 Capturing Sunlight: Indoline Dyes Improve Efficiency of Solar Cells February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Solar cell technology is marching ahead, though it still struggles with the two problems: efficiency and high production costs. In collaboration with Satoshi Uchida at the University of Tokyo, Michael Grätzel ... | |
Driving water droplets uphill April 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Lab-on-a-chip technology could soon simplify a host of applications, thanks to a new way to move droplets up vertical surfaces on flexible chips. | |
Artificial photosynthesis moves a step closer March 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have made an important step on the long road to artificially mimicking photosynthesis. They were able to synthesise a stable inorganic metal oxide cluster, which enables the fast and effective oxidation ... | |
Yeast in an Egg Shell March 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Nature’s eggshells have inspired Chinese researchers: A team led by Ruikang Tang at Zhejiang University have successfully equipped living yeast cells with an artificial mineral coating. As reported in the journal Angewandte ... | |
 New triple-threat weapon needed in war between man and microbe March 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Mankind’s age-old battle against infectious diseases stands to rage on and on, unless scientists develop a new generation of triple-action antibiotics, according to an article scheduled for the March 28 issue ... | |
'Recordable' proteins as next-generation memory storage materials February 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Move over, compact discs, DVDs, and hard drives. Researchers in Japan report progress toward developing a new protein-based memory device that could provide an alternative to conventional magnetic and optical storage systems, ... | |
Eco-Friendly Pyrotechnics March 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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You know it is chemistry when it stinks and goes boom—and entrances us. “No other application in the field of chemistry has such a positive association for the general population as fireworks,” says Thomas Klapötke (University ... | |
Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Finding a simple and convenient technique that combines nanoscale structural measurements and chemical identification has been an elusive goal. With current analytical instruments, spatial resolution is too low, signal-to-noise ... | |
New ionic liquid in thermometers beats mercury on range, performance and safety March 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Poisonous mercury in thermometers has been replaced by harmless and better performing ionic liquids in research by scientists from Europe and the US, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Green Chemistry. | |
 Researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels July 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 212 vote(s)
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Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. | |
Toward the next generation of high-efficiency plastic solar cells March 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Researchers in the United States and Austria report an advance toward the next generation of plastic solar cells, which are widely heralded as a low cost, environmentally-friendly alternative to inorganic solar cells for ... | |
 Researchers Prove Bridge from Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible March 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have set the stage for building the “evolutionary link” between the microelectronics of today built from semiconductor compounds and future ... | |
 Chemists find important contributor to smog March 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a chemical reaction in the atmosphere above major cities long assumed to be unimportant in urban air pollution is in fact a significant ... | |
Rusty Worms in the Brain February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Iron is vital to human life; for example, it is a component of hemoglobin, the substance that makes our blood red and supplies our cells with oxygen. However, iron can also cause heavy damage; it is thought that iron deposits ... | |
 14-year-old CEO makes chemistry a game with 'Elementeo' April 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Age seems to be no obstacle when it comes to starting a business. That’s the case with 14-year-old Anshul Samar, CEO of Alchemist Empire, Inc., who invented a trading card game, “Elementeo,” that aims to teach ... | |
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