Thin film solar panels produced by General Electric’s PrimeStar in Arvada, Colo. Credit: Edelman; NREL. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, was in Colorado last week, and after months of reeling…
Read MoreThe fluid dynamics of wine swirling—orbital shaking—could extend to mixing and oxygenation in bioreactors for biopharmaceuticals manufacture. Credit: Farhat, et al.; YouTube. Even those of us who are not oenophiles—wine…
Read MoreLow-temperature SOFCs: (A) Functionally graded bismuth oxide (Electrolyte 1) / ceria (Electrolyte 2) can allow use of hydrocarbon fuels at the anode at reduced temperatures. (B) Estimation of power output…
Read MoreHere’s what we are hearing (some information from news releases): Superior safety for next gen high-temperature reactor: China receives first glass-to-metal sealed hermetic penetration assembly from Schott for testing China’s…
Read MoreRodin’s bronze and marble sculpture, The Thinker. How does he do it? Credit: Wikipedia. Most of us think for a living. Our outputs—experiments, talks, papers, etc.—are evidence of our having…
Read MoreIntegrally cored ceramic mold fabricated by ceramic stereolithography. The vertical cross-section on the left shows the core and shell parts. Five horizontal cross-sections of individual layers in the build-up are…
Read MoreA cross-sectional scanning transmission electron micrograph of the interface between polar lanthanum chromium oxide and nonpolar strontium titanium oxide. Although the interface appears to be atomically abrupt, detailed spectroscopic measurements…
Read MoreToronto lakefront skyline. Credit: Chensiyuan; Wikipedia. I wasn’t aware that Toronto has more glass condominium high-rise structures than any other city in North America, but I will take the Canadian…
Read MoreA fully automated robot arm pours molten glass into the sample mold. Credit: Knud Dobberke; Fraunhofer ISC. Check ’em out: Instant-on computers may be possible with modified materials Researchers from…
Read MoreThe White House’s Cyrus Wadia, speaking above right with Penn State’s Zi-Kui Liu at the recent MS&T’11 meeting, and Tom Kalil revealed several new projects in support of the MGI.…
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