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Graphene = VFETT, atomic antenna, & toughest fibre
Graphene straddles the world. At Manchester University moving into the vertical plane it becomes a vertical field effect tunnelling transistor. Over at the ORNL laboratory in Tenessee, graphene becomes a plasmonic antennae.Down under at University of Wollongong in New South Wales correctly mixed with nanotubes and PVA, it becomes the most super tough fibre material capable of mass production.
Raw material shortages: substitution offset
The EU has been trying to develop plans that will ensure industry access to raw materials such as rare metals and earths. One route that is quietly developing is that of substitution.
Soitec buys nano Altatech
Silicon on insulator Soitec has acquired nano production systems producer Altatech Semiconductor S.A based at Montbonnot Saint Martin near Grenoble. The final purchase price of €15m was financed partly in cash and partly using Soitec stock, purchased by BNP Paribas Exane on the market under the share buy-back program approved by the shareholders.
Roke wins conformance monopoly
Roke Manor Research Ltd , acquired by the US Chemring Group in 2010 has been appointed by the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), as UK's only Conformance Test Facility of Protocol Requirements for IP Modular Encryption (PRIME) the UK's framework to ensure interoperability between large UK government networks such as the Public Services Network (PSN)
PRACE grows membership
PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012.
Acronis: backup & data recovery
Devastating floods, deadly earthquakes, near apocalyptic tsunami, typhoons, storms, Arab spring, and economic downturn lets Acronis dub 2011 a year of disasters, yet Acronis GM Northern Europe and MEA, David Blackman comments that businesses around the world have grown in confidence about their ability to back up and then recover data and IT systems following a disaster.
Women research ID management
Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and a team of women colleagues from Dundee, Essex and Northumbria universities have received a £1.36m grant to examine taboos and desires around future technologies of ‘identity management’.
Riverside Campus opens
SAC and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) have officially launched their new £81m Riverside Campus in Ayr, a new 18,000m2 campus is situated on the Craigie Estate, next to the River Ayr and an innovative learning environment for students.
COMSOL Multiphysics
Initially of the workshop provides an overview of COMSOL Multiphysics V4.2a - capabilities, new abilities and functionality enhancements, and its new, more efficient, user interface the COMSOL Desktop.
Software to exploit multicore
Why must a programmer care for the hardware architecture when writing embedded applications for multi-core? At HiPEAC 2012, Professors Nikolaos Voros and Jürgen Becker explain how the ALMA Consortium comprising French, Greek, Netherlands and German based academic and business organisation aim to turn 'must' into 'may'.
£11.5m for aerospace & marine energy
Aerospace and marine energy are attracting more than £11.5m investment from UK government organisations, led by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The slant for aerospace is solving high risk challenges, while the angle in marine energy is the nitty, gritty of array technologies.
Sixth Sense – Advanced Sensor Technology
Sensing for security; sensitive measurements in extreme environments; from data to information; and biomedical sensing are among the topics covered at Heriot-Watt University's 2nd annual Industry Day welcoming the views of those working in this sector, and those who wish to discuss the important issues currently facing the industry.
Ensuring business continuity in Clouds
The cloud offers enhanced IT service availability and flexibility, but customers need to understand their responsibilities to achieve this. The risks associated with cloud computing depend upon both the service model and the delivery model adopted. This article focuses on two specific risks: availability and lock-in.
Visualising slow bio processes
Pepric, a spin-off from Belgium research organisation imec, has successfully closed a €1.4m capital round. Pepric develops scanner systems for direct visualisation of magnetic labels and commercialises equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time.
Whisky biofuel as water loses to wind
THE UK government's review of feed in tariff (FIT) energy payments is estimated to have stalled £100m of hydropower investment in Scotland, while a newcomer Celtic Renewable is to use whisky by-products for the production of biofuels.
RSPB: fisheries and peatland
The RSPB Scotland has warned that a new strategy for Scotland's inshore fisheries set out in the two year old National Marine Plan will not help fishing communities, unless it does more to protect our seas and is brought into effect and RSPB is also urging the Scottish Government to honour its manifesto pledge to restore Scotland’s peatlands.
LiDAR geodata comes online
A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!
Rain forest and flight wing truths
LMU biologist, Professor Susanne Renner teamed with Professor Robert E. Ricklefs at University of Missouri in St. Louis used data to dispose of the neural theory for rainforests. At Cambridge University Professor Holger Babinsky creates a 1-minute video to show it is lower air pressure above that raises a wing, not the common but wrong explanation of wing curvature creating wing lift.
Sensors for concrete monitoring
Innovative sensors have been developed that will dramatically improve the ability to spot early warning signs of corrosion in concrete. More resilient and much longer lasting than traditional corrosion sensors they will make monitoring the safety of structures such as bridges and vital coastal defences much more effective as carbon steel bars used to reinforce submerged concrete in tidal zone areas are at particular risk of corrosion caused by wet conditions.
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