
NANOTECH BREAKTHROUGH and VIABLE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES, etc.
Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 @ 22:28:30 UTC Topic: Science
NANOTECH BREAKTHROUGH AIDS QUEST FOR VIABLE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES, November 08
At a time when oil prices are reaching record highs and people are
bracing for winter heating bills, researchers at Wake Forest
University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have
made significant strides in improving the efficiency of organic or
flexible solar cells.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news7967.html
ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY OF FUEL CELLS COULD HASTEN HYDROGEN ECONOMY, November 08
Echoes of a "hydrogen economy" are reverberating across the
country, but a number of roadblocks stand in the way. One of the
biggest, experts say, is the high cost of manufacturing fuel cells. A
new research project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute aims to tackle
the challenge of mass production by using robots to assemble fuel cell
stacks.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news8007.html
FINDING SUPERCONDUCTORS THAT CAN TAKE THE HEAT, November 08
By studying how superconductors interact with magnetic fields, Pitt
researchers advance quest for higher-temperature superconducting
materials.
Superconductors are materials with no electrical resistance that are
used to make strong magnets and must be kept extremely cold-otherwise,
they lose their superconducting abilities. Even the "high-temperature"
superconductors discovered in the 1980s must be kept at around -300°F.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news7983.html
INNOVATION AWARD FOR IMPROVED RADIO FREQUENCY PLASMA REACTOR, November 07
An
invention by researchers from Oxford's Department of Engineering Science won
recognition from the Institute of Electrical Engineers at their inaugural
Innovation in Engineering Awards recently. Professor John Allen and Dr Beatrice
Annaratone won the Electrical Technologies category for their improved radio
frequency plasma reactor. Plasmas are used in the manufacturing industry either
to remove or to deposit material on various surfaces, with applications
including the manufacture of electronic circuits and the production of films for
solar cells.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news7951.html
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