News tagged with silica fibers
Glass sponges inspire: Hybrid material made of collagen fibers and silica as possible substrate for bone tissue culture
(PhysOrg.com) -- As well as organic structures, mineral structures also play an important role in living organisms. You don’t even have to go as far as seashells or the artful silica scaffolds of diatoms; ...
Nov 14, 2011 |
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NASA Selects Material for Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for ...
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Apr 07, 2009 |
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UA makes mirrors for world's largest telescope
(PhysOrg.com) -- The second of seven 27-foot diameter mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope was cast on Jan. 14 inside a rotating furnace at the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP'
Optics and photonics may one day revolutionize computer technology with the promise of light-speed calculations. Storing light as memory, however, requires devices known as microresonators, an emerging technology ...
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Future 'comb on a chip': NIST's compact frequency comb could go places
Laser frequency combs -- extraordinarily precise tools for measuring frequencies (or colors) of light -- have helped propel advances in timekeeping, trace gas detection and related physics research to new ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Colorful eco-textiles thanks to nano-sized enzymes
To address the problems encountered by the traditional European dyes industry, scientists have developed a new and environmentally friendly way to produce dyes.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Study finds more effective way to dry ethanol, reduce costs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers have found an alternative environmentally friendly and energy-efficient way to dry corn ethanol, and their proof is in the pudding.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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New cotton candy-like glass fibers appear to speed healing in venous stasis wound trial
Imagine a battlefield medic or emergency medical technician providing first aid with a special wad of cottony glass fibers that simultaneously slows bleeding, fights bacteria (and other sources of infection), stimulates the ...
May 03, 2011 |
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Researchers develop process to make cotton both water repellent and UV resistant
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Northeast Normal University in China, have come up with a three-step process that when applied to cotton material results in a fabric that is both waterproof and very highly ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 11, 2011 |
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New kind of optical fiber developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has developed the very first optical fiber made with a core of zinc selenide -- a light-yellow ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Researchers demystify glasses by studying crystals
Glass is something we all know about. It's what we sip our drinks from, what we look out of to see what the weather is like before going outside and it is the backbone to our high speed communications infrastructure (optical ...
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Going nature one better: Researchers learn biology's secrets for making tough, resilient materials
Nature has one very big advantage over any human research team: plenty of time. Billions of years, in fact. And over all that time, it has produced some truly amazing materials — using weak building blocks ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 22, 2010 |
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