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		<title><![CDATA[ (Building on flexible solar cells)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-9595-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=64426&messageID=1198062&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Building on flexible solar cellsThe relevant questionsHow does the cost per unit of energy output compare? And is the material recyclable? It seems to me these are more significant than efficiency at converting light to electricity (the sun if free, after all) and the lifespan of the product (within...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 02:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ChemToolBox 1.1 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=944709]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ChemToolBox, the swiss army knife of the lab worker, is a freeware which contains numerous scientific data very useful in a laboratory. Thanks to its own database, ChemToolBox will easily substitute to the time-consuming use of scientific books such as Handbooks or online databases. ChemToolBox is a freeware desitinated to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Polymer Optical Fiber for EtherNet/IP Networks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=952493]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As EtherNet/IP moves into the machine area, environmental conditions become a concern. In some applications were EMI is high, fiber cabling can provide a higher degree of noise immunity. In the past, the total cost of ownership using fiber is considerably greater than the copper variant. This has hindered the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More help from bacteria: this time they're stopping nitrate pollution]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=2230]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers are developing bioreactors to trap and neutralize nitrate rich water that runs off our fields and farms.  I've blogged in the past now heavy nitrate concentrations are creating dead zones in some of the world's offshore water.Now scientists at the U.S. Agricutlural Research Service have developed a method...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:51:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Datasqueeze 2.1.4 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=909993]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Datasqueeze is a graphical interface for analyzing data from 2D x-ray diffraction detectors (wire, image plate, CCD), running on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the program is easy to use even for those new to x-ray diffraction analysis. Datasqueeze is particularly useful...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Datasqueeze 2.1.4 (Mac)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=909715]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Datasqueeze is a graphical interface for analyzing data from 2D x-ray diffraction detectors (wire, image plate, CCD), running on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the program is easy to use even for those new to x-ray diffraction analysis. Datasqueeze is particularly useful...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toward opal-based billboards?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1134]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Nature News reports that British and Canadian chemists have developed synthetic opals that can very quickly switch between various colors when a few volts of electricity are applied to them. The developers, who said they're ready to sell the technology today, added that their 'photonic ink' (P-Ink) material could soon...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:44:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What a difference one atom makes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1506]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:34:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nanotechnology-based flexible actuators]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1034]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In 'Nanotube paper flexes on demand,' nanotechweb.org reports that French researchers are using multiwalled carbon nanotubes MWCNTs reinforced with polyvinyl alcohol PVA to develop ultra-lightweight actuators for aerospace applications. The scientists have developed a paper-like sheet which bends when the material is electrically stimulated. As said one of the lead...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:45:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Beijing Olympic logos written by nano pens]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1011]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Northwestern University NU researchers have used a new printing technique, called Polymer Pen Lithography PPL, to print 15,000 Beijing Olympic logos on one square centimeter. Besides this 'marketing' approach, the PPL technique is very innovative. It can write on three different length scales -- nanometer, micrometer and millimeter -- using...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:02:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Generating electricity with polymers?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11422-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=50279&messageID=943498&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Generating electricity with polymers?Other usesCould these be used to replace dams or to safely harvest tidal energy?.....Kick @ss! ]:)We developed this idea 15 years agowhere I worked using piezoelectric film.(the company that invented and patented the material, still used today in everything from sonars to sensors)We tested small scale models...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Generating electricity with polymers?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=995]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday, here is another story about using plastics as a power source. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are using ionic polymers immersed in a river to generate 'clean' electricity for the city of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. If the project is successful, the city's downtown 'could one day get 20...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:36:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thinner, better, already sold out&#151;the new new thing in solar?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=909]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Solar energy can seem like a green tech fantasy.  Energy free for the collection.  Found in some of the emptiest spots on earth: deserts, parking lots, urban rooftops, open ocean, airplace wings, at 50,000 feet above the earth.  Think about all that sunshine. And a company down...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:10:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smart holograms to monitor our health?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=825]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a short news release, the Institute of Physics reports that smart holograms, which use materials called hydrogels that shrink or swell in response to local environmental conditions, can be used to monitor many physical conditions than three years ago. These smart holograms could soon be used 'by diabetics to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:19:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can nerves really regenerate?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=791]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[People suffering of injury to the brain or spinal cord cannot currently be treated because central nervous system neurons have a very limited capability of self-repair and regeneration. But now, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a potentially promising strategy for encouraging the regeneration of damaged neurons....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:56:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New oil-repelling material from MIT]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=769]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MIT researchers have developed flexible surface coatings that repel oils. According to the research team, this is the first material able to do it. They say that these findings could have applications in aviation, space travel and hazardous waste cleanup. Their oil-repelling, or 'oleophobic' material, is using specially prepared microfibers,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:06:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Plastic to help water and gas industries]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=718]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:27:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A plastic as solid as steel]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=709]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and shows similar strength. Interestingly, this 300-layer plastic has been built with 'strong' nanosheets of clay...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:11:24 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Toward safer gene therapy?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=687]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gene therapy has been used in more than 1,000 clinical trials during the last 20 years. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA has never approved a single application. The reason is simple: the former trials were using viruses to deliver genes to fight diseases like cancer. And viruses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:46:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wrinkles in nanoscale-sized films]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=659]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An international team of scientists from Chile, the Netherlands and the U.S. has found a very simple way to measure the material properties of thin films having a thickness of only a dozen nanometers. The researchers just dropped water on thin film floating in a Petri dish. This causes wrinkles...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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