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  Upton NY (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising technology for producing clean and renewable energy, but the cost and activity of their cathode materials is a major challenge for commercialization. Many fuel cells require expensive platinum-based catalysts - substances that initiate and speed up chemical reactions - to help convert renewable fuels into electrical energy. To make hydrogen fuel cells commercially viable, scientists are searching for more affordable catalysts that provide the same efficiency as pure p ... read more |
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Pitt chemical engineers develop new theory to build improved nanomaterialsPittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Thanks in part to their distinct electronic, optical and chemical properties, nanomaterials are utilized in an array of diverse applications from chemical production to medicine and light-emitting d ... more 
MIT team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscaleBoston MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, quantum dots, and ... more 
Artificial synapses made from nanowiresJuelich, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 Scientists from Julich together with colleagues from Aachen and Turin have produced a memristive element made from nanowires that functions in much the same way as a biological nerve cell. The compo ... more 
How microscopic machines can fail in the blink of an eyeWashington DC (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 How long can tiny gears and other microscopic moving parts last before they wear out? What are the warning signs that these components are about to fail, which can happen in just a few tenths of a s ... more |
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Next generation of watch springsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 Applied research is not always initiated by industry - but oftentimes it yields results that can swiftly be implemented by companies. A prime example can be seen on the Empa campus in Thun: Tiny wat ... more 
Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of riceWashington DC (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 Gyroscopes are devices that help vehicles, drones, and wearable and handheld electronic devices know their orientation in three-dimensional space. They are commonplace in just about every bit of tec ... more 
Researchers discover directional and long-lived nanolight in a 2D materialWashington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 An international team led by researchers from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), and Soochow University (Suzhou, C ... more 
Big discoveries about tiny particlesNewark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plas ... more 
Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achievedTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 Researchers in Japan have found a way to create innovative materials by blending metals with precision control. Their approach, based on a concept called atom hybridization[1], opens up an unexplore ... more |
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 Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing 
Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in anotherOsaka, Japan (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 Quantum dots are nanometer-sized boxes that have attracted huge scientific interest for use in nanotechnology because their properties obey quantum mechanics and are requisites to develop advanced e ... more  |
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New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocksProvidence RI (SPX) Sep 25, 2018 Researchers from Brown University have assembled complex macroscale superstructures from pyramid-shaped nanoparticle building blocks. The research, described in the journal Nature, demonstrates a pr ... more 
Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructuresOak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 04, 2018 Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed. ... more 
First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes createdHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 Single-walled carbon nanotubes, or sheets of one atom-thick layers of graphene rolled up into different sizes and shapes, have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. By nature, ... more 
Nanotubes change the shape of waterHouston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod. Rice materials ... more 
Fast visible-UV light nanobelt photodetectorBejing, China (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 Compared with traditional thin-film photodetectors, one-dimensional nanostructures have larger surface-to-volume ratio, smaller size and higher carrier mobility, and thus tend to exhibit higher sens ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2019 
Orbiting the moon, China's Chang'e 4 lunar lander has moved into position in preparation for mankind's first landing on the far side of Earth's only natural satellite.
In entering its planned orbit on Sunday, the Chinese spacecraft will "prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon," stated the China National Space Administration, cited by the state-owned Xinhua medi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 03, 2019  A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower. The Chang'e-4 probe touched down and sent a photo of the so-called "dark side" of the moon to the Queqiao satellite, which will relay communications to controllers on Earth, state broadcaster CCTV said. Beijing is pouring billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022, and of eventually sending humans to the moon. ... more |
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 London (AFP) Dec 27, 2018 
British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has warned of his "very deep concerns" about Chinese technology giant Huawei being involved in the use of 5G on Britain's mobile network, The Times reported Thursday.
"I have grave, very deep concerns about Huawei providing the 5G network in Britain. It's something we'd have to look at very closely," Williamson was quoted as saying by the newspaper ... more |
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Beijing (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2019
Orbiting the moon, China's Chang'e 4 lunar lander has moved into position in preparation for mankind's first landing on the far side of Earth's only natural satellite.
In entering its planned orbit on Sunday, the Chinese spacecraft will "prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon," stated the China National Space Administration, cited by the state-owned Xinhua medi ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 
Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising technology for producing clean and renewable energy, but the cost and activity of their cathode materials is a major challenge for commercialization. Many fuel cells require expensive platinum-based catalysts - substances that initiate and speed up chemical reactions - to help convert renewable fuels into electrical energy. To make hydrogen fuel cells commerci ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Jan 01, 2019 
China successfully sent six atmospheric environment research satellites and a test communication satellite into orbit Saturday.
They were launched by a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:00 p.m.
The six Yunhai-2 satellites will be used to study atmospheric environment, monitor space environment, prevent and reduce disasters, and cond ... more |
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Upton NY (SPX) Jan 02, 2019
Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising technology for producing clean and renewable energy, but the cost and activity of their cathode materials is a major challenge for commercialization. Many fuel cells require expensive platinum-based catalysts - substances that initiate and speed up chemical reactions - to help convert renewable fuels into electrical energy. To make hydrogen fuel cells commerci ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 
Hundreds of small robots can work in a team to create biology-inspired shapes - without an underlying master plan, purely based on local communication and movement. To achieve this, researchers from EMBL, CRG and Bristol Robotics Laboratory introduced the biological principles of self-organisation to swarm robotics. Science Robotics publishes the results on 19 December.
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2018 
Insitu has won a $12 million contract for spare and sustainment parts for the Blackjack unmanned aircraft system, the Defense Department announced.
The company, a division of Boeing headquartered in Bergen, Wash., was awarded $12,167,690 for firm-fixed-price delivery against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for parts to maintain the Naval Supply Systems Command's RQ-21A Blac ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
Quantum computing and quantum information processing technology have attracted attention in recently emerging fields. Among many important and fundamental issues in nowadays science, solving Schroedinger Equation (SE) of atoms and molecules is one of the ultimate goals in chemistry, physics and their related fields. SE is "First Principle" of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, whose solutions t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 2, 2019 
Researchers have developed a new metamaterial with a robust acoustic structure. The novel material transports sound along its edges and concentrates it at its corners.
Material scientists at the City University of New York and at the City College of New York designed the metamaterial with the help of a mathematical field called topology. Topology is the study of objects unaffected by co ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 3, 2019 
A serial killer dubbed China's "Jack the Ripper" for the way he mutilated several of his 11 female victims was executed Thursday morning, three decades after the first murder, the court which sentenced him said.
The court in the northwest city of Baiyin, Gansu province, which handed him the death sentence in March last year announced on the Twitter-like Weibo that it had been carried out. ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
Uppsala University researchers have devised a new model for the Universe - one that may solve the enigma of dark energy. Their new article, published in Physical Review Letters, proposes a new structural concept, including dark energy, for a universe that rides on an expanding bubble in an additional dimension.
We have known for the past 20 years that the Universe is expanding at an ever a ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by tiny quantum mechanical effects.
These cause a background noise which overlaps with gravitational-wave signals. This noise is always presen ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 
Solar panels now account for over 10% of total electricity generation in some U.S. states, such as California. But policy-makers, utility companies, and engineers still find it difficult to put an accurate number on the country's total solar power installation, let alone to describe what factors make solar power thrive in certain areas and not others.
Now, researchers at Stanford Universit ... more |
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 Chennai, India (IANS) Dec 24, 2018 
The year 2018 could be termed as one of several new beginnings for the Indian space agency: the political sanction for a manned Gaganyaan mission, operationlisation of the heaviest rocket, steps to licence out lithium ion battery technology, introduction of new technologies in rockets and satellites and the decision to go ahead with the Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS), among others. A ... more |
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