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Volume 37 - August 2012

Contents

Page 10 of 17

News & Analysis

Research/Researchers

Other

  • Nano Focus: Nanoscale transistor measures living cell voltages

  • Tobias Lockwood
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    12 March 2012, pp. 184-186
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Science Policy

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  • New NSF program connects researchers, entrepreneurs: http://www.nsf.gov/i-corps

  • Kendra Redmond
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    17 February 2012, pp. 106-107
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  • Science Europe to strengthen collaboration among national research organizations: http://www.scienceeurope.org

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    13 January 2012, p. 12
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Functionalities

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  • Graphene-based materials for energy applications

  • Jun Liu, Yuhua Xue, Mei Zhang, Liming Dai
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 November 2012, pp. 1265-1272

  • Accelerating global energy consumption makes the development of clean and renewable alternative energy sources indispensable. Nanotechnology opens up new frontiers in materials science and engineering to meet this energy challenge by creating new materials, particularly carbon nanomaterials, for efficient energy conversion and storage. Since the Nobel Prize winning research on graphene by Geim and Novoselov, considerable efforts have been made to exploit graphene as an energy material, and tremendous progress has been achieved in developing high-performance devices for energy conversion and energy storage. This article reviews recent progress in the research and development of graphene materials for advanced energy-conversion devices, including solar cells and fuel cells, and energy-storage devices, including supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries, and discusses some challenges in this exciting field.

News & Analysis

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  • Plasmonic behavior of quantum-size metallic nanoparticles as investigated with STEM-EELS

  • Anthony S. Stender
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    08 June 2012, pp. 543-544
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Science Policy

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  • EC releases practical guide to green products and services: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository

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    12 July 2012, p. 629
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  • Slot-die coating may enable continuous printing of light-emitting electrochemical cells

  • Tobias Lockwood
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    09 October 2012, pp. 884-885
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Science Policy

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  • EC releases report analyzing strategic energy technologies: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc

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    09 May 2012, p. 467
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  • Nano Focus: Room-temperature terahertz detectors fabricated using graphene field-effect transistors

  • Steven Trohalaki
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    12 November 2012, p. 987
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Career Central

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  • CAREER CENTRAL

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    15 August 2012, pp. 780-783
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Energy & Water

Materials & Energy

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  • Energy limitations on materials availability

  • Igor Lubomirsky, David Cahen
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    09 April 2012, pp. 412-416
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  • Rapid changes in energy availability lead to the question of whether the sustainable availability of energy implies the sustainable availability of materials and vice versa. In particular, many researchers assume that materials can be produced from any resource type, irrespective of scarcity, by providing enough energy. We revisit this issue here for two reasons: (1) To avoid significant disruptions in daily life, no more than a few percent of total energy production and materials usage can be diverted to support a transition to new energy sources. (2) Such a transition could also be problematic if it requires large quantities of materials that are byproducts of other large-scale production cycles, as any increase in the production of a byproduct typically requires an almost proportional increase in the production of the primary product. In turn, increased production of the primary product could require materials and energy expenditures that are too large to be practical. Both limitations have to be taken into account in future energy planning.

News & Analysis

Science Policy

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  • India to reopen mining for rare-earth elements

  • Angela Saini
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    12 September 2012, pp. 792-793
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Nuclear Fission

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  • Is nuclear fission a sustainable source of energy?

  • Matthias Englert, Lindsay Krall, Rodney C. Ewing
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    09 April 2012, pp. 417-424
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  • During this century, humankind must deal with increasing demand for energy and the growing impact of burning fossil fuels. Nuclear power, which presently produces 14% of global electricity, is a low-carbon-emissions alternative. However, the sustainability of nuclear power depends on the amounts of uranium and thorium available, the economics of their recovery from ore deposits, and the safety and security of nuclear materials. Unlike combustion of hydrocarbons, which determines the amount of fuel needed for a given amount of energy, nuclear reactions can create additional fissile isotopes. Hence, the choice of nuclear fuel cycle profoundly affects the size of the nuclear resource, as well as nuclear waste management and the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons. We argue that uranium resources, identified and yet to be discovered, could sustain increases in nuclear power generation by a factor of two or three through the end of this century, even without advanced closed-fuel-cycle technologies.

News & Analysis

Research/Researchers

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  • Spin-orbital separation observed in a Mott insulator

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    08 June 2012, p. 544
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Society News

News

  • Congressional Fellows Povlich and Nekuda Malik shape their interests in policy: http://www.mrs.org/congressional-fellows

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    09 May 2012, p. 528
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News & Analysis

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  • NSF and EC establish collaboration opportunities for early career scientists

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    12 September 2012, p. 793
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Research/Researchers

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  • Sliding metals show fluidlike behavior at the mesoscale

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    09 October 2012, p. 885
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Science Policy

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  • NSF announces new workplace flexibility policies: http://www.nsf.gov/career-life-balance

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    17 February 2012, p. 107
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  • Brongersma, Matias, Segalman, Shea, and Watanabe to chair 2013 MRS Spring Meeting: www.mrs.org/spring2013

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    12 July 2012, pp. 691-692
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  • Inverse spin Hall effect observed in silicon

  • Steven Spurgeon
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    12 March 2012, p. 186
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