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Beijing Air Quality, Before, During and After the Olympic Games

As the world watches China prepare for the Olympic Games, Cornell researcher Max Zhang has his eye on less visible matters -- the particles in Beijing's air that millions breathe every day, and that many more will be breathing when they descend on the city this summer

22 Jul 2008

Expert Questions If We Are Applying Lessons Learned From Past Mistakes to the Emerging Field of Nanotechnology

A new expert analysis in Nature Nanotechnology questions whether industry, government and scientists are successfully applying lessons learned from past technologies to ensure the safe and responsible development of emerging nanotechnologies

22 Jul 2008

Brookhaven Lab Scores Award for Electrocatalysis in Fuel Cells

Brookhaven lab chemist Radoslav Adzic receives the U.S. Department of Energy's hydrogen program R and D award

22 Jul 2008

Nanoparticle Additives Boost the Energy Efficiency of Industrial Cooling Systems

Nanoparticle additives to lubricants commonly combined with refrigerants used in chillers may encourage secondary nucleation--bubbles on top of bubbles. The double-bubble effect enhances boiling heat transfer and, ultimately, could help to boost the energy efficiency of industrial-sized cooling systems

22 Jul 2008

Professor to Present on Nanotechnology Being Used to Create Cheap, Flexible Solar Cells

Research into new types of solar cells produced by nanotechnology will be described by Professor Darren Bagnall at the World Renewable Energy Conference

20 Jul 2008

Breakthrough in Low Cost LED Lighting to Cut Electricity Consumption by Around 10 Percent

Timothy D. Sands, at left, director of Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park, and graduate student Mark Oliver, operate a "reactor" in work aimed at perfecting solid-state lighting

17 Jul 2008

Solar Power Laboratory for Arizona State University

Arizona State University is strengthening its commitment to boost Arizonas economic development prospects in the renewable energy industry by establishing the Solar Power Laboratory to advance solar energy research, education and technology

14 Jul 2008

Arrowhead Reseach Set to Develop Nanotechnology Based Energy Storage for Electric Vehicles

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced today that it has formed Agonn Systems Corporation to explore, develop and commercialize nanotechnology-based energy storage devices for electric vehicles and other large format applications

9 Jul 2008

R and D Award for CO2 Analyzer Used to Monitor Greenhouse Gas Levels

Picarro Inc. has won the coveted R&D 100 award for 2008 with their G1101-i Isotopic CO2 Analyzer

7 Jul 2008

A New Way Of Developing Efficient and Inexpensive Solar Cells and Plastic Electronic Devices

A new way to help technologists develop efficient and inexpensive plastic electronic devices, such as plastic solar cells and a new type of transistor have been showcased by physicist Andrea Liscio

7 Jul 2008