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Location: Georgia, United States
Abstract: Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prosthetic
vein valve to help improve the lives of those suffering from a condition known
as chronic venous insufficiency. The condition, which affects more...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
There’s a strange wave phenomenon that’s plagued rocket
scientists for years, a lurking threat with the power to destroy an engine at
almost any time. For decades, scientists have had a limited understanding of how
or why...
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Location: Center for Healthcare Robotics in the Health Systems Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Robots are fluent in their native language of 1 and 0
absolutes but struggle to grasp the nuances and imprecise nature of human
language. While scientists are making slow, incremental progress in their quest
to create a...
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Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States
For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test
their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections
between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless
card. And as the integrated circuits become more advanced, maximizing their...
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Location: Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively
Studded with...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
Proper design of computational tools is critical if they are to be used with
success in patient-care settings, particularly in hospital emergency rooms, a
field study conducted by researchers at the
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new
technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used
in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquids.
Researchers have...
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Location: The James Franck Institute ,Center for Integrative Science, E2The University of Chicago ,, 929 East 57th. St. Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Tightly packed molecules lend unexpected strength to nanothin sheet of material
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
Electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes—single-atom defects in the crystal—they’re killers. That’s one of the conclusions reached by researchers from the...
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Location: Georgia, United States
Composite nanomaterials, which encapsulate inorganic dielectrics in an organic polymer matrix, promise to double the charge storage capabilities of capacitors, as well as supercharge plastic circuits with high-k dielectric gate oxides, according...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology,Materials Science and Engineering,771 Ferst Drive, N.W.,Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, United States
Researchers have demonstrated a prototype
nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by
harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic
waves, mechanical vibration or blood...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
THE UNITED STATES’
worst-ever chlorine gas leak killed nine people and injured 250.
Eighteen months later – despite efforts to clean and restore the textile mill
affected by the leak – 4,000 people lost their...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a tiny
bacterium that could one day transform the way we remove polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) from our environment. The organism could be the key to
developing methods that...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are applying engineering expertise to the dental industry – a field that is often as much art as it is science.
For example, the
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Location: 75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100 ,
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 , United States
Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed...
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed hydrogen.
The...
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