Cheap, flexible and sustainable plastic semiconductors will soon be a reality thanks to a breakthrough by chemists at the University of Waterloo.
Professor Derek Schipper and his team at Waterloo have developed a way to make conjugated polymers, plastics that conduct electricity like metals, using a simple dehydration reaction the only byproduct of which is water.
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Five Healthy Habits May Add More Than a Decade to Life
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including eating a healthy diet, regular exercise and not smoking, could prolong life expectancy at age 50 by 14 years for women and just over 12 years for men, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.
Indistinguishable from magic: Hunting for spiders in Mexico’s cloud forests
Last year, University of British Columbia zoologist Wayne Maddison travelled to the highlands of southern Mexico in pursuit of undiscovered species of jumping spiders. He kept a journal of his adventures, documenting his encounters with resplendently beautiful arachnids.
New Materials for Sustainable, Low-Cost Batteries
A new conductor material and a new electrode material could pave the way for inexpensive batteries and therefore the large-scale storage of renewable energies.
'Air garden' provides fresh salad greens steps from Village Center dining tables
A new aeroponic garden in the University of Coloardo (Boulder) Village Center Dining and Community Commons is the first in the nation to provide students, staff and faculty with fresh salad greens grown on site in a high-tech greenhouse attached to a dining hall.
Greener ships, cleaner ocean
Drop an electric motor into a ship and you’re all set to sail into a cleaner environment, right?
If only it were that simple, says a University of Victoria mechanical engineer whose research focuses on hybrid electric propulsion systems.
