News tagged with electroactive polymer
Breakthrough design opens door to 'full screen' Braille displays for the blind
Imagine if your computer only allowed you to see one line at a time, no matter what you were doing - reading e-mail, looking at a Web site, doing research. That's the challenge facing blind computer users ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial Muscles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips.
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Electroactive polymer key to durable, affordable full-screen Braille displays
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of North Carolina State University researchers are one step closer to creating a workable, affordable full-screen Braille computer display that would allow the blind to scan Web pages in much the same ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Robotic fish test the waters for safety risks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Michigan State University are designing and studying robotic fish to be made to swim in schools in order to monitor environmental signs such as accumulations of algae and oil ...
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Polymer's hunt for nicotine
Newly synthesized polymer, fitted with molecular pincers of carefully tailored structure, effectively captures nicotine molecules and its analogues. The polymer can be used for fabrication of sensitive and selective chemical ...
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Working to drive electric vehicles from niche to mass market
With several new models of electric vehicles hitting the market this year and more next year, President Obama’s goal of putting 1 million EVs on U.S. roads by 2015 is tantalizingly within grasp. But what ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 20, 2011 |
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Researchers at UA developing next-gen conductive polymers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Conductive polymers, while not quite wonder materials, have the potential for being so and University of Akron polymer scientists and polymer engineers are focused on developing the next generation ...
Dec 23, 2010 |
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'Express lanes' for ions: By aligning carbon nanotubes in electrodes, researchers boost performance
Actuators are devices that convert electrical energy into mechanical energy, such as the battery-powered device inside a cell phone that causes the phone to vibrate. When this process is reversed -- when a ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Fixing Wiki: Wikipedia revision project teaches teamwork, communication, chemistry
Halogen bonding, hyperconjugation, electroactive polymers---such subjects are typical fare in graduate-level chemistry courses. But how many classes challenge students to explain the concepts to the whole ...
Aug 26, 2010 |
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CSIRO grants global license for new polymer technology
CSIRO has signed a global licensing agreement for its patented RAFT technology. Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer (or RAFT) technology is an elegant and powerful polymerisation process that ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight
(PhysOrg.com) -- Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Researchers Design Band-Aid-Size Tactile Display
Currently, we get most of our information from computers through visual and audio features. But as researchers from Korea point out, the most widespread sense on the human body is touch. While some tactile ...
Jun 06, 2008 |
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