News tagged with heat treatment

Geothermal heating system draws on limitless fuel: sewage

Among the many renewable energy sources - wind, solar, hydroelectric, biofuels - there is one to which we all contribute that has not yet managed to attract the romantic advocates who have embraced other forms of green energy.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Elpida uses high-K metal gate technology to develop 2-gigabit DDR2 mobile RAM

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced the DRAM industry's first-ever use of high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology to develop a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM (LPDDR2) ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new way to make lighter, stronger steel -- in a flash

A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers here recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record – in less than 10 seconds.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticle thermotherapy as a chemotherapy alternative

Using hyperthermia, Virginia Tech engineering researchers and a colleague from India unveiled a new method to target and destroy cancerous cells. The research was presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Physical ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Geothermal heat pumps reduce energy costs at wastewater plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can sinking geothermal heat pumps into waste water treatment plant aeration ponds provide heating and cooling to lower the plant's energy costs?

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How many nanoparticles heat the tumor?

Those who have to fight a powerful enemy must look for allies. This is why physicists from different scientific fields have decided to cooperate with biomedical physicians in order to place the fight against cancer through ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hollow spheres made of metal

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0