News tagged with plastic circuits

Plastic electronics: a neat solution

(Phys.org) -- A breakthrough in the development of a new generation of plastic electronic circuits by researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory brings flexible and transparent intelligent materials – such ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Alcohol withdrawal symptoms caused by molecules in the brain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Britain have discovered the molecular basis of some of the symptoms of hangover and alcohol withdrawal that appear as the body attempts to adapt to reduced levels of alcohol.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers develop CAD-Type tools for engineering RNA control systems

The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create functioning synapse using carbon nanotubes

Engineering researchers the University of Southern California have made a significant breakthrough in the use of nanotechnologies for the construction of a synthetic brain. They have built a carbon nanotube ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New period of brain 'plasticity' created with transplanted embryonic cells

UCSF scientists report that they were able to prompt a new period of "plasticity," or capacity for change, in the neural circuitry of the visual cortex of juvenile mice. The approach, they say, might some day be used to create ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Stressed nanomaterials display unexpected movement

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that, under the right conditions, newly developed nanocrystalline materials exhibit surprising activity in the tiny spaces between the geometric clusters of atoms ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An organic transistor paves the way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers

For the first time, French researchers at CNRS and CEA have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

'Self-healing' polymer may facilitate recycling of hard-to-dispose plastic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in The Netherlands are reporting development of a new plastic with potential for use in the first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards, electrical insulation, and other electronics ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Brain plasticity: Changes and resets in homeostasis

In an article published in the June 25th edition of the journal Neuron, researchers at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, have found that synaptic plasticity, long implicated as a device for 'change' in the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How does anesthesia disturb self-perception?

An Inserm research team in Toulouse, led by Dr Stein Silva, working with the "Modelling tissue and nociceptive stress" Host Team (MATN IFR 150), were interested in studying the illusions described by many patients under regional ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HP Enables New Field of Flexible Electronics with Reflective Display Technology

HP today announced the launch of a new display technology for the personalization of consumer electronics products.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0