Chemical Engineering Professor Tim Bender and Post-Doctoral Fellow Benoit Lessard's discovery of an unexpected side product of polymer synthesis could have implications for the manufacture of commercial polymers used in sealants, ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Apr 05, 2013 3.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

Sound waves are widely used in medical imaging, such as when doctors take an ultrasound of a developing fetus. Now scientists have developed a way to use sound to probe tissue on a much tinier scale. Researchers from the ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Feb 01, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Interest mounts in stretchable electronics, seen as the future direction in mobile electronics. How long before manufacturing giants load retail shelves with devices that have stretchable electronics ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Dec 13, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 1 |

Tiny, fully biocompatible electronic devices that are able to dissolve harmlessly into their surroundings after functioning for a precise amount of time have been created by a research team led by biomedical ...

Technology - Engineering

Sep 27, 2012 5 / 5 (7) 1 |

A Wayne State University researcher has developed technology that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.

Physics - General Physics

Aug 30, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org) -- University of Arkansas physicists and their colleagues have determined important information about the nanoscale properties of materials called relaxors, which can be used in electronic devices to change temperature ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Aug 07, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future, which ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jun 13, 2012 4.7 / 5 (6) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pacemakers and other implanted medical devices require electric current to operate. Changing the battery requires an additional operation, which is an added stress on the patient. A Japanese team led by Eijiro ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Dec 01, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

Radio-frequency technology developed at the University of Pittsburgh that uses human tissue instead of air as a conduit for radio waves is the basis of the first electronic "tag" system designed to track and ...

Technology - Engineering

Jun 10, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears takes place this Friday (27 August), thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Aug 26, 2010 not rated yet 0

The electronics can bend, stretch and twist. No small feat. Now the flexible and stretchable electronics can map waves of electrical activity in the heart with better resolution and speed than that of conventional ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 24, 2010 not rated yet 0 |

A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, according to research reported ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mar 02, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, ...

Technology - Engineering

Feb 25, 2010 4.9 / 5 (16) 0 |

Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 24, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If manmade devices could be combined with biological machines, laptops and other electronic devices could get a boost in operating efficiency.

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Aug 10, 2009 4.6 / 5 (11) 0