Kavli News

09/10/2009

Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Efficient Solar Cells

Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops.

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09/01/2009

2010 Kavli Prizes Open Call for Nominations

The 2010 Kavli Prize call for nominations has been opened by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The Academy will receive nominations September 1 through December 15, 2009.

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08/17/2009

Even When Faced with Nanoslits, Bacteria Conforms to Tight Spaces

A new study from TU Delft's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience suggests that bacteria can squeeze through practically anything -- even extremely small nanoslits, where they take on a completely new flat shape.

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08/12/2009

Paul Weiss Named Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences

Leading nanoscientist Paul S. Weiss has been named director of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and holder of the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences.

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08/10/2009

First Black Holes Born Starving

The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists wth the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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