Graphene sensors find subtleties in magnetic fields
As with actors and opera singers, when measuring magnetic fields it helps to have range.
Nanophysics
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Fire alarm wallpaper detects, resists, and warns of house fires
Researchers have designed a "fire alarm wallpaper" made of environmentally friendly, nonflammable materials—including some of the materials found in bone, teeth, and hormones—that can detect a fire, prevent the fire from ...
Physicists probe 'astonishing' morphing properties of honeycomb-like material
A series of buzzing, bee-like "loop-currents" could explain a recently discovered, never-before-seen phenomenon in a type of quantum material. The findings from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder may one day ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2022
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Researchers use a synthetic 'tongue' to sort out whiskies
Whiskies may differ in taste and smell, but they are so similar in chemical composition that most analyses can't tell two closely related brews apart. In the journal Chem on June 8, researchers introduce an artificial sensor ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 8, 2017
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Researchers create very small sensor using 'white graphene'
Researchers from TU Delft in The Netherlands, in collaboration with a team at the University of Cambridge (U.K.), have found a way to create and clean tiny mechanical sensors in a scalable manner. They created these sensors ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 28, 2017
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Quantum sensor for photons
A photodetector converts light into an electrical signal, causing the light to be lost. Researchers led by Tracy Northup at the University of Innsbruck have now built a quantum sensor that can measure light particles non-destructively. ...
Quantum Physics
May 3, 2019
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Improving driver safety: A standardized look at distraction monitors
A group of scientists in the USA has developed the first-ever standardized method of evaluating commercially available driver-monitoring systems. The details were published in the May issue of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 5, 2019
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World's fastest hydrogen sensor could pave the way for clean hydrogen energy
Hydrogen is a clean and renewable energy carrier that can power vehicles, with water as the only emission. Unfortunately, hydrogen gas is highly flammable when mixed with air, so very efficient and effective sensors are needed. ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 11, 2019
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Wearable plasmonic-metasurface sensor for universal molecular fingerprint detection on biointerfaces
Wearable sensing technology is an essential link in personalized medicine, where researchers must track multiple analytes inside the body simultaneously, to obtain a complete picture of human health. In a new report on Science ...
New nerve gas detector built with legos and a smartphone
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a way to sense dangerous chemicals using, in part, a simple rig consisting of a smartphone and a box made from Lego bricks, which could help first responders ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 27, 2018
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