 Air-purifying church windows early nanotechnology August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered. | |
 An Unconventional Metal August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. In this week's issue of the journal Nature (August ... | |
 Turning Waste Material into Ethanol August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Say the word “biofuels” and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there’s another, older technology called gasification that’s getting a new look from researchers at the U.S. ... | |
True properties of carbon nanotubes measured August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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For more than 15 years, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been the flagship material of nanotechnology. Researchers have conceived applications for nanotubes ranging from microelectronic devices to cancer therapy. Their atomic ... | |
 Scientists grow 'nanonets' able to snare added energy transfer September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, Boston College chemists have produced nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies surface area critical to improving the performance ... | |
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