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ORNL-Led Group Grows Aligned Monolayers of Lattice-Mismatched Semiconductors
Apr 21, 2016Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a group of researchers has synthesized a stack of atomically thin monolayers of two lattice-mismatched semiconductors (Xufan Li et al, 'Two-dimensional GaSe/MoSe2 ...
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Vanderbilt University To Enhance Fan Experience ith Advanced Ephesus LED Lighting From Eaton
Mar 21, 2016Power management company Eaton today announced that the home field of the Vanderbilt University men’s baseball team, Hawkins Field in Nashville, Tennessee, has installed an advanced light-emitting diode (LED) system designed to ...
Tags: Vanderbilt university, LED system, Eaton
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Plasma Etch System Offers ICP Dry Etching Supported by an Extensive Range of Processes
Nov 11, 2014Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, USA is expanding its research capabilities with the addition of a PlasmaPro 100 Cobra plasma etch system from UK-based etch, deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments, to be installed soon in ...
Tags: Oxford Instruments, Plasma Etch
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Say Goodbye to Your Phone Battery and Charger
May 30, 2014Say goodbye to your phone battery and charger. A new structural material could transform a mobile device’s entire case into a hybrid super-capacitor/battery, making traditional batteries obsolete. Researchers from Vanderbilt ...
Tags: phone battery, charger
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Our Electrical Gadgets Are No Longer Limited by Plugs and External Power Sources
May 22, 2014Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy ...
Tags: Supercapacitor, electric car
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Have Developed a Structural Supercapacitor
May 22, 2014Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a structural supercapacitor that stores and releases electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the ...
Tags: Supercapacitor, Power Cords
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TBC Expands Its Hifly Win-Turi 215 Studdable Line and Introduces Two New Lines
Mar 24, 2014TBC Wholesale is is expanding its Hifly Win-Turi 215 studdable line and introducing two new lines for the 2014-2015 season: the Hifly Vigorous W601 studdable LT line and the studless HIFLY Win-Turi 212 line. The company says these lines ...
Tags: Winter Tire Program, TBC
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Baby Hearts Need Rhythm to Develop Correctly
Feb 27, 2014To develop correctly, baby hearts need rhythm...even before they have blood to pump. "We have discovered that mechanical forces are important when making baby hearts," said Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, a Vanderbilt graduate student working ...
Tags: Baby Heart, Rhythm, Roadmap, SysCODE
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Engineers Designed New Tools to Help Restore a Surgeon's Sense of Touch
Jan 22, 2014Surgeons' best tools for locating tumors inside the body are often their hands. But during minimally invasive surgeries—which can reduce recovery time by days—the ability to examine tissue through touch, called palpation, is ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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The University of Louisville Selected by The PFF for Its Newly Established Care Center
Jan 20, 2014The University of Louisville is one of nine pilot sites selected by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF) for its newly established Care Center Network and the PFF Patient Registry program. Rafael Perez, M.D., director of the UofL ...
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Young People Don't Remember Better Than Older Adults
Jan 16, 2014Young people don't remember better than older adults, but their memories seem better because they retrieve them in higher definition, U.S. researchers say. Study leader Philip Ko and Dr. Brandon Ally, both of Vanderbilt University, said ...
Tags: higher definition, visual memory
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Doctors Struggled to Understand Strange Sensory Tricks Autism Can Play on a Child's Mind
Jan 16, 2014Doctors and parents have long struggled to understand the strange sensory tricks autism can play on a child's mind. Ordinary noises -- screeching car alarms, knocking radiator pipes, even the whirr of a fan -- can be intolerable to children ...
Tags: autism, neurodevelopmental disorder, children health, Mark Wallace
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Preschool-Aged Children Require The Majority of Their Waking Day
Jan 13, 2014Preschool-aged children require the majority of their waking day, approximately 11 hours, to achieve their recommended daily physical activity, a Vanderbilt study published in Obesity found. Children in the study, ages 3-5, achieved this ...
Tags: Preschool-aged children health, daily physical activity
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Astronomers Has Discovered a Surprising New Class of "Hypervelocity Stars"
Jan 10, 2014An international team of astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of "hypervelocity stars" – solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of this new set of ...
Tags: hypervelocity stars, Milky Way galaxy, galactic center, escape
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Temperatures Are Predicted to Be The Coldest of The Winter
Jan 9, 2014Temperatures in the next few days are predicted to be the coldest of the winter so far, and people using space heaters to get some extra warmth into their living and working spaces need to be aware of a potential "silent killer" inside ...
Tags: health tip, carbon monoxide, Donna Seger, CO poisoning
