AIST:AIST Today 2008-No.30

Research Hotline

UPDATE FROM THE CUTTING EDGE (Jul.-Sep. 2008) The abstracts of the recent research information appearing in Vol.8 No.7-9 of "AIST TODAY" are introduced here, classified by research area. For inquiry about the full article, please contact the author via e-mail.
Development of ultrasensitive analytical method for cell surface proteins - Surface enhanced Raman scattering measurement of one single protein on a living cell wall -	Life Science and Biotechnology
Novel reaction mechanism to remove reactive oxygen species - The first hypervalent compound from natural sources -	Life Science and Biotechnology
Robot simulator "OpenHRP3" - A common software platform for efficient development of the next-generation robots -	Information Technology and Electronics
PodCastle: A speech information retrieval system in which its performance can be improved by users' contribution - Launching an on-line speech recognition system that can handle recent words and grow on a daily basis -
Development of indoor autonomous positioning system for mobile information devices - Measuring indoor position and moving trajectory only by radio beacon and mobile information devices -
Novel ferroelectric NAND flash memory cell - Realization of more than 100 million program/erase cycles at less than 6 volts -
Observation of first acid dissociation at a H₂SO₄ aqueous solution surface - Towards clarification of the heterogeneous reactions on/in sulfate aerosols -	Nanotechnology, Materials and Manufacturing
Development of a cleaning system for transmission electron microscope - For nanoscale imaging and chemical analysis with high performance and reliability -
Development of a highly effective electrochemical reactor for decomposition of NO_x - A practical low-temperature operation is achieved -
Development of a clay-plastic composite material with high hydrogen gas barrier property - Applicable to hydrogen tanks for aircraft, spacecraft, and cars -	Environment and Energy
An accurate protein quantification based on amino acid analysis - Development of protein quantification method applied to the certification of C-reactive protein standard solution. -	Metrology and Measurement Science
Proton diffusion measurement of a solid electrolyte for fuel cells with infrared spectroscopy - Correlation between hydrogen bonding and proton diffusion in solid acids -
New mechanism of electron conduction in genomic DNA - Development of observation technique for a conduction electron with attoseconds delocalization time -

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