The researchers tried another approach, this time swapping the cell's bottom layer of TiO2 for one
with tin oxide (SnO2).
Huang and his co-workers have developed such windows by coating glass
with tin oxide nanoparticles doped with small amounts of the element antimony.
Not exact matches
«Our infrared shielding coating,
with 10 - nanometer antimony - doped
tin oxide nanoparticles, blocks more than 90 per cent of near - infrared radiation, while transmitting more than 80 per cent of visible light,» says Huang.
Starting
with a substrate of indium
tin oxide, the researchers used light - activated chemistry to pinpoint specific locations on the surface for polymer growth.
For the experiment, the team built a tiny battery
with a lithium - cobalt anode and a cathode made from
tin oxide nanowires just 200 nanometres wide.
In the time - lapse video above, taken as the battery is charged by electrons pumping into the
tin oxide, lithium ions can be seen streaming though the hollow nanowire to pair
with the electrons.
His hydrogen - ion - creating system uses an indium
tin oxide electrode and a container of water
with cobalt and potassium phosphate mixed in.
A hat tip to Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence for describing how scientists from Tohoku University in Japan had combined carbon nanotube field emitters
with a solution of indium
oxide and
tin oxide to produce a very efficient planar light source.
To demonstrate the method, Landes and study lead author Chad Byers, a graduate student in her lab, anchored pairs of gold nanoparticles to a glass surface covered
with indium
tin oxide (ITO), the same conductor that's used in many smartphone screens.
Duan pointed out that the same porous scaffold design they used
with niobia could be used
with other active materials like silicon or
tin oxide, which boast high energy density, the ability to store lots of ions for longer - lasting batteries.
An aluminum film is deposited on the polymer and topped
with an indium
tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrode layer.
if we deregulate industry (if you deregulate one then you will have to deregulate them all) then the waste collection business up the road will dispose of their sludge down the gutters into the storm water drains, the coffee business in the next row will not replace their odour filters and the whole area will reak of burnt coffee all day, the tyre business around the corner will dump their tyres in the nearby bushland, some of the hardup businesses in the area will hookup to the power lines
with with uncontrolled connections and we will start to get brown outs at various times in the day, The lead and
tin foundry a block away won't bother controlling the lead
oxide spewing out of their chimney stack, nearby housing developments will all use open fires in winter to save on energy costs and start hacking trees out of the world heritage national park here.