News tagged with inorganic materials
Argonne 'homegrown' hybrid solar cell aims for low-cost power
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes of semiconducting material and then "growing" ...
High construction cost for cycads
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Self-sustaining organisms like plants possess the ability to synthesize their own food using inorganic materials. Plants use water and carbon dioxide to begin this process in their green tissues. The leaf ...
Focus on the formation of bones, teeth and shells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 14, 2009 |
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology for the first time have shown the earliest stages in biomineralization, the process that leads to the formation of bones, teeth and sea shells.
First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron ...
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HIPS fireproof coatings can really take the heat
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Tough new fire-resistant coating materials called HIPS ('hybrid inorganic polymer system') are being developed by CSIRO researchers in Melbourne.
HIPS fireproof coatings can really take the heat
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tough new fire-resistant coating materials called HIPS (‘hybrid inorganic polymer system’) are being developed by CSIRO researchers in Melbourne.
Nanoparticle Scattering Improves Laser Performance
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “Light scattering” and “optical performance” are two concepts that usually head in opposite directions, but they have recently been shown to walk happily hand-in-hand. The results are impressive ...
'Hybrid' semiconductors show zero thermal expansion, could lead to hardier electronics and optoelectronics
Dec 19, 2007 |
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The fan in your computer is there to keep the microprocessor chip from heating to the point where its component materials start to expand, inducing cracks that interrupt the flow of electricity — and not incidentally, ...
Zinc oxide gives green shine to new photoconductors
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture ...
Understanding phosphorus in soils is vital to proper management
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Phosphorus is one of the key nutrients that can cause algal blooms and related water quality problems in lakes, rivers, and estuaries worldwide. Phosphorus entering waters originates from a variety of sources. Agricultural ...
Electronics from the printer
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic systems designed to perform simple functions, such as monitor the temperature on a yogurt pot, mustn’t cost much: This is where printed electronics are at an advantage. Researchers ...
Panasonic develops a next-generation robust image sensor
May 14, 2007 |
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Panasonic today announced the development of a robust and lightfast image sensor for the next generation.
A new process for making much-sought iron nanospheres
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Using a process that creates bubbles as hot as the surface of the sun, chemists are reporting development of a new method for making hollow hematite (iron oxide) nanospheres. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's ...
'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of ...
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