Just for fun
It’s Monday, and we can all use a chuckle on a Monday.
Materials stories that missed the cut this week
At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to write about, or started to investigate or didn’t even get that far even though the topic looked intriguing, but, I had a meeting to go to . . .
Anyway, it’s Friday, and rather than have these stories evaporate into the ether, I’ve decided to close out each week by providing some raw links to some of these orphan tales. Check ‘em out:
Materials stories that didn’t make the cut this week
At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to write about, or started to investigate or didn’t even get that far even though the topic looked intriguing, but, I had a meeting to go to . . .
Anyway, it’s Friday, and rather than have these stories evaporate into the ether, I’ve decided to close out each week by providing some raw links to some of these orphan tales. Check ‘em out:
- Whitening Cities’ Roofs Is Environmental Equivalent of Taking 300 Million Cars Off the Road, DOE Study Says
- Reversible twisting in crystal growth
- China rejects world’s number one energy user title
- Nanotech coatings offer possibility of ‘brown’ electricity from sewage
- New ‘Smart’ Metal Could Mean Cool Cash for Consumers, Less CO2
50 R&D 100 Awards given to national labs
Ultrasensitive Nanomechanical Transducers Based on Nonlinear Resonance, one of ORNL’s 2010 R&D 100 award winners. (Credit: ORNL.)
R&D Magazine awarded DOE and other federal labs with 50 of its R&D 100 Awards. The awards, sometimes referred to as the “Academy Awards of Science,” are presented to those labs and companies that have been a major contributor to the development of “one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of 2010.”
“The large number of winners from the Department of Energy’s national labs every year is a clear sign that our labs are doing some of the most innovative research in the world. This work benefits us all by enhancing America’s competitiveness, ensuring our security, providing new energy solutions, and expanding the frontiers of our knowledge. Our national labs are truly national treasures, and it is wonderful to see their work recognized once again,” says Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
U.S. federal labs have a history of being highly recognized for technological developments and materials innovation through these awards. Here are the labs that are winners this year:
- Ames National Lab
- Argonne National Lab
- Idaho National Lab
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab
- Los Alamos National Lab
- NASA Glenn Research Center
- National Energy Technology Lab
- National Renewable Energy Lab
- Oak Ridge National Lab
- Pacific Northwest National Lab
- Sandia National Lab
- Army Engineer R&D Center
The biggest winner is the Lawrence Livermore National Lab which is recognized with 10 awards.
ACerS Corporate Member Toyota Central R&D Labs was also recognized by R&D Magazine for their Permanently Engaged Gear Starting Mechanism for Stop and Start System (Mechanical Devices).
All of the award winners can be seen here.
