Posts tagged nano
Never Run Out of Charge Again
Mar 31st
What if you had a way to keep you phone or mp3 player from ever running out of battery. It sounds far fetched especially with something like a smartphone where your lucky to get through the day with out a charge. While batteries with infinite charge are far from being developed, a technology called nanogenerators can help you keep the battery charged all day. These tiny little chips create energy when they are flexed or strained and produce about as much voltage as a AA battery, about 1.5 volts. This technology is not incredibly new but Dr. Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology has recently announced that he and his team have created a new kind of nanogenerator that is capable of powering an LCD screen, the kind of screen most mobile devices use. The generators, about 1/4 the size of a stamp, would be woven into people clothing and as they moved, they would produce energy which would connect to your phone via some sort of charger. This would allow for full battery life all the time and all you need to do is move. 
The Self Repairing Nano composite
Mar 27th
Researchers at Rich university have developed a very interesting compound. It acts just like our bones or muscles do when we use them, it gets stronger. By stressing our muscles and bones, our body builds them up to be able to undergo the stress easier. This Process is very smiler to what is going on in this compound. Made out of polymer based nano composites and carbon nano tubes, this material stiffens/strengthens after stress is applied. as test was done on this compound and after 3.5 million compressions over a period of two weeks, the strength of the material increased by twelve percent. This material could be revolutionary in making prosthetic body parts because it acts in the same way as a real one. I belie that in thee near future this material will be used in all kinds of medical aspects. Well if it behaves the way they say it does, it should have more and more uses as time goes on.
