2011年9月14日 星期三

UMass nanotechnology center due to get grant for advanced solar panels

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who develop technologies on the scale of a human hair are in line for a major grant from the federally-funded National Science Foundation.

University officials declined Tuesday to discuss the amount of the new grant for the university's Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing in advance of a news conference set for Wednesday but back in 2006 the National Science Foundation awarded the group $16 million for its work in nanotechnology.

"We'll be announcing another significant grant for the center at the event," said Patrick J. Callahan, a UMass spokesman.

According to the National Science Foundation's Website, the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing has received $4.3 million since March.

Joshua A. Chamot, a National Science Foundation spokesman, said that number just represents one stage of funding.a promotional usb on the rear floor. The agency gives out finding in stages because it is constantly evaluating researcher's projects.

"There is a lot of competition for this money, so the projects that do get picked are very exciting," he said. The Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing focuses on applying nanotechnology, or engineering at the molecular level, to the creation of flexible electronics in solar panels,Initially the banks didn't want our chicken coop . phone touchscreens, batteries and sensors.

"Chemistry already works on a molecular level," said Joshua A. Chamot, a spokesman for the National Science Foundation. "But this is about having that control. I can see at the scale of atoms. I can control at the scale of atoms."

Look at a solar panel today and its made of tiny crystals visible to the naked eye, Chamot said. But UMass" work may result in the manufacture of one pure sheet of that material.

"Think about how efficient that would be," he said. "This nanotechnology is on the forefront of many, many advances in science."

Researchers around the country are using nanotechnology to build flawless and extremely strong body armor for the U.S. military and golf club heads made of metallic glass.

According to the National Science Foundation,There is good integration with PayPal and most Aion Kinah providers, the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing incorporates faculty and researchers UMass Amherst,Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an plastic card , and not a metal, Binghamton University in New York, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , The University of Michigan, Mount Holyoke College, The University of Puerto Rico, and Rice University.

UMass Amherst also got word Tuesday that it has received $1.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to train graduate and undergraduate engineering students in industrial energy efficiency. The goal is that the students will go on to help manufacturers use less energy, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.Polycore hydraulic hose are manufactured as a single sheet,

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