News tagged with three dimensional shape

NEC unveils gesture controlling device

Japanese technology titan NEC has unveiled a gadget that allows users to control their TV, mobile phone or tablet computer using a virtual input device.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Researchers create first custom designed protein crystal

Protein design is technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry to therapeutics to materials engineering. University of Pennsylvania chemists have taken this kind of design ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New 3-D structures assemble with remarkable precision

(Phys.org) -- While it is relatively straightforward to build a box on the macroscale, it is much more challenging at smaller micro- and nanometer length scales. At those sizes, three-dimensional (3-D) structures are too ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New way to shape thin gel sheets proposed

Inspired by nature's ability to shape a petal, and building on simple techniques used in photolithography and printing, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a new tool for ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists create custom 3D structures with 'DNA origami'

BOSTON--By combining the art of origami with nanotechnology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers have folded sheets of DNA into multilayered objects with dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0