Category Archives: design

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Double-Layered Silicon-Germanium Nanotube Array

2011-12-21 – 5:25 pm

Green Car Congress is a good source for brief synopses about industry development of traction batteries for electric vehicles.

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Inside-out Buckyballs, Batman?

2011-5-13 – 10:30 am

Negative Curvature Carbon

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PANI-M-C

2011-4-21 – 7:16 pm

Potentials within ~60 millivolts of that delivered by state-of-the-art carbon-supported platinum, and remarkable performance stability for non–precious metal catalysts, sounds like a winner

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SKF for a Sweet Ride

2011-4-6 – 9:34 am

Speaking of advocacy, could those coal trains from Wyoming use electric drive, to include kinetic energy reclamation in braking and suspension? Thanks ever so much, Warren & Bill.

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Bicontinuous Nanoarchitecture

2011-3-21 – 10:50 am

The promise of capacitor-like power with battery-like energy.

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Yi Cui, More Anode Development

2011-2-20 – 7:53 am

Researchers find a low cost way to improve the safety of anodes in lithium batteries.

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Looking out my back door

2011-1-7 – 11:23 am

When in 2003 other places in New York had a blackout, in Johnson City I am glad to say that we only had a brown out.

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Flexible Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells

2011-1-2 – 12:12 pm

Atwater envisions roll-to-roll production of this photo voltaic laminate.

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Re-paving / Extending the Road to Hell and High Water

2010-11-16 – 3:27 pm

Ah, I love the smell of fresh asphalt. It smells like Victory.

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Fullerene-doped Semi-conducting Polymer

2010-11-7 – 6:22 pm

Plastics that are translucent, malleable and able to conduct electricity open the door to broader use of lower cost, lightweight materials in a wide range of electrical devices.

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