Coffee has gone from dietary foe to friend in recent years, partly due to the revelation that it’s
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One of the trademarks of the Star Wars film episodes is the dreaded Death Star battle station that fires a beam of directed energy powerful enough to blow up planets. The real universe has such fireworks, and they are vastly more powerful than the Star Wars creation. These extragalactic jets are tearing across hundreds of light-years of space at 98 percent the speed of light. Instead of a battle station, the source of the killer beam is a supermassive black hole weighing many million or even a billion times the mass of our sun. Energy from the spinning black hole, and its titanic magnetic fields, shape a narrow jet of gas blasting out a galaxy's center. Hubble has been used over the past 25 years to photograph and rephotograph a jet blasting out the heart of the elliptical galaxy 3C 264 (also known as NGC 3862). Hubble's sharp vision reveals that the jet has a string-of-pearls structure of glowing knots of material. When these images were assembled into a time-lapse movie, they reveal to the surprise of astronomers a faster-moving bright knot rear-ending the bright knot in front of it. The resulting shock collision further accelerates particles that produce a focused beam of deadly radiation. The jet is moving so fast toward us it gives the illusion that it is traveling faster than the speed of light. But not to worry, the host galaxy is 260 million light-years away. We are seeing the jet as it looked before the dinosaurs appeared on Earth, and our planet was suffering a global mass extinction.
The Annual "Graphene: Applications, Technologies, and Opportunities Summit" took place last week in Berlin. Graphenea Business Development Director Iñigo Charola was on the speaker list, among science and business leaders that are shaping the graphene world today.
The Graphene Summit, in its second edition hosted by Vonlanthen Group, followed the course set in the first meeting last year and focused on bringing graphene to the market. Key practical points of the summit included the evaluation of alternative methods of production of large scale, low defect graphene, liquid exfoliation of graphene and other 2D materials, graphene in structural applications, opto-electronics, and supercapacitors. Naturally, the meeting fostered a discussion on strategic investment and getting graphene to the market.
On part of Graphenea, Iñigo spoke about the graphene market and roadmap. The presentation addressed key topics in commercialization of graphene, such as the current market situation and evolution forecasts, a review of high technology readiness level applications, and scalability.
"For graphenes to succeed, several key events need to occur", proclaimed Iñigo. "The material needs to be incorporated into current manufacturing processes, production needs to scale up, and the price will need to reflect the value for the end user. The graphene market will be driven by R&D needs over the next 3-5 years", added Iñigo.
Iñigo's presentation focused on graphene oxide and large area sheets of graphene, production directions in which Graphenea excels. Summit participants had the opportunity to catch up on today's market volumes, predictions of technological development, and industry roadmaps.
Graphenea salutes the increasing number of graphene business conferences, where key industry stakeholders mingle and share experiences and ideas.
Don't miss CERN's "Ask Me Anything" session on the online forum reddit, tomorrow from 4pm CEST. Representatives from the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, as well as a CERN theorist and members of the LHC Operations team will be available live on the site’s /r/IAmA sub-forum, answering the community’s questions in real time in written form.
Last week, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) broke the world record for the highest-energy human-made collisions in a particle accelerator. CERN is one step closer to LHC Season 2, with collisions for physics data at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) due to start in June.
Ask the researchers your questions about what's in store for the LHC and its experiments at this new energy frontier.
The team of participants includes:
Got a question? Ask these researchers anything, tomorrow at 4pm CEST. The link will go live here: reddit.com/r/iAMA
Carbonates are a group of minerals that contain the carbonate ion (CO32-) and a metal, such as iron
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