Received from the DOE: ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar to Host Live Chat on Innovation and Clean Energy On Wednesday, June 29, ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar will host the Department of…
Read MoreHere is what we are hearing: Rubicon Technology Malaysian polishing facility earns key endorsements, begins volume production of large-diameter sapphire wafers The company’s new Malaysia facility recently completed qualification of…
Read MoreKyoto Prize laureate John W. Cahn The Society just received word that the Inamori Foundation has just named John W. Cahn as the winner of its 2011 Kyoto Prize in…
Read MoreComputational modeling of carbon supercapacitors with the effects of surface curvature included. Credit: Jingsong Huang, ORNL A fair number of recent posts have been about nanostructured porous materials (PCCMs, diamond…
Read MoreGraphene wave guide and splitter. Credit: Nader Engheta and Ashkan Vakil; Univ. of Penn. Penn engineers: Two-dimensional graphene metamaterials and one-atom-thick optical devices Why investing in energy storage is risky business Coal…
Read MoreSRNL microsphere filled with palladium where the top of the microballoon has been removed to view the inside. Source: The Bulletin, Vol. 87, No. 6, p. 26 The R&D…
Read MoreI learned about the existence of this video after I wrote my review of Gloria Beasley Lausten’s book about the work by her husband (Bob Beasley) on the NASA’s Space…
Read MoreSwedish company producing low-cost aerogel pellets. Credit Svenska Aerogel. Here’s what we are hearing: NASA gives Ceralink SBIR award for microwave-processed multifunctional polymer matrix composites Ceralink Inc. announced that it has…
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