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  • Microrobots Give Helping Hand to Carbon Nanotubes
    News - 14 Sep 2009
    How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically pick up and install carbon...
  • Custom Fitted Toys Help Disabled Children
    News - 18 Dec 2008
    Playing helps children to develop their mental, physical and social functions. On the other hand the term ‘discapacity’ means a limitation in the ability to play in some specific field....
  • New Bio-imaging Mass Spectrometry Techniques Looks at Complex Biological Systems
    News - 26 Sep 2008
    Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify,...
  • OC-ALC Get World's Largest Scanning Electron Microscope
    News - 1 Apr 2008
    Tinker houses the largest-known Scanning Electron Microscope in the world. Within a 9 foot by 10 foot by 12 foot vacuum chamber, the microscope, Germany's VisiTec Microtechnik GmbH MIRA...
  • Dotmar Ticomp Family Challenges Teflon in Wear
    News - 31 Mar 2008
    Just about everyone has heard of Teflon, the common name of a specialised class of a PTFE fluoropolymer engineering plastic that is resistant to practically every chemical known to man. The...
  • Sensors Continuously Look for Defects in Aircraft
    News - 19 Jul 2007
    Networks of sensors mounted on commercial aircraft might one day check continuously for the formation of structural defects, possibly reducing or eliminating scheduled aircraft inspections. Like...
  • Researchers Discover New Class of Ultra-Thin Polymer Films
    News - 4 Jan 2007
    They said it couldn't be done. And that's what really motivated UD polymer chemist Chris Snively and Jochen Lauterbach, professor of chemical engineering at UD. For years, polymer...
  • Scientists Accelerate Electron Beams to a Billion Volts in 3.3 Centimeters
    News - 26 Sep 2006
    In a precedent-shattering demonstration of the potential of laser-wakefield acceleration, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with colleagues at...
  • Electronics Based on Carbon
    News - 15 Mar 2006
    Graphite, the material that gives pencils their marking ability, could be the basis for a new class of nanometer-scale electronic devices that have the attractive properties of carbon nanotubes - but...
  • Mach 6 Wind Tunnel at Purdue
    News - 6 Jan 2006
    Purdue University engineers have developed a wind tunnel that is the only one of its kind in the world capable of running quietly at "hypersonic" speeds, helping researchers to design...

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