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• Extreme Upcycling: Turning Plastic Bags Into Carbon Nanotubes

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 135
  Companies like Terracycle are great at upcycling trash into brand new consumer products, but researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois are taking the concept of turning trash into treasure to new heights with a process that converts throwaway plastic bags into carbon nanotubes. Once converted, the ...
  3 days ago

• Analyzing data in a data driven organization

  
  Software for Enterprise — Authority: 125
  So now the company has made a considerable investment implementing a powerful data warehouse and a sophisticated front-end Business Intelligence tool, in line with the requirements specified by users during the requirements analyses stage of the process…but what now? One would assume that once a user has his wish ...
  4 days ago

• Hybrid biological machines powered by bacteria

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Researchers have discovered that common bacteria suspended in a solution can be made to turn microgears. This opens up the possibility of building hybrid biological machines at the microscopic scale. The researchers say the discovery demonstrates how microscopic swimming agents, such as bacteria or man-made ...
  4 days ago

• Bacteria-powered microgears to boost hybrid biomechanical systems

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 447
  Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory working in collaboration with Northwestern University have developed bacteria-powered microgears to further develop “hybrid biomechanical systems”. Utilizing hundreds of Bacilus subtilis to form minuscule gears of just 380 microns, four times thicker than the human hair, ...
  4 days ago

• Bacteria taught to spin microscopic gears right round, could make for better solar panels

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  With a name like Bacillus subtilis and a size of five microns you probably wouldn’t expect much in the way of heavy lifting, but don’t let first impressions fool you. More:  Bacteria taught to spin microscopic gears right round, could make for better solar panels
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• Bacteria taught to spin microscopic gears right round, could make for better solar panels

  
  Engadget — Authority: 842
  With a name like Bacillus subtilis and a size of five microns you probably wouldnt expect much in the way of heavy lifting, but dont let first impressions fool you. This tiny organism has been taught by scientists at Argonne National Laboratory to spin little gears that weigh one million times more than the bacteria ...
  5 days ago

• LG announces "world’s thinnest" 42-inch LCD panel

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  We’re gearing up for CES 2010 , which means the race to show off an even thinner “worlds thinnest” LCD TV panel is heating up — and it looks like LG’s taking an early lead by announcing a new 42-inch 1080p panel that’s just 2.6mm (.1 inch) thin. The prototype LED-backlit 120Hz display weighs just under 8.8 ...
  5 days ago

• Bacteria can power simple machines by turning microgears while swimming

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Washington, December 17 (ANI): Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, Evanston, have discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in a solution, providing insights for design of bio-inspired dynamically adaptive materials for ...
  1 week ago

• NIH Guides Nanomedicine Towards Killing Cancer

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 621
  Researchers at Argonne National Labs used tiny titanium dioxide nanoparticles to burn brain tumor cells killing more than 80% after just 5 minutes of treatment. There have been many proposed means of killing cancer cells: selective pathogens, irradiation, chemical corrosion of membranes…but my favorite has always ...
  1 week ago

• Upcycling: Transforming plastic bags into nanotubes

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 447
  Vilas Ganpat Pol at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has discovered a way of transforming plastic bags into carbon nanotubes. The chemist who developed the technique calls it ‘upcycling’, which means converting a waste product into something more valuable. He converted waste plastic from throwaway ...
  1 week ago

• Turning waste plastic into carbon nanotubes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  London, Dec 12 (ANI): A chemist has created an ‘upcycling’ method of turning the disposable plastic carrier bags into carbon nanotubes.Vilas Ganpat Pol at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois developed the carrier-bag-to-nanotube technique and converts high or low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE) into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Science seeks to control the Casimir force (UPI)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  ARGONNE, Ill., Dec. 10 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they are seeking a way of controlling the Casimir force — a quantum mechanical force that hampers creation of nanoscale machines. (read on…) Related items Argonne scientists to control attractive force for nanoelectromechanical systems (EurekAlert!) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lotus Omnivore Shows Up to 10% Better Mileage Than Spray-Guided GDI Engines

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 161
  The main issue with flex-fuel engines is that fuels have varying combustion temperatures, burn rates and octane ratings. Trying to come up with one engine that can handle just about any fuel is a challenge Lotus Engineering (and, more recently, Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois ) decided to tackle. Last ...
  2 weeks ago

• Argonne scientists to control attractive force for nanoelectromechanical systems

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 622
  ARGONNE, Ill. (Dec.10, 2009) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energys Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force, which attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart. Link:  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Argonne scientists to control attractive force for nanoelectromechanical systems (EurekAlert!)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  ( DOE/Argonne National Laboratory ) Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force, which attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart. (read on…) Related items Argonne to expand ...
  2 weeks ago

• Innovation Puts Next-Generation Solar Cells on the Horizon

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image by Argonne National Laboratory via Flickr In a world first, a Monash University -led international research team has developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells. Scientists at Monash University, in collaboration with colleagues from the universities of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nanomagnet cancer treatment

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  Nanoscale magnetic discs actually physically wreck cancer cell s. Nanotech is offering a lot of medical treatments, particularly in cancer research. From the link: Laboratory tests found the so-called “nanodiscs”, around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of  cancer cells , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chemtrails ; Fact or Fiction and WHY?

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  READ DESCRIPTION and Check Links!!! (Subscribe if you’d like and please rate if you enjoyed it.) Are Chemtrails Real? What’s the agenda? These chemtrails belong to the Department of Energy’s, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM). The Department of Energy’s National Laboratories that are taking part ...
  3 weeks ago

• Project StarGate @ SC09

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 450
  The San Diego Supercomputer Center drew a standing-room only crowd when they fired up their connection to the Eureka visualization cluster at Argonne to stream the massive visualization of the universe to the show floor. This visualization of the Universe as it condenses around fluctuations in the density of dark ...
  4 weeks ago

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