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11/07/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Silicon can be an ideal natural amendment for farms that have high salinization

Researchers have found that amending the soil with silicon can mitigate the impact of salt stress on corn plants, providing a solution that will benefit countries facing problems with soil salinity. Too much salinity exerts stress on plants, impairing their photosynthetic apparatus and preventing them from efficiently converting water and carbon dioxide into the glucose […]

09/09/2018 / By Edsel Cook

New computer simulations show that a liquid medium can act like a solid silicon-based semiconductor

What do you think of a computer that uses liquid materials as semiconductors? A recent simulation demonstrated that a liquid medium works just as effectively as the silicon-based solids used in computer chips, an article in Science Daily stated. A liquid medium uses far fewer materials than its solid counterparts. The soft parts are also very […]

07/12/2018 / By David Williams

Polymer solar cells can’t compete with silicon but they will serve a different function

As the solar industry keeps growing bigger, the search for more efficient and more cost-effective solar panel construction materials goes on as well. There are a number of known alternatives available on the market, but none of them can quite come close to the standard material of choice – silicon. Still, there is a case […]

07/08/2018 / By David Williams

Breakthrough in “spintronic” devices for data storage and faster computing

The designs of consumer-centric computers in use today are largely based on old standards that haven’t been updated for quite some time – apart from all the miniaturization, of course. Now a group of engineers has shown that there may be an alternative solution for data storage and memory, and even computers in general, that would lead […]

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