New frontiers of the optical fibre manufacturing
The process of optical fibre manufacturing starting from raw material was consolidated long ago, but an innovative method developed by the researchers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) might allow a new approach,…
Carbon nanotubes for electric cables
Carbon nanotubes, known since the late Nineties, are renowned for several characteristics, including a surprising electrical conductivity that can be about 1000 time higher than copper’s, even if much depends on their geometric…
Light to control superconductors
The superconductivity is a phenomenon that occurs in some particular materials where the electrical resistance almost zeroes at critical temperatures close to absolute zero, that is to say 0K (zero Kelvin degrees), value…
Data Storage for eternity
Papyri and manuscripts handed down the knowledge of antiquity to us, and they still preserve it, while in our current digital age the majority of our knowledge is stored on servers and hard…
A new laser generation
Light allows transmitting a great quantity of information on optical fiber nets and, to exploit this potentiality at best, both in terms of speed and of transmission distances, the laser light that generates…
Nanofibers to extract uranium from oceans
We can find uranium in nature in mineral deposits but also in oceans’ waters: they estimate that oceans contain thousand times the quantity of uranium present in mineral deposits known until now; luckily…
Hybrid between conventional and quantum light
Researchers of the National Institute of Optics of the Florence CNR and of the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Florence University, in collaboration with the University of Seoul, in Korea, and of…
A new type of optical fiber
Anderson localization, known also as “strong localization”, is a physical phenomenon that occurs when the diffusion of waves of electromagnetic or acoustic nature is inhibited by a strong disorder of the transmission medium,…
Non-Destructive Testing: Means of Inductive Heat-Flux Thermography
New infrared test system for defects from 10mm onwards, at 1.5 m/sec with significantly reduced pseudo-signals. For defect testing of round and square steel bars, raw material for crankshafts, engine- and chassis components,…
Smart textiles
A new research branch with applicative perspectives to be fully discovered, a new frontier of “wire technologies” where, the consolidated textile knowledge is integrated with electronics, chemistry, biology and nanotechnologies. A textile, according…
