Posts by Lisa McDonald
Monday materials music
Credit: NASA Johnson; YouTube Finally, NASA gets some props. International Space Station baby!
Read MoreNew material to power tiny generators
Via press release from University of Wisconsin, we learn that a team of researchers has developed a piezoelectric nanogenerator and…
Read MoreUltracapacitor buses in Shanghai
Sinautec Automobile Technologies is making mini and full-scale municipal buses powered only by ultracapacitors, can be recharged by a mobile recharging unit that combines large photovoltaic array and a vertical wind turbine
Read MoreNew computer chip holds 1 TB of data
A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has created a small chip that can hold 1TB of data.…
Read MoreMS&T’09 to feature Alfred University ceramic art display
MS&T’09 is 95 percent pure science. The other 5 percent is designed to be on the lighter side. For example,…
Read MoreMS&T’09 keynoter Jeffrey Wadsworth wins materials award
ACerS member Jeffrey Wadsworth has just been named the winner of the National Materials Achievement Award from the Federation of…
Read MoreThe 2009 Solar Decathlon winner is…
Team Germany! Team Germany won first place in the 2009 Solar Decathlon by applying photovoltaics to every available surface. I…
Read MoreVideo of the week: Ultracapacitor buses in Shanghai
Credit: SInauted; YouTube Following up on yesterday’s post about a demonstration of a small version of these buses that going…
Read MoreNissan and ORNL team up to deliver 400 miles per battery charge
Automotive News reported (registration required) that while Nissan has in hand a laminated lithium ion battery (based on a manganese…
Read MoreUltracapacitor bus to be demonstrated in DC tomorrow
Sinautec Automobile Technologies says tomorrow it will showcase on American University’s campus in Washington, DC., a small bus that the…
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