News tagged with commercial applications
Dip chip technology tests toxicity on the go
From man-made toxic chemicals such as industrial by-products to poisons that occur naturally, a water or food supply can be easily contaminated. And for every level of toxic material ingested, there is some level of bodily ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 14, 2012 |
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Quantum dots brighten the future of lighting
(Phys.org) -- With the age of the incandescent light bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 08, 2012 |
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Topological transitions in metamaterials
The ability to control the flow of electrons using engineered materials is fundamental to the information technology revolution, yet many properties of matter are still unclear. Now a University of Alberta researcher is closer ...
Apr 14, 2012 |
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Hot invention cools down environment: Environmentally-friendly heat exchanger produced
The current global energy crisis means that sustainability now supplants necessity as the mother of all invention. Concordia University's Georgios Vatistas, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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'Smart' microcapsules in a single step
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, single-step method of fabricating microcapsules, which have potential commercial applications in industries including medicine, agriculture and diagnostics, has been developed by researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Crowd-sourcing the Future of Accelerators
(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerator technology has made huge leaps forward, prompting important developments well beyond high energy physics in areas as diverse as energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Carving at the nanoscale
Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have successfully demonstrated a new method for producing a wide variety of complex hollow nanoparticles. The work, published this week in Science, applies well known ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 08, 2011 |
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A biologically inspired tape uses some of nature's tricks to stick
Insects can run up walls, hang from ceilings, and perform other amazing feats that have for centuries fascinated human observers. Now scientists from the Zoological Institute at the University of Kiel, in Germany, who have ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Organizational climate drives commercialization of scientific and engineering discoveries
Research universities with an organizational climate that actively supports commercialization and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers are more likely to produce invention disclosures and patent applications, ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Nano-LEDs emit full visible spectrum of light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from Taiwan have designed and fabricated nano-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light spanning the entire visible spectrum. Although the tiny full-color LEDs aren't intended ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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New thermal battery manufacturing method to be industrialized
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new thin-film coating process for manufacturing thermal batteries used in nuclear weapons and other munitions that was invented at Sandia National Laboratories will be industrialized under ...
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Software's take on the light bulb joke
(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes five men to change a light bulb*, even more to pack a shipping crate. After all, filling space is very hard. But a European project has developed tools to optimise packing problems ...
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Recognition Technology to Transform Mobile Devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- UT Dallas researchers are working with Texas Instruments Inc. and GetFugu Inc. to enable next-generation human-device interaction (HDI) technologies that merge a physical, real-world environment ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films Likely Successor to ITO for Commercial Applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Will the legacy of Nobel prize winner Richard Smalley finally be fulfilled? Ever since his pioneering work in the mid 1990's on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, companies have been struggling ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 10, 2009 |
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