NANO-SCALE FUEL CELLS MAY BE CLOSER THAN WE THINK
Date: Sunday, March 12, 2006 @ 20:02:18 UTC
Topic: Devices


NANO-SCALE FUEL CELLS MAY BE CLOSER THAN WE THINK, THANKS TO AN INEXPENSIVE NEW MANUFACTURING METHOD, March 12

We live in a world of hand-held devices: iPods, cell phones, PDAs, pagers... the list of essential personal technology keeps expanding, and the natural response is consolidation. It's rare these days to see a new cell phone that isn't also a digital camera, and MP3 players can be integrated into just about anything. We're just a short step away from universal, hand-held devices that combine communication, media, and entertainment into one slim package. What's stopping us? In a word, power.


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RESEARCHERS CREATE CONVEYER BELT FOR MAGNETIC FLUX VORTICES IN SUPERCONDUCTORS, March 12
If blown up in size, it would not have a chance in the car factory, but the microscopic conveyer belt built by Simon Bending's team in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath and collaborators in Japan and the USA, could just be the next big thing for improving devices relying on the elusive properties of superconductors (Nature Materials, Advanced Online Publication March 12 2006). It's not your standard rubber band on cylinders though - it moves in an erratic way, a quick jolt to the left, a smooth slide to the right. Who would want to be on such a thing?
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