Soil conditions that are typically seen as negative during the crop season could help keep things in better shape this winter, especially when high winds make soils susceptible to erosion, which is most common during this time of year, 2 ...
Tags: K-State, John Takarko, erodibility, Presley
When it comes to graphene and photovoltaics, for the most part it's only been a story about replacing the indium tin oxide (ITO) used as the transparent electrodes of organic solar cells. But last year Spanish researchers in collaboration ...
Tags: Graphene, Perskovite, organic solar cells, Electrical, Electronics
Temperatures across the northern tier of the country are bitterly cold once again as another Arctic front has plunged south from Canada. This front is currently progressing south and east through the southern Ohio Valley, with temperatures ...
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"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Research teams at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this ...
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American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor has issued a voluntary recall on 4,532 Ford E-150, E-250, E-350, and E-450 vehicles of certain model year 2011 in the US over safety issues related to windshields. Due to improper manufacturing ...
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Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
Some grain may have gone into storage last fall at higher than recommended moisture contents. Now is the time to check stored grain thoroughly and take steps to maintain the grain quality. “Search for small changes that are ...
Tags: Grain, Ken Hellevang, Aeration, storage problems
When Louis Pasteur developed and patented the process of pasteurization in the 1860s, it had nothing to do with milk. He was more concerned with keeping beer from spoiling. But, by the turn of the century, this method of preservation had ...
Tags: Pasteurization, HTST, shelf life, milk
The first warning letters of the year issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a dairy operator in Pennsylvania. A warning letter is FDA’s principal means of ...
Tags: FDA, HACCP, violation, Nobuo T.Hawaii
The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries – storing electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See ...
Tags: AIP Advances, CCTO, AC, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
IR night vision cameras are basically used by people who are willing to use at low light environment. Getting proper information about the features of these will help you to satisfy your needs. Before indulging in to any kind of Camera it ...
"Supercapacitors" take the energy-storing abilities of capacitors (which store electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices) a step further, storing a far greater charge in a much smaller package. In AIP Advances, ...
Tags: Energy Storage, Miniaturized Capacitors, Green Energy Technology
A team of researchers made up materials scientists and chemists from several institutions in California has developed a new group of polymers that can be caused to come about using solid-state polymerization of organic dye molecules. In ...
Humans cannot hope to survive life on Mars without plenty of protection from the surface radiation, freezing night temperatures and dust storms on the red planet. So they could be excused for marveling at humble Antarctic lichen that has ...
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