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Graphane Yields New PotentialHouston TX (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 Graphane is the material of choice for physicists on the cutting edge of materials science, and Rice University researchers are right there with the pack - and perhaps a little ahead. Researchers mentored by Boris Yakobson, a Rice professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of chemistry, have discovered the strategic extraction of hydrogen atoms from a two-dimensional sheet of graphane naturally opens up spaces of pure graphene that look - and act - like quantum dots. That ... read more |
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Rochester Hills MI (SPX) Jun 02, 2010UNI-SOLAR has unveiled its Technology Roadmap to 12 percent conversion efficiency by 2012 with a cost-per-watt of less than one dollar. In the following years, the company is targeting 20 percent plus conversion efficiency. The UNI-SOLAR Technology Roadmap calls for evolutionary development of the company's existing technology This includes enhancing the laminate which will improve convers ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 1, 2010China's ambitions to become a major global power in the world of supercomputing were given a boost when one of its machines was ranked second-fastest in a survey. The Nebulae machine at the National Supercomputing Centre in the southern city of Shenzhen can perform at 1.271 petaflops per second, according to the Top 500 survey (http://www.top500.org), which ranks supercomputers. A petafl ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Jun 1, 2010 The surprise resignation of German President Horst Koehler has plunged Europe's largest economy into a severe political crisis. There were tears in his eyes when Koehler informed the public Monday that he would resign. Over the past days, German politicians from all parties had harshly criticized the 67-year-old for comments he made while in Afghanistan. In a May 22 radio intervi ... more |
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Donor countries to meet on Haiti rebuilding effortPunta Cana, Dominican Republic (AFP) June 1, 2010 Donor countries were to meet in the Dominican Republican Wednesday for a summit on the international effort to rebuild Haiti, still struggling after being leveled by a massive January earthquake. "It is the first meeting following a donors' conference held in New York on March 21, which received pledges of 10 billion dollars," Haiti's Finance and Economy Minister Ronald Beaudin told AFP. The meeting, the "World Summit for the Future of Haiti" to be held in the resort town of Punta Cana, is to be ... read more |
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