Big Data keeps complex production running smoothly
Lemgo, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 -
Large amounts of data are produced when industrial companies monitor their facilities. Sensors check temperature, pressure, power, or energy use data. "If you're scanning to the nearest second, it's easy to rack up several terabytes of information in under a week," says Dr. Olaf Sauer from the automation business unit at the IOSB. But often there is a lack of suitable methods to evaluate the inf ...
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Engineered bacteria produce biofuel alternative for high-energy rocket fuel
Emeryville CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 -
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy fuels, such as JP-10, in missiles and other aerospace applications. With improvements in process efficiency, the biofuel could supplement limited supplies of petroleum-based JP-10, and mig ...
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Scientists watch nanoparticles grow
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 -
With DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, Danish scientists observed the growth of nanoparticles live. The study shows how tungsten oxide nanoparticles are forming from solution. These particles are used for example for smart windows, which become opaque at the flick of a switch, and they are also used in particular solar cells. The team around lead author Dr. Dipankar Saha from Arhus University ...
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New way to filter light
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 -
Light waves can be defined by three fundamental characteristics: their color (or wavelength), polarization, and direction. While it has long been possible to selectively filter light according to its color or polarization, selectivity based on the direction of propagation has remained elusive.
But now, for the first time, MIT researchers have produced a system that allows light of any colo ...
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Controlling electron spins by light
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 -
Researchers of HZB manipulate the electron spin at the surface of topological insulators systematically by light. Topological insulators are considered a very promising material class for the development of future electronic devices.
A research team at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has discovered, how light can be used to alter the physical properties of the electrons in these materials. ...
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Scientists Track 3D Nanoscale Changes in Rechargeable Battery Material During Operation
Upton NY (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 -
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have made the first 3D observations of how the structure of a lithium-ion battery anode evolves at the nanoscale in a real battery cell as it discharges and recharges. The details of this research, described in a paper published in Angewandte Chemie, could point to new ways to engineer battery materials to increase the ...
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Record quantum entanglement of multiple dimensions
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 28, 2014 -
The states in which elementary particles, such as photons, can be found have properties which are beyond common sense. Superpositions are produced, such as the possibility of being in two places at once, which defies intuition.
In addition, when two particles are entangled a connection is generated: measuring the state of one (whether they are in one place or another, or spinning one way o ...
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