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NUST Researchers Designed first Home-Grown Microprocessor
Researchers at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) have successfully
completed full functional testing of the country’s first truly indigenously designed microprocessor,
`NTiny-E’.
This was revealed by the Pro-Rector (Research, Innovation and Commercialization), National
University of Science and Technology (NUST), Dr. Rizwan Riaz during a press conference along
with Principal SEECS, Dr. Ajmal Khan and NTiny-E design and development team Leader, Dr.
Rehan Ahmed. Dr. Rizwan Riaz told that the embedded microprocessor chip was designed by the
research team of the NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS). The
semiconductor chips are at the heart of all electronic devices and consumer appliances being used
every day. Global semiconductor sales reached $556 billion in 2021 but Pakistan has not been able
to benefit from this lucrative market. However, NUST, in line with its vision of undertaking
applied research and innovation, embarked upon the journey to make Pakistan self-reliant in this
critical technology. The unique aspect of the project is its completely in-house design as opposed
to common practice of using open-source cores from other sources or foreign collaborations.
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indigenously-designed-microprocessor/
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Korean Surgeons Explain Latest Methods of Spine Surgery
The Korean surgeons explain latest methods of spine surgery. A five-member team of Korean
Orthopedic Surgeons shared their experiences with the Pakistani doctors on modern methods of
treatment of Spine Surgery, at the Lahore General Hospital (LGH).
Operations of those patients undergoing spine treatment were performed. This effort was aimed at
providing latest surgical techniques and procedures by surgeons apart from benefitting from latest
trends so that young doctors can adopt this advanced technology in their day to day treatment of
patients of spines.
Talking to the participants, Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute and Ameer Uddin Medical
College Prof. Dr. Muhammad Al-Freed Zafar said that the internationally renowned Korean
specialists and medical experts have provided an opportunity to young consultants to learn about
different new innovations which are useful in their future professional life.
Mian Muhammad Hanif, Orthopedic Professor at LGH, said that the course was organized by
Pakistan Association of Spine Surgeons in collaboration with Korean University of Medicine team
comprising of five doctors led by Prof. Seung Woo Suh. Talking to the media, Prof. Al-Freed
Zafar hoped that this workshop would enhance the knowledge and skills of local doctors which
would directly benefit the patients and the doctors of Spine Surgery.
Lahore General Hospital (image credit:
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Pakistan Develops New Soybean Line to Reduce Imports
Pakistan develops new intercropping-specific soybean line to reduce imports. This advanced
Chinese technology makes better use of available space to increase the amount of crops that can be
harvested on the same area of land as soybean production is like an added ‘bonus’, which has been
helping Pakistan ease soybean shortage and cut down soybean imports since four years ago.
This season, the total demonstrative area of maize-soybean strip intercropping technology in
Pakistan has surged to over 400 acres, about 2.67 times that of last autumn. Now, harvesting is
going on in the demonstration plots, which is expected to achieve promising results soon. “Last
season, more than 200 farmers have used our technology, and the number is still rising day by day.
Farmers are quite satisfied with the results.
Most significantly, this season, a new intercropping specific soybean line has been developed by
Dr. Muhammad Ali Raza and Dr. Zaheer Ahmed, Incharge Soybean Lab at University of
Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF). It’s learned that the new soybean line can easily produce soybeans
of 480 to 720 kg per acre in intercropping system, while the production of other soybean varieties
only stagnates from 200 to 400 kg per acre. “This season we planted new soybean line with
intercropping technology and harvested the plants and we have observed soybean line full with
pods. The Governor of Punjab Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman encouraged local soybean
production to reduce the increasing import costs in a recent meeting with Prof. Dr. Athar
Mahboob, Vice Chancellor of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB) and Muhammad Ali
Raza
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https://www.app.com.pk/global/pakistan-develops-new-intercropping-
specific-soybean-line-to-reduce-imports
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Roboticists go off road to Compile Data that could Train Self-driving ATVs
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall
grass, loose gravel and mud to gather data about how the ATV interacted with a challenging, off-
road environment. They drove the heavily instrumented ATV aggressively at speed up to 30 miles
an hour. They slid through turns, took it up and down hills, and even got it stuck in the mud, all
while gathering data such as video, the speed of each wheel and the amount of suspension shock
travel from seven types of sensors.
The resulting dataset, called TartanDrive, includes about 200,000 of these real-world interactions.
The researchers believe the data is the largest real-world, multimodal, off-road driving dataset,
both in terms of the number of interactions and types of sensors. The five hours of data could be
useful for training a self-driving vehicle to navigate off road. “Unlike autonomous street driving,
off-road driving is more challenging because you have to understand the dynamics of the terrain in
order to drive safely and to drive faster,” said Wenshan Wang, a project scientist in the Robotics
Institute (RI). The research team found that the multimodal sensor data they gathered for
TartanDrive enabled them to build prediction models superior to those developed with simpler,
nondynamic data. Driving aggressively also pushed the ATV into a performance realm where an
understanding of dynamics became essential, said Samuel Triest, a Master’s student in robotics.
“The dynamics of these systems tend to get more challenging as you add more speed,” said Triest,
who was lead author on the team’s resulting paper. “You drive faster, you bounce off more stuff. A
lot of the data we were interested in gathering was this more aggressive driving, more challenging
slopes and thicker vegetation because that’s where some of the simpler rules start breaking down.
Source and image credit
https://www.ri.cmu.edu/roboticists-go-off-road-to-compile-data-that-
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Magnetic Material could help Monitor Battery Life
A new study shows how a magnetic material can be used to help monitor the amount of life left in
a rechargeable battery before it needs to be recharged.
Shenqiang Ren, a scientist and engineer at the University at Buffalo (UB), led the project and
explains how the system works. As lithium-ion batteries charge and discharge, lithium ions flow
from one side of the battery to the other. With this in mind, Ren’s team built a lithium-ion battery
that uses a special material at one end, a compound whose magnetism changes as lithium ions
enter or leave it. This makes it possible to measure the battery’s level of charge by tracking
changes in the material’s magnetism, Ren says.
“The main goal of this project was working on the magneto-ionics, which uses ions to control the
magnetism of materials. As the lithium ions travel in or out of the material we are using, the
material will change its magnetization. We can monitor the magnetism, and this enables us to
indirectly monitor the lithium ions, the state of charge. We believe this is a new way to provide an
accurate, fast, responsive sensing of state of charge,” says Ren, PhD, UB professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering, and of chemistry, and a core faculty member in the UB RENEW
Institute. The team’s magneto-ionic material is made from vanadium, chromium and cyanide, with
an aqua ligand.
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https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2022/06/013.html
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Massive breakthrough as cancer vanishes for all patients in a drug trial
A group comprising 18 patients took a drug called Dostarlimab for around six months, and in the
end, every one of them saw their tumors disappear. In conversation with the New York Times, Dr.
Luis Diaz, an author of a paper, said he could not remember any other study wherein cancer was
obliterated in patients. “I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,”
Diaz added.
According to the NY Times, the patients, who were a part of the study, had previously faced
grueling treatments including chemotherapy, radiation and, most likely, life-altering surgery. “A
complete remission in every single patient was unheard-of”, said Dr. Alan Venook, a colorectal
cancer specialist at the University of California. Venook commended the research as a world-first,
noting that the absence of significant side effects meant that “either they (patients) did not treat
enough patients or, somehow, these cancers are just plain different.”
However, in an editorial accompanying the paper, Dr. Hanna K. Sanoff of the University of North
Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, who was not affiliated with the study,
termed it “small but compelling” but said it was not clear if the patients were cured. “Very little is
known about the duration of time needed to find out whether a clinical complete response to
equates to cure,” Sanoff said.
Source and image credit:
https://dailytimes.com.pk/948615/massive-breakthrough-as-cancer-
vanishes-for-all-patients-in-a-drug-trial/
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Zapping Orange Peel Oil into New, Pleasant aroma compounds
As oranges are peeled, they spray tangy, citrus scented oil into the air. The main compound in the
fragrant mist is limonene, which can be collected from discarded peels and used in flavorings,
perfumes and all-purpose cleaners. Now, researchers have treated limonene with electricity and
ethanol, transforming it into a mixture of pleasant-smelling aroma compounds, some of which
haven’t been identified before.
Limonene is regularly used in its original form, but it can also be the starting platform for other
scents. But synthetic oxidation techniques that can perform this transformation have traditionally
required environmentally harmful substances, such as strong chemicals and heavy metals. So,
Holger Zorn and colleagues tested an environmentally benign oxidation method, mixing limonene
with ethanol and applying an electrical current to the solution.
The process generated an amber-colored liquid with a pleasant odor and 17 different compounds
that had fruity, herbal, citrus and resinous notes. According to the researchers, this is the first time
that most of these compounds have been described.
The simple, sustainable method could create valuable aroma compound mixtures for flavorings or
fragrances, but the compounds must be evaluated for safety before use in commercial products, the
researchers say.
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https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2022/acs-
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DNA Nanotech Safe for Medical use, New study suggests
Advances in nanotechnology have made it possible to fabricate structures out of DNA for use in
biomedical applications like delivering drugs or creating vaccines, but new research in mice
investigates the safety of the technology.
Using a technique called DNA Origami (DO), a process which involves folding complementary
strands of DNA into double helixes over and over again, scientists can construct a variety of tiny
devices with complex shapes that could be injected in the body to deliver medicines or perform
other tasks. But because this technology is still relatively new, scientists have been divided on
whether nanostructures could cause dangerous immune responses or be toxic in other ways in
animal systems. Now, a team of researchers from The Ohio State University has taken an initial
step toward answering that question. The study, published in the journal Small, found that while
high amounts of these DNA devices can cause a slight immune response, it isn’t marked enough to
be dangerous. Their findings also suggest that different shapes may be more conducive to different
therapeutic applications.
“DNA is unbelievable in terms of construction and how it's able to be manipulated and designed to
form nano-robots in a very coordinated manner,” said Christopher Lucas, lead author of the study
and a research scientist in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Ohio State. “We believe this
technology, which has an incredible amount of potential, can be used to diagnose, treat and prevent
disease.” To test if that can be done safely, Lucas’ team used mice to compare the biodistribution
and toxicity of two distinct nanostructures: a flat single-layer 2D Triangle called “Tri,” and a 3D
rod-shaped structure that was given the moniker “Horse.” Over a period of 10 days, about 60
female mice were continuously given IV injections of both DO structures. But to really test the
safety, the researchers repeatedly dosed the mice at a concentration 10 times greater than in
previous studies. Researchers did see that Tri and Horse created shape-dependent inflammatory
responses, but because the response diminished over time, they showed that the immune reaction
was relatively harmless in the long run.
https://news.osu.edu/dna-nanotech-safe-for-medical-use-new-study-
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Giving Metal to Microbes could reduce Greenhouse gas
New research finds when microbes don’t get the metals they need, the result may be more
consequential than previously understood. Like you and me, microbes need some metals in their
diet to stay healthy. The metals help the microbes fully “digest” food. After a good meal, the
microbes that gain energy by chemically reducing nitrate release a harmless byproduct: nitrogen,
the gas that makes up 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
But if one metal in particular, copper isn’t available, these microbes can’t complete the
biochemical “digestive” process, called denitrification. Instead of releasing nitrogen, they’ll release
the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Previous lab studies using pure cultures have shown that
copper availability was important for denitrification. Now research from the lab of Daniel
Giammar, the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering at the McKelvey School
of Engineering, and Jeffrey Catalano, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences,
both at Washington University in St. Louis, has shown that in the complex, dynamic aquatic
environments these microbes call home, there might not always be enough copper available for
denitrification.
“Material in a beaker is not the same as material in the environment,” Giammar said. “A big part
of our approach was to take real materials from real environmental systems and bring them to the
lab and look at them in controlled ways.” The findings underscore the outsized role of copper
when it comes to the release of nitrous oxide. “At regular, background levels, these systems may
not have enough metals to carry out the process,” said Neha Sharma, a PhD student in Giammar’s
lab. That’s important because nitrous oxide is the third most potent greenhouse gas and 50% of it
comes from microbes in aquatic ecosystems.
Riparian wetland at Tims Branch. (Image credit: Kenneth Kemner/Argonne National Laboratory)
Source:
https://source.wustl.edu/2022/06/giving-metal-to-microbes-could-reduce-greenhouse-gas/
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Photosynthesis-Inspired Process makes Commodity Chemicals
New strategy is less expensive, less energy intensive than current industrial processes.
Northwestern University chemists have taken inspiration from plants to revolutionize the way an
important industrial chemical is made. In a first for the field, the Northwestern team used light and
water to convert acetylene into ethylene, a widely used, highly valuable chemical that is a key
ingredient in plastics. While this conversion typically requires high temperatures and pressures,
flammable hydrogen and expensive metals to drive the reaction, Northwestern’s photosynthesis-
like process is much less expensive and less energy intensive. Not only is the new process
environmentally friendly, it also works incredibly well, successfully converting nearly 100% of
acetylene into ethylene. “In industry, this method requires energy-intensive processes that need
high temperatures, an external feed of flammable hydrogen gas and materials containing noble
metals, which are expensive and difficult to obtain,” said Northwestern’s Francesca Arcudi, co-
first author of the study. “Our new strategy solves all these issues at once. It operates using light
and water in place of high temperatures and hydrogen. And instead of expensive metals, we use
naturally abundant, inexpensive materials.” The resulting strategy worked shockingly well.
Whereas the current industrial process results in 90% selectivity for ethylene, the Northwestern
approach has 99% selectivity for ethylene.
“This is important because it’s a commodity chemical with high economic value,” said
Northwestern’s Luka Dordevic, co-first author of the study. “The more you can produce without
waste, the better.”
Source and image credit:
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/06/photosynthesis-inspired-
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Ancient Ocean Floors could help search for critical minerals
Studying ancient ocean floors could help discover minerals needed to produce electric cars and
solar panels. Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) led a collaborative study that
examined the remnants of ocean floors in eastern Australia and central Asia and applied a method
to date the age of calcite trapped inside.
Dr Renjie Zhou from UQ’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences said the findings could
make it easier to source critical minerals used in renewable and clean technologies. “Calcite and
other hydrothermal minerals are often observed in critical mineral deposits and form under
mineralising fluid activities,” Dr Zhou said. “Our work shows that we can trace the history of
fluids in the Earth’s crust and see when and what mineral resources they might generate.” The
renewable energy sector is continuing to grow rapidly with increasing demand for technologies
like wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries. “These often require large
quantities of critical minerals,” he said. “Electric vehicles need up to four times more copper than
conventional cars and a single wind turbine uses several tonnes of permanent magnets made of rare
earth metals.” Dr Zhou said being able to study and discover these minerals was going to become
increasingly important. “Researchers across many institutions are doing excellent work in this
field, including UQ’s Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry,” Dr Zhou said. “Our hope is to
expand our collaboration with industry and academia to increase the understanding and discovery
of critical minerals in the future.”
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2022/05/ancient-ocean-floors-could-
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'Beam-steering' Technology takes Mobile Communications beyond 5G
Birmingham scientists have revealed a new beam-steering antenna that increases the efficiency of
data transmission for ‘beyond 5G’ and opens up a range of frequencies for mobile communications
that are inaccessible to currently used technologies. Experimental results, presented for the first
time at the 3
rd
International Union of Radio Science Atlantic / Asia-Pacific Radio Science Meeting,
show that the device can provide continuous ‘wide-angle’ beam steering, allowing it to track a
moving mobile phone user in the same way that a satellite dish turns to track a moving object, but
with significantly enhanced speeds.
Devised by researchers from the University of Birmingham’s School of Engineering, the
technology has demonstrated vast improvements in data transmission efficiency at frequencies
ranging across the millimeter wave spectrum, specifically those identified for 5G (mmWave) and
6G, where high efficiency is currently only achievable using slow, mechanically steered antenna
solutions. For 5G mmWave app lications, prototypes of the beam-steering antenna at 26 GHz have
shown unprecedented data transmission efficiency.
“Although we developed the technology for use in 5G, our current models show that our beam
steering technology may be capable of 94% efficiency at 300 GHz. The technology can also be
adapted for use in vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicular radar, and satellite
communications, making it good for next generation use in automotive, radar, space and defense
applications”, said Dr James Churm, Research Fellow, School of Engineering.
The device is fully compatible with existing 5G specifications that are currently used by mobile
communications networks. Moreover, the new technology does not require the complex and
inefficient feeding networks required for commonly deployed antenna systems, instead using a low
complexity system which improves performance and is simple to fabricate.
Source and image credit:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/beam-steering-technology-
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Major Infrared breakthrough could Lead to Solar Power at Night
Using technology similar to night-vision goggles, researchers have developed a device that can
generate electricity from thermal radiation. The sun's enormous energy may soon be harnessed in
the dark of night following a significant advance in thermal capture technology. Solar radiation
heats the earth's crust significantly during daylight hours, but that energy is lost into the coldness
of space when the sun goes down. Now, researchers within the School of Photovoltaic and
Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW Sydney have successfully tested a device capable of
converting infrared heat into electrical power.
The team, including members of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, used a power-
generation device called a 'thermo-radiative diode', which is similar to the technology in night-
vision goggles. Exciton Science Associate Investigator Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, the leader of the
research team, said: "In the late 18th and early 19th century it was discovered that the efficiency of
steam engines depended on the temperature difference across the engine and the field of
thermodynamics was born.” The same principles apply to solar power, the sun provides the hot
source and a relatively cool solar panel on the Earth's surface provides a cold absorber. This allows
electricity to be produced.
"However, when we think about the infrared emission from the Earth into outer space, it is now the
Earth that is the comparatively warm body, with the vast void of space being extremely cold. "By
the same principles of thermodynamics, it is possible to generate electricity from this temperature
difference too, the emission of infrared light into space." Norwegian researcher Rune Strandberg
first explored the theoretical possibility of such a device, and researchers at Stanford University are
investigating alternative approaches to capturing thermal energy at night. The amount of energy
produced through this new test is small (roughly equivalent to 0.001% of a solar cell), but the
proof of concept is significant. "We usually think of the emission of light as something that
consumes power, but in the mid-infrared, where we are all glowing with radiant energy, we have
shown that it is possible to extract electrical power," Nicholas said.
Source and image credit:
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Electronic Skin: Physicist Develops Multisensory Hybrid material
The "smart skin" developed by Anna Maria Coclite is very similar to human skin. It senses
pressure, humidity and temperature simultaneously and produces electronic signals. More sensitive
robots or more intelligent prostheses are thus conceivable.
In particular, robotics and smart prosthetics would benefit from a better integrated, more precise
sensing system similar to human skin." The ERC grant winner and researcher at the Institute of
Solid State Physics at TU Graz has succeeded in developing the three-in-one hybrid material
"smart skin" for the next generation of artificial, electronic skin using a novel process.
For almost six years, the team worked on the development of smart skin as part of Coclite's ERC
project Smart Core. With 2,000 individual sensors per square millimeter, the hybrid material is
even more sensitive than a human fingertip. Each of these sensors consists of a unique
combination of materials, a smart polymer in the form of a hydrogel inside and a shell of
piezoelectric zinc oxide. Coclite explains, "The hydrogel can absorb water and thus expands upon
changes in humidity and temperature. In doing so, it exerts pressure on the piezoelectric zinc
oxide, which responds to this and all other mechanical stresses with an electrical signal." The
result is a wafer-thin material that reacts simultaneously to force, moisture and temperature with
extremely high spatial resolution and emits corresponding electronic signals. "The first artificial
skin samples are six micrometres thin, or 0.006 millimetres. But it could be even thinner," says
Anna Maria Coclite. The individual sensor layers are very thin and at the same time equipped with
sensor elements covering the entire surface. This was possible in a worldwide unique process for
which the researchers combined three known methods from physical chemistry for the first time, a
chemical vapor deposition for the hydrogel material, an atomic layer deposition for the zinc oxide
and nanoprint lithography for the polymer template.
Image credit: TU Graz/Lunghammer
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New Silicon Nanowires can Really Take the Heat
A game-changing discovery could speed up computer processors simply by conducting more heat.
A research team has demonstrated an ultrathin silicon nanowire that conducts heat 150% more
efficiently than conventional materials used in advanced chip technologies. The device could
enable smaller, faster, energy-efficient microelectronics.
Electronic devices powered by microchips that efficiently dissipate heat would in turn consume
less energy, an improvement that could help mitigate the consumption of energy produced by
burning carbon-rich fossil fuels that have contributed to global warming.
"By overcoming silicon's natural limitations in its capacity to conduct heat, our discovery tackles a
hurdle in microchip engineering," said Junqiao Wu, the scientist who led the
Physical Review
Letters
study reporting the new device. Wu is a faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division
and professor of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley.
The device (an ultrathin silicon nanowire) could enable smaller, faster microelectronics with a
heat-transfer-efficiency that surpasses current technologies. Electronic devices powered by
microchips that efficiently dissipate heat would in turn consume less energy which is an
improvement that could help mitigate the consumption of energy produced by burning carbon-rich
fossil fuels that have contributed to global warming.
Junqiao Wu (from left) and Joel Ager. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab; photo of Joel Ager
courtesy of UC Berkeley).
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Scientists Develop a 'Fabric' that Turns Body Movement into Electricity
Scientists have developed a stretchable and waterproof 'fabric' that turns energy generated from
body movements into electrical energy. Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a stretchable and waterproof 'fabric' that turns energy
generated from body movements into electrical energy. A crucial component in the fabric is a
polymer that, when pressed or squeezed, converts mechanical stress into electrical energy. It is also
made with stretchable spandex as a base layer and integrated with a rubber-like material to keep it
strong, flexible, and waterproof. In a proof of concept experiment reported in the scientific
journal
Advanced Materials
in April, the NTU Singapore team showed that tapping on a 3cm by
4cm piece of the new fabric generated enough electrical energy to light up 100 LEDs. Washing,
folding, and crumpling the fabric did not cause any performance degradation, and it could maintain
stable electrical output for up to five months, demonstrating its potential for use as a smart textile
and wearable power source.
Materials scientist and NTU Associate Provost (Graduate Education) Professor Lee Pooi See, who
led the study, said: "There have been many attempts to develop fabric or garments that can harvest
energy from movement, but a big challenge has been to develop something that does not degrade
in function after being washed, and at the same time retains excellent electrical output. In our
study, we demonstrated that our prototype continues to function well after washing and crumpling.
We think it could be woven into t-shirts or integrated into soles of shoes to collect energy from the
body's smallest movements, piping electricity to mobile devices." The electricity-generating fabric
developed by the NTU team is an energy harvesting device that turns vibrations produced from the
smallest body movements in everyday life into electricity. The prototype fabric produces
electricity in two ways: when it is pressed or squashed (piezoelectricity), and when it comes into
contact or is in friction with other materials, such as skin or rubber gloves (triboelectric effect).
Professor Lee Pooi See (on left) and doctorate student Jiang Feng from NTU showing samples of
the material their team developed.
Source and image credit:
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/ntu-scientists-develop-new-
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made it simple for
you to plan your home in an extraordinary and
healthy manner.
Contact us:
Addr
ess: T No. 5, Band Road, Gulshan-e-
Ravi, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
.
Cell
: +92 42 37140055
Email:
Aver Surgical Industry
About Aver Surgical Industry
We are manufacturer and exporter of high
quality
surgical,
dental
and
beauty
instruments. We are capable to produce the
quality products according to your design.
Our products
We deal in all types of surgical instruments,
dental instruments and beauty instruments.
Feel free to contact us for a wide range of
surgical instruments including excavators,
hospital ware, plaster instruments, biopsy
instruments,
forceps
etc.
Our
dental
instruments include, chisel, files, curettes,
instruments for root fragments, gouges, mouth
gauges, probes, plastic filing instruments,
delicate hooks etc.
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Contact us:
Addr
ess: Mohallah Islamabad, Ahmad Abad,
Tehsil & District Narowal, Pakistan.
Cell
: +923044413519
Email:
Please give us your feedback and address
queries to tis.pastic@gmail.com
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