Materials & Innovations

NIST researchers find way to produce molecule-scale monopoles

By / October 9, 2009

A team at NIST’s Center for Neutron Research, led by Hiroaki Kadowaki of Tokyo Metropolitan University, has found a way to produce molecule-sized monopoles, a feat that would allow the…

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Elemental design: Periodic coffee table

By / October 8, 2009

If there was a contest for the nerdiest piece of furniture ever made, my money would be on this Periodic coffee table. It has everything a science fanatic could ask…

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Ceramics offer hole in one, ‘indestructible’ bezel

By / October 7, 2009

California’s Feel Golf company recently acquired Caldwell Golf Company‘s ceramic product line. They claim that ceramic technology increases performance in putters, drivers and fairway woods in comparison to metal clubs.…

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Thermoreversible gelcasting and lamination

By / October 7, 2009

The current issue of the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology reports on a Northwestern University group’s work related to using improved gelcasting techniques that allow new possibilities for manufacturing…

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Video of the week – LANL’s high-temperature superconducting tape

By / October 7, 2009

Los Alamos National Lab has been working to develop high-volume production processes for making a thin, flexible tape that operates as a superconductor at liquid hydrogen nitrogen temperatures and can…

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Lowering the temperature of SOFCs

By / October 6, 2009

Technology Review reported that researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an anode material that resists the buildup of sulfur and carbon that can occur at lower temperatures. SOFCs require high…

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Monday materials mind candy

By / October 5, 2009

These guys are sorta cute, as stuffed standard model particles go, but the Bosons as a group are a little creepy and the gluon has definitely been sniffing the glue.…

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Nitride with silicon: solar cells with 30% efficiency?

By / September 30, 2009

A Phoenix company said it has created a hybrid solar cell that pairs a gallium-nitride thin film with typical silicon-based PV technology to produce a single unit it claims can…

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Video of the week: Aeroclay research at Case Western

By / September 30, 2009

We first wrote about the aerogel work of David Schiraldi’s group at CWRU back in June. Now the school and university have produced a great little video about basic steps…

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Could Lithium-ion batteries eventually use titanium dioxide?

By / September 29, 2009

I don’t know much about this other than what was posted at PNNL’s website last week, but I hope to see something published on this soon: Researchers would like to…

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