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Nick Palmisciano is a former infantry officer in the U.S. Army. At the start of an interesting set of comments about being a new Army infantry officer (engagingly titled "Don't Be A Douche"), an interesting comment on caring about your people:2.) Your guys are more important than your career. This ties in nicely with my last point, but it is worthy of its own bullet. You’re all going to be civilians someday, no matter how much you love the military or how long you serve.
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Calculations by the Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson found a graphene/boron anode should be able to hold a lot of lithium and perform at a proper voltage for use in lithium-ion batteries.
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Large chemical companies are constantly buying and selling the various divisions in their collection. Often the rearrangements make sense, and other times they don't. A couple of recent announcements from the business world capture this perfectly.First, Plastemart is reporting that the BOPP (biaxially oriented polypropylene) film operations of ExxonMobil are being sold to Jindal, an Indian company. This is following the trend of more-and-more BOPP being made by companies not headquartered in […]
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New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices.
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With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard laboratory - and not at the scale of inches, but microns.
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Silly samplings from this week’s science news, compiled by Sophia Cai, Bethany Halford, and Jeff Huber. Forget mouse ears. The best souvenir of your Disney vacation is your face on a 7.5-inch Stormtrooper figurine (or a figurine of yourself locked in carbonite after you have to pay for said vacation). [iO9] Super geek dad builds [...]
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Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis. While 'artificial leaf' is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an 'artificial forest'.
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Scientists have gained new insights into how materials transfer heat, which could lead eventually to smaller, more powerful electronic devices.
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The interactive data-eyeglasses will be presented at the AWE 2013 - future application scenarios will be developed by the interdisciplinary project FAIR.
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This past Monday, the Minnesota Vikings [1] announced [2] the continuation of their long-term obsession with fluorine polymers. This love affair first started over 30 years ago when the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (aka, the world's largest Kaiser Roll) was built and the team started playing their home games there. The roof is made up of polyethylene fabric that is held up by the higher air pressure in the building except for those couple of times when the weight from heavy snowstorms collapsed […]
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Good morning! Between May 14 and May 15, there were 15 jobs posted on the C&EN Jobs website. Of these, 2 (13%) were academically connected and 9 (60%) were from Kelly Scientific Resources.Zeroes!: Vertex (Cambridge, MA) continues its run of hiring with a B.S./M.S./Ph.D. chemical development position. 0-3+ years experience for Ph.D.s, 5+ for M.S., 8+ for B.S. positions.San Jose, CA: Energy Storage Stealth is a startup, doing something very interesting that I can't quite tell what it is...:We
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Researchers used a hydrogel to mimic the heart cells. They added carbon nanotubes to the hydrogel, making it conductive, and then injected the material into the heart, where it solidifies at body temperature.
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Engineers combine layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors to create a wearable heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill. The skin-like device could one day provide doctors with a safer way to check the condition of a patient's heart.
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Going to the movies in the first half of the 20th century was dangerous. The movie theatre projection room was a particularly hazardous place to work. And while the source of the danger was well understood, it took several decades for filmmakers to finally offer moviegoers and projectionists a safer environment to enjoy Hollywood’s finest [...]
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Inspired by the structure of moth eyes, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed nanostructures that limit reflection at the interfaces where two thin films meet, suppressing the "thin-film interference" phenomenon commonly observed in nature. This can potentially improve the efficiency of thin-film solar cells and other optoelectronic devices.
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Scientists have succeeded in growing a unique carbon structure at the nanoscale that resembles a tiny twirled moustache. Their method might lead the way to the formation of more complex nano-networks.
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Approach could be useful in fabricating new kinds of materials with engineered properties.
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An international research team has used a combination of nanoscale imaging, computer simulation and de novo protein design to reveal a new mechanism of membrane disruption by antimicrobial peptides.
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Fledgling spin-out company Drop-Tech has turned to microfluidics specialist Dolomite for its product development and fabrication skills to help productize the advanced and innovative Robo-Drop technology into the Mitos Dropix, a droplet-on-demand sampler that is set to make it easy to produce extremely miniaturized droplet compartments with excellent control over their contents.
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Physikern an der Universität Wien ist es gelungen, eine einzigartige Nano-Struktur aus Kohlenstoff zu züchten, die einem winzigen gezwirbelten Schnurrbart ähnelt. Ihre Methode könnte wegweisend für die Bildung komplexerer Nano-Netzwerke sein.
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Injectable nanogel can monitor blood-sugar levels and secrete insulin when needed.
