Thursday, August 18th, 2011
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A vibrating glove with piezoelectric material on its fingertips could help people perform better on common sensory and motor skill tasks, according to a Georgia Institute of Technology press release.
The glove uses an ...
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
[caption id="attachment_21069" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A top-gate organic field-effect transistor with a bilayer gate insulator can be fabricated on a plastic substrate, making it suitable for such applications as smart bandages."][/caption]
In the quest to develop flexible plastic electronics, one of the stumbling blocks has been creating transistors with enough stability for ...
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_19985" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A computer simulation based on the numerical modeling shows how a stent made of shape-memory polymer would look as it undergoes a transition inside the body from a compressed shape, used for inserting it into position, to its fully extended original shape. Image courtesy of Vikas ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Could nanoelectronic biosensing technology facilitate a new era of personalised medicine and end the era of microplates? The multi-welled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories, could become a thing of the past thanks to new electronic biosensing technology developed by a team of microelectronics engineers ...
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_17380" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Researchers measure the performance of a piezo-phototronic device in which a laser changes the conductance of a metal contact attached to a zinc oxide structure. Credit: Gary Meek"][/caption]
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_7755" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="A multinational team of researchers have made progress in using single molecule wires as electric conductors. Image courtesy of TU Graz"][/caption]
From the wire. A team of multinational researchers have reported success in using single-molecule wires to conduct electricity between two metal electrodes. According to an abstract ...
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
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Researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a method of delivering flu vaccine through skin patches containing microneedles. “Our findings show that microneedle ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_5121" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Researchers at Georgia Tech used a hamster wearing a nanogenerator-equipped jacket to show that irregular biomechanical movement can be used to generate electricity. Image courtesy of Zhong Lin Wang"][/caption]
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that nanogenerators can be used to harvest energy from ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_503" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="David Ku has led research at the Georgia Institute of Technology on a prosthetic vein valve to treat chronic venous insufficiency."][/caption]
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA) have developed a prosthetic vein valve to treat chronic venous insufficiency, which occurs when ...
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