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Controlling heat flow with atomic-level precision
Through a combination of atomic-scale materials design and ultrafast measurements, researchers have revealed new insights about how heat flows across an interface between two materials. The researchers demonstrated that a single layer of atoms can disrupt or enhance heat flow across an interface, a finding with implications for future technologies and for materials research.
www.sciencedaily.com
New desalination technique yields more drinkable water
A new, more energy-efficient seawater distillation membrane yields more potable water, and less briny discharge.
www.nature.com
When you’re a Supreme Court Justice, you’re probably taking heat - and packing it too
While we were waiting for the Supreme Court to make a reasonable and intelligent decision on the case against the Obama health care law, the court made another little decision that made us think we were all probably expecting too much.
realchangenews.org
In chemical reactions, water adds speed without heat
( University of Wisconsin-Madison ) An international team of researchers has discovered how adding trace amounts of water can tremendously speed up chemical reactions -- such as hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis -- in which hydrogen is one of the reactants, or starting materials.
www.eurekalert.org
A Fine Brine: New Desalination Technique Yields More Drinkable Water
More than a third of the world already suffers from shortages of potable water --with a rise to 50 percent expected by 2025 . Desalination of seawater can help coastal communities can address local shortfalls, although the process is costly, and releasing leftover brine back to the ocean has environmental implications . Now a new system promises to produce more drinkable water with less salty ...
www.scientificamerican.com
Graphene found to emit infrared light
(Phys.org) -- Ever since its discovery in 2004, graphene, the honey-comb arranged sheet of one atom thick carbon atoms, has continued to make waves in both the physics and engineering worlds. Now comes news from yet another research team heralding a new found property of the fascinating material. This time, as the group describe in their paper published in Physical Review Letters, it’s been ...
phys.org
Matter of the Universe:
1. The first to form at the birth of the universe were countless particles much smaller than atoms such as quarks. True/ false? 2. When some of the particles fused together they formed the lightest and simplest of elements which makes up almost 100 per cent of the stars and cloud. What are they?
www.sundayobserver.lk
In hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis chemical reactions, water adds speed without heat
An international team of researchers has discovered how adding trace amounts of water can tremendously speed up chemical reactions—such as hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis—in which hydrogen is one of the reactants, or starting materials.
phys.org
Harvesting the sun, revolutionising farm life
EPHRAIM KEORENG looks at the 'hot' relationship between government and the sun that looks primed to revolutionise the country's esrtwhile major economic driver, agriculture
www.mmegi.bw
University of Alabama hosts research conference
TUSCALOOSA | A symposium this week at the University of Alabama will bring researchers from around the world who study materials at the most basic level in the quickly expanding field of microscopy to the Capstone.
www.tuscaloosanews.com
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