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Sending a text message via molecular
communication using alcohol could prove
revolutionary.
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A team of researchers at Purdue University has
shown that cellulose nanocrystals found in plants
exhibit a stiffness of 206 gigapascals, equivalent
to the stiffness of steel.
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With one step of his foot, Zhong Lin Wang
illuminated a thousand LED bulbs with no apparent
source of stored or wired electric power.
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A study carried out by Malaysian endriconologist Dr Lim Ee Lin and a team of researchers found
that an extremely low calorie diet had the effect of reversing Type 2 diabetes.
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Powering LED Bulbs With AStep of The Foot
Plants As Tough As SteelWorlds First Text Message Sentin Molecules
If I had asked people what they wanted,they would have said faster horses
If I had asked people what they wanted,they would have said faster horses
Henry FordHenry Ford
Low Calorie Diet Could Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
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Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation,so is innovationthe vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
Theodore Levitt
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LOW CALORIE DIET couldLOW CALORIE DIET could
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www.scientificmalaysian.com/2013/12/29/
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study carried out by a team of researchers from Newcastle University
Medical School in the UK found that an extremely low calorie diet over
a period of two months had the effect of reversing Type 2 diabetes.
The study was carried out over a two-month period with a daily diet that consistedof a 600-calorie food (consisting of liquid diet and non-starchy vegetables)
intake per day. Out of a total of eleven volunteers who took part in the clinical trial,
seven were tested to be free of diabetes three months after the end of the trial
when they went back to their normal diet.
Type 2 diabetes is a long-term condition caused by excess glucose in the blood.
Excess glucose in the blood is harmful to internal organs in the long term as the
glucose is converted into fat which tends to be deposited in internal organs
like the liver and pancreas.
This results in the pancreas not being able to produce insulin that breaks down
excess glucose. The diet used in the trial had the effect of reducing the fatty deposits
in the pancreas, thereby restoring the pancreas to its insulin-producing capability.At present, an estimated 1.4 million Malaysians (or one is six adults above the age
of 30), suffer from diabetes, of which 98 per cent have Type 2 diabetes. This study
could prove to be ground-breaking for sufferers to get their lives back to normal.
The research team from Newcastle University was led by Professor Roy Taylor
and of which a team member is a Malaysian endriconologist, Dr Lim Ee Lin.
Reversal of Type 2 diabetes.
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WORLDS FIRSTTEXT MESSAGE
SENT IN
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MOLECULESI have always found that my viewof success has been iconoclastic:
success to me is not about money or statusor fame, its about finding a livelihood thatbrings mejoyand self-sufficiencyand a
sense of contributing to the world.Anita Roddick
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Sending a text message via molecular communication
using alcohol may seem ordinary at first glance,
but it could prove revolutionary where ubiquitous
radio-based communication systems fail to deliver.
A team of scientists at York University in Canada and the
University of Warwick in the UK used alcohol molecules
which were sprayed over a distance of four metres in a
lab to successfully deliver the text message O Canada.
We believe we have sent the worlds first text
message to be transmitted entirely with
molecular communication, controlling
concentration levels of the alcohol molecules
to encode the alphabet, with single spray
representing bits and no spray representing
the bit zero, says York University doctoral
candidate Nariman Farsad, who was the leader
of the team.
Added Dr. Weisi Guo from the School of
Engineering at the University of Warwick,
Of course, signaling or cues are somethingwe see all the time in the natural world-bees
for example use chemicals in pheromones
to signal to others when there is a threat to
the hive, and people have achieved short-range
signalling using chemicals. But we have gone to
the next level and successfully communicated
continuous and generic messages over
several meters.
The breakthrough holds much promise for
applications of molecular communication
in situations and environments where
electromagnetic waves cant be used, like intimes of emergencies with hazardous gas or
fuel leaks in confined spaces like tunnels,
and through sewage systems, water,
gas and oil pipelines or on oil rigs.
The breakthrough could also find potential
use in medicine where nanoscale devices could
be embedded into organs where they
could gather important data.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=39oEgkIThHUSituations and environments where it is
neither safe nor possible to use radio-based
communication like in tunnels, sewage
systems, water, gas, oil pipelines and oil rigs.
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WITH A STEP OF THE FOOT
William L. McKnight
Listen to anyone with an or ig ina l idea, no matter how absurdit may sound at first. If you put fences around people,
you get sheep. Give people the room they need.
www.news.gatech.edu/2013/12/07/
www.futurity.org/power-1000-led-bulbs
www.machinedesign.com/energy/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=joetshqFAOMHarvesting electric power from activities
where triboelectrification can be applied.
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A publication of Unit Inovasi Khas, Pejabat Perdana Menteri, Malaysia
With one step of his foot, Zhong Lin
Wang illuminated a thousand LED
bulbs with no apparent source of stored
or wired electric power. The current that
powered the bulbs came from the same
source as that tiny spark that jumps from
a fingertip to a metal object when you
walk across carpet on a dry day.
The breakthrough discovery that Wang,a Regents professor in the School of
Materials Science and Engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, and his
research team achieved was to harvest
this power and put it to work.
What Wang and his team applied is what
is known as the triboelectric effect to
create electric power by rubbing or
touching two different materials together.
A simple triboelectric generator uses two
sheets of dissimilar materials, one an
electron donor and the other an electronacceptor to create electron flow from one
material to the other.
When the sheets are then separated, one
sheet holds an electrical charge isolated
by the gap between them. An alternating
current can be generated if the process
is repeated and if an electrical load is
connected to two electrodes placed
at the edges of the two surfaces to
induce a current flow.
The fact that an electric charge can beproduced through triboelectrification
is well known, Wang explains. What we
have introduced is a gap separation
technique that produces a voltage drop,
which leads to a current flow in the external
load, allowing the charge to be used. Wang
further adds, We are able to deliver small
amounts of portable power for todays
mobile and sensor applications. This opens
up a source of energy by harvesting power
from activities of all kinds.
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PLANTS AS TOUGH ASPLANTS AS TOUGH AS
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Biomaterials for structural components for
automotive, civil and aerospace industries,
electronics and medical devices.
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q4/
www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=129955
www.inhabitat.com/cellulose-super-material
Michelangelo
The greatest danger for most of us is notthat our aim is toohigh and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
WWell, not quite literally, but a team of researchers at Purdue
University has shown that cellulose nanocrystals, the building
blocks of tress and other plants, exhibit a stiffness of 206 gigapascals,
equivalent to the stiffness of steel.The stiffness of 206 gigapascals was derived by the team by
precisely modelling the atomic structure of cellulose, based on
crystals only 3 nanometres (a nanometre is a billionth of a meter)
wide by 500 nanometres long.
Cellulose nanocrystals are found in abundance, and can be
harvested and refined, in trees and other plants and any number
of other renewable sources such as algae, cellulose-producing
bacteria, and tunicates or sea squirts.
The research findings could prove to be the precursor to the creation
of new biomaterials. It is also the first step towards a multiscale
modelling approach to understand and predict the behaviour of
individual crystals, the interaction between them, and their interaction
with other materials, said Pablo D. Zavattieri, a Purdue University
assistant professor of civil engineering.
This is important for the design of novel cellulose-based materialsas other research groups are considering them for a huge variety of
applications, ranging from electronics and medical devices to structural
components for the automotive, civil and aerospace industries.
Indeed, biomaterials manufacturing could prove to be commercially
viable as it could be a natural extension of the paper and biofuels
industries whereby current processes and technologies could be
leveraged to produce cellulose-based biomaterials.
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Mass production of silicon structures at
significantly reduced costs to enable
new high-tech industry.
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http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130717
Carl Rogers
The only person who is educatedis the onewho has learned how to learn and change.
he table salt is not normally thought of as extraordinary.
However, a recent discovery is about to put it in a totally
different league. Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU)
found that sodium chloride possesses the potential to enable
the commercial mass production of silicon nanostructures atsignificantly reduced costs.
Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earths crust.
Silicon nanostructures, which are smaller than a speck
of dust, have the potential to be used in photonics,
biological imaging, sensors, drug delivery, thermoelectric
materials that can convert heat into electricity,
and energy storage.
However, until this discovery, current technologies
employed to make silicon nanostructures were costly,
limiting their use in very limited products that markets
could afford to bear. Simpler technologies to make silicon
nanostructures are not viable because extremely hightemperatures are required.
The OSU researchers discovered a highly cost-effective
process of melting and absorbing heat at a critical moment
during a magnesiothermic reaction where molten salt acts
as a heat absorber and dissipator, preventing the collapse
of the nanostructures during production. The molten salt can
then be washed away, recycled and used again.
According to David Xiulei Ji, Assistant Professor of Chemistry in
the OSU College of Science, This could be what it takes to open up
an important new industry. There are methods now to create silicon
nanostructures, but they are vey costly and can only produce tiny
amounts. This process should allow the production of high-qualitysilicon nanostructures in large quantities at low cost.
This discovery has the potential to spawn new products arising from
potential mass production of silicon nanostructure which were hitherto
cost-prohibitive. Not bad for indeed for the humble table salt whose
use can now be significantly expanded.
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Innovation was measured by 7 factors including R&D intensity,
productivity, high-tech density, researcher concentration, manufacturing
capability, education levels and patent activity
Innovation was measured by 7 factors including R&D intensity,
productivity, high-tech density, researcher concentration, manufacturing
capability, education levels and patent activity
Bloomberg Rankings 2013
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Iran, Macedonia, Belarus, South Africa
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Iran, Macedonia, Belarus, South Africa
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Natural gas is odourless. The smell isadded artificially for safety reasons.
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CANDY CRUSH
Candy Crush has more active monthly playersthan the entire population of Canada.
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NATURAL GAS
The world's smallest poisonous frog is less than a centimetrelong and its skin is 200 times more toxic than morphine.
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THE WORLDS SMALLEST POISONOUS FROG
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THE OCTOPUS
Starting Jan 1, 2014, traditional 40 and 60 wattincandescent light bulbs will no longer beavailable in the U.S
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Octopuses have three hearts. Two branchial hearts pumpblood through each of the two gills, while the third is asystemic heart that pumps blood through the body.
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THE STATUE OF LIBERTYTHE STATUE OF LIBERTY
The Statue of Liberty is thought to havebeen hit by about 600 bolts of lightningevery year.
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THE INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB
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