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(EurekAlert) Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques for stretching carbon nanotubes (CNT) and using them to create carbon composites that can be used as stronger, lighter materials in everything from airplanes to bicycles...Researchers involved with the work came from NC State, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Donghua University, Marshall Space Flight Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory...10/15 |
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Research experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source have been shut down for a couple of weeks because operators received data feedback suggesting that failure was imminent in the vessel that holds the mercury target. According to Kelly Beierschmitt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's associate lab director for neutron sciences, the signals were virtually the same as last month when an end-of-life condition was detected, prompting the subsequent changeout of the stainless-steel vessel...10/15
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National
(NY Times) The Pentagon and State Department are speeding up efforts to help the Libyan government create a commando force to combat Islamic extremists like the ones who killed the American ambassador in Libya last month and to help counter the country’s fractious militias, according to internal government documents...10/15
DOE
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Many of the Department of Energy's Environmental Management projects funded with Recovery Act dollars have been completed, and DOE has said the work created job and helped accelerate the cleanup activities at multiple sites...10/16
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Just about every option imaginable has been studied in recent years as the Department of Energy tried to find other funding sources for the American Museum of Science & Energy in Oak Ridge. The Dept. of Energy has looked at the possibility of giving the museum to the city or otherwise transitioning the museum to private hands, but so far the mandate from Washington to reduce the government funding hasn't come to fruition...10/15
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East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Tech 20/20 spends most of its resources on up-and-coming technology-based entrepreneurial endeavors. But a recent study done by the not-for-profit consulting group looked at how East Tennessee's business past can help shape the region's future...10/16
(Tennessee Today) Three years ago University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers helped to discover water on the surface of the moon. Now, they are piecing together the origin of that water: solar wind...10/15
(Oak Ridge Today) ...the partnership between CROET and Tech 20/20 has played a key role in economic development in Oak Ridge, with projects including the Center for Entrepreneurial Growth’s accelerator fund and the Halcyon Commercialization Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...10/16 |
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