Archive for June 2009
Bioglass from Concept to Clinic: A 40-year Retrospective
[Image above] Credit: ACerS; YouTube This ACerS video is a lecture by Larry Hench given at the PACRIM8 Conference in…
Read MoreMiscellaneous industry headlines
SCI Engineered Materials receives $1 million thin film solar order Thresher Industries selects the Cal Poly’s materials engineering program to…
Read MoreVW gearing up to produce world’s most economic car
Volkswagen is gearing up for a limited production of the VW-1L, named for its ability to travel 100 km on…
Read MoreHarnessing jet streams
[Image above] Sky Windpower’s flying electric generators concept. Wired Magazine reported last week that 28 years of wind data from…
Read MoreAerogel has potential as tunable waveplate
A multinational team has published a paper that suggests aerogels could be used as tunable waveplates “in a broad spectral…
Read MoreProposal for new space heat shield
As NASA and other space agencies send space vehicles on missions that bring them closer and closer to the sun,…
Read MorePolymer capacitors to match Li-ion batteries?
New developments give hope for producing capacitors with the same energy density performance as lithium-ion batteries. Researchers at Eamex Corp.…
Read MoreThe world’s first controllable molecular gear
Researchers in Singapore have advanced the science of nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular…
Read MoreCenter to leverage NC nanobiotech research
The Center of Innovation in Nanobiotechnology, located in North Carolina, is going to be using a new $2.5 million grant…
Read MoreVertical-axis turbines may find a home inside transmission towers
Wind turbines aren’t exactly a “next generation” idea, but three French designers have introduced an innovative pairing of wind turbines…
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