News tagged with cobalt
Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications
An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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IAEA removes dangerous radioactive sources from Lebanon
An IAEA mission to get powerful radioactive sources out of Lebanon was completed 30 August 2009, after a plane carrying the high-activity cargo safely touched down in Russia, where the sources are now securely and safely ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Creating Denser Magnetic Memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues afflicting magnetic memory is the fact that it is difficult to store information for as long as 10 years. In order to overcome this problem, scientists and engineers have been looking for ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Shape matters in the case of cobalt nanoparticles
Shape is turning out to be a particularly important feature of some commercially important nanoparticles—but in subtle ways. New studies* by scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Air-fueled battery could last up to 10 times longer
A new type of air-fuelled battery could give up to ten times the energy storage of designs currently available.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 18, 2009 |
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Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices
For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Cobalt Nanoparticles Boost Imaging Sensitivity and Edge Detection
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a very sensitive technique for detecting small tumors in the body, but it is not as good at identifying the edges of a tumor. Photoacoustic imaging tomography ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Turning sunlight into liquid fuels (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, green plants have employed photosynthesis to capture energy from sunlight and convert it into electrochemical energy. A goal of scientists has been to develop an artificial ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Nano-sonar uses electrons to measure under the surface
Just as sonar sends out sound waves to explore the hidden depths of the ocean, electrons can be used by scanning tunnelling microscopes to investigate the well-hidden properties of the atomic lattice of metals. ...
Feb 27, 2009 |
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