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Research on Superconducting Wire in Wind Energy Project Receives Additional Funding

A University of Houston engineering researcher and his team have received additional funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a wind energy project that involves using superconducting wire to generate and transport electricity.

21 Dec 2012

Scientists Use Silver Atoms to Understand the Characteristics of New Superconductor

By doping a bismuth-based layered material with silver, Chinese scientists demonstrated that superconductivity is intrinsic to the new material rather than stemming from its impurities

21 Dec 2012

Electrons in Crystalline Structure Form Quantum Spin Liquid

A research team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed long-standing suspicions among physicists that electrons in a crystalline structure called a kagome (kah-go-may) lattice can form a "spin liquid," a novel quantum state of matter in which the electrons' magnetic orientation remains in a constant state of change.*

21 Dec 2012

Quantum Dots are Well-Established Markets for Nanomaterials

Nanotechnology is one of one of the hottest and rapidly evolving industries worldwide. Its outstanding products, nanomaterials, are coming into use in aerospace, automotive, medicine, construction, communications, electronics, energy, defence, packaging, and many other areas. Zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, silicon oxide nanopowders and carbon nanotubes, nanofibers, nanosilver, nanoclays, quantum dots and nanoporous materials are the well-established markets for nanomaterials.

20 Dec 2012

Dual-Core Nanomechanical Optical Fibers with Precise Mechanical Motion Capability

Optical fibers –the backbone of the Internet–carry movies, messages, and music at the speed of light. But for all their efficiency, these ultrathin strands of pristine glass must connect to sluggish signal switches, routers, and buffers in order to transmit data. Hoping to do away with these information speed bumps, researchers have developed a new, dual-core optical fiber that can perform the same functions just by applying a miniscule amount of mechanical pressure.

20 Dec 2012

Evaporative Cooling Method May Help Advance Quantum Simulators

Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by which a hot cup of coffee cools.

20 Dec 2012

Researchers Question 40 Year-Old Theory on Glitching of Pulsars

Researchers from the University of Southampton have called in to question a 40 year-old theory explaining the periodic speeding up or 'glitching' of pulsars.

20 Dec 2012

Frost + Sullivan Honors QMC’s Enabling Technology for Mass Production of Tetrapod Quantum Dots

Quantum Materials Corporation (QMC), the first manufacturer of Tetrapod Quantum Dots by a mass production continuous flow chemistry process, has been honored with Frost & Sullivan's 2012 North American Enabling Technology Award for Advanced Quantum Dot Manufacturing. QMC's "enabling technology" overcomes all quantum dot industry problems by delivering high-quality, lower-cost, and uniform quantum dots in commercial quantities for the reliable supply necessary for industrial production commitments.

20 Dec 2012

Antimony Microelectrodes Can Help Understand Nature of Electrochemical and Corrosion Processes

For several decades antimony electrodes have been used to measure the acidity/basicity – and so to determine the pH value. Unfortunately, they allow for measuring pH changes of solutions only at a certain distance from electrodes or corroding metals.

19 Dec 2012

Two Employees at Applied Communication Sciences Earn Fellow Distinction

Applied Communication Sciences announced today that it has elevated two employees to the title of ACS Fellow in recognition of their industry-leading innovations, critical business contributions, and extensive collaborations with clients and business partners.

19 Dec 2012

New Study Indicates Black Holes May be Bigger than Previously Thought

Some of the biggest black holes in the Universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, according to a study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

19 Dec 2012

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration to Resolve Dark Matter Puzzle

This fall, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and the National Academy of Sciences organized a colloquium that brought together more than 100 cosmologists, particle physicists and observational astrophysicists – three fields now united in the hunt to determine what is dark matter.

19 Dec 2012