News tagged with mechanical stability
What is the best way of stacking apples?
When stacking apples on a market stall, fruit sellers "naturally" adopt a particular arrangement: a regular pyramid with a triangular base. A French-German team, which includes in particular the Laboratoire ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Light-emitting nanocrystal diodes go ultraviolet: Biomedical device potential for robust, implantable product
(PhysOrg.com) -- A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported ...
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Tongue drive system goes inside the mouth to improve performance and user comfort
The Tongue Drive System is getting less conspicuous and more capable. Tongue Drive is a wireless device that enables people with high-level spinal cord injuries to operate a computer and maneuver an electrically ...
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Collecting the sun's energy: Novel electrode for flexible thin-film solar cells
Conventional silicon-based rigid solar cells generally found on the market are not suitable for manufacturing moldable thin-film solar cells, in which a transparent, flexible and electrically conductive electrode collects ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Energy Efficient Separations: Researchers Use Computational Modeling to Design Improved Membrane Technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational modeling tools developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology could accelerate development of a new type of membrane technology that will boost the efficiency of energy-related ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Physicists show way to count sweets in a jar -- from inside the jar
(PhysOrg.com) -- How many sweets fit into a jar? This question depends on the shapes and sizes of the sweets, the size of the jar, and how it is filled. Surprisingly, this ancient question remains unanswered because of the ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Aluminum-oxide nanopore beats other materials for DNA analysis
Fast and affordable genome sequencing has moved a step closer with a new solid-state nanopore sensor being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 02, 2009 |
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