Recently added articles from R & D:
Throughput speeds the fight against drug abuse.(Analytical Instruments)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For many years, the status quo for gas chromatography has been that analysis of drugs of abuse takes a long time and that samples will always be in backlog. Phenomenex Inc.'s (Torrance, Calif.) Zebron ZB-Drug-1 GC column is a capillary gas chromatography ...
Boosting bioethanol analysis efficiency 800%.(Analytical Instruments)
Sep 01, 2009 ... In the past few years, biofuel use and production has spread to every corner of the globe. The reasons for this trend vary, but usually it has been driven by concerns over fossil fuel supplies and environmental impacts over fuel combustion. Recently, the U.S. has become the ...
Safety is buried in lithium battery.(Electrical Devices)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The PowerPlane UX, developed by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of Golden, Colo., and Planar Energy Devices, Orlando, Fla., combines a solid-state lithium battery with a buried-anode architecture--invented at the NREL--to ...
Rounding the edges on superconductor wires.(Electrical Equipment)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] High-performance, low-cost, superconducting wires offer numerous advantages for electric power grid applications. However, first and second generation high-temperature superconducting wires based on flat tape geometries have high hysteretic losses. A ...
Electromagnetic data collection goes 3-D.(Energy)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To map the oceanic subsurface, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., combined computing power and controlled source electromagnetics (CSEM) to create the EMGeo: ElectroMagnetic Geological Mapper to create the first ...