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Winter 2008 — Volume 9, No. 4
Beauty, molecules deep
Sunshine to petrol
Researchers are building a device intended to chemically reenergize carbon dioxide using concentrated solar power. The resulting carbon monoxide could be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block of combustible liquid fuels.
Beauty, molecules deep
Sandia and a group of companies are on a quest to make nanotechnology more useful outside the lab. Their work is leading to nanocoated products, from flat-screen TVs to color-shifting paints.
INSIGHTS: Alliances form, products emerge
To bring innovations to market quickly, firms in the aerospace and defense industries increasingly are seeking alliances with universities and national laboratories.
Witnessing a birth
Most everyone in science has heard of buckyballs, but no one had seen one being born until Jianyu Huang unexpectedly witnessed, under a microscope, the walls of a fullerene structure turn into the well-known soccer ball shape.
