Engineering

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IndustryWeek June 1, 2004 John Teresko	The New Materials Angle Software tools enable designers to drive product value by optimizing the use of materials. A General Motors result: the new Kappa platform.
Bio-IT World May 19, 2004 Malorye Branca	Attack of the Lab-Bots Robots are invading every aspect of discovery and development within pharmaceutical companies, from genotyping to high-throughput screening.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Solar Crystals Get 2-for-1 Ordinary solar cells are designed to generate one electron for every photon they absorb. Solar cells made from nanocrystals open another possibility -- two electrons for every photon -- that promises to boost the potential amount of energy that can be harvested from the sun.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Eric Smalley	Shape-Shifting Remakes Interfaces A lump of clay/television remote combination may seem like childs play, but it also summarizes a research effort that aims to transform the very nature of input devices. The goal is to make controls that users can reshape on-the-fly in order to change the controls' functions.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Evolution Trains Robot Teams Using evolution to teach robots complex behavior could eventually give them the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments. There's a long way to go, but researchers are laying a foundation.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Eric Smalley	Group dynamics play out in VR Nakanishi, a researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, has built a demo system using FreeWalk software for conducting virtual, or telecommute, evacuation drills.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Nanotube Sparks Could Cool Chips Researchers from Purdue University and have found a way to use carbon nanotubes to ionize air and generate minuscule air currents that can be used to cool computer chips.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Nanotube Makes Metal Transistor Researchers from the University of Illinois have found a way to produce a field effect in a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube that conducts electricity 40 times more efficiently than copper. The metal transistor could be used in practical applications in five to ten years.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Junctions Expand Nano Railroads Researchers from the University of Washington and Sandia National Laboratories have co-opted cell proteins for use in track networks that can be integrated into nanotechnology devices to shuttle tiny amounts of materials around.
Technology Research News May 19, 2004	Microchannel Folds Fluids Researchers from the University of Michigan have devised a passive mixing scheme that causes the flow of liquids on a microfluidic chip to split, rotate and recombine so that the fluid repeatedly folds in on itself and so mixes relatively quickly despite the lack of turbulence.
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