Carbon Nanotube Factories

Plastics Today – Bayer MaterialScience has opened a large carbon nanotube (CNT) pilot facility in Leverkusen, boasting annual capacity of 200 tonnes The announcement from Bayer comes the same week that Belgian competitor Nanocyl said it was installing a new reactor for nanotube production that would boost its production capacity to 400 tonnes/year. That new …

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Powering and Moving Rubiks Cube Size satellites

MIT News – An electric propulsion technology for miniature satellites aims to give them more mobility — and may eventually allow them to take on deep-space missions. Right now, 10 to 15 Rubik’s Cube-sized satellites are orbiting high above Earth. Known as cube satellites, or “CubeSats,” the devices help researchers conduct simple space observations and …

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Logic Functions Using Two Terminal Devices for Easier Self Assembly of Molecular Computing

via Steve Jurvetson – Stan Williams, HP guru, has figured out a way to implement all logic functions without negation. It is easy to implement all logic functions using only NAND or NOR gates, but not with just an AND or OR gate. He found the premise for this in a 160 year old philosophy …

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HP Vision of a Trillion Sensors Around the World

SENSITIVE AND CHEAP: To achieve a thousandfold sensitivity gain, HP’s new MEMS inertial sensor design uses a much larger proof mass than what’s inside traditional MEMS designs. The proof mass [light blue] is a piece of silicon suspended on a spring inside the device. MEMS accelerometers use a variable capacitor to measure motion. A capacitance …

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Crystals in a Meteorite Found to be harder than Regular diamonds

Researchers using a diamond paste to polish a slice of meteorite stumbled onto something remarkable: crystals in the rock that are harder than diamonds. A closer look with an array of instruments revealed two totally new kinds of naturally occurring carbon, which are harder than the diamonds formed inside the Earth. Graphite layers were shocked …

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Michael Naughton Talks 50% Solar Power Efficiency and Superconductors in interview by Sander Olson

Dr. Michael Naughton is the Chairperson of the Department of Physics at Boston College. He and his colleagues have recently discovered a way to extract energy from “hot” electrons generated by solar cells. Dr. Naughton is confident that efficiencies as high as 50% could be achieved with solar power. He is currently the cofounder and …

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Carnival of Space 139

The Carnival of Space 139 is up at mamajoules This site provided an article on the Valkyrie antimatter propulsion spaceship design which was used in Avatar. The article also had a video tutorial on antimatter and a NASA paper on scaling up antimatter production. This site also supplied the article on What would it take …

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Spray on Liquid Glass to Make Things Easier to clean and antimicrobial for Years and Can Increase Crop Yields

Spray on Liquid Glass is food safe and can make any surface easy to clean and antimicrobial for years and can be used to increase the yields of agricultural crops “SiO2- ultra thin layering” is the technical term for Liquid Glass. The flexible and breathable glass coating is approximately 100 nanometres thick (500 times thinner …

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Cheytac M200 is Top Sniper Gun

The Cheytac M200 was rated the top sniper gun Wikipedia on the Cheytac Intervention The CheyTac Intervention is an American bolt action sniper rifle manufactured by CheyTac for long range soft target interdiction. It is fed by a detachable single stack magazine, which holds 7 rounds. It fires .408 CheyTac or .375 CheyTac ammunition. CheyTac …

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Organic transistor mimics brain synapse

Researchers in France claim to have made the first transistor that mimics connections in the human brain. The device, which is based on pentacene and gold nanoparticles, could lead to a new generation of neuro-inspired computers as well as help connect artificial structures to biological tissue. The team, which includes scientists from the CNRS (the …

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Tunable plasmonic nanobubbles for cell theranostics

When irradiated with intense, sub-nanosecond laser pulses, plasmon resonant nanoparticles generate transient micron-scale bubbles in the surrounding medium. The Joint US-Belarussian Lab for Fundamental and Biomedical Nanophotonics researchers are studying biomedical diagnostic and therapeutic applications of this transient phenomenon. • Plasmonic nanobubbles: laser pulse and plasmonic nanoparticle-generated transient event with tunable optical and mechanical properties. …

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