material science

Summary: Energy impacts every aspect of our lives – yet energy remains a vast and complex subject. For the past two years I have been filming a major documentary on global energy. Based on personal visits to many of the world’s leading energy sites and conversations with top industry, academic and government leaders, I will look inside the complex world of energy and provide a realistic and balanced view of energy supply, demand, efficiency, infrastructure, and scale. All major forms of...

Summary: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are two-dimensionally confined quantum wires that have the potential to impact a variety of renewable energy applications. SWCNTs have several fundamental properties that make them attractive for sustainable energy conversion technologies, including high electron and hole mobilities, size-tunable ionization potentials and electron affinities in an energy range relevant to many photovoltaic devices, and optical transitions in the visible and...

Autohemotherapy, in cattle with cutaneous papillomas, has promising results. NCBI - Bookshelf U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. Chapter 4. EPITHELIAL AND MELANOCYTIC TUMORS OF THE SKIN. Skin tumors are relatively frequent, especially in dogs, horses, cattle and cats. There is a variable incidence, but especially a large diversity of tumor types in the different species of domestic animals. It is admitted that the classification of skin tumors is...

Energy loss through the windows remains a dominant obstacle in obtaining zero-energy buildings. In particular, for mixed climate environments, the solar heat gain coefficient of a window must be switchable to control the amount of solar heating in the winter and summer seasons. Furthermore, it is desirable for the system not to consume energy from the grid and operate in an autonomous way. Finally, the system must be scalable and cost effective to retrofit existing windows. In this talk, we...

Optical properties and transport phenomena in nanostructures, Lecture I, Koropecki, Roberto, Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC), Argentina

Olympic athletes have long worn special competition clothing to gain an edge. Science and technology continue to improve on what they wear. Hear from Olympians Chad Hedrick, Steve Holcomb and Erin Hamlin, and Melissa Hines, the director of the Cornell University Center for Materials Research, about how the latest in competition suits will go to work for Team USA in Vancouver.