Defense Systems August 14, 2020 One of the key concerns for all government agencies — especially DOD with its national security mission — is what happens to the technology they have procured when a commercial developer determines that it will no longer support that version of the technology, merges with or is acquired by another company, goes out of business or no longer has the ability to make changes to the software source code or underlying technology. On a basic level technology escrow is a legal agreement between all parties involved in a technology transaction. It is managed by a […]
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‘Blinking’ nanocrystals may convert CO2 into fuels
Nanowerk July 16, 2020 Using polymer‐derived mesoporous carbon (PDMC) as a template, an international team of researchers (USA- State University of New Jersey, China, Czech Republic) has synthesized mesoporous titanium dioxide comprised of small, crystalline, vacancy‐rich anatase nanoparticles that show unique optical, thermal, and electronic properties. When exposed to a slow electron beam, the nanoparticles exhibit a charge/discharge behavior, lighting up and fading away for an average period of 15 s. They show a 50 nm red‐shift in their UV/Vis absorption and long‐lived charge carriers at room temperature in the dark, even long after UV irradiation. As photocatalysts they show […]