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First Reports of Profound Symmetry Transformations in the Hot Soup of Quarks, Antiquarks and Gluons

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons produced in RHIC’s most energetic collisions.

17 Feb 2010

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Uses Gold Ions to Generate Temperatures of 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius

Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference “atom smasher” at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius — the hottest temperature ever reached in a laboratory, about 250,000* times hotter than the center of the Sun.

17 Feb 2010

Rubber Trailing Edge Used to Control the Load on Wind Turbine Blades

For some years, the Wind Energy Division at Risø DTU has been working to develop a method for controlling the loads on large wind turbine blades using a flexible trailing edge made of an elastic material which can b...

17 Feb 2010

Project Looks to Develop Direct Assembly of Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion Applications

Direct assembly of nanomaterials for highly efficient energy conversion will be the goal of a five-year, $750,000 project led by Cornell researcher David Erickson.

17 Feb 2010

New Membrane Technology Could Help Improve Fuel Cells

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University has been developing a new method for producing novel kinds of membranes that could have improved properties for batteries, fuel cells and other energy conversion and storage applications.

17 Feb 2010

Nanotech Catalyst Offers an Alternative to Toxic Heavy metals

A new nanotech catalyst developed by McGill University Chemists Chao-Jun Li, Audrey Moores and their colleagues offers industry an opportunity to reduce the use of expensive and toxic heavy metals. Catalysts are subst...

17 Feb 2010

High Performance Optics and Microfluidics Make Lab-on-aChip Technologies More Practical

With a silicone rubber "stick-on" sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, engineers at Harvard are one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into a micro-sized package.

17 Feb 2010

Titanium Nanonets Coated with Silicon Could become the Basis of Faster, Lighter, Longer-Lasting Lithium-Ion Batteries

A tiny scaffold-like titanium structure of Nanonets coated with silicon particles could pave the way for faster, lighter and longer-lasting Lithium-ion batteries, according to a team of Boston College chemists who develo...

17 Feb 2010

Germanium in Place of Silicon would Allow Faster Chips with Smaller Transistors

The use of germanium instead of silicon as basic material of transistors would enable faster chips containing smaller transistors. However, a number of problems still have to be solved.

17 Feb 2010

Sugar-Based Polymer Packaging Material that can be Composted

Food packaging and other disposable plastic items could soon be composted at home along with organic waste thanks to a new sugar-based polymer. The degradable polymer is made from sugars known as lignocellulosic biom...

17 Feb 2010

New Undertsanding of Catalysts

A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Catalysis and scientists at Oxford University has produced a new approach for understanding surfaces, particularly metal oxide surfaces, wid...

17 Feb 2010

Composite Metal Foam Could Make Biomedical Implants More Compatible

A "metal foam" that has a similar elasticity to bone could mean a new generation of biomedical implants that would avoid bone rejection that often results from more rigid implant materials, such as titanium.

17 Feb 2010

IBM Award Prize to Solar Reseachers

IBM awarded an international prize to the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany - to support research work being carried out by Professor Dr Claudia Felser to improve solar cells. During a ceremony at Mainz University, Professor Felser of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry received the IBM Shared University Research Award.

17 Feb 2010

Kobe Steel Opens Large Capacity Compressor Test Facility

Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that its new large-capacity compressor test facility has begun operations at the company's Takasago Works in Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan. Test facilities are essential to confirm ...

From Kobe Steel 17 Feb 2010

Bayer MaterialScience Showcase Conductive Nano Inks at Nanotech

At Nanotech, the world's leading nanotechnology trade fair in Tokyo, Bayer MaterialScience is showcasing the two conductive inks BayInk TP S and BayInk TP CNT, which have been developed primarily for use in the growi...

17 Feb 2010