Search results for highly porous:
Researchers develop 'one-pot' porous surfaces for fuel cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 29, 2008 |
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Cornell researchers have developed a "one-pot" process to create porous films of crystalline metal oxides that could lead to more-efficient fuel cells and solar cells.
Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries?
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus ...
Opening the Door for CO2
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, factory smokestacks that produced nothing but carbon dioxide and water vapor were considered exemplary. Now CO2 has become notorious as a greenhouse gas, and the danger of climate change has ...
Foam reactor is 10 times more energy efficient
Sep 26, 2008 |
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There is considerable worldwide demand for new types of reactors for the rapid and well- controlled production of high value chemicals. Charl Stemmet has developed the porous foam reactor, which has an energy efficiency ten ...
Nanoparticles aid bone growth
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 13, 2008 |
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In the first study of its kind, bioengineers and bioscientists at Rice University and Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, have shown they can grow denser bone tissue by sprinkling stick-like nanoparticles throughout ...
Undersea channels might aid oil recovery
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 22, 2006 |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are trying to help energy companies draw millions of additional barrels of oil from the sea.
Progress Toward Artificial Tissue?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For modern implants and the growth of artificial tissue and organs, it is important to generate materials with characteristics that closely emulate nature.
Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering
Feb 18, 2008 |
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A novel class of hybrid materials made from metals and organic compounds is changing the face of solid state chemistry and materials science just 10 years after its discovery, with applications already in safe storage of ...
'Frozen smoke:' The ultimate sponge for cleaning up oil spills
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Scientists in Arizona and New Jersey are reporting that aerogels, a super-lightweight solid sometimes called "frozen smoke," may serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively ...
For clean air
Mar 30, 2007 |
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In addition to nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air contribute to smog and high ozone levels, as well as potentially damaging human health. Clean-air laws are thus rightly continuing ...
Growing catalysts
Dec 08, 2006 |
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Porous materials are involved in many chemical reactions that affect our daily lives. Despite their wide use, there is little knowledge about them. Scientists from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the ESRF ...
Nanoscale Cubes and Spheres
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 03, 2007 |
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Porous nano-objects with defined sizes and structures are particularly interesting, for example, as capsules for enzymes, a means of transport for pharmaceutical agents, or building blocks for larger nanostructures.
Chemists offer new hydrogen purification method
Feb 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- President Barack Obama's pursuit of energy independence promises to accelerate research and development for alternative energy sources -- solar, wind and geothermal power, biofuels, hydrogen ...
New methane storage technology exceeds DOE goals
Jan 21, 2008 |
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In a major advance in alternative fuel technology, researchers report development of a sponge-like material with the highest methane storage capacity ever measured. It can hold almost one-third more methane ...
Regulated drug release thanks to nano bubbles
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 30, 2007 |
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Stents are medical implants that, for example, prevent the blocking of arteries after surgery. One of the problems using stents is the biocompatibility as the human body rejects and attacks foreign material. ...
