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Blueprints become reality for Team Orange as components arrive to begin building its Solar Decathlon home
Founder of the U.S. Department of Energy competition ... [Richard] King’s stop provided an unexpected burst of excitement to Team Orange, a collaboration among four Orange County schools: UC Irvine ... Recent UCI graduate Andy Truong is heading the project’s construction management and plumbing teams. ... Gregory Washington, dean of UCI’s engineering school, said the competition gives students experiences that are impossible to replicate in a classroom setting.
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Bicontinuous Microstructure
Bicontinuous microstructure arrested by interfacial colloidal jamming
Assistant Professor Ali Mohraz, Ph.D.
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Blue-ringed octopus inspires camouflage tech
Native to the Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, the octopus uses the iridescent blue rings on its underlying brown skin to signal to other creatures, camouflage itself and ward off enemies. To mimic this action, the UCI team used wrinkled blue rings surrounding brown circles, sandwiched between a transparent proton-conducting electrode and an underlying acrylic membrane, with another identical electrode underneath.
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Best of Last Week—New map of universe, smart home vulnerabilities and young people at risk of hearing loss
In technology news, a team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine, discovered a way to use music to trigger a deadly pathogen release—a finding that showed that people working in negative-pressure rooms could be easily put at risk by criminals using smartphones. Read More
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BME: Bridging the Disciplines, Mobilizing the Students, Empowering the Faculty
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Blue-ringed octopus inspires self-healing camouflage & signaling tech
Inspired by the small but deadly blue-ringed octopus, [UCI] researchers have created a novel technology that rapidly changes color and appearance under various kinds of light, enabling camouflaging and signaling. The tech has potential applications in fields like the military, medicine, and robotics. … “We are fascinated by the mechanisms underpinning the blue-ringed octopus’ ability to rapidly switch its skin markings between hidden and exposed states,” said Alon Gorodetsky, corresponding author of the study.