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Company Deposits CVD Diamond Coatings Ranging from Super Smooth to Controlled Roughness on Customer Parts

sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of diamond film products, equipment and services, today announced that its chemical vapor deposition (CVD) deposition capability has been expanded to provide diamond coatings ranging from super smooth nanocrystalline with a surface roughness of less than 10 nm to controlled microcrystalline films with a surface roughness greater than 10 um.

14 Jul 2009

Asia's First Manufacturer Receives IEC Certification for Tandem Junction SunFab Modules

At the Intersolar North America 2009 convention in San Francisco, ENN Solar Energy Co., Ltd. announced the launch of new silicon thin film solar products with the innovative "tandem junction" technology. The po...

14 Jul 2009

How Lightweight Materials can Provide Effective Solutions

The materials showing the way to future vehicles may be light in terms of weight, but they are far from "lightweight" in importance. They will be critical to meeting new U.S. government mandated fuel economy st...

13 Jul 2009

Synthesizing Wide Variety of Nanoparticles Inexpensively Using a New Environmentally Friendly Method

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.

13 Jul 2009

Bold Statements About the Correct Description of Superconductivity in Iron-Based Compounds

Superconductivity appears to rely on very different mechanisms in two varieties of iron-based superconductors. The insight comes from research groups that are making bold statements about the correct description of superconductivity in iron-based compounds in two papers about to be published in journals of the American Physical Society.

13 Jul 2009

ORNL Researcher to Receive PECASE Award

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Gary A. Baker has been named to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Baker is one of 12 Department of Energy scientists to receive the presidential award.

10 Jul 2009

Three Scientists from Berkeley Lab to Receive Prestigious PECASE Award

Three scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were among the 100 researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the prestigious Presidential Early ...

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 10 Jul 2009

Report Examines Opportunities for Nanomaterials in Sporting Applications

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Opportunities for Nanomaterials in Sporting Applications - 2008-2013: Trend, Forecast an...

From Research and Markets 10 Jul 2009

Journal Notes ICON Initiative to Share Nanomaterial Safety Information

A commentary in the July 9 issue of Nature cites the GoodNanoGuide, an online, community-driven wiki administered by the Rice University-based International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON), as an example of how nongover...

9 Jul 2009

Researchers Demonstrate Way to Fabricate Efficient Solar Cells from Low-Cost and Flexible Materials

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 9 Jul 2009