* “Poor Halo play prompts stabbing threat”:http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/archives/231642.asp. Doesn’t seem unreasonable. I’ve heard campers threatened with worse. * “How Secure Is My Password”:http://howsecureismypassword.net/. No idea how accurate, but fun. 17 thousand…
Tag: Materials
Fall quarter kicking off, hurray! Formal coursework will be ME 588 — Dynamics and Vibrations. Basic theoretical framework, single DOF systems, multiple DOF systems, and continuously driven systems. Not my…
“Paper and Lignin-based RFID tags”:http://www.physorg.com/news200760151.html. “Silk electronic metamaterials”:http://www.physorg.com/news200841751.html. Seems like we are not far away from having processing power embedded in damn near everything. Not lots of processing power, but…
I finally officially matriculated last fall as a part time grad student at UW and am studying nanoengineering. For the moment I am sited in the mechanical engineering department tho…
No time to blog, fall quarter starting, and travelling too. Dump of stuff that is interesting: * “Ultimate Productivity Blog”:http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/. I think that is clear. * “Paintable transistors”:http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122605160/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0. Semiconducting polymer…
* Touchable holography. Uses tracking cameras and directed ultrasound to create interaction and physical sensation. Cool demo. * Algortihmatic – online library of algorithms and IDE. Cool tho limited. *…
Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials — Stebe et al. 325 5937: 159 — Science — good article. “Such metamaterials may, for example, be used to create cloaking devices or light-based circuits…
FT.com / Reportage – A library of the world’s most unusual compounds — would love to visit this library/museum.
Good basic article on polymer circuits. I need to learn more about charge transport in polymers, i have a basic understanding of charge transport in metals and semiconductors and ionic…
Had first lecture in ME 568 — Active and Sensing Materials. Topics include Ferroelectric polymers. Paper here PVDF as a specific case. Strong piezo behaviour Penn State does a lot…
Matter is strange — “These isotopes consist of a compact nuclear core and a cloud made of diluted nuclear material – called ‘heiligenschein’ or ‘halo’” via For the First Time,…
Continuing my educational adventure this spring: ME 568 Active and Sensing Materials: Fundamental knowledge of the nano-structure property relations of active and sensing materials, and their devices. Examples of the…
Targeted nanospheres find, penetrate, then fuel burning of melanoma | Science Blog. How Vision Sends Its Message To The Brain – the ability to record and study the reactions is…
nanoHUB – Simulation, Education, and Community for Nanotechnology. – hub for nano educational materials and software. interested in learning more about nano TCAD, pointed to by this article
Quantum computers could excel in modeling chemical reactions | Science Blog. — from the department of tautology. A quantum system can be best modelled by a quantum system.
Scientists Store and Retrieve Data Inside an Atom | Science Blog. – Kind of mind-bending. Love this stuff.
Caltech researchers awarded $10M for molecular programming project. UW involved as well. More info at the Molecular Programming Project: …we will develop new computer science principles for programming information-bearing molecules…
* Solar nanoantenna energy collectors — highly effective sunlight receptors based on nanoscale antennas. Now onto nanoscale rectifiers… * Another step towards cloaking devices
Flexible CNT circuits move on – nanotechweb.org. Just one of many efforts to implant circuits onto papers, plastics, etc. We are going to have processing power embedded in pretty much…
* Nanowire quantum dot counts electrons – nanotechweb.org — measuring current one electron at a time * Imaging using quantum-entangled photons — quantum entanglement stretches the brain. * Nanotube-coated pot…