Are you ready for surfboard - determine nanotech ? How about solar panels that rely on spark being a undulation alternatively of a particle to set up a current ? The American Vacuum Society ( AVS ) ’s San José symposium unveil dozens of material - science breakthroughs .
The Rectenna :
Rectennas are like solar panels , but swear on light acting as a wave rather than a particle . envisage a rooftop antenna , that would create DC power from visible light-colored undulation . The Wave influence electrons in the antenna , driving them back and away , and potentially stimulate a stream . Right now , this applied science only works with microwave oven , but researchers are working on unexampled materials to make this potential .
Nanopolymers mimic gecko animal foot and insect wings :
Polymers can be created to mimic the properties of gecko feet and insect wing by forming structures with approximately 40,000,000 align nanocolumns per square millimeter , which could be tune up to adjust hydrophobicity , porosity , electrochemistry , chemical reactivity , Earth’s surface energy and crystallinity . The fabric was develop by researchers at Penn State , and they plan to habituate it for targeted drug delivery .
Bioink :
3D bio - grammatical construction , comprised of scaffolding , living cellular phone , and drugs if ask . Cell printing allows for cells to be precisely set , and to produce microvasculature . level by level , a building of human endothelial cells and fibrin would be create , the latter as a scaffold . This would provoke the further grown of endothelial cells , and the establishment of microvasculature .
Programmable Matter :
This one ’s so off the paries and hard to sum up , I ’m just go to cite the abstract . This is from David Erickson at Cornell :
A duality exists between the bottom - up self - meeting place paradigm used to create regular structures at the nanoscale , and top - down approaches used to fabricate arbitrary structures serially at larger scales . The former of these enables rapid , extremely parallel assembly but lack critically significant features of the latter such as the ability to randomly direct the assembly location and perform mistake correction . We and our collaborators have late suggest an alternate attack which combines these two based on dynamically programmable ego - assembling materials , or programmable matter . The uniqueness of our approach shot is that it uses dynamically - switchable affinities between assembling element faci litating the assembly of irregular social organisation . In this talk I present an overview of our approach and detail some of the analytical and observational ad vances towards a programmable matter organization we have of late made . These let in : the development of a multi - chamber microfluidic chip for improved far - field assembly , the demonstration of penny-pinching - champaign inter - tile chemical attraction switch using a thermorheological assembly fluid and the power to enhance assembly in three dimensions using unique fluid - structure fundamental interaction .
Surfboard Nanoparticles :
It turns out the ideal contour for nanoparticles is that of a surfboard , the same as platelets . It turns out cells of this shape stay stuffy to the wall of vessel , which makes them better for place the lineage supply of neoplasm .
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