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Opening day for a home of the future

Technology / Energy

created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The first of six properties designed to show case state-of-the-art energy efficient housing will be officially opened on Wednesday January 30 2008 at The University of Nottingham.


Foam reactor is 10 times more energy efficient

Chemistry /

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

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 ...


3-D photonic crystals will revolutionize telecommunications

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Smaller, faster, more efficient: BASF research scientists are helping to revolutionize the future world of telecommunications – with the aid of three-dimensional photonic crystals.


Ordered Water: Just how much water is there in calcined gypsum?

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a water-containing ...


The Antares DLR-H2 flies its madden voyage over the northern German city of Hamburg

World's first as fuel cell aircraft takes off in Germany

Technology / Energy

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 16

The world's first piloted aircraft capable of taking to the air using only power from fuel cells took off in Germany Tuesday, producing zero carbon dioxide emissions, its makers said.


Hair Fiber

Heads-up study of hair dynamics may lead to better hair-care products

Chemistry /

created Aug 17, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

From frizzy perms to over-bleached waves, "bad hair days" could soon become a less frequent occurrence. Chemists report the first detailed microscopic analysis of what happens to individual hair fibers when ...


Herbicide diversity needed to keep Roundup effective

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using a diverse herbicide application strategy may increase production costs, but a five-year Purdue University study shows the practice will drastically reduce weeds and seeds that are resistant to a popular herbicide.


Aqueous Nanocomposites as a New Binder for Coatings

Nanotechnology /

created Oct 01, 2004 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

This year's FARBE & LACK prize awarded by the German trade magazine of the same name has gone to BASF: Dr. Franca Tiarks and Dr. Jörg Leuninger from Polymer Research and Development Architectural Coatings in the Regional B ...


Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 0

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 ...


Bringing the Biodiesel

Technology / Energy

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For some people, "biodiesel" might seem like a novelty product for which only hybrid car-driving tree huggers wouldn't mind paying a premium.


Economical and cleaner cars with lean-burn catalytic converter

Chemistry /

created Jul 05, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch researcher Karen Scholz has taken a careful look at the properties of a new type of catalytic converter found in cars. For this so-called NOx Storage Reduction (NSR) catalytic converter the fuel is alternately combusted ...


The 1930s semi goes green

Technology / Energy

created Apr 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Three million of them were built; they stimulated a boom in employment and turned a nation of shop keepers into a nation of home owners. The 1930s semi is an icon of its age but 80 years on it is about to undergo a green ...


Grid browser finds the meaning of life

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A web browser that can understand technical terms in life sciences and automatically find additional resources and services has been developed by European researchers. It could lead to a new generation of ...


Chemists at UCLA Design the Least Dense Crystals Known to Man for Applications in Clean Energy

Chemists design world's lowest-density crystals for use in clean energy

Chemistry /

created Apr 12, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 0

Chemists at UCLA have designed new organic structures for the storage of voluminous amounts of gases for use in alternative energy technologies.


Nano World: Stabilizing explosive elements

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 26, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (46) | comments 0

Capsules only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide that stabilize extremely dangerous compounds normally prone to igniting or exploding can safely generate more than enough hydrogen gas to beat U.S. Department of Energy ...