SONG: “Growing Batteries”
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ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy
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Home-baked carbon crystals – graphene made to order.
Nature is sharing a fun little recipe for whipping up the super-material graphene in a kitchen blender:
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Tree batteries. No, capacitors. No, *super* capacitors.
Laboratory Equipment on a low-tech material that solves a high-tech problem, as chemical engineers figure out ways to make supercapacitors out of wood:
… Read the rest “Tree batteries. No, capacitors. No, *super* capacitors.”OSU chemists have found that cellulose
Biofuel done cheaper (thanks to sulfuric acid).
Nature is predigesting our gasoline… or something like that. Researchers have found that you can get fuel out of some tough material by treating it with a chemical mixture that breaks… Read the rest “Biofuel done cheaper (thanks to sulfuric acid).”
Graphene is cool! 3D printing is cool! What else would be cool? Let’s put ’em TOGETHER!
Gigaom takes the two great tastes of home manufacturing and carbon crystalline structures and makes them taste great together with a 3D printer that creates objects out of graphene:
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Zombie sex-change pollution
I’m pretty sure Nature is blazing a new B-movie trail with this report on hormone-disrupting chemicals “rising from the dead”:
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Green cement is strong cement. Sweet, strong cement.
Laboratory Equipment reports on byproduct of the sugar industry that happens to make a more effective, environmentally friendly cement:
… Read the rest “Green cement is strong cement. Sweet, strong cement.”New research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows
Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in all kinds of unexpected ways. Formally, this stuff is is known… Read the rest “Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich”
Graphene makes *different* computer chips.
University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re using atom-thin… Read the rest “Graphene makes *different* computer chips.”
Overseer of the longest experiment has passed on.
RIP, John Mainstone, custodian of the Pitch Drop Experiment. Solid or liquid, it will continue to ooze so slowly. New Straits Times marks the end of an era, but the middle of the world’s… Read the rest “Overseer of the longest experiment has passed on.”
The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.
New Scientist gives thanks for the little things in the wake of the Big One. Studying the irradiated cells of bomb-test survivors (that is, all of us) has shown definitively that our brains… Read the rest “The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.”
Slime couture.
This is a few weeks old by now, but still in fashion in a gorgeously disgusting way. Science News celebrates the creation of fine fabrics using hagfish slime:
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Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.
Great idea, if it works. Laboratory Equipment looks at the possibility of slicing up plastic trash to use as “ink” for 3D printers:
… Read the rest “Turn your milk jugs into… whatever. At home. With 3D printing.”Using free software downloaded from sites
Science Art: Front Cover, Chemistry of Photography by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works
An artisan, working with technology.
A front cover image from 1940, found in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.