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'It's my dream': achievement of scientist's solar cell goal opens up potentially huge new markets

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 22 Apr 2016
The efficiency, confirmed earlier this month by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is the highest achieved for cells of that size using these materials ... Advertisement ... Importantly, the large-scale solar farms now being built typically reach 20 per cent efficiency but their cells use toxic materials such as cadmium or selenide, and also rare elements like tellurium and indium ... ....

Chemists create new materials from molecular rings that assemble themselves (McMaster University)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. McMaster University). Imagine throwing Lego pieces into the air and seeing them fall to the ground assembled into the shape of a house or plane ... They discovered that certain molecules that contain the element tellurium assemble automatically into rings in solution, a success that has no rival in halogen bonding and constitutes a significant advance in supramolecular chemistry ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33164057) ....

Competent Person's Report for Avoca and Bailieston Gold Projects, Australia (ECR Minerals plc)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. ECR Minerals plc). ECR MINERALS plc. ('ECR Minerals', 'ECR' or the 'Company'). AIM. ECR. US OTC. MTGDY. LONDON ... The executive summary and certain other sections of the Report are excerpted below. The full report is available for download from the following link. ... EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT ... 1.2.1 Avoca ... To ... Later granite intrusives introduced base metals such as bismuth, tellurium and tungsten and overprints the earlier gold mineralisation....

‘Odd couple’ monolayer semiconductors align to advance optoelectronics (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
(Source. Oak Ridge National Laboratory) ... The idea of stacking different materials on top of each other isn't new by itself ... 'But it worked.'. The group was the first to show that monolayers of two different types of metal chalcogenides -binary compounds of sulfur, selenium or tellurium with a more electropositive element or radical-having such different lattice constants can be grown together to form a perfectly aligned stacking bilayer....

Lifton Joins Ucore Advisory Board as Exclusive Advisor in Rare Earths

Edit Stockhouse 04 Apr 2016
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwired - April 4, 2016) - Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE.UCU)(OTCQX.UURAF) ("Ucore" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr ... Mr ... Lifton is a Founding Principal of Technology Metals Research, which was founded to help both individuals and corporations become better informed about important rare commodities such as rare earths, lithium, tellurium, gallium and other technology metals....

Lifton Joins Ucore Advisory Board as Exclusive Advisor in Rare Earths (Ucore Rare Metals Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016
(Source. Ucore Rare Metals Inc). April 4, 2016 - HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - Ucore Rare Metals Inc ... Jack Lifton to the Company's Advisory Board ... 'We're extremely pleased to welcome Mr ... Mr ... Mr. Lifton is a Founding Principal of Technology Metals Research, which was founded to help both individuals and corporations become better informed about important rare commodities such as rare earths, lithium, tellurium, gallium and other technology metals....

Scholes Jr. Lecture in chemistry will serve up answers with a 'Disappearing Spoon' (Alfred University)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Mar 2016
(Source. Alfred University) ... Scholes Jr. Lecture Tuesday April 5 at 8 p.m ... Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? How did radium nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The Periodic Table is one of our crowning scientific achievements, but it's also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession ... O....

Students Present Research at American Chemical Society National Meeting (Belmont University)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Mar 2016
(Source. Belmont University) ... Chemistry faculty members Drs ... Ryan Agh gave an undergraduate research talk titled 'Towards the concise syntheses of selenium- and tellurium-containing tryptophan analogs for the elucidation of protein structure and function.' Agh's research was done under the mentorship of Duane Hatch, assistant professor of chemistry, as part of a grant Hatch received to do research at Los Alamos National Labs ... (noodl....

What Japan tsunami reporters saw: 'hell,' despair, confusion

Edit Tampa Bay Online 08 Mar 2016
As Japan's "triple disaster" — quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis — unfolded after March 11, 2011, Associated Press journalists fanned out across the northern region of Tohoku to report and record what had happened in pictures, stories and video. Here, some of them recall memories and scenes that haunt them to this day.. ___. AN OMINOUS WARNING ... "HUGE QUAKE." ... ___ ... ___ ... Strange words like strontium, cesium and tellurium were used every day ... ....

AP journalists recall scenes from Japan's 3-fold disaster

Edit Tampa Bay Online 08 Mar 2016
As Japan's "triple disaster" — quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis — unfolded after March 11, 2011, Associated Press journalists fanned out across the northern region of Tohoku to report and record what had happened in pictures, stories and video footage. Here, some of them recall memories and scenes that haunt them to this day.. ___. AN OMINOUS WARNING ... "HUGE QUAKE." ... Strange words like strontium, cesium and tellurium were used every day ... ....

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz touts great opportunities in energy (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Mar 2016
(Source. MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In his first official return to the MIT campus since taking the job of U.S ... That central role for innovation was far from just talk, he stressed ... Doubling of R&D; ... At one early session, learning that Salehi had recently celebrated the birth of a new grandchild, Moniz presented him with techie gifts including a onesie with the symbols for copper and tellurium (CuTe) on the front ... (noodl....

NREL Collaboration Boosts Potential for CdTe Solar Cells

Edit World of Renewables 29 Feb 2016
Tweet. By Wayne.Hicks@nrel.gov (Wayne Hicks). February 29, 2016 ... Silicon solar cells currently represent 90% of the solar cell market, but it will be difficult to significantly reduce their manufacturing costs ... Instead, they placed a small number of phosphorus atoms on tellurium lattice sites and then carefully formed ideal interfaces between materials with different atomic spacing to complete the solar cell ... NREL is the U.S ... ### ... Tweet. ....

NREL Collaboration Boosts Potential for CdTe Solar Cells (NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Feb 2016
(Source. NREL - National Renewable Energy Laboratory). February 29, 2016 ... Silicon solar cells currently represent 90% of the solar cell market, but it will be difficult to significantly reduce their manufacturing costs ... Instead, they placed a small number of phosphorus atoms on tellurium lattice sites and then carefully formed ideal interfaces between materials with different atomic spacing to complete the solar cell ... NREL is the U.S ... ###....
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