercury in water has been developed by teams from the US and Korea. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Seth Porges |
How to Get Dust off a DSLR Sensor: Digital Clinic Digital SLR cameras with interchangeable lenses are highly versatile, but they have a unique vulnerability: When the lens is removed, the door is open for dust |
National Defense
October 2007
Grace Jean |
Building Miniature `Noses' to Sniff Explosives To sense malicious chemicals and substances, such as explosives, scientists are searching for the holy grail in chemical sensing -- a mechanical device that is as good as or better than a dog's nose and can run nonstop to provide continuous monitoring of an environment. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2010
Sally Adee |
Wireless Sensors That Live Forever Energy harvesters and radioisotopes fuel tiny transmitters. |
Chemistry World
April 2011 |
Waste Not, Want Not Modern devices waste a lot of energy as heat, noise and vibration. Here's a look at a new breed of energy scavenging materials that could recapture some of it. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2014
Cally Haynes |
Device runs on finger power Researchers in the US have demonstrated that mechanical energy from a human hand can power a microfluidic device. |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2014
Stephen McCarthy |
Multiferroic material breaks symmetry with layers Scientists have made a material capable of both piezoelectric and ferromagnetic behavior. The discovery opens up the possibility of a new class of polarizable and magnetic compounds, and could lead to better devices for storing electronic information. |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Implant harvests heartbeat power A flexible piezoelectric implant that harnesses energy from the body's natural motions has been developed by researchers in the US and China. |
