- 1641 - New ideas to change your life. Here are some breakthrough technologies that could see a future in commercial products all of us can use. Supercomputers speed up time-to-market for these products.
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- For ideas to pass from science and to make it through engineering they must be scalable, able to make the journey from a lab prototype to volume production. They must be practical and have the value that will make money. They must meet customers expectations and be customer tested. Ideas must go from novelty to value. Here are some ideas to ponder that might make this journey.
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-. Material science is using quantum mechanics math ( Schrödinger’s equations) and supercomputers to design new materials atom by atom. Materials are designed and tested inside the computer. Trial and error in the lab is far more time-consuming and expensive. Decade development cycles are reduced to months.
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-. In 1991 the lithium battery was commercialized. It took a hundred thousand engineers and 20 years of lab development to reach commercialization using the trial and error method.
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-. A material’s density, hardness, shininess, electrical conductivity, thermal properties, ….. are determined by the quantum characteristics of the atoms of which it is made. Once defined this data can go into a database that all the scientists can use. There are 35,000 inorganic materials to work with. The results will be materials designed to be lighter, stronger used in car frames and as skyscraper beams, airplane skins, solar cells batteries.………
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-. New materials include transparent conductive glass used in smart phones and in fiber optics.
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-. One drawback: these quantum equations are so complex they can only be solved using supercomputers. But, the efficiencies and payback are worth it.
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- Designing thermoelectric devices that can transform industrial waste heat, or wasted auto engine heat, directly into electricity.
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-. These devices in reverse could provide solid-state cooling. One material being studied is lead tellutide, it works, but, it is too expensive and toxic to be commercial. The search is on for a substitute.
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-. Titanium dioxide can turn sunlight and water into oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen can be processed into liquid fuel for hydrogen powered cars. The exhaust from these cars is back to water.
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-. Reducing a car's weight using new materials could improve fuel economy by 8 %. Integrated circuits could use new materials that would work better than silicon. Graphene in magnetite can switch on-off in a trillionth of a second. That is 1,000 times faster than in silicon.
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-. A good career for young computer savvy students could be in the material sciences.
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- Carbon storage could be a great boon to solving global warming. Returning CO2 , carbon dioxide, into porous sedimentary rock. My backyard is completely covered by the basaltic rock. It is a perfect stories place for CO2 to form carbonate crystals inside the porous basalt. The biggest obstacle is not technology it is current regulations and policy. We can't legally pump gas underground. We can pump it out, but, we can pump it back in.
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-. K’ nex is a new material that snaps together like Lego bricks. These structures are incredibly lightweight and strong. K’nex structures could be assembled into airplane fuselages with without rivets.
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-. Each K’nex block is carbon-fiber-reinforced-polymer shaped like a flat “X”, 2 inches across. A rectangular node is at the center and small loops are on each arm. Each node holds 4 loops forming a cubic lattice of orthogonal cells. Eventually robots will assemble this material. They could build levees for flood control. They could assemble satellites in space.
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-. Soft-robots could be built that would copy the movements of octopuses, worms, and other invertebrates. One application would be as a “universal gripper”, or an artificial hand. These robots could even be used by doctors during surgery. These soft-robots may show up as artificial muscles for the disabled. Their great advantage is that they cost much, much less then moving, metallic robots.
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-. Meta-materials manipulating light could provide wireless Internet connections , denser data storage, and a smart phone as thin as a credit card. The same material can bend radio waves around objects to conceal them from radar. To bend light waves you need nanoscale materials, far smaller than today’s lab prototypes that are working in radar.
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-. Science is beginning to study the genetics of microorganisms. Our bodies rely on trillions of bacteria, fungi, archaea, and viruses to function and stay healthy. Manipulating these microbes to get the right balance could cure many diseases, even obesity, or ulcers.
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-. Cloud computing gives us more computing power for everyone. And, for ever everyone less security. A hackers delight. One new chip called “Ascend” sends out a smokescreen of false information every time a server requests data from a remote source.
The computer chip sends requests to the computer’s memory at regular intervals, even when it requires no new information. That was attackers cannot tell how long the computer is spending on any specific data. The chip is to be available in early 2015. An announcement will be made shortly, stay tuned.
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- Mass spectrometry imaging of molecules. Atoms imaged in 3-D.
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- Electricity from viruses. The virus saturated gels could be mounted in your shoes and the electricity generated could power your smart phone.
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- Science is creating a pill to protect your body from radioactive exposure. Molecules are designed to bind to radioactive elements so the body can safely discharge them. Hope we never have to use it.
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- Other reviews that cover the history of breakthroughs in science over the past 50 years; request: #1463, 1464, 1466, 1196, 1194, 1112.
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RSVP, with comments, suggestions, corrections. Index of reviews available ---
--- Some reviews are at: -------------------- http://jdetrick.blogspot.com -----
---- email request for copies to: ------- jamesdetrick@comcast.net ---------
---- https://plus.google.com/u/0/ , “Jim Detrick” ----- www.facebook.com ---
---- www.twitter.com , --- 707-536-3272 ---- Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ---
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- For ideas to pass from science and to make it through engineering they must be scalable, able to make the journey from a lab prototype to volume production. They must be practical and have the value that will make money. They must meet customers expectations and be customer tested. Ideas must go from novelty to value. Here are some ideas to ponder that might make this journey.
-
-. Material science is using quantum mechanics math ( Schrödinger’s equations) and supercomputers to design new materials atom by atom. Materials are designed and tested inside the computer. Trial and error in the lab is far more time-consuming and expensive. Decade development cycles are reduced to months.
-
-. In 1991 the lithium battery was commercialized. It took a hundred thousand engineers and 20 years of lab development to reach commercialization using the trial and error method.
-
-. A material’s density, hardness, shininess, electrical conductivity, thermal properties, ….. are determined by the quantum characteristics of the atoms of which it is made. Once defined this data can go into a database that all the scientists can use. There are 35,000 inorganic materials to work with. The results will be materials designed to be lighter, stronger used in car frames and as skyscraper beams, airplane skins, solar cells batteries.………
-
-. New materials include transparent conductive glass used in smart phones and in fiber optics.
-
-. One drawback: these quantum equations are so complex they can only be solved using supercomputers. But, the efficiencies and payback are worth it.
-
- Designing thermoelectric devices that can transform industrial waste heat, or wasted auto engine heat, directly into electricity.
-
-. These devices in reverse could provide solid-state cooling. One material being studied is lead tellutide, it works, but, it is too expensive and toxic to be commercial. The search is on for a substitute.
-
-. Titanium dioxide can turn sunlight and water into oxygen and hydrogen. Hydrogen can be processed into liquid fuel for hydrogen powered cars. The exhaust from these cars is back to water.
-
-. Reducing a car's weight using new materials could improve fuel economy by 8 %. Integrated circuits could use new materials that would work better than silicon. Graphene in magnetite can switch on-off in a trillionth of a second. That is 1,000 times faster than in silicon.
-
-. A good career for young computer savvy students could be in the material sciences.
-
- Carbon storage could be a great boon to solving global warming. Returning CO2 , carbon dioxide, into porous sedimentary rock. My backyard is completely covered by the basaltic rock. It is a perfect stories place for CO2 to form carbonate crystals inside the porous basalt. The biggest obstacle is not technology it is current regulations and policy. We can't legally pump gas underground. We can pump it out, but, we can pump it back in.
-
-. K’ nex is a new material that snaps together like Lego bricks. These structures are incredibly lightweight and strong. K’nex structures could be assembled into airplane fuselages with without rivets.
-
-. Each K’nex block is carbon-fiber-reinforced-polymer shaped like a flat “X”, 2 inches across. A rectangular node is at the center and small loops are on each arm. Each node holds 4 loops forming a cubic lattice of orthogonal cells. Eventually robots will assemble this material. They could build levees for flood control. They could assemble satellites in space.
-
-. Soft-robots could be built that would copy the movements of octopuses, worms, and other invertebrates. One application would be as a “universal gripper”, or an artificial hand. These robots could even be used by doctors during surgery. These soft-robots may show up as artificial muscles for the disabled. Their great advantage is that they cost much, much less then moving, metallic robots.
-
-. Meta-materials manipulating light could provide wireless Internet connections , denser data storage, and a smart phone as thin as a credit card. The same material can bend radio waves around objects to conceal them from radar. To bend light waves you need nanoscale materials, far smaller than today’s lab prototypes that are working in radar.
-
-. Science is beginning to study the genetics of microorganisms. Our bodies rely on trillions of bacteria, fungi, archaea, and viruses to function and stay healthy. Manipulating these microbes to get the right balance could cure many diseases, even obesity, or ulcers.
-
-. Cloud computing gives us more computing power for everyone. And, for ever everyone less security. A hackers delight. One new chip called “Ascend” sends out a smokescreen of false information every time a server requests data from a remote source.
The computer chip sends requests to the computer’s memory at regular intervals, even when it requires no new information. That was attackers cannot tell how long the computer is spending on any specific data. The chip is to be available in early 2015. An announcement will be made shortly, stay tuned.
-
- Mass spectrometry imaging of molecules. Atoms imaged in 3-D.
-
- Electricity from viruses. The virus saturated gels could be mounted in your shoes and the electricity generated could power your smart phone.
-
- Science is creating a pill to protect your body from radioactive exposure. Molecules are designed to bind to radioactive elements so the body can safely discharge them. Hope we never have to use it.
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- Other reviews that cover the history of breakthroughs in science over the past 50 years; request: #1463, 1464, 1466, 1196, 1194, 1112.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RSVP, with comments, suggestions, corrections. Index of reviews available ---
--- Some reviews are at: -------------------- http://jdetrick.blogspot.com -----
---- email request for copies to: ------- jamesdetrick@comcast.net ---------
---- https://plus.google.com/u/0/ , “Jim Detrick” ----- www.facebook.com ---
---- www.twitter.com , --- 707-536-3272 ---- Wednesday, January 29, 2014 ---
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