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The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a contributed oral or poster presentation for Pittcon 2013, which which will be held March 17-21, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA.
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Find out where other universities ranked overall and in specific science departments.
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Finding an efficient way to store solar energy is a major goal for science and society.
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New York University physicists have developed a method that models biological cell-to-cell adhesion that could also have industrial applications.
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Projects will investigate materials for renewable energy, advanced electronics, biomaterials, organic and polymeric materials.
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A Sandia National Laboratories technology has been used to remove radioactive material from more than 43 million gallons of contaminated wastewater at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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In the growth of crystals, do nanoparticles act as “artificial atoms” forming molecular-type building blocks that can assemble into complex structures? This is the contention of a major but controversial theory to explain nanocrystal growth.
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Research engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have a different vision for the home of the future.
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Institutions of higher education perform about one-half of the nation's basic research.
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Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported the first direct observation of what they have termed “jump-to-contact,” the critical step in oriented attachment.
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Political conflict and threats of deep cuts to the federal government’s investment in research and development could jeopardize the United States’ power of innovation, analysts say.
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