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Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It’s fitting that they can now be made partially from trees.
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The Pittcon 2013 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce a successful event for the first time in Philadelphia with more than 18,000 attendees, 1,011 exhibiting companies from 28 countries, co-location of Food Labs Conference in conjunction with Pittcon and a robust technical program.
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Certain bacteria can breathe iron like we breathe oxygen. Understanding how they do so will help researchers use the microbes for cleaning up soil contaminants, for trapping carbon dioxide or for making batteries out of bacteria.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory honored seven outstanding small businesses and their supporters at its annual small business awards ceremony on March 22. The winning firms were nominated by ORNL staff in recognition of the companies' exceptional service during the 2012 fiscal year.
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Maobing Tu, an assistant professor in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, has received a $401,155 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research in biofuels and bioenergy.
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Oana Jurchescu mentors students in researching organic semiconductors, which could lead to high-performance, plastic based electronics.
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Semi-conducting polymers are an unruly bunch, but a new method for getting them in line could pave the way for cheaper, greener, “paint-on” plastic electronics.
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The Department of Energy today announced that approximately $40 million from its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will be made available for two new programs that will engage our country’s brightest scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to develop technologies that shift our cars and trucks off oil.
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Sandia National Laboratories scientist Hope Michelsen, who peers through atmospheric soot to learn about the air we breathe, has been named by the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame as the 2013 Outstanding Woman in Science. She is the first Sandia employee to receive this award.
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Focus is on cost-effective and efficient ways to support Antarctic science as research frontiers evolve.
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A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles -- cars and small trucks -- via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies.
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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have once again demonstrated the incredible capabilities of metamaterials – artificial nanoconstructs whose optical properties arise from their physical structure rather than their chemical composition.
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