Saturday 18 May 2013

Graphene Technology Increases Anode Capacity for Lithium-Ion Batteries

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XG Sciences Inc. of Lansing has used its proprietary know-how to improve lithium-ion battery capacity by a factor of four over conventional anodes. Using graphene nanoplatelet anode material not only improves charge storage capacity, but it also has ...

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Graphene, the material of the future - IT Central Point | IT Central Point

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Graphene is a material discovered in the year 2004 by physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov in the University of Manchester, UK. The discover was ...

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New V2O5-graphene battery chemistry improves li-ion battery ...

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Mediocre steel industry growth could benefit V2O5 non-met applications.

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Stacking 2-D materials leads to surprises - World Science

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A nearly perfectly flat material, graphene, has dazzled scientists since its discovery more than a decade ago. It has unequalled electronic properties, strength and light weight. But one long-sought goal has proved elusive: how to instill it with a ...

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Making it stick, adding boron improves graphene's ability to absorb lithium

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A fully lithium infused sheet of graphene/boron would have a theoretical capacity of 714 milliamp hours per gram. This translates into an energy density of 2,120 watt-hours per kilogram. The material also displayed the ability to retain it structure ...

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Google NASA Open New Lab to Kick Tires on Quantum Computer | Wired ...

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Inside a D-Wave Quantum computer. Photo: D-Wave If machines are going to ... That's because it uses quantum physics to break computer processing out of the ...

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1998 QE2 Massive Asteroid to MakeRoyal Flyby Discovery News

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A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries.

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Google and NASA buy D-Wave quantum computer - SlashGear

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Google will co-invest in a quantum supercomputer lab near its Mountain View campus, exploring the potential for incredibly-fast processing tipped to run ...

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Google, NASA Team On Quantum Computing

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NASA's Ames Research Laboratory, in collaboration with Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), has announced plans to host a 512-quantum-bit (qubit), quantum computer at its new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. Under terms of ...

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Google, NASA use quantum computing lab to advance machine learning, AI

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The D-Wave Two quantum computer that Google and NASA are using has 512 qubits. It is built around a superconducting processor that uses quantum mechanics to accelerate computation. Google plans to use the quantum computer to develop machine ...

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NASA lab gets BC company's quantum computer

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The D-Wave Two uses a superconducting processor leveraging quantum mechanics to massively accelerate computation. The company says the 512-qubhut CPU is housed inside a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter shielded room.

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Burnaby's quantum computer company working with NASA and Google

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Researchers in this collaboration are expecting to use the 512-qubit quantum computer to advance machine learning and develop applications for a broad range of complex science problems such as web search, speech recognition, planning and scheduling, ...

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Google and NASA Snap Up Quantum Computer D-Wave Two

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Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, was the first. Lockheed purchased a D-Wave quantum computer in 2011 and installed it in a new Quantum Computation Center at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los ...

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D-Wave quantum computer attracts NASA, Google - Vancouver Sun

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The 512-qubit quantum machine, D-Wave Two, is estimated to be at least 500,000 times faster than version one of D-Wave's previous quantum computer, which was built only two years ago. Conventional or “classical” computers are suitable for most kinds of ...

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NASA signs off on sampling mission to Earth-threatening asteroid

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But it's the samples that will be most valuable if the mission goes according to plan. Asteroid mining organizations such as Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries need information on the type of materials found on such asteroids, how to collect ...

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