Category: New products
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Electrolyte Nanocrystals Increase Efficiency of Fuel Cells
Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands found that adding small crystals to solid electrolyte material can raise the efficiency of fuel cells. The TU Delft team published its findings, the second recent article on this subject, in the journal Advanced Functional Materials (paid subscription required). Fuel cells are devices that…
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University Spinoff Company Commercializes Robotic Modules
A University of California at Davis engineering professor and former student have developed robot modules for teaching and research, and formed a company to take their invention to market. Davis professor Harry Cheng and former grad student Graham Ryland developed the iMobot, as their invention is called, while Ryland worked in Cheng’s Integration Engineering Laboratory.…
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Potential Non-Insulin Type 1 Diabetes Treatment Discovered
Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and three other institutions have discovered a hormone pathway that could lead to new ways of treating type 1 diabetes. Results of this study appear in the March 25 issue of the journal Science (paid subscription required). Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed in children…
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Pump Designed for Lab-on-a-Chip Medical Diagnostics
Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have developed a new miniaturized pump that fits on diagnostic chips that can lead to better home medical testing. The findings from this faculty-student team appear in the March issue of the journal Electrophoresis (paid subscription required). Nathaniel Robinson, who leads the Transport and Separations Group at Linköping University…
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Student Creates Self-Strengthening Nanocomposite Material
A graduate student at Rice University in Houston, Texas has created a synthetic material combining nanotechnology and polymers that gets stronger from repeated stress. The results of the research by Brent Carey and colleagues appear this month in the journal ACS Nano (paid subscription required). Carey, a Ph.D. candidate in the lab of materials science…
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Company Licenses Ultrasound Atherosclerosis Therapy
International Cardio Corporation (ICC) in Excelsior, Minnesota has licensed technology developed at University of Minnesota to treat atherosclerosis with ultrasound. The ultrasound treatment is considered less invasive and potentially safer for the patient than current therapies, such as stents and balloon angioplasty. Atherosclerosis is the name of the process in which deposits of fatty substances,…
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Google Grant Funds Tools for Internet Transparency
The Internet services company Google has awarded a grant to Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta to help Web users determine the cause of degraded Internet services. The $1 million Google Focused Research Award will fund a two-year project at Georgia Tech, with an option for a third year. The project aims to make Internet…
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New Blood Test Evaluation Identifies More Heart Attacks
A more sensitive blood test protocol developed at University of Edinburgh and other research institutes in the U.K. could help identify heart attacks in thousands of patients who would otherwise have gone undiagnosed. The research team published its findings this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (paid subscription required). The standard blood…
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Nanoscale Implant Surfaces Help Seal Skin Against Infections
Researchers at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island have created nanoscale surfaces for materials on prosthetic devices that mimic the contours of natural skin. Their findings appear in the April issue of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A (paid subscription required). The goal of biomedical engineers to develop more flexible, functional prosthetics for soldiers…
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University Engineers Develop Single Lens for 3D Microscope
Engineers at Ohio State University in Columbus have invented a lens that enables microscopic objects to be seen from nine different angles at once to create a 3D image. Engineering professor Allen Yi, and postdoctoral researcher Lei Li discuss the lens in the November 2010 issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America…