Close-packed nanoparticle monolayers self-assembled from dodecanethiol-ligated gold nanocrystals. TEM image (left) and atomistic simulation of tryptophan transport through a pore. A recent collaboration between users at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago with the Center for Nanoscale Material’s Electronic and Magnetic Materials and Devices Group has produced the thinnest nanofiltration …
New Energy and Fuel has some additional information about Brillouin Energy Corp. I covered Brillouin Energy a few days ago Brillouin Energy is in Berkeley California has another Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) method in the development and proving stage. The new method comes at fusion from a different path than the Rossi E-Cat. Brillouin …
Guest Post by Chris Phoenix, co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Three of the buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been destroyed. Two of them contained damaged, overheated nuclear reactors which were probably producing large quantities of hydrogen gas, so it’s not surprising that they blew up. But the third building …
A data point changes the polarisation: The detail of the sample shows how the magnetization is switched from upwards to downwards. © M. Kammerer / MPI for intelligent systems Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster Microscopically tiny ferromagnetic platelets exhibit …
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it began mass production of the 22-inch transparent LCD panel in March this year. The panels come in two colors, the black-and-white type and the color type, and they have a contrast ratio of 500:1 with WSXGA+(1680*1050) resolution. Compared with the conventional LCD panels that use back light …
Terrorist could easily attack coal mines and coal plants and trigger accidents that kill hundreds. It would just take lighting a match to the coal dust. Their problem would be that no one would be able tell the difference between the terrorist attack from business as usual. Coal can have accidents and standard operation effects …
Goatguy adjusted the scale of the EPA radiation chart. Original chart is below. EPA radiation facts The average person in the United States receives about 360 mrem every year whole body equivalent dose At low doses, such as what we receive every day from background radiation, the cells repair the damage rapidly. At higher doses …
An Advanced Lithium Ion Battery Based on High Performance Electrode Materials In this paper we report the study of a high capacity Sn−C nanostructured anode and of a high rate, high voltage Li[Ni0.45Co0.1Mn1.45]O4 spinel cathode. We have combined these anode and cathode materials in an advanced lithium ion battery that, by exploiting this new chemistry, …
Composite image: The new jet from Honda, pictured here, is built largely of composite materials and features a unique over-the-wing engine mount. Credit: Honda Honda has moved closer to bringing its first jet to market—one that uses 20 percent less fuel than similar-sized planes while also flying faster. A prototype of Honda’s light jet, which …
Siluria Technologies is working on an energy efficient and cleaner process to convert natural gas into ethylene Siluria has not yet demonstrated its method beyond the laboratory, but the company hopes to open a pilot plant in 2012 or 2013. Ethylene is the largest global commodity chemical, with 140 million tons used annually in an …
Hi, This is Joseph Friedlander on a guest post for Next Big Future. Here we discuss long wave theory (56 year cycles involving booms, busts, wars, exuberance expeditions and scientific and engineering adventurism). I have spent a few days on and off looking at the 21stCenturyWaves.com site and wanted to give a digest for Next …