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Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (37) | comments 4

Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at ...


Researchers demonstrate reversible generation of a high capacity hydrogen storage material

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have created a reversible route to generate aluminum hydride, a high capacity hydrogen storage material. This achievement is not only expected ...


Researchers create catalysts for use in hydrogen storage materials

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Savannah River National Laboratory have identified that carbon nanostructures can be used as catalysts to store and ...


Revealing new applications for carbon nanomaterials in hydrogen storage

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 5

An international research team, involving Professor Rajeev Ahuja at Uppsala University and researchers in the USA, set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials. Experimental and ...





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Potassium leads to better hydrogen-storage materials

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An international research team, including Professor Rajeev Ahuja's research group at Uppsala University, has shown that small additions of potassium drastically improve the hydrogen-storage properties of certain types of ...


New invention that could change design of future memory storage devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 1

A research team at Singapore A*STAR's Data Storage Institute (DSI) has invented a new phase change material that has the potential to change the design of future memory storage devices.


Engineering Carbon for Impressive Hydrogen Storage

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Missouri researchers recently showed how carbon nanostructures can be engineered to become excellent media for hydrogen storage, work that may be important for the advancement of hydrogen-energy ...


New RFID technology tracks and monitors nuclear materials

New RFID technology tracks and monitors nuclear materials

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices have widely been used for tracking for years; recently, scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed ...


Improved Ion Mobility Is Key to New Hydrogen Storage Compound

Improved Ion Mobility Is Key to New Hydrogen Storage Compound

Chemistry /

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A materials scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has deciphered the structure of a new class of materials that can store relatively large quantities of hydrogen within its crystal ...


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Liquid Battery Offers Promising Solar Energy Storage Technique

Technology / Energy

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (39) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest challenges currently facing large-scale solar energy technology is finding an effective way to store the energy, which is essential for using the electricity at night or ...


500 GB Micro-holographic discs

General Electric Develops a 500GB Optical Disc

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- G.E. has unveiled a 500 GB micro-holographic disc that is the same size as existing DVD's. The storage capacity is equivalent to 100 DVD's and is aimed at the archive industry but eventually ...


Contracts Awarded for Production of NSLS-II Storage Ring Magnets

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- All seven contracts for the production of the NSLS-II storage ring magnets have now been awarded -- a significant milestone for the project. The magnets -- 750 in total -- will be made by vendors in the United ...


Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...


Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

In Brief: Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group (Argonne National Laboratory) and at Politecnico di Milano in Italy explored the limits of antiferromagnetism in a nanostructured ...



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