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Sharp Launches Mass Production of 2nd-Generation Thin-Film Solar Cells

Sharp Launches Mass Production of 2nd-Generation Thin-Film Solar Cells

Technology / Energy

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Sharp Corporation has completed installation of a new 2nd-generation thin-film solar cell production line at its Katsuragi Plant (Katsuragi City, Nara Prefecture) using large-size glass substrates measuring ...





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MU engineers develop safer, blast-resistant glass (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Materials Science

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

To protect from potential terrorist attacks, federal buildings and other critical infrastructures are made with special windows that contain blast-resistant glass. However, the glass is thick and expensive. Currently, University ...


Silicon Micro-islands and Nano-spikes Channel Water on Glass Slides

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed ...


New silver-based ink has applications in printed electronics

New silver-based ink has applications in printed electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ink developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows them to write their own silver linings.


Composted dairy manure in foliage plant production

Composted dairy manure in foliage plant production

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Peat has been a major component of substrates used in container plant production since the 1960s. Highly porous with the capacity to hold water, peat makes an ideal rooting and growing medium for potted plants. ...


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Scientists print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on flexible base

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 2

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon ...


Circuit board materials may like it hot (or not)

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 09, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Electrical circuits may act differently in Arizona than they do in Alaska--potentially affecting the performance of computers and other electronics. A new technique identifies and quantifies an important cause of this temperature ...


Glass Thermometers Still a Safety Hazard

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by emergency physicians at Children's Hospital Boston provides a wakeup call to parents to get rid of their old glass thermometers. A 12year review of patients seen in Children's emergency department ...


Toward 'invisible electronics' and transparent displays

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers in California are reporting an advance toward the long-sought goal of "invisible electronics" and transparent displays, which can be highly desirable for heads-up displays, wind-shield displays, and electronic ...


Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.


How proteins talk to each other: Caspase-3 cleaves in unforeseen ways

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research have identified novel cleavage sites for the enzyme caspase-3 (an enzyme that proteolytically cleaves target proteins). Using an advanced proteomic technique called ...



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