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A Solution to the Biggest Problem Facing Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have great potential for stationary and mobile applications. Stationary use ranges from residential applications to power plants. Mobile applications include power for ships at sea and in space, as well as for autos. In addition to electricity, when SOFCs are operated in reverse mode as solid oxide electrolyzer cells, pure hydrogen can be generated by splitting water.

21 May 2009

Webinar Identifies New Opportunities in the Conductive Coatings Space

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm that tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in electronics created by developments in advanced materials, today announced that it will be conducting a webinar title...

21 May 2009

Modumetal and Happy Plating to Create European Base for Advanced

Modumetal, Inc announced today a formal agreement with Austria-based Happy Plating to leverage the company's experience and electrochemical manufacturing infrastructure to create a European commercial manufacturing b...

From Modumetal 21 May 2009

Ultrafast Laser Research at K-State Allows Physicists to Build on Nobel Prize-Winning Work in Photo-Electronics

Ultrafast laser research at Kansas State University has allowed physicists to build on Nobel Prize-winning work in photo-electronics by none other than Albert Einstein. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for hi...

21 May 2009

Engineer Explores Properties of Materials

In the 1990s, semiconductor companies began to incorporate a wider variety of materials into the construction of computer chips, selecting materials based on how they would perform electrically and not necessarily on how they would stand up to the rigors of the manufacturing process or continued use.

21 May 2009

Battery-Free Power Source for Wireless Sensors

Darnell nanoPower Forum - Today, engineers from Powercast and CAP-XX Limited (LSE:CPX) will introduce a wireless power module reference design combining Powercast's RF energy-harvesting technology with a CAP-XX supercapacitor.

From CAP-XX Pty Ltd 21 May 2009

Grant Aims to Improve Student Interest and Achievement in Science and Engineering

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany was selected as one of 10 two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States to receive a highly competitive ...

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 21 May 2009

Professorship to Support Ground-Breaking Research into Graphene

Already a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Prof Geim has now been given a Royal Society Research Professorship to support his ground-breaking research into a super-thin two dimensional material called graphene.

21 May 2009

Modumetal and University of Washington to Develop Innovative Anti-Corrosion Technology

Washington Technology Center (WTC) has awarded an Entrepreneur's Access grant to the University of Washington to support an advanced material research collaboration with Modumetal, Inc. of Seattle, Washington. Mod...

From Modumetal 21 May 2009

RXi Pharmaceuticals CSO Presents Pre-Clinical Data on Novel RNAi Therapeutic Approaches at IBC's TIDES Conference

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, today announced that the Company' Chief Scientific Officer, Anastasia Khvorova, Ph.D., presented new pre-clinical data on novel RNAi therapeutic approaches at IBC' TIDES Oligonucleotide and Peptide® Technology and Product Development Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

21 May 2009