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PIEZOELECTRIC TOULOUSE, France. "City officials have announced that they will be installing power-generating tiles in the sidewalks in the city center for two weeks as a test-run of using people-power to create electricity." https://lnkd.in/e6xbtb8 View in LinkedIn

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS "convert small amounts of energy from one kind to another (for example, converting light, sound, or mechanical pressure into electrical signals)." http://www.explainthatstuff.com/piezoelectricity.html View in LinkedIn

An information society is being built on the iridescent wings of butterflies. View in LinkedIn

LIGHT TRUMPS ELECTRONS in information communication. This is an immense statement with many applications. Photonic crystals are like electrical insulators for light. And it all began with the seemingly frivolous, or at least innocent, fascination by scientists going back to Newton, for iridescent colors in nature. http://mpalffy.lci.kent.edu/Optics/Presentations%202012/Photonic%20Crystals%20Libo%20Weng.pdf View in LinkedIn

PHOTONIC PROPERTIES. "The crystal can thus form a kind of perfect optical “insulator,” which can confine light losslessly around sharp bends, in lower-index media, and within wavelength-scale cavities, among other novel possibilities for control of electromagnetic phenomena." http://ab-initio.mit.edu/photons/tutorial/photonic-intro.pdf View in LinkedIn

3D PHOTONIC CHIPS for computers could give a thousandfold increase in performance of computers. These crystals resemble the structure of diamond, with very broad photonic band gaps. https://lnkd.in/eMVH8KN View in LinkedIn

UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. "Unlike lattices of atoms, photonic crystals have structural possibilities limited only by the human imagination. Any shape can be sculpted at the lattice sites. Integrated circuits that combine conventional electronics and photonic crystals would represent" "the ultimate limit of optoelectronic miniaturization." http://optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu/eliy_SCIAM.pdf View in LinkedIn

MAMMALIAN TASTE BUDS normally contain serotonin and taste buds can take up serotonin precursor molecules and covert it to serotonin. https://lnkd.in/eFBzmw7 View in LinkedIn

BAND GAP SKEPTICS. "Many researchers greeted the idea of a photonic band gap with skepticism and disinterest when it was first proposed, but today photonic crystals are rapidly turning into big business. Photonic crystals have applications such as high-capacity optical fibers, color pigments and photonic integrated circuits that would manipulate light in addition to electric currents." https://lnkd.in/eKrjXgP View in LinkedIn

BIOME AND TASTE RECEPTORS. "Synapses between gustatory receptor cells and primary sensory afferent fibers transmit the output signal from taste buds to the CNS." Taste stimulation in mouse taste buds led to the release of serotonin from those cells, implying that serotonin is a taste bud neurotransmitter. Serotonin synthesis is under bacterial control. https://lnkd.in/eJxqJAM View in LinkedIn