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  • Scientists Develop New Material for Solar Cells
    News - 30 Oct 2009
    A series of joint sub-projects and work-packages has enabled the scientists to develop a new, less expensive grade of raw material for solar cells. And the best news is that the new modules are just...
  • New Methods are Changing Old Materials
    News - 27 Oct 2009
    A company that makes steel for bearings used in heavy trucks had a big problem. The trucks travel through harsh, perilous environments such as Siberia, and an unexpected bearing failure on a remote...
  • Mixing Tiny Volumes of Liquid
    News - 27 Oct 2009
    Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. Researchers currently use all types of processes to try and create mixing, with only...
  • Optomechanical Crystals Could be Used in Information Processing and as Supersensitive Biosensors
    News - 26 Oct 2009
    Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the...
  • Method Allows Arrays of Nanoscale Pillars to Grown in a Precisely Controlled Manner
    News - 23 Oct 2009
    Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with...
  • Plastic Optical Fibre to Revolutionise Communications
    News - 19 Oct 2009
    It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking...
  • Renishaw Release New Ballbar System
    News - 14 Oct 2009
    Renishaw has announced the launch of a successor to its well established QC10 ballbar system; a tool adopted worldwide for the assessment of machine tool positioning and servo control performance....
  • Wireless Networks Make Solid Walls Appear Transparent
    News - 12 Oct 2009
    University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and...
  • Smart Trash Could Generate Income
    News - 22 Sep 2009
    Envision a distasteful trip to the curb to take out the trash as a pleasant - and profitable - stroll. Some juiceless batteries - those are good for a few cents. An old keyboard might fetch a few...
  • Springs of Carbon Nanotubes Could Outperform Lithium Ion Batteries
    News - 21 Sep 2009
    New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes - tube-shaped molecules of pure carbon - could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, as...

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