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Breakdown of money behind Climate Denial:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-money-behind-the-climate-denial-movement-180948204/
Tech Investor Newsfeed:
https://www.techinvestornews.com/
10-min ex vivo QDot test for TB, flu, strep:
https://www.businessnewsaus.com.au/articles/home-diagnosis-tech-prepares-ipo-for-us-expansion.html
https://www.ellumehealth.com/
*Pre-IPO; Now we're talkin'...impressive real world applications becoming a reality
Learned human-agent decision-making, communication and joint action in a virtual reality environment
Patrick M. Pilarski, Andrew Butcher, Michael Johanson, Matthew M. Botvinick, Andrew Bolt, Adam S. R. Parker
(Submitted on 7 May 2019)
Humans make decisions and act alongside other humans to pursue both short-term and long-term goals. As a result of ongoing progress in areas such as computing science and automation, humans now also interact with non-human agents of varying complexity as part of their day-to-day activities; substantial work is being done to integrate increasingly intelligent machine agents into human work and play. With increases in the cognitive, sensory, and motor capacity of these agents, intelligent machinery for human assistance can now reasonably be considered to engage in joint action with humans---i.e., two or more agents adapting their behaviour and their understanding of each other so as to progress in shared objectives or goals. The mechanisms, conditions, and opportunities for skillful joint action in human-machine partnerships is of great interest to multiple communities. Despite this, human-machine joint action is as yet under-explored, especially in cases where a human and an intelligent machine interact in a persistent way during the course of real-time, daily-life experience. In this work, we contribute a virtual reality environment wherein a human and an agent can adapt their predictions, their actions, and their communication so as to pursue a simple foraging task. In a case study with a single participant, we provide an example of human-agent coordination and decision-making involving prediction learning on the part of the human and the machine agent, and control learning on the part of the machine agent wherein audio communication signals are used to cue its human partner in service of acquiring shared reward. These comparisons suggest the utility of studying human-machine coordination in a virtual reality environment, and identify further research that will expand our understanding of persistent human-machine joint action.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02691
Latest in lung transplant & regeneration science:
https://newatlas.com/damaged-lung-repair-transplant/59582/
https://newatlas.com/3d-printed-organ-vascular-system/59548/
Google Knows!
What percentage does Y Combinator take?
Y Combinator is changing up the way it invests. To keep up with the growing sizes of early-stage funding rounds, Y Combinator announced this morning that it will increase the size of its investments to $150,000 for 7 percent equity starting with its winter 2019 batch.
Sep 28, 2018
Don't know, but considering that a lot of them went on to become mega-successful, I would surmize that YCombinator is legit & doesn't engage in 'predatory VC' tactics & practices.
Impressive list. I wonder what the startups give up in equity for the $150K?
YCombinator...where successful start-ups are made:
https://www.ycombinator.com/
As with commerce, China is filling other voids vacated by US:
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-01124-7/index.html
USAF laser weapons shoot down missles:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/05/us-air-force-laser-shoots-down-multiple-missiles/?yptr=yahoo
*and in related news; like a bullet hitting a bullet, Americas' ICBM missle defense system is effective & operational: https://newatlas.com/mda-raytheon-boeing-double-icbm-interceptor/59017/
Like pennystocks, sometimes things aren't what they seem:
https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C5105AQEm8t4asZMOQg/6996b20444024783a2690004cbf1ae1a/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1557230400&v=beta&t=w7Sey_uTKuNW2D7vw8OGJlzA7ykWxfEDzGMJDqmt2M8
"I see chaos from this invention"...agreed. Perhaps even exceeding Facebook & Twitter, likely far more harm to society than good if ever realized...no thanx ;(
PHYSICISTS ARE BEWITCHED BY TWISTED GRAPHENE'S 'MAGIC ANGLE'
http://flip.it/tcwUdp
The Holographic Entropy Cone in AdS-Vaidya Spacetimes
Reginald J. Caginalp
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
We examine the five-region holographic entropy cone inequalities for the special case of the AdS$_3$-Vaidya metric for a variety of boundary configurations. This is done by numerically solving the geodesic equation in the bulk for various boundary configurations. In all the cases we examine, we find that all the inequalities are satisfied when the bulk satisfies the null energy condition, while the inequalities are all violated when the bulk spacetime violates the null energy condition. A proof of the five-region holographic entropy cone inequalities for the dynamical bulk case remains an open problem--our results provide evidence that these inequalities hold for dynamical bulk spacetimes.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00544
There was a Bruce Willis movie where he strapped his brain in and his alternate persona came alive, called Surrogates.
Other movies:
https://www.leecoweb.com/15-great-movies-alternate-realities-simulated-reality-time-travel/
Superbrain gives lots of power. I see chaos from this invention.
Maybe telepathy like Mel Gibson in What women want? LOL
We have 70000 thoughts a day, most of them about GoT, or the Avengers, it seems.
https://brookhavenhospital.com/70000-thoughts-per-day-the-inner-world-of-the-modern-human/
It's Knight Rider come back!!!
Next-Gen 'Internet of Thoughts'
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190412094736.htm
AI autonomous security robots...$50K private placement:
*Not vouching for this or trying to sell here, just passing it on as a point of interest...DO YOUR OWN DD
https://m-vest.com/knightscope?url=https:%2F%2Fm-vest.com%2Fknightscope&utm_medium=AdWords&utm_campaign=KnightDisplayLikelyInvestors&utm_source=KnightDisplayLikelyInvestors&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy7XCocqB4gIVRq9PCh3icwA2EAEYASAAEgIpFfD_BwE
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-05-air-conditioners-climate-change-remedy.html
This carbon capture type system is possible with QD IMO but system needs to be solar powered to not add to the problem.
The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Ricardo Vinuesa, Hossein Azizpour, Iolanda Leite, Madeline Balaam, Virginia Dignum, Sami Domisch, Anna Felländer, Simone Langhans, Max Tegmark, Francesco Fuso Nerini
(Submitted on 30 Apr 2019)
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its progressively wider impact on many sectors across the society requires an assessment of its effect on sustainable development. Here we analyze published evidence of positive or negative impacts of AI on the achievement of each of the 17 goals and 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We find that AI can support the achievement of 128 targets across all SDGs, but it may also inhibit 58 targets. Notably, AI enables new technologies that improve efficiency and productivity, but it may also lead to increased inequalities among and within countries, thus hindering the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. The fast development of AI needs to be supported by appropriate policy and regulation. Otherwise, it would lead to gaps in transparency, accountability, safety and ethical standards of AI-based technology, which could be detrimental towards the development and sustainable use of AI. Finally, there is a lack of research assessing the medium- and long-term impacts of AI. It is therefore essential to reinforce the global debate regarding the use of AI and to develop the necessary regulatory insight and oversight for AI-based technologies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00501
Adaptive Intelligent Secondary Control of Microgrids Using a Biologically-Inspired Reinforcement Learning
Mohammad Jafari, Vahid Sarfi, Amir Ghasemkhani, Hanif Livani, Lei Yang, Hao Xu
(Submitted on 2 May 2019)
In this paper, a biologically-inspired adaptive intelligent secondary controller is developed for microgrids to tackle system dynamics uncertainties, faults, and/or disturbances. The developed adaptive biologically-inspired controller adopts a novel computational model of emotional learning in mammalian limbic system. The learning capability of the proposed biologically-inspired intelligent controller makes it a promising approach to deal with the power system non-linear and volatile dynamics without increasing the controller complexity, and maintain the voltage and frequency stabilities by using an efficient reference tracking mechanism. The performance of the proposed intelligent secondary controller is validated in terms of the voltage and frequency absolute errors in the simulated microgrid. Simulation results highlight the efficiency and robustness of the proposed intelligent controller under the fault conditions and different system uncertainties compared to other benchmark controllers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00557
Why should you trust my interpretation? Understanding uncertainty in LIME predictions
Hui Fen (Sarah)Tan, Kuangyan Song, Madeilene Udell, Yiming Sun, Yujia Zhang
(Submitted on 29 Apr 2019)
Methods for interpreting machine learning black-box models increase the outcomes' transparency and in turn generates insight into the reliability and fairness of the algorithms. However, the interpretations themselves could contain significant uncertainty that undermines the trust in the outcomes and raises concern about the model's reliability. Focusing on the method "Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations" (LIME), we demonstrate the presence of two sources of uncertainty, namely the randomness in its sampling procedure and the variation of interpretation quality across different input data points. Such uncertainty is present even in models with high training and test accuracy. We apply LIME to synthetic data and two public data sets, text classification in 20 Newsgroup and recidivism risk-scoring in COMPAS, to support our argument.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12991
Very interesting proofing!
Broadcasting of correlations via orthogonal & non-orthogonal state dependent cloners
Manish Kumar Shukla, Indranil Chakrabarty, Sourav Chatterjee
Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
In this work, we extensively study the problem of broadcasting of entanglement as state dependent versus state independent cloners. We start by re-conceptualizing the idea of state dependent quantum cloning machine (SD-QCM), and in that process, we introduce different types of SD-QCMs, namely, orthogonal and non-orthogonal cloners. We derive the conditions for which the fidelity of these cloners will become independent of the input state. We note that such a construction allows us to maximize the cloning fidelity at the cost of having partial information of the input state. In the discussion on broadcasting of entanglement, we start with a general two qubit state as our resource and later we consider a specific example of Bell diagonal state. We apply both state dependent and state independent cloners (orthogonal and non-orthogonal), locally and non locally, on input resource state and obtain a range for broadcasting of entanglement in terms of the input state parameters. Our results highlight several instances where the state dependent cloners outperform their state independent counterparts in broadcasting entanglement. Our study provides a comparative perspective on the broadcasting of entanglement via cloning in two qubit scenario, when we have some knowledge of the resource ensemble versus a situation when we have no such information.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.1289
Galactic dynamics and long-range quantum gravity
Matteo Tuveri, Mariano Cadoni
(Submitted on 26 Apr 2019)
We explore in a systematic way the possibility that long-range quantum gravity effects could play a role at galactic scales and could be responsible for the phenomenology commonly attributed to dark matter. We argue that the presence of baryonic matter breaks the scale symmetry of the de Sitter (dS) spacetime generating an IR scale $r_0$, corresponding to the scale at which the typical dark matter effects we observe in galaxies arise. It also generates a huge number of bosonic excitations with wavelength larger than the size of the cosmological horizon and in thermal equilibrium with dS spacetime. We show that for $r\gtrsim r_0$ these excitations produce a new component for the radial acceleration of stars in galaxies which leads to the result found by McGaugh {\sl et al.} by fitting a large amount of observational data and with the MOND theory. We also propose a generalized thermal equivalence principle and use it to give another independent derivation of our result. Finally, we show that our result can be also derived as the weak field limit of Einstein's general relativity sourced by an anisotropic fluid.
Comments: 20 pages, no figures
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Cite as: arXiv:1904.11835 [gr-qc]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11835
New polymer films conduct heat better than metal:
"the new polyethylene film measured around 60 watts per meter per kelvin. (Diamond, the best heat-conducting material, comes in at around 2,000 watts per meter per kelvin, while ceramic measures about 30, and steel, around 15.) As it turns out, the team's film is two orders of magnitude more thermally conductive than most polymers, and also more conductive than steel and ceramics..............the team's polyethylene film conducts heat only along the length of the fibers that make up the film. Such a unidirectional heat conductor could be useful in carrying heat away in a specified direction, inside devices such as laptops and other electronics. But ideally, he says the film should dissipate heat more effectively in any direction."
https://phys.org/news/2019-04-polymer.html
Credible prediction for next 20yrs in stock markets:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/investor-credited-with-calling-the-2008-crisis-says-the-next-20-years-in-the-stock-market-will-break-a-lot-of-hearts-2019-03-07?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo
Sleek, motorized, solar-powered floating homes:
https://newatlas.com/naturecruiser-waterloft-solar-houseboats/59036/
Except for stormy nights, this seems like a pretty cool way to live ;)
Got nothing against marijuana here, but this is not intended to be a 'spam' board. Hence, spam will be deleted per tos.
$MJNA Undervalued Cannabis Pipeline via pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and cosmeceutical sectors http://www.medicalmarijuanainc.com
Robots-gone-wild:
RoboDogs tow the line: https://newatlas.com/boston-dynamics-spot-pulling-truck-video/59337/
Construction robot: https://newatlas.com/aist-construction-robot-humanoid-hrp-5p/56585/
Digital farmhand: https://newatlas.com/agerris-swagbot-digital-farmhand/59239/
Worlds 1st 3D-printed heart:
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-print-first-3D-heart-586902
Oil-eating bacteria discovered in the depths:
https://newatlas.com/oil-eating-bacteria-mariana-trench/59279/
Bloom Energy microgrid power storage systems:
https://www.bloomenergy.com/solutions/advanced-applications/microgrid?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organic_post_04_05_19&utm_campaign=microgrid
$MJNA Medical Marijuana, Inc. Subsidiary HempMeds® Garnered National Media Coverage on TMZ Entertainment News https://www.medicalmarijuanainc.com/medical-marijuana-inc-subsidiary-hempmeds-garners-national-media-coverage-tmz-entertainment-news/
High-temperature-grown buffer layer boosts electron mobility in epitaxial La-doped BaSnO$_3$/SrZrO$_3$ heterostructures
Arnaud P. Nono Tchiomo, Wolfgang Braun, Bryan P. Doyle, Wilfried Sigle, Peter van Aken, Jochen Mannhart, Prosper Ngabonziza
(Submitted on 27 Mar 2019)
By inserting a SrZrO$_3$ buffer layer between the film and the substrate, we demonstrate a significant reduction of the threading dislocation density with an associated improvement of the electron mobility in La:BaSnO$_3$ films. A room temperature mobility of 140 cm$^2$ V$^{-1}\text{s}^{-1}$ is achieved for 25-nm-thick films without any post-growth treatment. The density of threading dislocations is only $4.9\times 10^{9}$ cm$^{-2}$ for buffered films prepared on (110) TbScO$_3$ substrates by pulsed laser deposition.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11645
Enabling magnetic resonance imaging of hollow-core microstructured optical fibers via nanocomposite coating
R. E. Noskov, A. A. Zanishevskaya, A. A. Shuvalov, S. V. German, O. A. Inozemtseva, T. P. Kochergin, E. N. Lazareva, V. V. Tuchin, P. Ginzburg, J. S. Skibina, D. A. Gorin
(Submitted on 8 Mar 2019)
Optical fibers are widely used in bioimaging systems as flexible endoscopes capable of low-invasive penetration inside hollow tissue cavities. Here, we report on the technique which allows magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of hollow-core microstructured fibers (HC-MFs), paving the way for combing MRI and optical bioimaging. Our approach is based on Layer-by-Layer assembly of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes and magnetite nanoparticles on the inner core surface of HC-MFs. Incorporation of magnetite nanoparticles into polyelectrolyte layers renders HC-MFs visible for MRI and induces the red-shift in their transmission spectra. Specifically, the transmission shifts up to 60 nm have been revealed for the several-layers composite coating along with the high-quality contrast of HC-MFs in MRI scans. Our results shed light on marrying fiber-based endoscopy with MRI that opens novel possibilities for minimally invasive clinical diagnostics and surgical procedures in vivo.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03376
Universal scaling law in drag-to-thrust transition of flapping foils
N. S. Lagopoulos, G. D. Weymouth, B. Ganapathisubramani
(Submitted on 7 Mar 2019)
Reversed von Kármán streets are responsible for a velocity surplus in the wake of flapping foils, indicating the onset of thrust generation. However, the wake pattern cannot be predicted based solely on the flapping peak-to-peak amplitude A and frequency f because the transition also depends sensitively on other details of the kinematics. In this work we replace A with the cycle-averaged swept trajectory T of the foil chord-line. Two dimensional simulations are performed for pure heave, pure pitch and a variety of heave-to-pitch coupling. In a phase space of dimensionless T-f we show that the drag-to-thrust transition of all tested modes occurs for a modified Strouhal StT~1. Physically the product T·f expresses the induced velocity of the foil and indicates that propulsive jets occur when this velocity exceeds U8. The new metric offers a unique insight into the thrust producing strategies of biological swimmers and flyers alike as it directly connects the wake development to the chosen kinematics enabling a self similar characterisation of flapping foil propulsion.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03050
Bedside BioPrinter to heal wounds, layer by layer:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190228134229.htm
(Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc.’s chief AI researcher has suggested the company is working on a new class of semiconductor that would work very differently than most existing designs.
Yann LeCun said that future chips used for training deep learning algorithms, which underpin most of the recent progress in artificial intelligence, would need to be able to manipulate data without having to break it up into multiple batches. Most existing computer chips, in order to handle the amount of data these machine learning systems need to learn, divide it into chunks and processes each batch in sequence.
"We don’t want to leave any stone unturned, particularly if no one else is turning them over," he said in an interview ahead of the release Monday of a research paper he authored on the history and future of computer hardware designed to handle artificial intelligence.
Intel Corp. and Facebook have previously said they are working together on a new class of chip designed specifically for artificial intelligence applications. In January, Intel said it planned to have the new chip ready by the second half of this year.
Facebook is part of an increasingly heated race to create semiconductors better suited to the most promising forms of machine learning. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which has created a chip called a Tensor Processing Unit that helps power AI applications in its cloud-computing datacenters. In 2016, Intel bought San Diego-based startup Nervana Systems, which was working on an AI specific chip.
In April, Bloomberg reported that Facebook was hiring a hardware team to build its own chips for a variety of applications, including artificial intelligence as well as managing the complex workloads of the company’s vast datacenters.
For the moment the most commonly-used chips for training neural networks -- a kind of software loosely based on the way the human brain works -- are graphical processing units from companies such as Nvidia Corp., originally designed to handle the computing intensive workloads of rendering images for video games.
LeCun said that for the moment, GPUs would remain important for deep learning research, but the chips were ill-suited for running the AI algorithms once they were trained, whether that was in datacenters or on devices like mobile phones or home digital assistants.
Instead, LeCun said that future AI chip designs would have to handle information more efficiently. When learning, most neurons in a system -- such as a human brain -- don’t need to be activated. But current chips process information from all the neurons in the network at every step of a computation, even if they’re not used. This makes the process less efficient.
Several startups have tried to create chips to more efficiently handle sparse information. Former NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin founded a company called KnuEdge that was working on one such chip, but the company struggled to gain traction and in May announced it was laying off most of its workforce.
LeCun, who is also a professor of computer science at New York University, is considered one of the pioneers of a class of machine learning techniques known as deep learning. The method depends on the use of large neural networks. He is especially known for applying these deep learning techniques to computer vision tasks, such as identifying letters and numbers or tagging people and objects in images.
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High-Pressure Laser Floating Zone Furnace
Julian L. Schmehr, Michael Aling, Eli Zoghlin, Stephen D. Wilson
(Submitted on 15 Feb 2019)
The floating zone technique is a well-established single crystal growth method in materials research, able to produce volumetrically large specimens with extremely high purities. However, traditional furnace designs have relied on heating from high-powered bulb sources in combination with parabolic mirrors, and hence are constrained to transparent growth chambers with large solid angles of optical access. This results in a stark limitation on achievable processing gas pressures, and in turn renders a range of compounds unsuitable for crystal growth by the floating zone technique, either due to excessive volatility or due to metastability. Here, we demonstrate a novel high-pressure laser-based floating zone system (HP-LFZ). The use of lasers for heating allows implementation of a high-strength metal growth chamber, permitting greatly enhanced processing pressures over conventional mirror-based designs, with the current design allowing for pressures up to 1000 bar. We demonstrate a series of example single crystal growths using this design in pressures up to 675 bar, a significant increase over processing pressures attainable in commercially available floating zone systems. The general utility of the HP-LFZ is also illustrated via growths of a range of complex oxides.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05937
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Making wood fire-resistant:
https://newatlas.com/non-toxic-wood-flame-retardant/58490/
Jacobsen said the philosophy behind HyperThought is breaking down barriers to information.
“My big thing is knocking down the walls. I get so tired of people saying ‘you can’t do this.’ We want to collaborate. We want more people and groups to generate more usage. The more people that use the system, the better feedback we get, and the system improves,” he said.
Because HyperThought introduces a new way of thinking, particularly in the government sector, Jacobsen said it could be a big step toward a new era of sharing knowledge and information.
“The design really works and we’re leading the charge at this point,” he said
it is about that time to turn on the future
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) reveals the existence of stacking faults in the crystals, which result from a horizontal shift of Sb atomic layers suggesting possible ordering of Sb vacancies in the crystals.
So my thought on the above comment I lifted out of a paper is if the hole transport that everyone is looking for, is not copying the whole crystal but the copying the vacancy; neg. zero sum game!
Transparent tiles of silica aerogels for high-energy physics
Makoto Tabata
(Submitted on 14 Feb 2019)
Silica aerogels are important to be used as photon radiators in Cherenkov counters for high-energy-physics experiments because of their optical transparency and intermediate refractive indices between those of gases and liquids or solids. Cherenkov counters that employ silica aerogels as radiators and photodetectors are often used to identify subatomic charged particles (e.g., electrons, protons, and pions) with momenta on the order of sub-GeV/$c$ to GeV/$c$; they are also used to measure particle velocities in accelerator-based particle- and nuclear-physics experiments and in space- and balloon-borne experiments in the field of cosmic-ray physics. Recent studies have demonstrated that it is important for the design of Cherenkov counters that the transparent silica-aerogel tiles comprise solid material with recently improved transparency and a refractive index that can be controlled between 1.003 and 1.26 by varying the bulk density in the range of 0.01$-$1.0 g/cm$^3$. Additionally, a technique for fabricating large-area silica-aerogel tiles without cracking has been developed. In this chapter, we describe advances in the technologies for producing silica aerogels with high optical performances to be used in scientific instruments. We further discuss the principles underlying the operation of detectors based on the Cherenkov effect. We also review applications of silica aerogels in specific high-energy-physics experiments.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05374
Can you solve the plastics problem?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/plastic-innovation-challenge-prize-clean-ocean/
The Science Spin-offs board is intended to be a collaborative endeavor in reporting 'current' scientific breakthru's as well as, searching-out & identifying prospective emerging opportunities in the various fields of scientific research being conducted at the university level, B2B &/or by government research entities...with an emphasis on Quantum Dots, Graphene & 3D-Printing (both, in bio-med & general applications). There are no guarantees implied here...this forum is merely meant to be a 'collective' for accumulated documented (published) DD (not a 'pump'-station) &/or as a roundtable for discussions on scientific breakthroughs & developments... preferably, those that can be traded on. Please keep-in-mind that the world of scientific discovery is ever-changing and what is accepted as 'fact' today, is often proven wrong or rendered obsolete tomorrow. In addition, the myriad of daily reports of miracle milestones achieved, require further DD corroboration from 3rd parties and of the ones that remain, 'few' are destined to be marketable (& 'tradable') success stories (in the near-term anyway). Therefore; do your own DD (to your own personal satisfaction) to validate any investment decisions you ultimately make.
Resources;
* http://phys.org/nanotech-news/nano-materials/
* http://www.nanowerk.com/category-nanoresearch.php
* http://www.nanotech-now.com/current-months-news.htm
* http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Current+Affairs/Energy/Solar+Power
* http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html
* http://worldwidescience.org/
* http://science.energy.gov/
* http://www.nsti.org/news/
* http://nanofutures.info/about
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/
* http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=browse&uiLanguage=en DOAJ...Directory of Open Access Journals (a wealth of links & info)
* http://www.biomedcentral.com/search/results?terms=quantum+dots BioMed Central OpenAccess Journal
* http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ National Institute of Health abstract journal & Library of Medicine
* http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology-videos.aspx?cat=13 [NanoTech video library from AzoNano]
* http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/ [daily newsbytes; dedicated to NanoTech innovations]
* http://www.acomputerportal.com/nanobots_nanorobots.html [huge Nano-info resource portal...courtesy of Chessmite]
* http://www.freshpatents.com/browsebyindustry-bclx1.php [patent search opportunities....also courtesy of Chessmite]
* http://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=tetrapod+quantum+dots&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&as_ylo=2011 Everthing TQD
*VTT 2011 PE progress report: http://www.tekes.fi/fi/gateway/PTARGS_0_201_403_994_2095_43/http%3B/tekes-ali1%3B7087/publishedcontent/publish/programmes/groove/documents/seminaariaineistot/aurinkoenergia_28_4_2011/jukkahast.pdf again, thx to Chessmite
*PLos ONE...open source research journal http://www.plosone.org/home.action;jsessionid=8524967EBEEA5F86343193C7847991CA
**Dr.J's Feb2012 presentation: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61920309@N02/6821709065/# ...
& his SPERC SSF upload: http://www.saudisolarforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Dr.-Ghassan-Jabbour-Solar-Photovoltaics-Engineering-Research-Centre.pdf
***SOFC's (Solid Oxide Fuel Cells)
VTT / Tekes Fuel Cell Program Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTikE7Aonh8
Bloom Energy website: http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/solid-oxide-fuel-cell/ *if Bloom ever goes public, might be a great investment ; seems like a great future in this company.
Direct harvesting of H2 from the atmosphere w/ Graphene: http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/green-tech/fuel-cells/graphenebased-fuel-cell-membrane-could-extract-hydrogen-directly-from-air
***Quantum Dots...List of Applications: [*last updated 1/30/12]
**Note; Except for a few items clearly intended as conjecture [*tbd] here ,
all data on this list can be supported by published sources...if desired ,
feel free to request supporting data or do a Google search of your own.
DDhawk
Given the wide array of diversified uses for QDots, it isn't
likely that all the bases have been covered in this list...
consider it a work-in-progress.
***Raw materials
-supplier for intrnl. research of all sorts...
-supplier for commercial interests...
-new hybrid molecular elements tbd...
-catalytic & cathodic agent tbd...
-materials engineering: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-tetrapod-nanocrystals-stronger-polymers.html
***Electro-chemistry
-electro-chemical photo-reactive catalyst tbd
***Petro-chemistry
-NanoBot resevoir mapping, characterization & possible fracking apps:
***QA...critical defects detection in metals/materials
-automotive-civil eng-aeronautics http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-teams-microcapsules-micro-sized-defects-surfaces.html
http://tinytechip.blogspot.com/2011/04/us-patent-7925452-corrosion-detection.html http://phys.org/news/2013-07-tetrapod-nanocrystals-stronger-polymers.html
***Solar...
-24/7/365 w/ UV / IR capabilties...
-solo printable...
-hybrids ...
-additives for multiple solar apps (roofing, glazing etc)...
-enhancements to conventional & hybrid solar techs tbd...
-retrofit overlays for exist. outdated modules tbd
***Thermo-voltaics...
-thermoelectrics tbd...
-IR waste heat-2-energy conversion tbd...
-industrial/automotive
-de-icing systems (windshields, runways, aerospace): http://www.google.com/patents/US20130061605 ... http://dmse.mit.edu/news/blog/de-icing-windshields-new-materials-science-applications
***Displays...
-e-readers...
-e-paper...
-e-textbooks...
-tvs...
-smartphones...
-cameras...
-PC's (multiple apps)...
-monitors of all kinds...
-billboards & e-signage...
-large area dynamic displays
***Computers, Communications & Electronics...
-semi-conductor...
-memory (Flash &/or RAM)...
-switches...
-chips...
-gates & automata http://www.acsel-lab.com/arithmetic/papers/ARITH18/ARITH18_Heumpil%20Cho.pdf http://phys.org/news/2013-04-quantum-dot-solid-state-ultrafast.html
-antennae...
-reverse computing...
-spintronics...
-quantum computing ...
-qubits...
-broadband IT http://ezinearticles.com/?Fiber-Optic-Cables&id=1642315
***Lasers...
-advanced micro-(& macro)-laser tech...
-computer & communications tech
***Optics...
-plasmonics...
-fiberoptics http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/quantum-dots-could-increase-fiber-optic-bandwidth-up-to-10-times/ http://ezinearticles.com/?Fiber-Optic-Cables&id=1642315
-microscopy..(optical & electron)...
-telescopics tbd...
-optical data & communications transfer...
-multiple optical apps...
-photonics
***QD-LED
-hi-efficiency low-power alternative...
-superior colors & brightness...
-multiple apps in many sectors...
*note; for the purposes of lighting apps ,
I've heard of QD's being best described as:
"Tiny Little Lightbulbs" (a very well-put description IMO)
***Materials...
-building materials (paints/solar etc)...
-coatings (i.e; on glass for solar)...
-metalurgy & chemistry apps tbd... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-crystalline-materials-nanoparticles-dna.html
-blends & composites tbd
-materials engineering: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-tetrapod-nanocrystals-stronger-polymers.html
***Paints (conductive &/or reactive)...
-automotive (many apps here)...
-aerospace...
-up to & incl large area surfaces...
-building materials...
-cathodics tbd
***Inks & Coatings...
-solar...
-printable displays...
-cathodics tbd
***Cathode (*speculation, per DDhawk...tbd)...
-cathodic reagent as corrosion preventative...
-oxidation protection for bridges, ships & oil pipelines
***Sensors , Switches & Transistors...
-electronics...
-machinery...
-avionics...
-automotive...
-nuke monitoring
-toxics & explosives detection http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=28691.php
-underground (i.e; petroleum nanobots, tbd)...
-undersea (optics communications)... http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20140520/352824/
-numerous apps, i.e; Composites Stress Sensors: http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=26077
-stress probes: http://phys.org/news/2013-07-tetrapod-nanocrystals-stronger-polymers.html
***RFID
-inventory control...
-locator/tracking...
-product ID & sales...
-identifications...
-security... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929315.100-drones-tag-and-track-quarry-using-nanoparticle-sprays.html#.UhUlpSbn_IU
-anti-pirating...
-collectables provenance authentication (artworks etc) tbd
-anti-counterfeiting (products & currencies)
***MEMS & NEMS
-nano-machines tbd...
-micro & nano electric mechanisms
***Space... (multiple apps)
-military... http://www.pcworld.com/article/248733/quantum_dots_could_protect_spacecraft_from_missiles.html
-nasa...(solar sails, among other apps) ...
-commercial sector
***Clothing..
-vital signs & activity monitors...
-military...(numerous apps)...
-entertainment...
-dynamic fashion...
-in fabrics (other than clothing)
***Military...
-solar-power enabled tents
-camoflague / cloaking
-sensors...
-'Tagging'...(covert enemy tracking & targeting)... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929315.100-drones-tag-and-track-quarry-using-nanoparticle-sprays.html#.UhUlpSbn_IU http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/crazy-military-tracking-tech/
-communications...
-weaponry components tbd
***Medical...
-BioMed sensors http://www.thno.org/v02p0631.htm
-Optical surgery /therapeutics http://www.fastcompany.com/1119315/quantum-dot-eyeball-injection-could-improve-sight
-realtime trackable in-vivo / in-vitro diagnostics...
-microRNA (disease markers) detection http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/06/Supersensitive-Detection-MicroRNAs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cen_latestnews+%28Chemical+%26+Engineering+News%3A+Latest+News%29
-NanoAssays & NanoArrays in-vitro, in-vivo &/or ex-vivo...
-intra-cellular therapeutics...
-targeted cell-specific seek & destroy missions...
-drug/peptide carrying trojan horse...
-antibiotics delivery http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=24032.php
-Lab-on-a-Chip
-Forensics...ex-vivo NanoAssays https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/227499.pdf http://www.fsijournal.org/article/S0379-0738(09)00121-2/abstract
-Breast Cancer http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=28805.php
-Antibodies http://www.researchgate.net/publication/6265001_Antibody-quantum_dot_conjugates_exhibit_enhanced_antibacterial_effect_vs._unconjugated_quantum_dots
***Entanglement (Einstein was in awe of this effect)
-cloaking...
-RF & optics-free spontaneous remote data transfer...
-nano-scale teleportation...
-quantum computing
***Other...
-R2R Printed Electronics compatability...
-Flow Chemistry compatability
-batteries...
-SmartSkin's...
-SOFC apps
***Future...
-multitudes of future apps, yet to be determined ...
-QD's...the nano 'Swiss Army Knife' (to borrow a quote) ...
-QD's...the "Ball Bearings of the 21st Century"...see;
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/quantum-dots-future-vr
Note; QD's can in many cases, have multi-tasking (non-redundent)
capabilities within one sector...i.e; automotive as a prime example:
http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=22012
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