News tagged with aluminum powder
A new material to cut weight of ships by 30 percent and save on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions
A new material is tested to cut the weight of ships by 30 percent. For an average sized freight vessel with a capacity of 7000 m? this corresponds to a weight reduction of more than 1000 tons. Researchers from Fraunhofer ...
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Japan space probe may have brought home space dust: reports
Japan's space agency has found particles that may be extra-terrestrial in the capsule of the space probe Hayabusa that returned home in June after a seven-year journey to an asteroid, reports said Wednesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 06, 2010 |
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New aluminum-water rocket propellant promising for future space missions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Lunar rock-like material may someday house moon colonies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dwellings in colonies on the moon one day may be built with new, highly durable bricks developed by students from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Swiss researchers create unscratchable gold
(PhysOrg.com) -- EPFL scientists have created 18-karat gold that's harder than tempered steel and virtually unscratchable.
Dec 16, 2011 |
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Researchers make visible the structure of the smallest crystals
A radical new way of making structures visible at the nano level has been developed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany). This new method makes it possible to determine with precision the ...
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Printing off the paper: Pushing the boundaries of the burgeoning technology of 3-D printing
Imagine being able to "print" an entire house. Or a four-course dinner. Or a complete mechanical device such as a cuckoo clock, fully assembled and ready to run. Or a printer capable of printing ... yet another ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Scientists demonstrate a high-efficiency ceramic laser
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the Optical Sciences Division at the Naval Research Laboratory, report a successful demonstration of a novel high-efficiency ceramic laser that is both, light-weight and compact ...
May 24, 2011 |
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Laser sparks revolution in internal combustion engines
For more than 150 years, spark plugs have powered internal combustion engines. Automakers are now one step closer to being able to replace this long-standing technology with laser igniters, which will enable cleaner, more ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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'Green' cars could be made from pineapples and bananas
Your next new car hopefully won't be a lemon. But it could be a pineapple or a banana. That's because scientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from these and other plants in a new generation ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Quartz crystal microbalances enable new microscale analytic technique
A new chemical analysis technique developed by a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses the shifting ultrasonic pitch of a small quartz crystal to test the purity of only ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Hydrogen-generating technology might power boats, store energy from wind, solar sources
Researchers have developed a method that uses aluminum and a liquid alloy to extract hydrogen from seawater to run engines in boats and ships, representing a potential replacement for gasoline and diesel fuel ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Titanium foams replace injured bones
Flexible yet rigid like a human bone, and immediately capable of bearing loads: a new kind of implant, made of titanium foam, resembles the inside of a bone in terms of its structural configuration. Not only ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Advanced bio-filtration system promises less Chesapeake pollution
Technological advances developed by University of Maryland researchers promise significant reductions in urban runoff polluting the Anacostia watershed and the Chesapeake Bay. The researchers say their work ...
Aug 09, 2010 |
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