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'Lab on a chip': Small devices make a big impact

A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has developed a device with the potential of shortening the time required to rapidly diagnose pathogens responsible for health-care-associated infections from a couple of days to a matter of hours. The system described in the journal…

May 9, 2016

Small and powerful: Pushing the boundaries of nano-magnets

Mass-produced microvalves are the key to scalable production of disposable, plug-and-play microfluidic devices. The elusive 'lab on a chip' capable of shrinking and integrating operations normally performed in a chemical or medical laboratory on to a single chip smaller than a credit card, may soon…

May 9, 2016

Balancing Historic Preservation with Energy Efficiency

Researchers have created extremely small, thermally stable magnetic particles. These CoFe 2 C nanoparticles have magnetic properties comparable to some rare earth magnets, the strongest permanent magnets ever created, at sizes as small as 5 nanometers, a million times smaller than an ant. The next…

May 8, 2016

Current, Powered by GE, Acquires Daintree Networks

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May 8, 2016

Physics: From the atomic to the nuclear clock

BOSTON — Current, powered by GE, has announced the acquisition of Daintree Networks, a provider of building controls solutions for commercial facilities. Current said this acquisition will enable it to expand its building automation platform and its energy-as-a-service offering to small- and…

May 7, 2016

Bee model could be breakthrough for robot development: Computer model of how bees avoid hitting walls could help autonomous robots in situations like search and rescue

Atomic clocks are currently our most precise timekeepers. The present record is held by a clock that is accurate to within a single second in 20 billion years. Researchers led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich physicists Peter Thirolf, Lars von der Wense and Benedict Seiferle have…

May 7, 2016

Raths, Raths & Johnson Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Click to enlarge A visualization of the model taken at one time point while running. Each sphere represents a computational unit, with lines representing the connection between units. The colors represent the output of each unit. The left and right of the image are the inputs to the model and the…

May 6, 2016

Engineers create a better way to boil water, with industrial, electronics applications

Charles Raths, S.E. founded RRJ in 1966 with the vision of building a practice based upon quality engineering with particular focus on adhering to engineering fundamentals, attention to detail, and client service. This ideal proved successful in earning RRJ a reputation as problem solvers and…

May 6, 2016

Watts Water Announces Opening of Watts Works Learning Center

Researchers at Oregon State University use new technology to control the formation and release of bubbles. Here that technology is illustrated with the letters "OSU" printed on a substrate. Engineers at Oregon State University have found a new way to induce and control boiling bubble formation, that…

May 5, 2016

Metal Roofing Exceeds Latest Industry Standards

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Watts Water Technologies Inc. has announced the grand opening of the Watts Works Learning Center, a state-of-the-art facility where customers, distributors, sales representatives, and others can obtain hands-on experience with the company’s plumbing, HVAC, and water quality…

May 5, 2016

Kemper System Spotlights High SRI 'Cool Roofs'

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May 5, 2016

Proposed Energy Simulation Standard Open for Public Review

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May 4, 2016

Scientists challenge conventional wisdom to improve predictions of bootstrap current

ATLANTA — An ASHRAE draft standard that describes a methodology to apply building energy modeling to the design process is open for industry input. ASHRAE Standard 209P, Energy Simulation Aided Design for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, defines minimum requirements for providing…

May 4, 2016

A climate warming warning: Warmer temperatures are affecting lakes in the oilsands region

Simulation shows trapped electrons at left and passing electron at right that are carried in the bootstrap current of a tokamak. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have challenged understanding of a key element in fusion plasmas. At issue…

May 4, 2016

Health sensing tool measures lung function over a phone call, from anywhere in the world: To increase its reach in developing countries, SpiroCall works with all phones, not just smartphones

Researchers used dated lake sediment cores to reconstruct past algal production and industrial impact at 23 remote, helicopter-accessed lakes in the oilsands region. Snowpack samples were also used to determine the nutrient deposition across the landscape. The paper was co-authored by Queen's…

May 3, 2016

New drug-delivery approach holds potential for treating obesity

SpiroCall enables patients to measure lung function over a phone call. It is designed to work with any type of phone around the world, not just smartphones. Most people in the developing world who have asthma, cystic fibrosis or other chronic lung diseases have no way to measure how well their lungs…

May 3, 2016

Tecumseh Announces Big Chill 2016 Condensing Unit Promotion

(Top) Stimulating the growth of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) in adipose tissue transforms the tissue from fat-storing white tissue to fat-burning brown tissue. A schematic of the nanoparticle (bottom left) that MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers used to deliver angiogenesis drugs…

May 3, 2016

TRC Announces 2016 Big Man On Planet Competition

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Tecumseh Products Co. has announced its Big Chill 2016 Condensing Unit Promotion, which includes a chance for commercial refrigeration contractors/installers to win any one of three prizes. The grand prize winner will receive an all-expense paid trip to Orlando, Florida. The…

May 3, 2016

Exploring phosphorene, a promising new material

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Thermostat Recycling Corp. (TRC) announced that its fifth annual Big Man On Planet (BMOP) competition begins May 1, in partnership with Heating, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI). BMOP will run through Oct. 31 and all HARDI wholesaler members are…

Apr 30, 2016

Stuart Engel Joins Fresh-Aire UV as International Business Development Manager

Phosphorene, a single layer of phosphorous in a particular configuration, has potential application in semiconductor transistors. Two-dimensional phosphane, a material known as phosphorene, has potential application as a material for semiconducting transistors in ever faster and more powerful…

Apr 29, 2016

Steel Industry Releases First EPD for Steel Joists

JUPITER, Fla. — Fresh-Aire UV, division of Triatomic Environmental Inc., a manufacturer of ultraviolet C (UVC) and photocatalytic oxidation (PCO)/activated carbon IAQ products, has named Stuart Engel as its international business development manager. Engel will help Fresh-Aire UV penetrate the…

Apr 29, 2016

LG Announces New Rep to Serve Southeastern Market

The Steel Joist Institute (SJI) and Steel Deck Institute (SDI) have jointly released the first industry average Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for Steel Joists and Steel Deck manufactured in the United States and Canada. The EPDs quantify the “cradle-to-gate” life cycle environmental…

Apr 29, 2016

One-step graphene patterning method created

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — LG Electronics USA announced that Thermal Resources Sales Inc. (TRS) has become the latest LG applied rep for the company’s commercial air conditioning business, to drive variable refrigerant flow (VRF) sales and support for the Southeast. TRS will serve North Carolina, South…

Apr 28, 2016

ACT Enters Sealed Enclosure Cooling Market

Click to enlarge a) This is a schematic illustration of the one-step polymer-free approach to fabricate patterned graphene on a flexible substrate. A stencil mask is designed by computer-aided design software and fabricated by a laser cutter. The fabricated mask is aligned on the as-grown CVD…

Apr 28, 2016

Nanotube semiconductors well-suited for PV systems

LANCASTER, Pa. — Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) has announced the launch of its HSC, HPC, and LNC series of sealed enclosure cooling products. ACT said this launch is the first step of its entrance into the sealed enclosure cooling market. Sealed enclosure coolers are used to dissipate…

Apr 27, 2016

Californians Among the Most Efficient Energy Consumers in the Country

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered single-walled carbon nanotube semiconductors could be favorable for photovoltaic systems because they can potentially convert sunlight to electricity or fuels without losing much energy. The research builds…

Apr 27, 2016

Flipping a chemical switch helps perovskite solar cells beat the heat

SAN FRANCISCO — While California consumes the second largest amount of energy in the nation, it is also one of the most energy-efficient states, according to a new report. Compared to all other states, California ranks among the lowest in the nation for both per capita energy consumption and per…

Apr 26, 2016