Shaking light with sound
Credit: Jijun He, Junqiu Liu (EPFL) Piezoelectric materials can convert electrical voltage to mechanical displacement and vice versa. They are ...
Tag: Acoustics
For cleaner air, water, and soil
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists ...
Thermophones offer new route to radically simplify array design, research shows
Credit: David Tatnell Scientists have pioneered a new technique to produce arrays of sound produced entirely by heat. The team ...
Levitating droplets allow scientists to perform ‘touchless’ chemical reactions
Credit: Analytical Chemistry 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00929 Levitation has long been a staple of magic tricks and movies. But in the ...
Physicist Andrea Alù selected for a highly competitive Simons Collaboration Research Award
Supported by a major multi-year funding, the collaboration seeks to change our understanding and control of wave propagation, enabling leapfrog ...
A nice day for a quantum walk
Researchers at Osaka University use their ability to precisely control the vibrations of coupled ions to demonstrate a "quantum random ...
Ultrasonic technique discloses the identity of graphite
Credit: Kaneka Corporation, Physical Review Materials (2020) A group of scientists from Osaka University, in cooperation with Kaneka Corporation, evaluated ...
Using a smartphone to diagnose COVID-19 at home
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (May 12, 2020) ... In Pennsylvania and other U.S. states, one of the keys to ...
Light, sound, action: Extending the life of acoustic waves on microchips
Foundational work opens door to low-heat, low-energy, fast internetCredit: University of Sydney Scientists in Australia and Europe have taken an ...
How to put neurons into cages
Using microscopically fine 3D printing technologies from TU Wien (Vienna) and sound waves used as tweezers at Stanford University (California), ...
Lung-heart super sensor on a chip tinier than a ladybug
The future of socially distanced lung and heart health monitoring could lie in an inconspicuous yet incredibly sensitive MEMS chipCredit: ...
Acoustic growth factor patterning
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 15, 2020--For optimally engineered tissues, it is important that biological ...
A graphene innovation that is music to your ears
A commercially licensed technology developed by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers could be available to consumers within the next ...
Ship noise leaves crabs too stressed to hide from danger
Credit: Martin Stevens The ocean is getting too loud even for crabs. Normally, shore crabs (Carcinus maenas) can slowly change ...