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Electrically-latched compliant jumping mechanism based on a dielectric elastomer actuator
(IOP Publishing, 2019-08-12)Jumping mechanisms are useful in robotics for locomotion in unstructured environments, or for self-righting abilities. However, most rigid robots rely on impact with the ground to jump, thereby requiring a relatively rigid, ... -
Electrically-tunable surface deformation of a soft elastomer
(Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2016)The flat surface of a thin elastomer on a conducting substrate can be deformed by applying an electric field to a percolating network of metallic nanowires randomly dispersed over the surface. The magnitude of the field-induced ... -
Electricity Storage for Intermittent Renewable Sources
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)With sufficient electricity storage capacity, any power production profile may be mapped onto any desired supply profile. We present a framework to determine the required storage power as a function of time for any power ... -
Electro-optical testing of fully depleted CCD image sensors for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera
(Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2014)The LSST Camera science sensor array will incorporate 189 large format Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors. Each CCD will include over 16 million pixels and will be divided into 16 equally sized segments and each ... -
Electroanalytical devices with pins and thread
(Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2016)This work describes the adaptive use of conventional stainless steel pins—used in unmodified form or coated with carbon paste—as working, counter, and quasi-reference electrodes in electrochemical devices fabricated using ... -
Electrochemical Acceleration of Chemical Weathering as an Energetically Feasible Approach to Mitigating Anthropogenic Climate Change
(American Chemical Society, 2007)We describe an approach to CO<sub>2</sub> capture and storage from the atmosphere that involves enhancing the solubility of CO<sub>2</sub> in the ocean by a process equivalent to the natural silicate weathering reaction. ... -
Electrochemical Carbon Nanotube Filter for Adsorption, Desorption, and Oxidation of Aqueous Dyes and Anions
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011)An electrochemically active multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) filter is observed to be effective toward the adsorptive removal and electrochemical oxidation of the aqueous dyes, methylene blue and methyl orange, and the ... -
Electrochemical Carbon Nanotube Filter Oxidative Performance as a Function of Surface Chemistry
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011)An electrochemical carbon nanotube filter has been reported to be effective for the removal and electrooxidation of aqueous chemicals and microorganisms. Here, we investigate how carbon nanotube (CNT) chemical surface ... -
Electrochemical Carbon-Nanotube Filter Performance toward Virus Removal and Inactivation in the Presence of Natural Organic Matter
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2012)The performance of an electrochemical multiwalled carbon nanotube (EC-MWNT) filter toward virus removal and inactivation in the presence of natural organic matter was systematically evaluated over a wide range of solution ... -
Electrochemical Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Filter for Viral and Bacterial Removal and Inactivation
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011)Nanotechnology has potential to offer solutions to problems facing the developing world. Here, we demonstrate the efficacy of an anodic multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) microfilter toward the removal and inactivation of ... -
Electrochemical polymerization of pyrene derivatives on functionalized carbon nanotubes for pseudocapacitive electrodes
(Nature Pub. Group, 2015)Electrochemical energy-storage devices have the potential to be clean and efficient, but their current cost and performance limit their use in numerous transportation and stationary applications. Many organic molecules are ... -
Electrochemical Sensing in Paper-Based Microfluidic Devices
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010)This paper describes the fabrication and the performance of microfluidic paper-based electrochemical sensing devices (we call the microfluidic paper-based electrochemical devices, µPEDs). The µPEDs comprise paper-based ... -
Electrodes on a budget: Micropatterned electrode fabrication by wet chemical deposition
(AIP Publishing, 2009)Precise patterning of metals is required for diverse microfluidic and microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) applications ranging from the separation of proteins to the manipulation of single cells and drops of water-in-oil ... -
Electroluminescence from single nanowires by tunnel injection: an experimental study
(IOP Publishing, 2007)We present a hybrid light-emitting diode structure composed of an n-type gallium nitride nanowire on a p-type silicon substrate in which current is injected along the length of the nanowire. The device emits ultraviolet ... -
Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole Mergers Detected by LIGO
(American Astronomical Society, 2016)Mergers of stellar-mass black holes (BHs), such as GW150914 observed by LIGO, are not expected to have electromagnetic counterparts. However, the Fermi GBM detector identified of a gamma-ray transient 0.4 s after the ... -
Electromagnetic Resonances of a Straight Wire
(Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)With an interest in finding wires and distinguishing them from other electrically conducting objects, we have looked for an electromagnetic “fingerprint” in terms of resonances of a straight wire of length 2h and radius ... -
Electromagnetic Resonances of a Straight Wire on an Earth-Air Interface
(Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)Using a variational method, we recently determined an electromagnetic “signature” for characterizing a straight wire in free space. The signature consists of the first five resonant frequencies and their widths, more ... -
Electromagnetic signature of supermassive black hole binaries that enter their gravitational-wave induced inspiral
(American Physical Society, 2010)Mergers of gas-rich galaxies lead to black hole binaries that coalesce as a result of dynamical friction on the ambient gas. Once the binary tightens to less than or similar to 10(3) Schwarzschild radii, its merger is ... -
Electromagnetic Study of the Chlorosome Antenna Complex of Chlorobium tepidum
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2014)Green sulfur bacteria is an iconic example of nature’s adaptation: thriving in environments of extremely low photon density, the bacterium ranks itself amongst the most efficient natural lightharvesting organisms. The ... -
Electromagnetically induced transparency in paraffin-coated vapor cells
(American Physical Society (APS), 2011)Antirelaxation coatings in atomic vapor cells allow ground-state coherent spin states to survive many collisions with the cell walls. This reduction in the ground-state decoherence rate gives rise to ultranarrow-bandwidth ...