Venture Beat Investigates Blacklight Power

Venture beat has coverage of the Rowan University study of Blacklight Power -Rowan University Prof Jansson gets supplied the Raney nickel from Blacklight Power, which it in turn obtains from an industrial supplier. -Mills said it doped with a very small amount of another common material, sodium hydroxide, in a process that others could replicate.-Jansson …

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The Buckypaper Race to Market

1. Dr. Xiangwu Zhang, an Assistant Professor in the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University, hydroentangling treats the stack of unentangled fibers as a whole to produce strong fabrics or membranes, and hence it is an excellent method to assemble carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which are too small to be manipulated individually. The continuous …

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Free Piston Engines Versus High Efficiency Diesel Engines like Ecomotors

Free piston engines could achieve efficiencies of 50% which is almost double a regular gas combustion engine. However, new super efficient diesel engines could be even better, plus diesels would be more familiar to the market place. Some small companies are working on free piston engines and there are researchers around the world at Sandia …

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Cost Effective Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography to at least 11 nanometers

ASML Holding NV (ASML) presents today at the 2008 International Symposium on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) on recent achievements in its EUV lithography program and unveils a production system roadmap that supports cost-effective chip manufacturing to at least 11 nanometers (nm). This would enable the ITRS roadmap to stay on track through 2022. The ASML …

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Fish farming and Genetically Modified Fish for Feeding a Future World

Aquaculture is a major part of the worlds current and future food supply. It currently is the fastest growing food producing sector in the world. Genetically modified (GMO) fish are likely to dominate future fish farming by growing over two times faster than regular fish and being up to 30% more efficient with feed than …

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IBM Develops Computational Scaling Solution for Next Generation “22nm” Semiconductors

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the semiconductor industry’s first computationally based process for production of next generation 22nm semiconductors. Known as Computational Scaling (CS) — a process that enables the production of complex, powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors at 22nms and beyond — this new initiative will feature support from several of IBM’s key partners initially …

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Cray CX-1 Personal Supercomputer starting at $25,000 and up to 786 gigaflops performance

Cray is releasing a personal supercomputer the cray CX1 which will run Microsoft HPC Server 2008 operating system. It will start off at $25,000 and goes to $80,000 or more The CX1 chassis has enough room for eight blades of single- or dual-socket Intel Xeon processors. In today’s presentation, Cray said the current peak configuration …

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Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites for artificial muscle and skin

Nanotube composites can generate more than an order of magnitude improvement in the longitudinal modulus (up to 3300%) as well as damping capability (up to 2100%). It is also observed that composites with a random distribution of nanotubes of same length and similar filler fraction provide three times less effective reinforcement in composites. Jonghwan Suhr,an …

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