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NIST Looks for New Refrigerants and Comes Up Short

Nicholas Say — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:55:57 +0000

The need for refrigeration is expanding, and it is expected to grow steadily for most of this century. This issue is well-known, and we don’t have a solution. In fact, we aren’t even close to one. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just tested 138 of the most promising substances we have identified […]

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Nanotech Stars – NIST Method Produces Graphene More Efficiently

Benji Jerew — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:08:53 +0000

Researchers have been finding numerous possible applications for the wonder-material called graphene, but mass-production has, so far, escaped them. So far, graphene production in small quantities has been found to be most efficient on particles of copper, smaller than 1µm (micrometer). Of course, any growth of graphene is going to be on this tiny scale, […]

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NIST Invents Breakthrough High Temperature Stable Biodiesel

Cristi — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:10:52 +0000

Biodiesel has recently become a very controversed biofuel. It can be obtained from vegetable oil, animal fats, used cooking oil, microalgae and is a potential replacement of petroleum-based diesel fuel. By doing some research, NIST scientists found out some additives that make biofuels act better at high temperatures.

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Breakthrough Discovery for Stationary Industrial Fuel Cells – Faster Startups

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:25:28 +0000

In their search to make better fuel cells, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has discovered a new structure that moves oxygen ions through the cell at substantially lower temperatures than previously thought possible.

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New Way of Storing Hydrogen for Vehicles Discovered!

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:55:03 +0000

Hydrogen could play a role in replacing fossil fuels for transportation in the future, but researchers must develop a way to store and release large amounts of the highly flammable, odorless invisible gas economically and safely. There are materials that can trap relatively large amounts of hydrogen, at normal pressures, but by now they all […]

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