Sector: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Nanotechnology and the Water Market: Applications and Health Effects
Nanotechnology has an enormous potential for creating cost-effective, simple, and efficient tools for addressing water supply challenges, while preventing the creation of potentially toxic by-products. Applications include water disinfection and filtration, real-time and remote monitoring, [...]
Catching Mr. Big with the Small – ‘To Infinitesimal and Beyond”
In some parts of the world, the tax revenue from fuels is a big incentive for criminal syndicates to smuggle fuel and launder markers that are used to designate low tax fuels. These activities cost [...]
Nanotechnology and the Global Poor: United States Policy and International Collaborations
Nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing have tremendous potential for benefiting the global poor—the approximately 2.7 billion people in the world that live on less that 2 dollars per day (purchasing power parity). For example, nanotechnologies may help [...]
Nanotechnology – Disruptive Technologies for Electric Utility Systems. Challenges and Opportunities
Within the next 25 years, the electric power utility system in the U.S. will face a number of serious challenges. These will include issues related to diminishing supplies and increasing costs of fossil fuels, the [...]
An integrated NMR/nanosensor system for sensitive detection of environmental toxins and harmful microbes
The use of nanoparticles and NMR detection technologies has lead to significant improvements in sensitivity. Nanoparticles have many useful optical and electronic properties derived from their small size. When coupled to affinity ligands, these materials [...]
Nano-Hetero Structure for direct energy conversion
The direct conversion of nuclear energy becomes possible in hetero-nanostructures. To convert the kinetic energy of the fission product into electricity it has to be created a nanostructure formed from a repetitive conductor-insulator structure generically [...]
Nano-Catalysts and Colloidal Suspensions of Carbo-Iron for Environmental Application
The presentation contains two innovative applications of nano-sized materials for environmental application: 1) Pd catalysts for wastewater treatment. The new ferromagnetic nano-sized Pd catalysts have proved effective for selective dechlorination of industrial wastewater. Extraction by [...]
Synthesis and characterization of a highly cross linked PEGME and PEG for solid electrolyte and its application in dye-sensitized solar cells
The replacement of liquid electrolyte in dye sensitized solar cells by gel and solid electrolyte is one approach towards the improvement of properties of electrolyte such as leakage and evaporation of liquid to operate for [...]
Dye-sensitized solar cell using a TiO2 nanocrystalline film electrode prepared by solution combustion synthesis
The nanocrystalline anatase TiO2 films were prepared and characterized in connection with their application to dye-sensitized solar cells. Solution combustion synthesis of TiO2 nanocrystalline film is based on hydrolysis, nitrated, and combustion reaction. The solution [...]