Posts by Lisa McDonald
2011 ARPA-E energy tech summit, showcase announced
I didn’t make it to the first ARPA-E Innovation Summit held this past March, but I wish I had. From…
Read MorePaper-grown ZnO nanorods, nanoneedles
Researchers in Taiwan have shown, for the first time, that they can directly grow vertically aligned, highly crystalline and defect-free…
Read MoreVideo of the week – Aerogels: The materials science of empty space
Credit: University of California Television; YouTube This is a great introductory 54-minute video of a lecture presented earlier this year…
Read MoreLocal temperatures affected by wind farms
A new story in Scientific American reports that wind farms cropping up along the landscape are changing local temperatures. According…
Read MoreSilicon nanomesh demonstrated as thermal conductivity barrier for improving thermoelectrics
Thermoelectric materials have great promise — if they can be made relatively simply and with inexpensive, safe materials. Just imagine…
Read More‘Fathers of graphene’ awarded Nobel Prize
Two University of Manchester researchers have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on graphene. The…
Read More5 new research sites to be built with $50M in NIST grants
NIST waded through over 100 proposals over the past few months and has now approved proposals and funding for five…
Read MoreGraphene clocks spin rate at 60M rpm
New Scientist reported that scientists at the University of Maryland at College Park have managed to clock a floating piece…
Read MoreSerendipity: Nano LEDs accidentally produced during NIST nanowire research
Speaking of ZnO nanowires, chemists at NIST who were perfecting new methods of creating these nanowire report that they have…
Read MoreInexpensive radial ZnO nanowire brushes ‘scrub’ toxic compounds from water
In a story just published in one of ACerS’ technical journals, a group of researchers from Sweden’s Royal Institute of…
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