Jun

30

PlanIT Valley: The First Sustainable City in the World

June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment

PlanIT Valley promises to be the first sustainable city from an economic, social, technological and environmental point of view. The story begins as many others, on a local level: Miguel Rodrigues, a Portuguese entrepreneur, simply wanted to build an electric car factory in Paredes, near Porto (Portugal). But the idea quickly jumped borders, transformed itself [...]

May

18

Physics World Magazine Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Invention of the Laser

May 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Physics World and physicsworld.com are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser – one of the outstanding success stories in physics with a special edition that we can download for free (after registration). Physics World’s special May issue contains the story of the race to build the world’s first laser, a special [...]

Apr

15

Next Generation Nanofilms

April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Next generation nanofilms created – new research described in AIP’s the Journal of Chemical Physics. ‘With the human genome in hand, biochemists have cataloged the 3-D structures of thousands of proteins isolated from living cells. But one important class of proteins — those stuck in the cell membranes — has proven difficult to extract and [...]

Jan

22

TEAM 0.5: The World’s Most Powerful Microscope

January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World’s Best Microscope. ‘TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope capable of producing images with half angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom has been installed at the Department of Energy’s National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at [...]

Oct

14

Plastic Steel: Light and Transparent but Strong as Steel

October 14, 2007 | 1 Comment

U-M research: New plastic is strong as steel, transparent. ‘By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that’s as strong as steel but lighter and transparent. It’s made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with white glue. Engineering professor Nicholas [...]

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