Wafer investment: paying for tomorrow today

Membrane Engineering for Today and for Tomorrow

SPEAR 3 – A Technology Investment Today for Science Tomorrow

To provide new scientific opportunity and better serve an expanding user community, SSRL will replace the SPEAR storage ring with a 500 mA, 3 GeV machine SPEAR 3. The 4-year, 58 M$ upgrade is funded jointly by the US DOE and the NIH. The main goals are to significantly increase photon beam brightness and stability for the user community. To achieve these goals, the SPEAR 3 project includes a ne...

Alzheimer's Disease: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Alzheimer's disease is the most common and well - known cause of dementia, as a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that affects cognitive function, personality, thought, perception and behaviour. Alzheimer's disease is the fourth leading cause of death in western countries. Interesting to know that this disease was unknown in medical community till 100 years ago and had no name. Dr. Alois...

Hygiene yesterday, today, tomorrow

I began my career in 1945 by tracing the footsteps of the legendary Max von Pettenkofer and Robert Koch. At that time their influence was still discernible, and continues to be.The first major innovation was the introduction of antibiotics, which some people believed would now dispense with the need for disinfection and sterilization. The next major development was the introduction of hospital ...

Photovoltaics today and tomorrow.

In the next several decades it is expected that the United States and the rest of the nations of the world will greatly expand their consumption of electricity. But many questions will accompany this expansion: Can we build enough generating capacity? Do we have enough energy resources? Can we accommodate centralized and dispersed needs, large and small applications, and the diverse requirement...