Jul
6
Catalysts Built With The Smallest Life Form
July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
Siluria Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup is reporting progress with a New York Times story in commercializing a nanoscience-based approach to ethylene production using a virus for the catalyst construction scaffold. The technique is focused on the ability of a genetically engineered virus to coat itself with a metal that serves as a catalyst for […]
Jun
14
A New Way to Make Carbon Fiber
June 14, 2010 | 9 Comments
Carbon fiber – it’s the current holy grail of structural material for transportation vehicles like airplanes, cars, trucks, busses and rail. Moving the person or the freight is one thing; the thing that moves them is the other. The less the moving thing weighs the more efficient and less energy required. But carbon fiber is […]
Apr
8
Reactor Containment That Could Self Repair
April 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Los Alamos researchers report a surprising mechanism that allows nanocrystalline materials to self repair themselves after suffering radiation-induced damage. Nanocrystalline materials are those created from nanosized particles, in the Los Alamos research, copper particles. A single nanosized particle – called a grain – is the size of a virus or even smaller. Nanocrystalline materials consist […]
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