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Dario Izzo

Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth | Journal of The Royal Society Interface - 3 views

rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/...20141326

BIO

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  • LeopoldS on 18 Feb 15
     
    stronger than steel - small teeth of snail like creature ...
  • Ma Ru on 19 Feb 15
     
    According to a BBC news article it's actually stronger than Kevlar...
  • Dario Izzo on 22 Mar 15
     
    The spider silk is no longer the toughest natural material around.
duncan barker

Optics InfoBase - Ultrathin, metamaterial-based laser cavities - 0 views

www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm

technology space phy NRG

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  • duncan barker on 07 Sep 10
     
    I'm not sure if meta materials can be used to enhance lasers in space........Leopold
  • LeopoldS on 07 Sep 10
     
    well .... will have to read this more carefully, but it seems, why not, no principal difference in space on this aspect ... any idea on this José? (in case you read this, which I doubt very much) - or maybe Luzi?
duncan barker

1663 Science and Technology Magazine Home : Science : Los Alamos National Lab - 0 views

www.lanl.gov/...14242

shared by duncan barker on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • duncan barker on 23 Sep 10
     
    Time reversed waves to detect defects in materials and earth quakes
pacome delva

Beetle beauty captured in silicon - physicsworld.com - 1 views

physicsworld.com/...44389

biomimicry beetles electromagnetism

shared by pacome delva on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Researchers in Canada have created a new material that mimics the brilliant iridescent colours seen in beetle shells. As the eye-catching effect can be switched off with the simple addition of water, the researchers believe their new material could lead to applications including "smart windows".
Francesco Biscani

NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars | Motherboard - 4 views

www.motherboard.tv/...crowdsource-its-photos-of-mars

ai

shared by Francesco Biscani on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
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  • Researchers hope that crowdsourcing imaging targets will increase the camera’s already bountiful science return.
  • Francesco Biscani on 20 Jan 10
     
    Here we go, material for curiosity cloning, life detection via image compression, etc. etc.
  • Christos Ampatzis on 21 Jan 10
     
    tar cvfz compressed.tgz MarsImages/ Love it!
Nicholas Lan

self-healing of nano-structured materials following radiation damage - 2 views

www.sciencemag.org/...1631

nan radiation self-healing

shared by Nicholas Lan on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
pacome delva

New Material: Network of 'Streets' for Light - 1 views

focus.aps.org/st14

phy metamaterials waveguides

shared by pacome delva on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
  • In recent years, researchers have created early versions of "invisibility cloaks" and advanced optical fibers by manipulating light using structures composed of tiny, repeating units. In the 9 April Physical Review Letters, a team proposes a different way to make an artificial optical material--from a network of light-guiding filaments. If such structures are practical, they could open new ways to control light in technologies ranging from high-speed telecommunication to high-resolution imaging.
Luís F. Simões

Lockheed Martin buys first D-Wave quantum computing system - 1 views

www.dwavesys.com/...pressreleases.html

quantum_computation

shared by Luís F. Simões on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • D-Wave develops computing systems that leverage the physics of quantum mechanics in order to address problems that are hard for traditional methods to solve in a cost-effective amount of time. Examples of such problems include software verification and validation, financial risk analysis, affinity mapping and sentiment analysis, object recognition in images, medical imaging classification, compressed sensing and bioinformatics.
  • Luís F. Simões on 26 May 11
     
    According to the company's wikipedia page, the computer costs $ 10 million. Can we then declare Quantum Computing has officially arrived?! quotes from elsewhere in the site: "first commercial quantum computing system on the market"; "our current superconducting 128-qubit processor chip is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room" Link to the company's scientific publications. Interestingly, this company seems to have been running a BOINC project, AQUA@home, to "predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. AQUA@home uses Internet-connected computers to help design and analyze quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques". List of papers coming out of it.
santecarloni

Synthesis and characterization of a nanocrystalline diamond aerogel - 2 views

www.pnas.org/...1010600108

technology materials aerogel

shared by santecarloni on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • santecarloni on 18 May 11
     
    "we report the high-pressure, high-temperature synthesis of a diamond aerogel from an amorphous carbon aerogel precursor using a laser-heated diamond anvil cell"
  • LeopoldS on 18 May 11
     
    so what ...?
  • dejanpetkow on 19 May 11
     
    Depending on its properties it might be interesting as an ablative heat shield material.
santecarloni

Sharpening the Nanofocus: Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Nanoantenna to Enhance... - 0 views

newscenter.lbl.gov/...a-to-enhance-plasmonic-sensing

nan technology

shared by santecarloni on 18 May 11 - No Cached
  • santecarloni on 18 May 11
     
    See Also: Matter & Energy Nanotechnology Optics Physics Materials Science Graphene Organic Chemistry Reference White gold Electromagnetic radiation Nanomedicine Nanoparticle Any use for the smell project? "We have demonstrated resonant antenna-enhanced single-particle hydrogen sensing in the visible region and presented a fabrication approach to the positioning of a single palladium nanoparticle in the nanofocus of a gold nanoantenna,"
ESA ACT

Innovative space based antenna technology - 0 views

www.cimss.vt.edu/...spacebasedantenna.html

space communications Thermal_Control

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (Virginia)
ESA ACT

Magnetically responsive elastic microspheres - 0 views

scitation.aip.org/...GetabsServlet

NAN BIO technology

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Microspheres can behave as a smart material controllable through an external magnetic field. Owing to the transparency, biocompatibility and nontoxicity of PDMS, the magnetically responsive elastic microspheres may have potential applications in drug deli
ESA ACT

Towards a Spiderman suit - 0 views

www.iop.org/...395001

BIO NAN

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    large invisible cables and self-cleaning releasable superadhesive materials
ESA ACT

Design and fabrication of multi-material structures for bioinspired robots - 0 views

rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/...1799.full.pdf+html

BIO nan materials integration sensors

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A paper claiming to have the perfect production technique for bio-inspired robotics.
ESA ACT

Large Hadron Rap - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

Fun science education Video physics funny lhc

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Coffee break material
ESA ACT

Scientists Discover Material Harder Than Diamond - 0 views

www.physorg.com/news153658987.html

materials

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    of any interest?
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