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A research team has won funding to advance a nanomaterial-based detector platform. If successful, the technology could benefit NASA’s efforts to send humans to the Moon and Mars. These tiny platforms could be deployed on planetary rovers to detect small quantities of water and methane, for example, or be used as monitoring or biological sensors to maintain astronaut health and safety.
Researchers have developed mode-locked quantum dot lasers on silicon, a technology that can massively increase the data transmission capacity of data centers, telecommunications companies, and network hardware.
Researchers have developed mode-locked quantum dot lasers on silicon, a technology that can massively increase the data transmission capacity of data centers, telecommunications companies, and network hardware.
Researchers have created a fabric that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes through it, depending on conditions. For example, when conditions are warm and moist, such as those of a sweating body on a summer day, the fabric allows infrared radiation to pass through, and when conditions become cooler and drier, the fabric reduces the heat that escapes.
Researchers have created a fabric that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes through it, depending on conditions. For example, when conditions are warm and moist, such as those of a sweating body on a summer day, the fabric allows infrared radiation to pass through, and when conditions become cooler and drier, the fabric reduces the heat that escapes.
This article is a question-and-answer interview with Nava Ariel-Sternberg, director of shared laboratory facilities of the Columbia Nano Initiative (CNI), an organization within Columbia University, New York, N.Y., that offers research facilities for student and faculty researchers pursuing research in nanotechnology, as well as those from government, start-ups, and industry.
This article is a question-and-answer interview with Nava Ariel-Sternberg, director of shared laboratory facilities of the Columbia Nano Initiative (CNI), an organization within Columbia University, New York, N.Y., that offers research facilities for student and faculty researchers pursuing research in nanotechnology, as well as those from government, start-ups, and industry.
Engineers have developed an ingestible jelly-like smart pill that could stay in the stomach for up to 30 days. The pill, which quickly expands into a ping pong-sized ball, could monitor ulcers, cancers, and other conditions in the gastrointestinal tract.
Engineers have developed an ingestible jelly-like smart pill that could stay in the stomach for up to 30 days. The pill, which quickly expands into a ping pong-sized ball, could monitor ulcers, cancers, and other conditions in the gastrointestinal tract.
Researchers have designed the first fully flexible, battery-free “rectenna” — a device that converts energy from Wi-Fi signals into electricity — that could be used to power flexible and wearable electronics, medical devices, and sensors for the “internet of things.”
