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Ceramic Tech Today

Random headlines Saturday

April 11, 2009

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  • Titania photoanodes return from the dead. Here, too.
  • Clarkson groups awarded for “Electrochemical Supercapacitors Based on Polymerizable Ionic Liquids.”
  • Absorbance modulation etches lines one-tenth the width of the light wavelength used to create them.
  • AFM maker Asylum Research celebrates 10-year anniversary.
  • Power industry might see ‘bust-to-boom’ upturn.
  • Highly magnetic nanoparticles being tapped to reprocess nuclear fuel.
  • Mapping every atom in a single nanowire using Imago’s LEAP AFM.
  • U.K. institute to hold conference on nanotechnology and regenerative medicine.
  • ‘Size Matters 2009: The ethical challenges facing nanotechnology” conference, June 17-18
  • NIST awards Electric Power Research Institute contract for interim smart grid standards.

. . . and, what would happen if you crossed GM with Segway. If, of course, your obvious answer, “a rusty toy for dweebs,” you’d be wrong! The correct answer is, “a cool-looking PUMA:”

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. . . adding, not everyone agrees.

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