Saft has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from Boeing to build Li-ion battery packs for four new 702SP communications satellites.
Technology
Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics may soon become possible
Researchers make a fiber out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell.
KLA-Tencor Introduces Next-Generation LED Patterned Wafer Inspection Tool
ICOS WI-2280 designed specifically for defect inspection and 2D metrology for LED applications.
Olympus NDT Introduces the Magna-Mike 8600 Hall Effect Thickness Gauge
New instrument is a portable thickness gauge for making thickness measurements on nonferrous materials.
Growing nanosheets for supercapacitor electrodes
Professor X. W. Lou and co-workers report a new method to grow nanosheets on conductive substrates as a conductive agent-free electrode for supercapacitors.
Bone repair: new templating technique for hydrogel scaffold
Researchs developed new method to fabricate a biodegradable, hydrogel-based integrated bi-layered scaffold for bone and cartilage repair.
Highly stable graphene-based ultrathin films: a covalent protocol
Chinese scientists have shown how to integrate highly stable graphene-based multilayered film via a novel covalent-based protocol.
Designer nanocrystals find funding
W. M. Keck Foundation funds David Mazziotti, Greg Engel, and Dmitri Talapin to research manipulate of nanocrystal properties.
"4D transistor" gives glimpse at future of computing
Purdue and Harvard researchers create stackable indium-gallium-arsenide transistors.
New organic metamaterials developed with mechanical metaproperties
A new hydrogel created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then return to its original shape.
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