Posts by Lisa McDonald
Materials Challenges in Energy 2010 tutorial presentations available
ACerS recently conducted a wonderful “Materials Challenges in Alternative & Renewable Energy 2010” conference Feb. 21-24 in Cocoa Beach, Fla.…
Read MoreDow Chemical plans renewable energy expansion in Michigan
Michigan Economic Development Corp. reports that Dow Chemical plans expansions in wind, solar, advanced battery manufacturing and other projects in…
Read MoreARPA-E promotes Nocera’s simple solar-storage concepts
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy; YouTube Also in conjunction with it’s Energy Innovation Summit, ARPA-E is promoting a new, brief…
Read MoreARPA-E looking for $100M in new energy proposals
Today is the last day of ARPA-E’s first big public event – the Energy Innovation Summit. Yesterday, DOE Secretary Steven…
Read MoreUS glassmaking down, some pockets remain strong
According to recent press reports, large glass companies, such as Corning and Guardian Industries, claim that even as the economy…
Read MoreContaminated sites to be used to develop renewable energy
The EPA and the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Lab are evaluating the feasibility of developing renewable energy production on Superfund,…
Read MoreCan basic chemistry concepts explain oxide surfaces?
Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Oxford say that relatively simple methods of explaining chemical bond mechanisms typically…
Read MoreBloom Box boom leaves lots of questions
Today was Bloom Energy‘s big media extravaganza and it seems like they were aiming for something on the order of…
Read MoreVideo of the week: Nanotubes and other nanoparticles for drug delivery systems
Robert Pazik and Constanze Lamprecht are two young researchers who separately work on methods of using nanoparticles as multifunctional drug…
Read MoreORNL simulations explain unexpected DNA-nanotube flow
Via press release, researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab working toward a low-cost DNA sequencing tool for medical diagnostics have…
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