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New non-mechanical laser steering technology

21-Nov-2018 - Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated a new nonmechanical chip-based beam steering technology that offers an alternative to costly, cumbersome and often unreliable and inefficient mechanical gimbal-style laser scanners. The chip, known as a steerable ...

electrodes lasers refractive index +3
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Lighting the way for more efficient LEDs

02-Feb-2018 - Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Center for Computational Materials Science, working with an international team of physicists, have revealed that nanocrystals made of cesium lead halide perovskites (CsPbX3), is the first discovered material which the ground exciton state is ...

bromine cesium cesium lead halide perovskites +10
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NRL issued patent for solar microbial fuel cell

28-Jun-2017 - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has received a U.S. patent for a self-assembling, self-repairing, and self-contained microbial photoelectrochemical solar cell driven entirely by sunlight and microorganisms. A solar microbial fuel cell ...

artificial photosynthesis engineering microorganisms +2
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Nitrades in transition

12-Jun-2017 - The average, everyday person might not be familiar with gallium nitride, also known as GaN, but there is a good chance they've heard of silicon, a semiconductor that's been used for decades and found in every computer and most electronics. As a semiconductor, GaN is similar to silicon, but it ...

electronics gallium nitride niobium +3

Harnessing the energy of fireworks for fuel

20-Jan-2017 - The world relies heavily on gasoline and other hydrocarbons to power its cars and trucks. In search of an alternative fuel type, some researchers are turning to the stuff of fireworks and explosives: metal powders. And now one team is reporting a method to produce a metal nanopowder fuel with ...

fireworks fuels gasoline +2

Coating cancels acoustic scattering from odd-shaped objects

29-Oct-2015 - In a new twist, a team of researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin has applied to acoustic waves the concept of "scattering cancellation," which has long been used to systematically cancel the dominant scattering modes of electromagnetic waves off ...

coatings polydimethylsiloxane

Violent nabro eruption shown to pierce stratosphere

11-Feb-2013 - Researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Ocean and Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate report conclusive evidence that volcanic gases and aerosols from the explosive 2011 eruption of the East Africa Nabro Volcano breached the stratosphere, unassisted by the seasonal Asian ...

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A new way forward for nanocomposite nanostructures

03-Mar-2010 - Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Illinois — Urbana Champaign recently reported a new technique for directly writing composites of nanoparticles and polymers. Recent years have seen significant advances in the properties achieved by both these materials, and ...

atomic force microscopy composites magnetic nanoparticles +5
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NRL's Ion Tiger sets 26-hour flight endurance record

02-Dec-2009 - The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 26 hours and 1 minute carrying a 5-pound payload, setting another unofficial flight endurance record for a fuel-cell powered flight. The test flight took place on November 16th through ...

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NRL scientists produce carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymeric resins

11-Feb-2008 - Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have successfully produced carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in high yields in bulk solid compositions using commercially available aromatic containing resins. The concentration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and metal nanoparticles can be easily ...

boron carbon carbon nanoparticles +13