Dupont donates patents to UCSD
...cations, but specific examples include: use in the electronics industry (for the manufacture of information display screens, and the process by which solder is applied to silicon wafers), and use in the environmental industry (in the preparation and use of photocatalytic surfaces that are light-activated to puri...Lilly Endowment grants almost $26 million to Purdue Discovery Park
...ng spacecraft. * A technology in which biology and electronics are merged, creating "gene chips" that instantly d...-assembling devices would build themselves, making electronics processing far less expensive than conventional semiconductor processing. Bioscience/Engineering Cen...Smallest silicon particles light way for new sensors, materials
...Such structures could be used to combine light and electronics to build new types of computers and other optical devices....Rice center to study therapeutic and environmental imapct of nanotechnology
Moving nanotechnology beyond molecular-scale electronics and science-fiction nanobots is the goal of a Rice University research center launched today. To achieve its goal, the center will focus on a seemingly mundane element: water. Researchers at the new Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechno...UCSD researchers create a home for liver cells on a silicon chip
...n about the chemistry of silicon surfaces from the electronics industry, receptors can be chemically attached to the silicon to sense a variety of drug metabolites. "These silicon interferometers can detect very, very small changes in color," says Sailor. "If you take a laser that's at the right frequency that m...New technology expands 'molecular photography' options
...Chaurand, Ph.D. modified the standard instrument's electronics and software to image tissue slices. To take the new molecular photographs, a chunk of tissue is first frozen so that it can be cut into super-thin slices. A tissue slice to be analyzed is then coated with a matrix material and introduced into the m......in Nanogens core product, the NanoChip System, the electronics used in each format move charged particles. Unlik...ogress to date and believe that the integration of electronics with the high-throughput screening process may provide customers with advantages over current techni...Chemical flame retardant found in salmon
...ir, and human blood, particularly among workers in electronics recycling plants. A recent Swedish study found a 50-fold increase in PBDEs in women's breast milk during 1972-97. Relatively few studies of PBDEs in the environment have been conducted in the United States, particularly in the Great Lakes region, Ma...Ion microscopy pinpoints drugs inside cancer cells
... originally was exploited in the semiconductor and electronics industry by such companies as IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. The microscope uses a beam of ions to bombard the sample surface, a process that produces secondary ions by etching off the sample's top layer of atoms. These secondary ions are then filtered....Tiny channels carved in plastic enable medical tests on a CD
...hniques for micromachining. Most important of all, electronics manufacturers have put millions of dollars into developing machines that read CDs. We just need to take advantage of all that."...Tiny polymer patterns might act as glue in 'biochips'
...cess called photolithography, which is used in the electronics industry to etch microcircuits. The plastic is applied to the surface of silicon chips as a film and covered with a patterned, stencil-like "photomask," which is opaque in some places but see-through in others. The UV light is shined on the mask, dis...UCSD chemists develop portable nerve gas sensor
...ensive CD players they purchased at Fry's, a local electronics discounter. "Our program manager at the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, which sponsored our research, raised an eyebrow when I told him that story," says Sailor. "But for 24 bucks, we got an interferometer that was sensitive enough to dete...... Silverman teamed up with Mitchell Wilkes, an electronics engineer based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Wilkes recorded a series of interviews with 64 depressed patients and compared them with recordings of 33 others who weren't depressed. In total, 22 patients made...... accessories in autos and semi trucks, and complex electronics on military equipment. Developers also foresee modules that are "stackable," so units can be combined to accommodate larger power needs. DOE funding for the consortium is projected to be $350 million over the next 10 years. Tags target inventory ...Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...s. Pacific Northwest's device relies on ultrasonic electronics to retrieve more accurate readings by limiting background noise. Also, the device allows fasteners to be inspected while in place, thereby reducing inspection time and allowing periodic monitoring. Inspectors have a greater opportunity to interpret...Expect rapid, pervasive innovation in 21st century
...l and computer engineering at Purdue. Advances in electronics and computers will have a direct impact on busines...n airplane flies overhead." Meanwhile, innovative electronics and software will increase the operating efficiencies ofequipment such as laptop computers and cellu...New MIT probe gathers data for better polymers
...he new probe combines a stretching device with the electronics for nuclearmagnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. NMR probes for exploring polymers,materials composed of chains of repeating subunits, are common. Until now,however, all focused on a given material before or after it was stretched, orput under stres...Sandia-developed remote sensor expected to analyze gases up to two miles away
...tionof a refined prototype chip from Honeywell and electronics that are being builtby an outside contractor. Both are expected in the next few months. All we'll have to do then is integrate everything, test, and see how well itworks," Sinclair says.......ific Northwestengineers also have designed special electronics and software forradio-frequency devices that "read" information on the tags. These devices willbe mounted to manmade beehives. Used together, these technologies will track the movement of bees andtest their ability to detect minute amount...... use--can have major implications forthe future of electronics and materials science. The use of semiconductor devices, which allow the manipulation ofelectric current, has revolutionized information and communications technology.These devices are actually created by introducing impurities into specific...