Archive for August 2009
Chevron taps CST to get more oil
Chevron disclosed plans to use concentrated solar thermal technology from Brightsource Energy to enhance oil recovery from an aging well…
Read MoreSolar cells to be printed like newspaper, painted on rooftops
Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle “inks” that allow them to be printed like newspaper or…
Read MoreMonday Materials Mind Candy
Squidie on Vimeo This is another video from Squidie showing an experiment with NOVA, a 10x10x10 3D LED grid system…
Read MoreScore another first for aerogel
NASA reported Monday that the aerogel grid that was carried by the agency’s Stardust spacecraft captured an amino acid, a…
Read MoreMicrotubular SOFC: Small is beautiful – and cooler and powerful
A group from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the Fine Ceramics Research Association in Nagoya,…
Read MoreVideo of the week – Del Day on treating cancer with glass microspheres
[Image above] Credit: ACerS; YouTube Del Day, the Curators’ Professor Emeritus of Missouri University of Science and Technology, discusses his…
Read MoreIndustry headlines
APCI announces US-based electroceramic powder production operation The firm announces the start-up of a U.S.-based ceramic powder manufacturing facility for…
Read MorePlanar anode-supported fuel cells
Via the Nanowerk website, we get a story about efforts by the Institute of Energy Research at the German Research…
Read MoreSolar-powered fish tracker
Desert Star Systems is developing a special self-powered “archival tag” – the SeaTag-GEO – to track fish under a NOAA…
Read MoreMultifunctional material aids brain imaging
Engineers are getting craftier and craftier about making one material that is capable of more than one function, especially in…
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