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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 (48) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Crystal cantilever lifts objects 600 times its own weight (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a long time, scientists have been trying to transform the collective movements of tiny molecules into useful mechanical work. With this goal in mind, a team of researchers from Japan has ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers turn photons into work using DNA

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using light to change the elasticity of a DNA molecule, scientists have designed a molecular motor that can turn light into mechanical work. Unlike most previously reported molecular motors, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that cancerous cells and normal cells have different physical features, but the details of these differences, and why they occur, are not well understood. In a recent edition ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0 weblog

Gold and silver nanowires bond naturally, stay strong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Welding uses heat to join pieces of metal in everything from circuits to skyscrapers. But Rice University researchers have found a way to beat the heat on the nanoscale.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A Little Less Force: Making Atomic Force Microscopy Work for Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists with Berkeley Lab?s Molecular Foundry have developed a nanowire-based imaging technique by which atomic force microscopy could be used to study biological cells and other soft ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

World’s first diamond nanoelectromechanical switch

Japanese researchers have succeeded in the batch fabrication of suspended structures (cantilevers and bridges) of single crystal diamond for nano/micro electromechanical systems.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Energy harvesting skin generates power from air conditioners

(PhysOrg.com) -- Devices that harvest ambient energy from the surrounding environment have become popular since, for some applications, they eliminate the need for batteries that must constantly be replaced. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

UK scientists develop optimum piezoelectric energy harvesters

Scientists working as part of the Metrology for Energy Harvesting Project have developed a new model to deliver the maximum power output for piezoelectric energy harvesters.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Catching the lightwave: Nano-mechanical sensors 'wired' by photonics

As researchers push towards detection of single molecules, single electron spins and the smallest amounts of mass and movement, Yale researchers have demonstrated silicon-based nanocantilevers, smaller than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Sensitive nano oscillator can detect pathogens

(PhysOrg.com) -- By watching how energy moves across a tiny device akin to a springing diving board, Cornell researchers are a step closer to creating extraordinarily tiny sensors that can instantly recognize ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New magnetic-field-sensitive alloy could find use in novel micromechanical devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by a group at the University of Maryland (UMd), a multi-institution team of researchers has combined modern materials research and an age-old metallurgy technique to produce an alloy that ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Retroreflector transmits light with negligible power consumption

(Phys.org) -- In free-space optical communications (FSO), data is wirelessly transmitted by light propagating through open space. Among their applications, FSO systems are used for communications between spacecraft ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

New microscopy technique offers close-up, real-time view of cellular phenomena

For two decades, scientists have been pursuing a potential new way to treat bacterial infections, using naturally occurring proteins known as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Now, MIT scientists have recorded ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cantilever

A cantilever is a beam anchored at only one end. The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and shear stress. Cantilever construction allows for overhanging structures without external bracing. Cantilevers can also be constructed with trusses or slabs.

This is in contrast to a simply supported beam such as those found in a post and lintel system. A simply supported beam is supported at both ends with loads applied between the supports.

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