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Soft Wearable Health Monitor Uses Stretchable Electronics | Research Horizons

Georgia Tech   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies and small children without concern for skin injury or allergic reactions caused by conventional adhesiv...

Jul 30, 2019

Salt water flowing over thin layers of rust generates electricity

New Atlas   -   Scientific News Websites

It's not unusual to find rust around saltwater, but now the pairing might actually be useful. Researchers at Caltech and Northwestern University have found that electricity can be produced when saltwater flows over the top of thin films of ru...

Jul 30, 2019

Imaging of exotic quantum particles as building blocks for quantum computing

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with their colleagues at the University of Hamburg in Germany, have imaged an exotic quantum particle—called a Majorana fermion—that can be used as a building block for future ...

Jul 29, 2019

Oddball edge wins nanotube faceoff: Theory shows peculiar 'Janus' interface a common mechanism in carbon nanotube growth

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

A two-faced interface between growing carbon nanotubes and solid catalysts turns out to be more common than once believed, according to a new theory. Understanding of the mechanism could help scientists working to develop homogenous nanotube growt...

Jul 29, 2019

Expanding functions of conducting microbial nanowires for chemical, biological sensors: Researchers tune nanowire properties with peptide 'decorations'

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Microbiologists report 'a major advance' in the quest to develop electrically conductive protein nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens for use as chemical and biological sensors.

Jul 29, 2019

Imaging of exotic quantum particles as building blocks for quantum computing

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have imaged an exotic quantum particle -- called a Majorana fermion -- that can be used as a building block for future qubits and eventually the realization of quantum computers.

Jul 29, 2019

Researchers tune nanowire properties with peptide 'decorations'

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In the latest paper from the Geobacter Lab led by microbiologist Derek Lovley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he and colleagues report "a major advance" in the quest to develop electrically conductive protein nanowires in the...

Jul 29, 2019

New theory shows peculiar 'Janus' interface a common mechanism in carbon nanotube growth

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

When is a circle less stable than a jagged loop? Apparently when you're talking about carbon nanotubes.

Jul 29, 2019

Expanding functions of conducting microbial nanowires for chemical, biological sensors

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Scientists report 'a major advance' in the quest to develop electrically conductive protein nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens for use as chemical and biological sensors.

Jul 29, 2019

Oddball edge wins nanotube faceoff

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Theory shows peculiar 'Janus' interface a common mechanism in carbon nanotube growth.

Jul 29, 2019

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