Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_16966" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that coating titanium joint-replacement implants with clusters of a biologically inspired material could strengthen the connection between the implant and a patient's own bone. Image credit: Gary Meek, Georgia Tech"][/caption]
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a coating technique ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_9503" align="alignleft" width="325" caption="GTRI recently began testing whether RFID systems cause any negative effects on medical devices, under what conditions these effects might occur. Image courtesy of Gary Meek, Georgia Tech."][/caption]
Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are widely used for applications that include inventory management, package tracking, toll collection, passport ...
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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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