Technology: Algal Film May Advance Battery Technology

Cladophora algae is a pest unless you want to make a better battery.  Typically gunking up the Baltic Sea this organisms nanostructure has been found to increase charge density significantly for cellulose-polymer batteries.  At 25 and 33 mAh /gm this technology appears to be within striking distance of NiCD and NiMH. Unfortunately it appears [...]

New Approval:REPEL-CV Bioresorbable Adhesion Barrier

Creating an implantable device is a challenging engineering problem which, with time, usually yields to the engineer’s and scientist’s efforts. Getting one of these product on the market under time constraints can lead to trade offs and is always a delicate balance between the improvement of medical care and the profit motive. Finally [...]

Technology: Nitrogen Impregnated Diamond May Be Next Big Thing In MRI

The potential magnetic field sensing system improves on current technology by working at room temperature. The inclusion of the nitrogen, which also occurs naturally, creates a transducer which when impinged by an appropriate wavelength of green light flouresces red.  Plus or minus spin can be detected by minor variations in the amplitude of [...]

The 20 Smallest B.S. Biomedical Engineering Graduating Classes In 2007

There are any number of reasons why these are small graduating classes.  The most likely is that the listed schools have only recently inaugurated their Biomedical Engineering programs.   A number of schools took advantage of the Biomedical Engineering program grants by the now defunct Whitaker Foundation before it ceased to exist in 2005.   The foundation [...]