News tagged with sodium carbonate
New metal alloy electrode designed for plus-sized ions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Storing energy from wind farms and releasing that electricity on demand requires high-capacity, low-cost batteries; sodium-ion batteries could be part of the answer now, thanks to fundamental ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Planned Tanzanian soda ash plant threatens flamingoes
Salmon-coloured clouds of flamingoes sweeping overhead is a common sight at east Africa's Rift Valley lakes, but the mounds of mud where they lay their eggs are found only here.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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dAlH2Orean: An RC car that runs on aluminum soda can tabs (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aleix Lovet and Xavier Saluena, two researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of Catalonia, have made the world first RC car that runs entirely on soda cans. Well, to be more accurate, it runs ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Sugar-Coated Nanotubes Deliver High-Dose Radiotherapy
Starting with simple carbon nanotubes, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Spain has developed a sugar-coated nanocapsule that can deliver large doses of radioactivity to tumors. The researchers envision developing ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 16, 2010 |
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Research on self-healing concrete yields cost-effective system to extend life of structures
Efforts to extend the life of structures and reduce repair costs have led engineers to develop "smart materials" that have self-healing properties, but many of these new materials are difficult to commercialize. A new self-healing ...
May 24, 2010 |
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Lithium to be extracted from geothermal waste
(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will enable the valuable mineral lithium, widely used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water produced ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 14, 2009 |
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