Stony Brook University will be home to the new Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center (NOCESC), which involves a team of experimentalists and theorists at SBU (Clare P. Grey, Director and Peter Khalifah, in the Chemistry Department), Brookhaven National Laboratory (Jason Graetz and Xiao-Qing Yang), Rutgers, Binghamton University, MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U. Michigan, Argonne National Laboratory, and U. Florida.
May 4th, 2009
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ExploraVision winners envision innovative energy solutions, new lifesaving medical treatments and more - even a possible solution to the current sports steroids scandal.
May 4th, 2009
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A comprehensive study of old and new manufacturing processes, from machining metal to making carbon nanofibers, shows that the more advanced technologies are less efficient in their use of energy and materials per kilogram of output.
May 4th, 2009
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A team of scientists has developed a microscope that is capable of live imaging at double the resolution of fluorescence microscopy using structured illumination.
May 4th, 2009
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In the world of small things, shape, order and orientation are surprisingly important, according to findings from a new study by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.
May 4th, 2009
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Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality thanks to research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and at Japan's RIKEN institute.
May 4th, 2009
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An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy.
May 4th, 2009
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MIT has become a major center of work on graphene, with several different research groups pursuing various aspects -- including physical, chemical, electronic and engineering -- of the novel material.
May 4th, 2009
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A material just six atoms thick in which electrons appear to be guided by conflicting laws of physics depending on their direction of travel has been discovered by a team of physicists at the University of California, Davis.
May 4th, 2009
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EU-funded scientists have developed a new, non-viral way of getting genes into a cell. The technique appears to avoid the side-effects, such as cancer, which can occur when viruses are used to smuggle genes into a cell.
May 4th, 2009
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MIT researchers have developed tiny gold particles that can home in on tumors, and then, by absorbing energy from near-infrared light and emitting it as heat, destroy tumors with minimal side effects.
May 4th, 2009
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Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), a third-generation of synchrotron radiation light source, is completed and ready for use.
May 4th, 2009
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In future, cartilage, tendon and blood vessel tissue will be produced in the laboratory, with cells being grown on a porous frame, such as non-wovens. A new software program helps to characterize and optimize the non-wovens.
May 4th, 2009
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In a new paper, researchers describe ACEMBL, the first fully automated pipeline for the production of multiprotein complexes.
May 4th, 2009
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Void spaces are too small for metals.
May 4th, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Virginia Health Science Center evaluated a novel glioma therapy through the targeted delivery of controlled-release nanoparticles to an immunocompromised mouse model.
May 4th, 2009
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