In the last two years, we began in earnest with a solid technology roadmap after doing the evaluations and some R&D to decide where we would go technologically".
The penetration of porous solids by organic solvents is a technologically important phenomenon, relevant to a wide variety of fields including heterogeneous catalysis.
In addition, adsorption and desorption kinetics are technologically important because the diffusion within solid particles is a phenomenon of great importance in catalysis, metallurgy, microelectronics, materials science, and other numerous scientific and technological applications.
The start-up, Bloom Energy, has raised about $400 million from investors and spent nearly a decade developing a new variety of solid oxide fuel cell, considered the most efficient but most technologically challenging fuel-cell technology.
Friction properties of nanometer-thick lubricant films confined between two ultra-smooth solid surfaces are crucial to the practical performance of technologically advanced mechanical devices such as micro-electro-mechanical systems and hard disk drives.
The main goal of solid-state chemistry is the synthesis and characterisation of new compounds with technologically exploitable properties.
For instance, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), which form spontaneously by the adsorption of an active surfactant onto a solid surface, possess important properties of self-organisation and adaptability to a number of technologically relevant surface substrates.
The most technologically advanced double-glazing only performs at about 10 percent of the rating of a solid insulated wall.
These non-ohmic ceramic devices are also known as "metal-oxide" varistors (variable resistors) applications of which are technologically important because of their electric characteristics that enable them to be used as solid-state switches with large-energy-handling capabilities.
The spontaneous formation of ordered self-assembly on solid supports is not only an intriguing subject for fundamental surface science study, but also closely related to many emerging technologically important applications, especially in the field of nanotechnology.
