Novel material switches between electrically conducting and insulating states

December 13, 2019 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Novel material switches between electrically conducting and insulating states By: ALEX GERAGE |Northwestern University Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a novel design strategy to identify new materials exhibiting a metal-insulator transition (MIT), a rare class of materials categorized by their ability to reversibly switch between electrically conducting and insulating states. [..]

Microrobots Army can Wipe Out Dental Plaque

April 29, 2019 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Microrobots Army can Wipe Out Dental Plaque By: Katherine Unger Baillie | University of Pennsylvania A visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth. What if, instead, a dentist could deploy a small army of tiny robots to precisely and [..]

Nanoparticles Take a Fantastic, Magnetic Voyage

April 29, 2019 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Nanoparticles Take a Fantastic, Magnetic Voyage By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. Like crafts in “Fantastic Voyage” — a 1960s science fiction film in [..]

Scientists Discover New Quantum Spin Liquid

January 23, 2019 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Scientists Discover New Quantum Spin Liquid By: University of Liverpool| NEWS An international research team led by the University of Liverpool and McMaster University has made a significant breakthrough in the search for new states of matter. In a study published in the journal Nature Physics, researchers show that the perovskite-related metal oxide, TbInO3, [..]

MIT Researchers Identifies Electricity-Producing Bacteria

January 15, 2019 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

MIT Researchers Identifies Electricity-Producing Bacteria By: Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Living in extreme conditions requires creative adaptations. For certain species of bacteria that exist in oxygen-deprived environments, this means finding a way to breathe that doesn’t involve oxygen. These hardy microbes, which can be found deep within mines, [..]

Future Technology for Contactless Procedures

January 11, 2019 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Future Technology for Contactless Procedures By: University of Bristol News Surgeons won’t be shrunk and sent into the body like in the 1960s Sci-Fi, Fantastic Voyage, but could program a specialized array of mini-speakers to create an intricate sound field that ‘traps’ and manipulates selected objects in ‘acoustic tweezers’ for [..]

Study Opens Route to Ultra-Low-Power Microchips

November 18, 2018 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Study Opens Route to Ultra-Low-Power Microchips By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of the inherent [..]

‘Bionic Mushrooms’ Fuse Nanotech, Bacteria and Fungi

November 7, 2018 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

‘Bionic Mushrooms’ Fuse Nanotech, Bacteria and Fungi By:  Stevens Institute of Technology. In their latest feat of engineering, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made it bionic, supercharging it with 3D-printed clusters of cyanobacteria that generate electricity and swirls [..]

Graphene Takes a Step Towards Renewable Fuel

November 7, 2018 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Graphene Takes a Step Towards Renewable Fuel By: Linköping University Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the energy from the sun and graphene applied to the surface of cubic silicon carbide. They [..]

Detecting E. coli Strains Using Molecular Electronics

November 6, 2018 Scipreneur Private Limited 0

Detecting E. coli Strains Using Molecular Electronics By: University of California – Davis News Finding a fast and inexpensive way to detect specific strains of bacteria and viruses is critical to food safety, water quality, environmental protection and human health. However, current methods for detecting illness-causing strains of bacteria such [..]