Archive for December 2009
SBIR, STTR in jeopardy
In a new story on Nature’s website, Karl Thiel reports that the reauthorization of the Small Business Innovative Research program…
Read MoreCommercial rollout of residential SOFCs planned for Japan in 2014
Tokyo Gas, Kyocera, Rinnai and gas equipment maker Gastar have begun field trials for residential solid oxide fuel cells, reported…
Read MoreVideo of the week – Marina Pascucci on polycrystalline transparent ceramic materials and missile dome production
Marina Pascucci, president of CeraNova Corp., describes how her company fabricates the domes – the curved or pointed leading surfaces…
Read MorePlastic bags upcycled into carbon nanotubes
A chemist has created an ‘upcycling’ method of turning the disposable plastic bags into carbon nanotubes. The research is published…
Read MoreNew method for graphene growth successful
According to a press release, a Cornell research team has invented a simple way to grow graphene directly onto a…
Read MoreSanyo debuts solar and lithium ion-powered vehicle
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … van with solar panel wings? As the United Nations Climate Change…
Read MoreDOE announces creation of ARPA-E Fellows program; $100M in new funding
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced on Dec. 8 that it is launching a new fellowship project.…
Read MoreVideo of the week: 2009 Friedberg Memorial Lecture: ‘Ceramics in a 21st Century Materials World’ by Gary Fischman
Gary Fischman, director of National Academies’ boards dealing with Materials, Manufacturing and Infrastructure, was the 2009 Arthur L. Friedberg Memorial…
Read MoreNanotube-nanowire ink on paper yields cheap, flexible supercapacitors
In a new paper published in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Stanford…
Read MoreSolarmer Energy breaks record with 7.9% efficiency
(Via Treehugger) Solarmer Energy has announced that the company has achieved a new certified-by-NREL record for efficiency with their plastic…
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