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Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (50) | comments 0

In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a reco ...





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Energy-saving powder: Converting methane to methanol

Chemistry / Other

created 5 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so.


Right first time: Pioneering new methods of drug manufacture

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Engineers at the University of Leeds have developed a simple technology which can be used in existing chemical reactors to ensure "right first time" drug crystal formation.


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Good food nation: Researchers think America's obesity epidemic can be reversed via 'foodsheds'

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last three decades, childhood obesity in the United States has become a massive public-health problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 1980 and 2006 the percentage ...


Researchers Study Effect of Cinnamon Compounds on Brain Cells

Researchers Study Effect of Cinnamon Compounds on Brain Cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cell-culture studies looking into how compounds in cinnamon extract affect brain cells are being conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. The researchers have reported ...


Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Technology / Energy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory.


New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...


Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is ...


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Ultra-Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Serve as Future Transmission Lines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to carbon nanotubes, the majority of research so far has focused on small-scale applications. But now, a team of researchers from Rice University has created carbon nanotubes ...


Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent ...


This smart wheelchair has laser vision

This smart wheelchair has laser vision

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...



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