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Reducing power plants’ freshwater consumption with Sandia’s new silica filter

October 18, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation’s freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for...

Categories: Chemistry, Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: cooling, cost, energy, filter, freshwater, hydrotalcite, material, method, power, process, recycle, silica, water

Turning biological cells to stone improves cancer and stem cell research

December 8, 2014 • ‘Zombie’ method also hardens biostructures for mass production ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to transmute living cells into more permanent materials that defy decay and can endure high-powered probes is widening research opportunities...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Topics: cancer, cells, nanostructures, organelles, red blood cells, silica, spiders, stem cells

‘Zombie’ replica cells may outperform live ones as catalysts and conductors

February 7, 2013 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “Zombie” mammalian cells that may function better after they die have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM). The simple technique coats a cell with a silica solution to form a near-perfect replica of its structure. The process may...

Categories: Biology, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3-D structures, carbon, catalysts, cells, nanoscopic, PNAS, silica, zombie