Tag Archives: gold

With this Ring

Posted by spinneret on March 28, 2007 Comments Off

Bishnu Khanal and Eugene Zubarev of Rice University in Houston, Texas have found that nanoscopic gold roads coated with polymer can spontaneously self-assemble into rings within seconds of water droplets condensing on to the surface of a solution of the …

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Fuel cells

Posted by David Bradley on March 1, 2005 Comments Off

US scientists have demonstrated a significant boost to fuel cells that could also cut costs. By coating the cathode with a thin layer of platinum instead of using solid metal, efficiency is raised by ten percent and the use of …

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