Research News Round-up
Short Research news in technology field
World thinnest Electric generator
Researchers from Columbia and Gatech University
developed world’s thinnest Electric generator.
They made observations of piezoelectricity and
piezotronic effects in an atomically thin material called molybdenum disulfide
that resulted in a electric generator and optically transparent mechano
sensation devices.
Observed properties: extremely light, bendable,
stretchable.
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Ultra-fast charging batteries
Scientist develop a new battery that can be charged 70%
within 2 minutes.
Having long lifespan around 20 years
Scientists replace the graphite anode of the lithium
ion battery with a titanium dioxide gel material.
Scientists have made this titanium dioxide particles
into tiny nano tubes that are thousand times thinner than human hair. And this
nano structure helps in speeding up the chemical reactions in the new battery
resulting in faster charging.
Developed by associate professor Chen Xiaodong, School
of material science and engineering and at NTU Singapore.
Brain surgery by the Robot
Vanderbilt engineers developed a robot that can be used
in treating the area near hippocampus.
The prototype developed by them is a 1.14mm
nickel-titanium needle that operates like a pencil, with concentric tubes and
some of the tubes are curved and this allows to follow a curved path in to
brain. The metal used in this robot is compatible with MRI’s. Using compression
of air robotic platform steers controllably and advance 1mm at a time.
And this found to be having accuracy of the system in
the laboratory is better than 1.18 mm, sufficient for efficient operation.
Noble Prize for Efficient Blue LED invention
Noble Prize has been awarded in physics for inventing efficient
blue led.
Using this new blue led invention white light can be
created, Red and green led are invented three decades but invention of blue led
has finally done.
The Led lamps olds a great promise fro increasing power
saving capabilities from the conventional uses over 1.5 billion people.
The difficulty in inventing blue led is the growing
layer material to emit shorter wavelength to produce blue light.
Invented by Isamu Akasaki, Meijo University.
New Record setup for silicon quantum
computing
Two research teams working on silicon quantum computing
in University of New South Wales.
This teams found out the two different solutions to a critical
challenge resulting in the realization of super powerful quantum computers. This
teams created two types of quantum bits (quantum bits are building blocks of
computers) and these bits process with an accuracy 99%. -Two teams of
University of New South Wales
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