Applied Physics
- This Battery Has One Billion Components- But Is The Size Of A Postage Stamp
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How is this for the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage: A new tiny nanopore includes all the components of a battery though it is just is a tiny hole in a ceramic sheet that holds an electrolyte to carry the electrical charge between nanotube elec ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2014 - 4:59pm
- Fluoropore: 21st Century Non-stick Finish Means Your Car Never Gets Dirty
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Imagine a car that can't get dirty or a business in Ferguson, Missouri that can't be graffiti'ed by unhinged protesters. It might be possible with a new class of highly fluorinated super-repellent polymer called a “fluoropore”, which mimics ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 30 2014 - 11:12am
- Snap Circuits Science: The Diode
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The diode has a number of applications in electronic circuits. One application you may be familiar with is a rectifier. A rectifier converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). Alternating current periodically changes direction while direct cu ...
Article - Steve Schuler - Dec 5 2014 - 11:45am
- Sunlight Converted To Electricity With Over 40 Percent Efficiency
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Using commercial solar cells, researchers have converted over 40 percent of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2014 - 11:48am
- Compact Particle Accelerator Sets New World Record
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have accelerated subatomic particles to the highest energies ever recorded from a compact accelerator- a laser-plasma accelerator, which is a new class of particle accel ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2014 - 12:13am
- Strong/Easy to Use Crypto the Next Killer App?
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Excerpt from “The Terrorism Delusion” by Meuller and Stewart: We have argued that terrorism is a limited problem with limited consequences and that the reaction to it has been excessive, and even delusional. Some degree of effort to deal with the terrorism ...
Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Dec 10 2014 - 2:54pm
- Charles Hatchett- Tribologist to the Royal Mint
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Charles Hatchett- Tribologist to the Royal Mint ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 12 2014 - 7:00pm
- Foldscope: A Microscope You Can Carry In Your Pocket
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I finally received a Foldscope beta test kit. “Foldscope is an origami-based print-and-fold optical microscope that can be assembled from a flat sheet of paper,” according to the website. The Foldscope “can provide over 2,000X magnification with sub-micron ...
Article - Steve Schuler - Dec 18 2014 - 7:23pm
- Finally, We May Get Instant-On Computers
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Computers don't really boot up any faster than they have in decades and that is due to limitations in electric currents (and ignoring the bloated software rolled out after every new chip), which are also a significant power drain. The solution may be ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 5:02pm
- New Metamaterials 'Moonwalk'
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Metamaterials have long held promise for extraordinary properties when it comes to diverting and controlling waves, especially sound and light: for instance, at the right optical frequency, they can make an object invisible, or increase the resolving power ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2014 - 9:00am
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