ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.
The process is simple, efficient and recycles otherwise-wasted energy into a useable form.
“This study provides a simple and cost-effective technology for direct [...]
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March 15th, 2010
Scavenging energy waste to turn water into hydrogen fuel
March 4th, 2010
Laser Etching Safe Alternative For Labeling Grapefruit
ScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2009) Laser labeling of fruit and vegetables is a new, patented technology in which a low-energy carbon dioxide laser beam is used to label, or “etch” information on produce, thereby eliminating the need for common sticker-type labels./pSee Also:Plants AnimalsFoodSoil TypesDroughtMatter EnergyOpticsNature of WaterMedical TechnologyReferenceCitrusConfocal laser scanning microscopyScarSeedless FruitpThe [...]
March 4th, 2010
Materials Scientists Find Better Model For Glass Creation
ScienceDaily (Nov. 6, 2009) Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass./pSee Also:Matter EnergyNature of WaterElectronicsMaterials SciencePhysicsChemistryCivil EngineeringReferenceSupercoolingLiquidList of phases of matterMaterials sciencepGlasses form through the process of vitrification, in [...]
March 4th, 2010
NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory
ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2009) NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life./pSee Also:Plants AnimalsSoil TypesBiologyGeneticsMatter EnergyOrganic ChemistryNature of [...]
March 4th, 2010
Chemists declare war on ice-plugs in oil pipelines
BookmarkChemists Declare War on ‘Ice-Plugs’ in Oil PipelinesScienceDaily (Nov. 13, 2009) Operators of subsea fields on the continental shelf spend vast amounts of money on keeping harmful ice-like crystals under control. SINTEF scientists are now looking for a cheaper solution to the problem./pSee Also:Matter EnergyPetroleumNature of WaterEnergy PolicyFossil FuelsInorganic ChemistryChemistryReferenceSaturated fatPetroleum geologyHydrocarbonOil [...]
March 4th, 2010
Self-cleaning silicone gel insect wings
ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2009) Researchers in Australia and the UK are flying the idea that insect wings could act as a model for making self-cleaning, frictionless, and superhydrophobic materials. They discuss the latest developments in their laboratories in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing./pSee Also:Plants AnimalsBirdsInsects (and Butterflies)BacteriaMatter [...]
March 4th, 2010
Tiny bubbles clean oil from water
ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2009) Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and [...]
March 4th, 2010
Engineer discovers why particles disperse on liquids
ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2009) Even if you are not a cook, you might have wondered why a pinch of flour (or any small particles) thrown into a bowl of water will disperse in a dramatic fashion, radiating outward as if it was exploding. Pushpendra Singh, PhD, a mechanical engineering professor at NJIT who [...]
March 4th, 2010
Freezing: A phenomenon that jumps
BookmarkFreezing: A Phenomenon That ‘Jumps’ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2009) The freezing of suspensions of particles is not always a uniform phenomenon; in certain conditions it leads to a modification of the redistribution of particles and the growth of crystals. These results have been obtained by researchers at the Laboratoire de Synthèse et Fonctionnalisation des [...]
March 4th, 2010
Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices
ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2009) Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, connect his tiny devices to the external pumps and reservoirs delivering liquids into the system. While pondering [...]
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