News tagged with voltage sensor

Researchers use improved nanogenerators to power sensors based on zinc oxide nanowires

By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 28, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop battery-less chemical detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike many conventional chemical detectors that require an external power source, Lawrence Livermore researchers have developed a nanosensor that relies on semiconductor nanowires, rather ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study has implications for understanding ion channel defects

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health team has made a discovery important to the millions of people who are on common medications for heart and neurological diseases.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Uncooperative voltage sensors: Study advances conclusions about the Shaker Kv channel

The May 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology features an article and accompanying commentary on new experimental evidence that advances previous conclusions about the essential features of the Shaker K+ channe ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0