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Later this year, NASA‘s R2 will become the first humanoid robot resident of the International Space Station. NASA has released a new video showing off R2‘s impressive capabilities.

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http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/

Researchers from the University of Southamp- ton, U.K., Italian Institute of Technology, and the University of Magna Graecia, Italy, presents

in Physical Review Letters their work with carbon nanotubes in a photonic metamaterial. Hybridiza- tion of single-walled carbon nanotubes with plas- monic metamaterials leads to photonic media with an exceptionally strong ultrafast nonlinearity. This behavior is underpinned by strong coupling of the nanotube excitonic response to the weakly radiating Fano-type resonant plasmonic modes that can be tailored by metamaterial design. © Physical Review Letters

Andrey E. Nikolaenko, Francesco De Angelis, Stuart A. Bo- den, Nikitas Papasimakis, Peter Ashburn, Enzo Di Fabrizio, and Nikolay I. Zheludev: Carbon Nanotubes in a Photonic Metamaterial, In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104(2010), Issue 15, Article 153902 [4 pages], DOI:10.1103/PhysRev- Lett.104.153902:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.153902

With a new grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research, Technology and Production Sciences, the Fuel Cells and Solid State Chemistry Division at Risø DTU will seek to manufacture complex ceramic components by means of well-

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known, simple methods. The components can also be used for magnetic refrigerators, cleaning exhaust gases and much else besides.

The figure shows examples of the different types of ceramic components that Risø wants to manufacture in one go using well-known, simple methods such as tape casting and extrusion. The component on the left and far right could be an oxygen membrane. The two compo- nents at the centre could be components for magnetic refrigeration. Here, one end must function in the cold while the other end needs to function in the heat to pump the heat out of our refrigerators. © Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy

“You can imagine an oxygen membrane shaped like a pipe with atmospheric air on the outside and pure
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