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Startup that Eyes Radical Shift in Cement Industry Wins MIT $100K Business-Plan Competition

Judging by history, an MIT-student startup company called C-Crete Technologies, which won this week's finals of the annual student-run MIT $100K Business Plan Competition, stands a good chance of beating the odds to ...

14 May 2010

Research Expands List of Potential Electrode Materials that Could Be Used to Store Energy

Expanding on work published two years ago, MIT's Daniel Nocera and his associates have found yet another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials, that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity.

14 May 2010

Argonne Scientists Examine Nanoparticle Crystallization in Unprecedented Detail

A collaboration between the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials at U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has "seen" the crystallization of nanoparticles in unprecedented detail.

From Argonne National Laboratory 14 May 2010

Quantum Experiment Helps to Understand Interactions Between Microscopic Particles

MPQ-LMU scientists demonstrate for the first time exotic multi-particle interactions between ultracold atoms in an artificial crystal of light. At extremely low temperatures atoms can aggregate into so-called Bose Einstein condensates forming coherent laser-like matter waves.

14 May 2010