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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: Princeton, United States
Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers.
It's...
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Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb-like structure,
has captured worldwide interest because of its attractive electronic properties. Now, by adding hydrogen to graphene, researchers at the University of...
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Location: MIT, United States
In her lab at MIT, chemical-engineering professor Paula Hammond pinches a sliver of what looks like thick Saran wrap between tweezers. Though it appears unremarkable, this polymer membrane can significantly increase the power output of a methanol...
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Location: Case Western Reserve University, United States
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the departments
of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the
Case School of...
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
Researchers at the
University of
Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have
discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
A new thin-film coating developed at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology can deliver controlled drug doses to specific
targets in the body following...
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Location: University of Illinois, United States
The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures
and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now
possible with a process developed by researchers at the
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Location: University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Scientists at the University of Leeds
are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process which could make
eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to produce.
Biodiesel –...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
A tiny "electronic nose" that MIT
researchers have engineered with a novel inkjet printing method could be used to
detect hazards including carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solvents and
explosives. ...
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Location: The University of Texas at Austin
Microelectronics Research CenterRoom # MRC 1.606F10100 Burnet Road Bldg 160,Austin, TX 78758-4445, United States
Devices made from plastic semiconductors, like solar cells and light-emitting
diodes (LEDs), could be improved based on information gained using a new
nanoparticle technique developed at The University of Texas at Austin.As
electrical...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory,9700 S. Cass Avenue,Argonne, IL 60439.,Phone: 630/252-2000, United States
In recent years, Americans have been intrigued by the promise of
hydrogen-powered vehicles. But experts have judged that several technology
problems must be resolved before they are more than a novelty.Recently,
scientists at the U.S....
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Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new technique for cleansing contaminated water and potentially purifying hydrogen for use in fuel cells, thanks to the discovery of a innovative type of...
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Location: Northwestern university,Technology Transfer Program
1800 Sherman Avenue - Suite 504,Evanston, IL 60201,Phone: (847)491-3005,Fax: (847)491-3625, United States
Researchers have developed a remarkably simple way to convert ordinary graphite particles into very thin but superstrong sheets that are tougher than steel and as flexible as carbon fiber but can be made much more cheaply. The discovery could...
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Location: Berkeley, CA-94720, United States
The BATT Program
addresses the fundamental problems of chemical and mechanical instabilities that
have impeded the development of EV, HEV, and FCEV batteries with acceptable
costs, lifetimes, and safety. The aim is to identify and better...
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Location: California, United States
When Princeton University engineers want to increase the power output of their new fuel cell, they just give it a little more gas – hydrogen gas, to be exact. Though the simple control mechanism was previously thought impossible, Jay Benziger, a...
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed hydrogen.
The...
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Location: Albany,NY, United States
Normally a system designed to produce potentially up to 600 Watt hours of run-time per cartridge which would allow airmen to power an average laptop over seven (7) times longer than its current Lithium-ion battery. In addition, since the...
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