An electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machine the size of a human cell? Is that even possible?
Cornell University physicists Paul McEuen and Itai Cohen not only say yes, but they've actually built the "muscle" for one.
With postdoctoral researcher Marc Miskin at...
Visualization of vortices in a drop of silicone oil sitting on a warm bath. The temperature difference generates a recirculating flow that is visualized by shining a green laser light on fluorescent particles that are added as passive tracers...
Schematic (animated) of torsional optomechanical resonator for sensing and frequency mixing.
Credit: Jianguo Huang
The world of nanosensors may be physically small, but the demand is large and growing, with little sign of slowing. As electronic devices get smaller, their ability...
From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and black carbon wrapped around plastic in water with evaporated vapor on top evaporated water. Credit:...
Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable electronic devices, including soft robots.
The advance by a team within the college's Collaborative Robotics and...
Data of 105 TB were transferred repeatedly every 30min at a high speed (average of 7.2 Gbps) from ITER (France) to REC (Japan) for 50 hours. Credit: Hideya Nakanishi
The National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology...
It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without being told what to look for, according to researchers at the University of Sheffield.
This could mean advances in the world...
Bimodal atomic force microscopy provides three-dimensional force vector maps with subatomic resolution. The cantilever is simultaneously oscillated laterally and vertically to determine the vector mapping over the buckled dimers on the Ge(001) surface.
Credit: Osaka University
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is...
Scientists have designed a nano-hologram that is simple to make, can be seen without 3D goggles and is 1000 times thinner than a human hair.
Credit: Image courtesy of RMIT University
An Australian-Chinese research team has created the world's thinnest hologram,...
This is a rendering of what the Osaka University research team's SR device entails.
Credit: Megumi Akai-Kasaya
In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is devoted to eliminating stochastic resonance (SR) -- the annoying hiss that generally hinders the detection...
Rutgers engineers have invented a "4D printing" method for a smart gel that could lead to the development of "living" structures in human organs and tissues, soft robots and targeted drug delivery.
The 4D printing approach here involves printing a...
