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Researchers at UC-Santa Barbara have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have announced they have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser, a significant step toward combining…

New catalysts may create more, cheaper hydrogen

Argonne chemist Michael Krumpelt and his colleagues in Argonne's Chemical Engineering Division used “single-site” catalysts based on ceria or lanthanum…

Coal and black liquor can produce energy from papermaking

“Black liquor is routinely burned in a recovery boiler,” says Andre Boehman, professor of fuel science. “But it has more energy value as a synthesis gas which…

Coal-based fuels and products hit the refinery

“One idea is based on the coal-to-jet fuel work that we have been doing for a long time,” says Caroline E. Burgess Clifford, research associate at Penn State's…

Land-based checks of offshore machinery

SINTEF is collaborating in the Wivib research project with ABB and SKF to develop the vibration sensor that can be installed, for example, on machinery that…

Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper.The…

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