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Desert microbes mine for water
The puzzle was cracked by a team led by David Kisailus, who studies biomimicry and nanostructured materials at the University of California, Irvine, and Jocelyne DiRuggiero, a microbiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Their results are part of a U.S.
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Dactyl clubs of mantis shrimp could be the clue to create more resilient surfaces
The UCI scientists have found out that the clubs contain a nanoparticle coating that absorbs and disperses the energy. … “Think about punching a wall a couple thousand times at those speeds and not breaking your fist. That’s pretty impressive, and it got us thinking about how this could be,” [says] David Kisailus, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Irvine. Read More
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Disrupting a power grid with cheap equipment hidden in a coffee cup
Mohammad Al Faruque, UCI associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his team revealed that the spoofing mechanism can generate a 32 percent change in output voltage … “Without touching the solar inverter, without even getting close to it, I can just place a coffee cup nearby and then leave and go anywhere in the world, from which I can destabilize the grid,” Al Faruque said. “In an extreme case, I can even create a blackout.” Read More
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