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Researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels
Jul 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets.
Nano-Armor: Protecting the Soldiers of Tomorrow
Dec 10, 2005 |
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An Israeli company has recently tested one of the most shock-resistant materials known to man. Five times stronger than steel and at least twice as strong as any impact-resistant material currently in use ...
Scientists build world's first single-molecule car
Oct 20, 2005 |
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Rice University Scientists have done it. After BMW announced the possibility of producing a car that would utilize nanotechnology practically for all functions, Rice University scientists developed the world’s ...
Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2007 |
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New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much ...
Tiny buckyballs squeeze hydrogen like giant Jupiter
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Hydrogen could be a clean, abundant energy source, but it's difficult to store in bulk. In new research, materials scientists at Rice University have made the surprising discovery that tiny carbon capsules called buckyballs ...
Carbon fullerenes now have metallic cousins, 'hollow golden cages'
May 15, 2006 |
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Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes known as buckyballs. The evidence for what their discoverers ...
Developing Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a new storage system to hold large quantities of hydrogen fuel that may one day power cars in a more cost-effective and consumer-friendly way.
Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find
Sep 14, 2007 |
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A game of billiards may never get smaller than this. Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene – a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings – can act as an atomic-scale ...
'Buckypaper': stronger than steel, harder than diamonds
Oct 20, 2005 |
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Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel - but 250 times stronger - would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, ...
How Perfect Can Graphene Be?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively ...
Improbable 'buckyegg' hatched
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2006 |
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An egg-shaped fullerene, or "buckyball egg" has been made and characterized by chemists at UC Davis, Virginia Tech and Emory and Henry College, Va. The unexpected discovery opens new possibilities for structures ...
How buckyballs hurt cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 27, 2008 |
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A new study into the potential health hazards of the revolutionary nano-sized particles known as ‘buckyballs’ predicts that the molecules are easily absorbed into animal cells, providing a possible explanation for how the ...
Buckyball birth observed by Sandia nanotech researcher
Nov 21, 2007 |
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Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia’s Jianyu Huang has seen one being born.
Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'
Oct 26, 2007 |
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The birth secret of buckyballs -- hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA -- has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and computer ...
Researchers Develop Efficient Organic Solar Cell
Physics /
Dec 13, 2004 |
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As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun - can be expensive due ...
