Nano Letters – A Path to Ultranarrow Patterns Using Self-Assembled Lithography The templated self-assembly of block copolymer (BCP) thin films can generate regular arrays of 10−50 nm scale features with good positional and orientational accuracy, but the ordering, registration and pattern transfer of sub-10-nm feature sizes is not well established. Here, we report solvent-annealing and …
A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing. All-optical switching could allow dramatic speed increases in telecommunications by eliminating the need to convert photonic signals to electronic signals …
Carnival of Space 142 is up at astroblogger. This site submitted the Mach Effect propulsion research update Ian O’Neill of Discover Space considers dark energy manipulation with metamaterials as a possible pathway to warp drive spaceships. Centauri Dreams considers the recent report about interstellar hydrogen dangers for a near light speed spacecraft. Centauri Dreams proposes …
Three big utilities, Tennessee Valley Authority, First Energy Corp. and Oglethorpe Power Corp., on Wednesday signed an agreement with McDermott International Inc.’s Babcock & Wilcox subsidiary, committing to get the new mPower factory mass producable 125-140 MWe reactor approved for commercial use in the U.S. A new type of nuclear reactor—smaller than a rail car …
FCC Chairman Genachowski’s Remarks, “Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity”, NARUC Conference. Our plan will set goals for the U.S. to have the world’s largest market of very high-speed broadband users. A “100 Squared” initiative — 100 million households at 100 megabits per second — to unleash American ingenuity and ensure that businesses, …
The Carnival of Space 141 is up at Starry Critters This site contributed – 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. This site also supplied an article on …
There are scheduled to be the following new reactors 2010 9 new reactors, 6.2 GWe (shifted the two Canadian Reactors to 2011) 2011 11 new reactors, 9.3 GWe 2012 10 new reactors, 9.92 GWe 2013 12 new reactors, 13.08 GWe 2014 14 new reactors, 13.63 GWe France, Germany and Sweden had significantly lower nuclear power …
1. Petrobank Ramps Up THAI(Toe to heel air injection -enhanced oil recovery) Operations The THAI and Capri oil processes are game changers for oilsands and heavy oil recovery, which would in turn delay peak oil by decades. Kerrobert Project On December 21, 2009 we re-configured the pump in KP1 to improve its pumping capacity and …
This site had previously advocated using tax revenue from allowing oil drilling and new nuclear reactors to help solve California’s budget problems. [This is repeated below] California assemblyman Chuck Devore introduced a proposal that generates as much as $16 billion by 2011, enough to fill more than three-quarters of California’s estimated $21 billion budget deficit. …
Nanowerks has a spotlight on the work of Dingyuan Tang from Nanyang Technological University and Professor Kian Ping Loh from National University of Singapore with the first breakthrough in using few-layer graphene as a saturable absorber for the mode locking of lasers. Graphene can be used for telecommunications applications and that its weak and universal …
Nature Nanotechnology: Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes into two-dimensional geometries using DNA origami templates A central challenge in nanotechnology is the parallel fabrication of complex geometries for nanodevices. Here we report a general method for arranging single-walled carbon nanotubes in two dimensions using DNA origami—a technique in which a long single strand of DNA is folded …