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Flurocarbon Membranes Once Again in the Crosshairs as PolyFuel Reprises Portable Fuel Cell Performance Shootout

PolyFuel, Inc. has announced that it is reprising its real-time shootout between PolyFuel’s hydrocarbon-based fuel cell membrane, and Du Pont’s fluorocarbon-based Nafion® – this time focusing on &ld...

18 Nov 2005

AMD and Sun Microsystems Collaborate To Build Japan's Largest Supercomputer

At Supercomputing 2005, AMD and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), one of the world's leading technical institutes, is creating Japan's largest supercomputer on ...

18 Nov 2005

Copper Ridges Doubles Resolution of Experimental X-ray Sensors

A series of copper ridges nearly doubles the resolution of experimental X-ray sensors, enabling more precise identification of the X-ray "fingerprints" of different atoms, researchers at the National Institute ...

18 Nov 2005

Vibrations of Magnetization Revealed in a Rainbow of Colours

Vibrations of magnetization have for the first time been captured on camera by scientists at The University of Manchester revealing a rainbow of colours. For the first time, images of induced magnetic pulsations at t...

18 Nov 2005

Polyfuel to Put Its Hydrocarbon-Based Fuel Cell Membrane to the Test

PolyFuel, Inc., a world leader in engineered membranes for fuel cells, announced that it is reprising its real-time shootout between PolyFuel’s hydrocarbon-based fuel cell membrane, and Du Pont’s fluorocarbon...

17 Nov 2005

Unprecedented Nonlinear Optical Efficiency in Some Small Organic Molecules

Researchers from Lehigh University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) have reported unprecedented nonlinear optical efficiency in some small organic molecules that makes the molecules potential...

15 Nov 2005

Innovative Nanomaterials Processing Points to Advances in Semiconductor Optoelectronics Like Solar Cells

The study of semiconductor nanoparticles embedded in a matrix is currently a very active research area. These small particles have physicochemical properties quite different from those in the bulk material. A great varie...

15 Nov 2005

Study Finds Key Property of Bose-Einstein Condensates Includes Spin State of Atoms

New research shows that the unique properties of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates extend to the internal spin states of the atoms from which the condensates are formed. Bose-Einstein condensates are an unusual form of ma...

14 Nov 2005

Properties Revealed of Amorphous Carbon Thin Films Prepared by Electron-Gun Evaporation

A great deal of work has been done into understanding the physical properties of amorphous carbon (a-C). These studies have found the relative ratio of different carbon phases strongly determines the physical properties...

10 Nov 2005

Degussa AG Established New Research Center for “White Biotechnology”

Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, is establishing a Science to Business Center Bio as a new center for "white biotechnology". The center will start operating on January 1, 2006. Working in state-of-the-art laboratories a...

9 Nov 2005

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