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Information superhighway’s trash yields a super highway asphalt
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Discarded electronic hardware, including bits and pieces that built the information superhighway, can be recycled into an additive that makes super-strong asphalt paving material for real highways, researchers in China are ...
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Practical Cloaking Devices On The Horizon?
Aug 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Invisibility cloaks get a step closer to realization, with the demonstration of a new material that can bend (visible) light the 'wrong' way for the first time in three dimensions.
Paving the Way for Crystal Growth
Mar 07, 2007 |
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In order to study the properties of LBCO superconductors, scientists need to produce large, single crystals of the material - a difficult task that wasn't possible until recently. At the state-of-the-art crystal ...
New Foot-Friendly Pavement for Jogging Trails Recycles Tires
May 23, 2006 |
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A new material for paving recreation trails holds potential for the large-scale recycling of rubber from automotive tires, as well as for cushioning the activities of joggers, walkers, and bicyclers. And it's less expensive ...
New nanotechnology able to examine single molecules, aiding in determining gene expression
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 24, 2007 |
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A new nanotechnology that can examine single molecules in order to determine gene expression, paving the way for scientists to more accurately examine single cancer cells, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of ...
The Quest for a New Class of Superconductors
Dec 20, 2007 |
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Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University are suggesting another ...
Perfecting a solar cell by adding imperfections
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 16, 2008 |
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Nanotechnology is paving the way toward improved solar cells. New research shows that a film of carbon nanotubes may be able to replace two of the layers normally used in a solar cell, with improved performance at a lower ...
New carbon nanomaterial shows promise of storing large quantities of renewable electrical energy
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called "graphene" as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor ...
Scientist Creates Liquid Crystals with High Metal Content
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Apr 03, 2006 |
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have successfully engineered liquid crystals that contain very high concentrations of metals – potentially paving the way toward the creation of “magnetic liquids” ...
Paving the way for green roads
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Kevin Gardner sees green roads right around the corner. “A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built,” says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineering and director of ...
Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient (Update)
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching ...
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