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Light, Flexible Carbon Nanotube Brings Space Elevator Closer to Reality

Motivated by a $4 million prize from NASA, the scientists found a way to combine multiple separate nanotubes together to form long strands. Until now, carbon nanotubes have been too brittle to be formed into such long pieces.

26 Jan 2009

Inorganic Silicon (Si) Thin Film Solar Cells Set to Dominate Photovoltaic Market

Thin film solar cells, based on non-toxic, abundant and air-stable silicon (Si) will probably, based on forecasts, dominate the photovoltaic market in the future and thus replace bulk Si from its leading position. This p...

26 Jan 2009

Nanoscale Mapping of Strain Fields in Semiconductors Provides New Avenues for Analyzing Mechanical Properties

The method, which is based on near-field microscopy, opens new avenues for analyzing mechanical properties of high-performance materials or for contact-free mapping of local conductivity in strain-engineered electronic devices

26 Jan 2009

BNL Develop New Catalyst Making Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells Feasible

The highly efficient catalyst performs two crucial, and previously unreachable steps needed to oxidize ethanol and produce clean energy in fuel cell reactions.

26 Jan 2009

Stretchable Electrodes Help Study The Effects of Heart Attacks and Brain Injuries

Engineers at Purdue and
Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac
muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart
attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases.

22 Jan 2009

New Technique for Producing Hydrogen Discovered

Scientists at Penn State University
and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen
by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important
because they demonstrate that it is the geometries of these aluminum clusters,
rather than solely their electronic properties, that govern the proximity of
the clusters' exposed active sites.

22 Jan 2009

Advances in Electrochemical Capacitors Create New Opportunities for Water Desalination

Recent advances in electrochemical capacitors for energy storage open new opportunities for water desalination devices with high energy efficiency. Existing technologies for hard, brackish and sea water desalination ar...

22 Jan 2009

Manufacturer to be Chosen Shortly for AlwaysReady Reserve Battery

mPhase
Technologies is close to selecting a manufacturer
to construct the AlwaysReady Reserve Battery that will be used in the AlwaysReady
Emergency Flashlight. mPhase has received bids for the contract from several
companies over the last few months.

22 Jan 2009

Smart Coating Reveals where Corrosion is Forming

Neil Young said it in 1979: Rust never sleeps. Today, Battelle
researchers have taken his words to heart. In their innovative heads, they have
come up with a smart coating that can reveal where corrosion is forming on metal
even though one can't see the degradation with the naked eye.

22 Jan 2009

Single Electron Pump and Spintronics Open Up New Possibilities for Electronics

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where ...

21 Jan 2009

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