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Promising new material: Electronic and optically active photonic crystals

News: Photonics    August 1, 2011
Although it’s not as tricky as producing new drugs for medicine, developing new materials for commercial electronics is usually no sure thing. There is a long path of testing and development between the first prototype material and something that can be manufactured in large quantities and used in a variety of products. On top of [...]
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Fluorographene: The Teflon alternative and more

News: Nanotechnology    November 9, 2010
So you won a Nobel Prize for graphene; what do you do for an encore? Make something really useful out of it. Andre Geim at the University of Manchester, along with his colleague Kostya Novoselov put graphene on the (scientific) map around 2004. Their 2010 Nobel Prize put graphene into the public eye and made [...]
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Bionic lenses

News: Body Implants    October 1, 2009
Researchers at the University of Washington, in Seattle, led by Babak Parviz, have incorporated electronic circuitry into a plastic lens, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for “on-eye” displays, transistors for computing, a radio for wireless communication and an antenna for collecting power from a radio source, such as a mobile phone, in a person’s pocket. [Reference:The [...]
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