
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.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news11654.html
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? Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news11659.html
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