Like some advanced artificial materials, kawazulite conducts electricity at its surface but not in its bulk. AM. CHEM. SOC. NATURE | NEWS Lab-made supermaterial that could boost computing exists in nature too Naturally occurring topological insulator is cleaner than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Breakthrough promises significantly more efficient solar cells March 7, 2013 A new technique developed by U of T Engineering Professor Ted Sargent and his research group could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells, according to a recent paper […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NIST’s prototype solid-state refrigerator uses quantum physics in the square chip mounted on the green circuit board to cool the much larger copper platform (in the middle of the photo) below standard cryogenic temperatures. Other objects can also be attached […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Superlattice structure of superconductor epitaxial thin ?lm (credit: S. Lee et al./Nature Materials) Pushing the bounds of superconductivity March 6, 2013 A multi-university team of researchers has engineered a unique multilayer material designed to achieve extraordinary superconducting properties — […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Density plot of the efficiency of using the output power of an ideal solar cell (band gap Eg) to produce and store chemical energy via reversible electrochemical (EC) reactions (credit: Mark T. Winkler et al./PNAS) A solar-to-fuel roadmap for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Controversies Over Singularitarian Utopianism Posted on March 2, 2013 Subject(s): Information Society I shouldn’t have been surprised at the controversy that arose. The cause was an hour-long lecture with 55 slides, ranging far and wide over a range of disruptive […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Engineered antibodies (green/red) are covalently bound to carbon-nanotube transistors, which serve as the readout element for the binding of osteopontin (orange/blue). Osteopontin is a biomarker protein indicative of prostate cancer, as well as several other cancers. (Courtesy: University of Pennysylvania) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Solar panels in the Alps. Credit: bapaume83-Fotolia.com Neutron investigation into self-assembling solar-harvesting films reveals new low-cost tool for 3-D circuit printing March 1, 2013 Scientists from Imperial College London, working at the Institut Laue-Langevin, have presented a new way […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rod-shaped chemotherapy drug nanoparticles bind more efficiently to receptors on cancer cells than those that are spherical-shaped. (Credit: UC Santa Barbara) HEALTH & MEDICINE – Posted by Melissa Van De Werfhorst-UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:12 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tiny beads of silicon, grown on a tube a hundred thousand times thinner than a piece of paper, could store up to ten times more lithium than graphite, a component of many commercial batteries. Credit: University of Maryland NanoCenter […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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