April 10, 2006


 
NEWS

Virus-built batteries

A thin film assembled by viruses contains gold-cobalt oxide nanowires that can serve as electrodes for lithium ion batteries. The technique could lead to thin, flexible batteries for powering flexible electronic devices like electronic paper. (Virus-Enabled Synthesis and Assembly of Nanowires for Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes, Science, published online April 6, 2006)

Micro plastic assembly line

A technique for making minuscule plastic objects uses flashes of light to pattern and harden liquid plastic flowing through tiny channels. The technique could be used to quickly and inexpensively make photonic chips, micromechanical devices and biocompatible particles for drug delivery and disease diagnosis. (Continuous Flow Lithography for High-Throughput Microparticle Synthesis, Nature Materials, published online April 9, 2006)

Thumbnail document browser

A method for navigating documents fills the screen with thumbnails of every page, magnifies the thumbnail below the cursor and highlights the thumbnail of the most recently viewed page. The technique is faster and easier to use than scrolling. (Faster Document Navigation with Space-Filling Thumbnails, Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2006, April 22-28, Montréal, Canada)

All hands on desk

A hand gesture interface for a tabletop display taps group cooperation to carry out commands like clearing the screen and sizing images. (Cooperative Gestures: Multi-User Gestural Interactions for Co-located Groupware, Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2006, April 22-28, Montréal, Canada)

Liquid silicon

A liquid chemical process for making transistors from the polycrystalline form of silicon opens the way for inkjet printing of high-speed circuitry. The technique could hasten the arrival of flexible electronic devices like large-area displays. (Solution-Processed Silicon Films and Transistors, Nature, April 6, 2006)

Blood typing biochip

A disposable plastic biochip determines blood type within three minutes. The device promises to speed and simplify the process of matching donors and recipients. (Disposable Integrated Microfluidic Biochip for Blood Typing by Plastic Microinjection Molding, Lab on a Chip, published online April 4, 2006)


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