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GTRI Agile Aperture Antenna Technology is Tested on an Autonomous Ocean Vehicle

June 18, 2013 — Antenna technology originally developed to quickly send and receive information through a software-defined military radio may soon be used to transmit ocean data from a wave-powered autonomous surface vehicle. The technology, the lowest-power method for maintaining a satellite uplink, automatically compensates for the movement of the antenna as the boat bobs around on the ocean surface.

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Moving Iron in Antarctica

June 12, 2013 — Georgia Tech research indicates that diatoms stuff more iron into their silica shells than they actually need. As a result, there’s not enough iron to go around, and the added iron may stimulate less productivity than expected.

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Polymer Structures Serve as “Nanoreactors” for Nanocrystals with Uniform Sizes and Shapes

June 11, 2013 — Using star-shaped block co-polymer structures as tiny reaction vessels, researchers have developed an improved technique for producing nanocrystals with consistent sizes, compositions and architectures – including metallic, ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconductor and luminescent nanocrystals. The technique relies on the length of polymer molecules and the ratio of two solvents to control the size and uniformity of colloidal nanocrystals.

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Ravi Bellamkonda Named Biomedical Engineering Chair

June 10, 2013 — Ravi Bellamkonda Named Biomedical Engineering Chair - Bellamkonda to serve as chair of Georgia Tech & Emory's joint biomedical engineering department

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Borneo Stalagmites Provide New View of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years

June 6, 2013 — A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to abrupt climate change events. The 100,000-year climate record adds to data on past climate events, and may help scientists assess models designed to predict how the Earth’s climate will respond in the future.

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Neural “Synchrony” May be Key to Understanding How the Human Brain Perceives

March 11, 2013 — In a perspective article published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, biomedical engineering professor Garrett Stanley detailed research progress toward “reading and writing the neural code.” The neural code details how the brain’s roughly 100 billion neurons turn raw sensory inputs into information we can use to see, hear and feel things in our environment.

Medical and Biological Engineering Group Names Bellamkonda President-Elect

March 10, 2013 — The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has named Ravi Bellamkonda as the organization’s president-elect. He will begin his term as president in 2014.

An Active Milky Way

March 6, 2013 — Evidence suggests that the Milky Way was very active several million years ago. Astronomers from Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt propose that a single event -- a black hole collision -- can explain clues about the galaxy's current state.

Georgia Tech Tools Enable Groundbreaking Gas Research

March 1, 2013 — Scientists are now better able to examine rare methane gas samples recovered from deep beneath the seafloor using innovative tools developed by Georgia Tech.

Industry Agreements Streamline Contracting Process

March 1, 2013 — The Office of Industry Engagement — part of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) — has developed four contract mechanisms that enable industry to engage with Georgia Tech researchers at all stages of R&D.

Neutron Scattering Technique Provides New Data on Adsorption of Ions in Microporous Materials

February 27, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated the use of a technique known as small angle neutron scattering (SANS) to study the effects of ions moving into nanoscale pores. The study is believed to be the first application of the SANS technique for studying ion surface adsorption in-situ.

SimTigrate Helps Children's Heart Center Select Device for Electronic Medical Records

February 21, 2013 — The SimTigrate Design Lab designed a mocked-up exam room to have the exact configuration as the Sibley clinics so the doctors and nurses could experience the usability of each device in a realistic environment.

Researchers Study Adhesion System of Remora Fish to Create Bio-Inspired Adhesive

February 21, 2013 — A new study provides details of the structure and tissue properties of the unique adhesion system used by remora fish to attach themselves to sharks and other marine animals. The information could lead to a new engineered reversible adhesive that could be used to create pain- and residue-free bandages, attach sensors to objects in aquatic or military reconnaissance environments, replace surgical clamps and help robots climb.

Alan Wagner Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award for Social Robotics Work

February 20, 2013 — Wagner, who works in GTRI’s Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory (ATAS), is one of 40 recipients of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP) award for his proposal “Trust and Trustworthiness in Human-Robot Interaction: A Formal Conceptualization.”

Molecules Assemble in Water, Hint at Origins of Life

February 20, 2013 — Researchers have spontaneously assemble "proto-RNA bases" in water, suggesting that the genes of life could have gotten started from these or similar molecules.

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