{"id":6370,"date":"2010-08-24T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2010-08-24T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T08:00:53","slug":"the-piezo-de-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6370","title":{"rendered":"The Pi\u00e8zo de R\u00e9sistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/08\/100823113432.htm\">New Atom-Scale Products on Horizon: Breakthrough Discovery Enables Nanoscale Manipulation of Piezoelectric Effect<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The piezoelectric effect has never been manipulated at this scale before, so the range of possible applications is very exciting,&#8221; explained Pooja Tyagi, a PhD researcher in Professor Patanjali Kambhampati&#8217;s laboratory. &#8220;For example, the vibrations of a material can be analyzed to calculate the pressure of the solvent they are in. With further development and research, maybe we could measure blood pressure non-invasively by injecting the dots, shining a laser on them, and analyzing their vibration to determine the pressure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The title was the pun I forgot to use in my thesis defense talk, in describing our homemade diode laser systems)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Atom-Scale Products on Horizon: Breakthrough Discovery Enables Nanoscale Manipulation of Piezoelectric Effect &#8220;The piezoelectric effect has never been manipulated at this scale before, so the range of possible applications is very exciting,&#8221; explained Pooja Tyagi, a PhD researcher in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}