Disposable paper electronic touch pads on their way - Researchers in the US and France have developed a paper-based electronic touch pad, opening the way for low cost, throwaway touch pads to be incorporated into anything from food packaging to disposable or sterile medical devices. The touch pads are made from metallised paper - paper coated in a layer of aluminium around 10nm thick, which is overlaid with a thin film of transparent polymer. Reference: A D Mazzeo et al, Adv. Mater., 2012, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201200137
UCLA life scientists unlock mystery of how ‘handedness’ arises
May 10, 2012 – 2:00 am
UCLA life scientists unlock mystery of how 'handedness' arises - The overwhelming majority of proteins and other functional molecules in our bodies display a striking molecular characteristic: They can exist in two distinct forms that are mirror images of each other, like your right hand and left hand. Surprisingly, each of our bodies prefers only one of these molecular forms. Now, UCLA chemists have reported the latest on this phenomenom of chirality or "handedness" Reference: T. G. Mason et al, 'Local chiral symmetry breaking in triatic liquid crystals,' Nature Communications, 2012; 3: 801 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1803
UCLA life scientists unlock mystery of how ‘handedness’ arises
May 9, 2012 – 12:00 pm
UCLA life scientists unlock mystery of how 'handedness' arises - UCLA chemists have solved a molecular mystery, and report the discovery in the journal Nature Communications, May 1 2012.
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