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Technology Research News January 14, 2004 |
Melted fibers make nano channels Researchers from Cornell University have devised a simple, inexpensive way to construct fluidic channels whose corners are elliptical rather than sharp, which permits fluid to flow more freely.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Printer Writes Micro 3D Objects University of Illinois researchers have come up with a new type of quick-setting three-dimensional ink that works a bit like a microscopic tube of toothpaste.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Nanoscale rubber hoses debut Researchers from Cornell University have found a way to fabricate flexible tubes whose diameters are 100 nanometers. The tubes could be used to make stacked, interconnected fluidic networks designed to shunt fluids around biochips that sense and analyze chemicals.  |
InternetNews July 7, 2010 |
IBM Testing Hot Water to Cool Servers IBM researchers in Switzerland are standing server cooling on its head, using water as warm as 140 degrees to cool processors that have an unusually high safe operating temperature.  |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Biochip puts it all together Researchers have made all manner of microfluidic machines, but have yet to come up with cheap, mass-producible biochips for handheld medical and environmental testing. A simple plastic chip puts the necessary pieces together. The $7 device tests blood samples for the presence of E. coli bacteria.  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Tiny pumps drive liquid circuits Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories have combined microfluidics and organic electronics to make a tunable plastic transistor that could enable low-cost methods to drive, control and monitor labs-on-a-chip. The device can also use tiny amounts of fluid to adjust optical devices.  |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Microfluidics make flat screens A new method for making big, cheap flat screen displays is a bit like making muffins. Pour liquid polymer into microfluidic channels aligned above an array of electrodes, let cure, and you have organic thin film transistors.  |
Chemistry World November 10, 2011 Francesca Burgoyne |
Micro fuel cells for microchips Researchers from Spain and Germany have designed the first microfluidic device with an integrated micro fuel cell that is capable of both powering the device and pumping the analyte around the device.  |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 |
Triangles form one-way channels The microfluidic rectifier could be used in integrated microfluidic circuits, which use control fluids to operate pumps and valves that move samples and reagents in biochips.  |
Chemistry World June 12, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Imploding Bubbles Mix Fluids on a Chip Fluids traveling through micro channels could be mixed together by being whipped into a laser-induced froth, say researchers. Their technique may provide a simple way to control chemical reactions in a lab-on-a-chip.  |
Chemistry World May 8, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Polymer sets new self-healing record A new self-healing polymer that can repair holes far larger than any material before -- up to 3cm wide -- has been unveiled by US researchers.  |
InternetNews August 3, 2010 |
Tech Firms Split on Paying for Security Flaws Some major IT firms have made it a standard practice to pay security researchers for bringing vulnerabilities to their attention, while others have a strict prohibition against it. What accounts for the divide?  |
InternetNews July 26, 2010 |
Microsoft Updates Bug Reporting Process Extending an olive branch to security researchers, Microsoft says it will provide new mechanisms to make it easier to report vulnerabilities.  |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 |
Inkjet goes 3D Just as color printers are becoming status quo, a new technology may enable something more -- three-dimensional desktop printers.  |
InternetNews May 18, 2011 |
Google Android Hit With Security Flaw Google's client login protocol gets a bad rap from security researchers for being insecure.  |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Robert M. Frederickson |
Bringing Integrated Circuits to Life Cell-sized biochips mean that channels, pumps, and valves must become minuscule, too.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Monica Heger |
Cheap Microfluidic Device Made From Paper and Tape Harvard scientists hope to reduce the cost of medical tests  |