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Developing “Green” Tires That Boost Mileage and Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions
C&EN Senior Editor Alexander Tullo explains that rolling resistance — the friction that tires encounter when rolling — are a major factor in a vehicle’s fuel economy. It can determine up to 20 percent...
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Read moreDeveloping 'green' tires that boost mileage and cut carbon dioxide emissions
The new tires could help add an extra mile or two per gallon to a car's fuel economy. That's the topic of the cover story of the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News, (C&EN) ACS'...
Materials Sciences | Read moreNanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit
The project, funded by the U.S. Air Force Multi University Research Initiative (MURI), seeks to test the performance of the new nanocomposites in orbit. Space Shuttle Atlantis will carry the samples t...
Materials Sciences | Read moreNanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit
The project, funded by the U.S. Air Force Multi University Research Initiative (MURI), seeks to test the performance of the new nanocomposites in orbit. Space Shuttle Atlantis will carry the samples t...
Materials Sciences | Read moreEngineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity
The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice...
Life Sciences | Read moreSingapore's IBN and NUH to test cutting-edge materials to treat eye diseases
Marking a significant bench to bedside research milestone in Singapore, the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research inst...
Health and Medicine | Read moreTransforming Nanowires Into Nano-Tools Using Cation Exchange Reactions
The research team, using only chemical reactants, transformed semiconducting nanowires into a variety of useful, nanoscale materials including nanoscale metal strips with periodic stripes and semicond...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreTiny test tube experiment shows reaction of melting materials at the nano scale
The nano-scale test tube is so small that a high-power electron microscope was required to see the experiment.Made from a thin shell of carbon, the test tube was stuffed with a thread-like cry...
Life Sciences | Read moreMicropatterned material surface controls cell orientation
The study is reported in Issue 18, Volume 54 (September 2009) of the Chinese Science Bulletin as one of the papers in a special issue about Biomedical Materials in this journal.Cell-material i...
Life Sciences | Read moreDeath by Light
The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective...
Life Sciences | Read moreToxic Substances and REACH
The report provides a comprehensive evaluation of national and European environmental policies covering 2004 to 2008. Key sections of the SRU report dealing with German national environmental policy a...
Life Sciences | Read moreTheoretical Electrical Resistance Discovery Proven in Nanomaterials Lab
Scientists know the correct answer is that interplay between theory and experiments result in new advances. At times, experiment and technological development pave the way for theory. At other times, ...
Power and Electrical Engineering | Read moreMaking Nanowires More Electrically Stable
Carmen Lilley, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is working on new procedures for making nanowires more electrically stable -- and ...
Power and Electrical Engineering | Read moreWhen nano may not be nano
However, little is known which particles may be harmful. Part of the problem is determining exactly what a nanoparticle is.A new analysis by an international team of researchers from the Cente...
Materials Sciences | Read moreUp-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry
The technique can measure the spectrum of the specific wavelengths of near infrared light used widely in telecommunications as well as the very weak infrared light at single-photon levels given off by...
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