Imagine waking up each morning and discovering that twenty percent of all plants in your garden had disappeared over night. They had been eaten. Equally astonishing would be the discovery in the afternoon that new plants had taken their place. This is the norm of life in the ocean. Without the ability to accurately observe these daily changes in ocean life cycles, over vast … [Read more...] about LBNL Device Monitors Ocean Carbon
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Artificial Positive Feedback Loop for Increasing Production of a Biosynthetic Product in Specific Plant Tissues 2014-028
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Increasing production of a variety of products in specific plant tissue types. Examples include: Cereal crops: increased stem strength to reduce lodging and grain loss (e.g., in rice, wheat, barley, rye) Biofuels: reduced cell-wall recalcitrance in feedstocks (e.g., switchgrass, sugarcane, corn, poplar, eucalyptus) Low-water-use … [Read more...] about Artificial Positive Feedback Loop for Increasing Production of a Biosynthetic Product in Specific Plant Tissues 2014-028
Boron Nitride Nanotubes with Modified Surfaces IB-2332
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Mechanical reinforcements and composites, e.g. cell phone cases, structural elements of aircraft Batteries, supercapacitors Fuel cell components Transistors, biosensors Field emission sources Electronic circuits Scaffolds for novel chemistries Deep ultraviolet light emitters ADVANTAGES: Excellent mechanical and … [Read more...] about Boron Nitride Nanotubes with Modified Surfaces IB-2332
Advanced Material Technology Licensed to Startup
09.04.14 Nearly 20 years ago, Berkeley Lab researcher Alex Zettl synthesized in his lab a new material never before seen by nature: boron nitride nanotubes, the strongest, lightest, most thermally conducting, and most chemically resistant fiber known to exist. Now BNNT LLC, a startup based in Newport News, Virginia, has licensed this technology with the aim of manufacturing … [Read more...] about Advanced Material Technology Licensed to Startup
High Performance, Customizable Halide Scintillators 2013-040
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: X-ray and gamma-ray radiation detection National security Medical imaging Oil well logging High-energy physics ADVANTAGES: Higher performance scintillation than commercial crystals High light yields — luminescence equal to or greater than 40,000 photons/MeV Can be used in various forms (e.g., thin films, crystals, … [Read more...] about High Performance, Customizable Halide Scintillators 2013-040