Beirut, June 29 (AKnews)-? Academic University for Non-Violence and Human Rights in the Arab World (AUNOHR) is going to open its branch in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region, university president said.
Ogarit Younan announced the intent of her university in a meeting with a number of Iraqi and Kurdish intellectuals, including Abdul-Hussein Shaaban, the Iraqi writer and Badran Habeeb, the general director of Kurdistan news agency (AKnews), who visited the university today.
Younan said that the intellectual culture and history of the Kurdistan Region prove there are dimensions of non-violence in this region.
This non-violence of the Kurdish nation should be promoted through the ideas and subjects of the university, Younan said.
She added the university staff hopes to win the support of the Kurdistan Region for opening the branches of the university across the world. ?
The AUNOHR University founded in 2009 has 50 students from six Arab countries who study for MA and Ph.D degress in non-violence.
Late May a delegation from the university held a number of seminars in Kurdistan, in which it discussed the ways to spread the message of a non-violent culture in the Kurdistan Region.
After 100 years, energetic space particles continue to pose a perplexing mystery (p. 16)
Scientists reinvent agents of illness to become allies in fight against disease (p. 22)
Injecting amyloid-beta into mice may induce misfolding of native amyloid-beta molecules, leading to the buildup associated with the neuron-killing disease. (p. 5)
Held back for months by a U.S. government biosafety board, the research pinpoints five mutations that render the potent H5N1 virus transmissible through air. (p. 8)
Lightweight insects can ride a water droplet, as long as they separate from it before hitting the ground. (p. 9)
After an existence plagued by predatory spiders, the insects pass into oblivion, leaving a legacy of impoverished soil. (p. 9)
A re-evaluation of the Kepler mission?s data suggests one in three hot giant orbs it discovered is actually another kind of object. (p. 10)
The Andromeda galaxy is destined to slam directly into ours, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show. (p. 10)
A star's oversized debris ring challenges theories of planet formation. (p. 11)
Highlights from the 220th AAS meeting held June 10-14 in Anchorage, Alaska. (p. 11)
Indonesian volcano may be the culprit in the biggest eruption of the last seven millennia. (p. 12)
Prehistoric eruptions gave off huge amounts of a gas that erodes the UV-blocking atmospheric layer. (p. 12)
Granular materials give off a zap just before slipping, a finding with potential implications for sensing the starts of silo disasters or earthquakes. (p. 13)
Among regular consumers of sugar-free soft drinks, networks that equate sweet flavors with energy intake may grow numb to the real stuff. (p. 14)
Patients are deficient in four key lipids that neutralize immune cells linked to inflammation and nerve damage. (p. 14)
Insight into how some schizophrenia drugs work may explain why compounds that build up in the brain can take weeks to provide relief. (p. 15)
NEW YORK (AP) ? AOL is promoting its head financial officer to chief operating officer. The company has tasked him with organizing the online media conglomerate into three divisions.
AOL Inc. announced the promotion of Artie Minson Jr. on Friday morning. Minson will be in charge of executing the company's plan to break itself into three groups.
The new Content Brands Group will include Huffington Post Media, which oversees Moviefone, TechCrunch, Patch and the Huffington Post website. AOL bought the Huffington Post last year.
The AOL Membership Group will include AOL Mail and other consumer products.
And the Advertising.com Group will hold AOL's business services, ADTECH, Pictela and other products related to advertising.
AOL's stock rose 2.4 percent, or 67 cents, to $28.17 Friday afternoon. That's 19 cents shy of its high over the past year. The stock has risen 86 percent so far in 2012.
The company launched an effort to buy back up to $400 million of its shares on Thursday. It's funding that effort with proceeds from the sale of more than 800 patents and applications to Microsoft Corp.
Including the $400 million, AOL will have returned about $1.1 billion to shareholders this year.
The Bangkok Post reported that Thai ombudsmen are drafting a new law??to stop illegal foreign ownership of land in the country.
Pursuant to Thailand real estate law??it is normally illegal for a foreigner to own real estate in Thailand.? Based on numerous complaints to the Thai government of foreigners using Thai nominees to purchase real estate on their behalf, the Thai government is proposing a new law to crack down on the use of Thai nominees to purchase real estate. ?
Ombudsman Siracha Charoenpanij said the new law would provide for punishment for companies offering advice to foreigners on how to hold Thai property by disguising their legal transaction. The draft law would also allow the deportation of foreigners found guilty of holding the land plots in Thailand illegally. The current law requires foreigners found holding Thai property to transfer the plot to someone else or sell it within 180 days.
Recently, some foreigners have disguised their ownership in a scheme similar to multi-level marketing, where they then buy shares of an agricultural company that holds ownership of the land grows rice on large plots in the northeast.
Atip Bijanonda, president of the construction and real estate business department of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, said there should be a balance between protecting Thai interests while still welcoming foreign investment.
The newly proposed law also includes a reward to anyone providing information about foreigners owning land through nominees. Those providing the information would get 20 per cent of the market price of the piece of land after the plot is sold.
This draft law has not yet been made into law and its future is uncertain. The Ombudsmen will submit the draft to parliament this year.
A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Saving its biggest case for last, the Supreme Court is expected to announce its verdict Thursday on President Barack Obama's health care law. The outcome is likely to be a factor in the presidential campaign and help define John Roberts' legacy as chief justice. But the court's ruling almost certainly will not be the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Saving its biggest case for last, the Supreme Court is expected to announce its verdict Thursday on President Barack Obama's health care law. The outcome is likely to be a factor in the presidential campaign and help define John Roberts' legacy as chief justice. But the court's ruling almost certainly will not be the last word on America's tangled efforts to address health care woes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Dr. Nadya Hasham, a professor at Touro College medical school, examines Glenn Johnson at the Touro College Family Health Center on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 in Harlem, N.Y. The clinic provides affordable healthcare daily for one hundred individuals on average, according to a spokesperson, and accepts all walk-ins including the uninsured. Presidential candidates, governors of virtually every state, insurers with billions at stake, companies large and small and countless millions of Americans concerned about their own medical care and how they'll pay for it are awaiting a Supreme Court ruling expected Thursday on whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Nurse Tamika Edmonds, left, talks with patient LadiRoyale Davis before administering a shot at the William F. Ryan Community Health Center in New York, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Presidential candidates, governors of virtually every state, insurers with billions at stake, companies large and small and countless millions of Americans concerned about their own medical care and how they'll pay for it are awaiting a Supreme Court ruling expected Thursday on whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Dr. Hamsakumari Ramasubramaniam, left, examines patient Fabian Vasquez at Camillus Health Concern, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, in Miami. Camillus is a private, non-profit organization that provides health care to the homeless and poor in Miami-Dade County. Presidential candidates, governors of virtually every state, insurers with billions at stake, companies large and small and countless millions of Americans concerned about their own medical care and how they'll pay for it are awaiting a Supreme Court ruling expected Thursday on whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? They've known the outcome for three months. Now it's time for the nine Supreme Court justices to share it with the world.
Barring some incredibly strange twist, shortly after 10 o'clock in the morning Thursday, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to reveal the high court's verdict on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Between 400 and 500 people will crowd into the marble courtroom, the only witnesses to a historic moment that will not be broadcast live on television or radio. Some of those hoping for seats already were in line early Wednesday afternoon.
The court is not just passing judgment on a major expansion of the social safety net, designed to cover an additional 30 million Americans with health insurance. It is doing so on the president's signature domestic legislative achievement and in the heat of his closely fought campaign for re-election.
Four major issues await resolution, the most important of which is whether the law's centerpiece requirement that most people have health insurance or pay a penalty is constitutional. The justices also are weighing whether other parts or indeed the entire 2010 law should fall if they strike down the insurance requirement.
Apart from the insurance mandate, the court also is considering the validity of the health care law's significant expansion of Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for the poor.
One wrinkle could prevent the court from deciding the fate of the insurance requirement. A mid-19th century law prohibits challenges to taxes until they have been paid. The insurance requirement does not kick in until 2014 and people who pay the penalty won't do so until they file their 2014 income tax forms by April 15, 2015.
The court devoted more than six hours to arguments about these issues over three days in late March. The justices met March 30 to take a vote on the case and sort out who would take the lead in writing the opinions. In a case of this magnitude, the chief justice probably is writing the majority opinion, assuming he is in the majority.
The 26 states and the small business group challenging the law seemed to have the better of the courtroom arguments in March. Conservative justices peppered Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. with hostile questions about both the insurance requirement and the Medicaid expansion.
But the lively arguments, the only time the justices discuss pending cases in public, are a relatively small part of a rather large record ? in this case, a mountain of more than 140 legal briefs.
Whatever the outcome, it seems certain to become part of the campaign between Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney.
Obama could try to make the court itself, or more particularly its conservative majority, an issue if the insurance requirement or the whole law is struck down. For his part, Romney already has said he will try to take advantage of either outcome. If the law falls, Romney said it will show that "the first 3 1/2 years of this president's term will have been wasted on something that has not helped the American people." If the law is upheld, "we're going to have to have a president ? and I'm that one ? that's going to get rid of Obamacare. We're going to stop it on Day One," Romney said.
The case began almost as soon as Obama signed the law on March 23, 2010. Even before the day was out, Florida and 12 states filed the lawsuit that ended up at the Supreme Court. Another 13 states later joined in later.
The heart of the challenge was the claim that Congress could not force people to buy a product ? health insurance.
The administration advanced several arguments in defense of Congress' authority to require health insurance, including that it falls under the power to regulate interstate commerce.
The government also argued that the insurance requirement was necessary to make effective two other undoubtedly constitutional provisions: the requirements that insurers accept people regardless of existing health problems and limit what they charge older, sicker people.
The administration also said that even if the court rejected the first two arguments, the insurance requirement and penalty are constitutional as an exercise of Congress' power to enact taxes. The penalty assessed for not buying insurance functions like a tax, the government said.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti leaves an EU Summit in Brussels on Friday, June 29, 2012. European leaders have agreed to use the continent's permanent bailout fund to recapitalize struggling banks, and agreed to the idea of a tighter union in the long term. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti leaves an EU Summit in Brussels on Friday, June 29, 2012. European leaders have agreed to use the continent's permanent bailout fund to recapitalize struggling banks, and agreed to the idea of a tighter union in the long term. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
French President Francois Hollande speaks to the media during a press conference at an EU Summit in Brussels, Friday, June 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves an EU Summit in Brussels on Friday, June 29, 2012. European leaders have agreed to use the continent's permanent bailout fund to recapitalize struggling banks, and agreed to the idea of a tighter union in the long term. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
BRUSSELS (AP) ? After 18 disappointing summits since the start of the debt crisis, Europe's leaders appeared Friday to have finally come up with quick fixes and long-term plans that show they are serious about restoring confidence in their currency union.
Global markets sighed with relief, debt-saddled Italy and Spain appeared victorious and Germany's Angela Merkel faced potential criticism at home for conceding to pressure for an immediate deal.
Leaders of 17 countries that use the euro agreed to:
?Allow two European bailout funds to pump money directly into troubled European banks, rather than make loans to governments to bail out the banks. The move rescues banks without putting strapped countries deeper in debt.
?Use bailout money "in a flexible and efficient manner to stabilize" European government bond markets.
?Let countries that have made economic reforms as require by EU authorities tap the European rescue funds without submitting to stringent bailout programs.
?Tie their budgets, currency and governments ever tighter in a vast new economic union down the line.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy called it a "breakthrough." Global stock markets and the euro rallied hard.
Concerns remain. Most of the measures approved in the Brussels summit will take months to come into force. The ?500 billion ($630 billion) firepower of the permanent bailout fund may not be enough. And given how shaky Spain's and Italy's finances are, and how jittery markets are, new roadblocks could send the continent back into crisis.
But some key points will kick in within 10 days: On July 9, eurozone countries will agree to give Spanish banks rescue loans and also allow the current, temporary European bailout fund to directly purchase Spanish government bonds.
The decision is a victory for Spain and Italy, whose borrowing costs have risen to near unsustainable levels despite their efforts to cut government spending and reform their labor markets.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is likely to face a grilling from a skeptical German Parliament later. Heading into the summit, Merkel had stuck to her line that any financial help from Europe's bailout fund must come with tough conditions, so a separate decision allowing countries that have reformed their economies easier access to bailouts, without such stringent conditions, was widely seen as a defeat by the German press.
Merkel insisted the funds would still only be released when it was clear countries were undertaking serious reforms.
"We remain completely within our approach so far: help, trade-off, conditionality and control, and so I think we have done something important, but we have remained true to our philosophy of no help without a trade-off," Merkel told reporters in Brussels.
Van Rompuy dismissed talk that Merkel had lost in the negotiations.
"It was a tough negotiation," Van Rompuy said. "And you can't summarize this in winners and losers."
In addition, the leaders of the eurozone countries authorized the EU bailout funds to buy bonds of countries in order to reduce the interest rates the markets charge.
Leaders of the full 27-member European Union, which includes non-euro countries such as Britain and Poland, also agreed to a long-term framework toward tighter budgetary and political union, though those plans will require treaty changes and won't be realized for years.
The scale of the moves were unexpected and provided investors a reason for optimism, even as analysts cast doubt on the plans' feasibility and noted that some fundamental problems with the common currency remain.
"I think the elements we put together will reassure the markets," said Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, was similarly optimistic.
"I'm actually quite pleased with the outcome of the European Council," said Draghi. "It showed the long-term commitment to the euro by all member states of the euro area. But also it reached tangible results in the shorter term."
Stocks around the world surged Friday, with markets in countries on the front line of the crisis doing particularly well. Italy's FTSE MIB and Spain's IBEX indexes each rose 3 percent.
Perhaps more importantly, the yield on Spain's 10-year bond dropped by 0.32 percentage points to 6.58 percent. Italy's was down by 0.14 percentage points to 5.94 percent. Both countries have seen their rates edge toward the 7 percent level which is seen as unsustainable over the long term.
The importance of recapitalizing banks directly from the bailout fund became evident this month when Spain was offered ?100 billion ($125.6 billion) for its shaky banks. Previously the bailout loan would have to be made to the Spanish government, which would lend it on to the banks. The prospect of having that debt on the government's books spooked investors, who began demanding higher interest rates to reflect the risk of a Spanish default.
Lending the money directly to the banks avoids putting more debt on the government's books.
Also boosting market confidence was the agreement to waive the permanent bailout fund's preferred creditor status for aid given to Spanish banks. So far, any money the fund puts into a bank would get repaid before any other investors.
When Spain agreed to take rescue loans for its banks, the news failed to boost confidence in the banks because investors worried that, if one of those banks collapsed, they would be last to get repaid. Eurozone leaders agreed to waive the bailout fund's preferred creditor status only in Spain's case.
Some analysts, however, noted that the size of the bailout funds some ?500 billion would have to be increased to be a realistic backstop for public debt and banks across the continent. Italy alone has government debt of ?2.4 trillion.
"These steps are the obvious ones to take to try to restore some confidence in the market in the short term," said Gary Jenkins, managing director of Swordfish Research in London. "Alone, they do not solve the underlying problems but they might buy a bit of time, which is probably about the best they can do right now."
Though welcoming the measures that were taken, analysts think more will have to be done.
"If the aim is to ease tensions on the Italian and Spanish bond market on a more sustainable basis, we probably will need to have more assurance on the fire power," said analyst Carsten Brzeski of ING in a note.
Brzeski said more liquidity support from the ECB ? such as in the form of cheap loans to banks ? "looks inevitable" and may come as soon as Monday.
The EU leaders also agreed to devote ?120 billion in stimulus to encourage growth and create jobs, though half of it had already been earmarked and it includes only ?10 billion in actual new commitments. France had pushed for the growth package, arguing that austerity measures are stifling growth and making debt reduction more difficult.
They also agreed to give the ECB powers to oversee big European banks by the end of the year.
For the longer-term, the 27 leaders of the EU agreed on "four building blocks" of a tighter union ? but postponed specifics until a study due in October. The building blocks, which include sharing debt in the form of jointly issued eurobonds, were laid out in a sweeping document presented by Van Rompuy and colleagues before the summit.
However, France's President Francois Hollande said the general agreement on the tighter union did not for now include any commitment on eurobonds from Germany and other stronger economies that have firmly opposed sharing debt with more profligate countries such as Greece.
Hollande claimed to play the role of mediator instead of partnering with Germany as France traditionally does.
"No one can say I won or I lost," he said. "What was at stake was Europe. That's who won."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with President of Finland Sauli Niinist?, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at the Mantyniemi Presidential Residence in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with President of Finland Sauli Niinist?, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at the Mantyniemi Presidential Residence in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, centre left, meets with President of Finland Sauli Niinist?, centre right, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at the Mantyniemi Presidential Residence in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shakes hands with Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at the Government Banquet Hall in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, Pool)
HELSINKI (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's optimistic that relations with Moscow will not suffer despite planned legislation in Congress that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators.
Clinton says she expects "something to move" on both the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik law and on Congress' concerns about Russian human rights.
She told reporters in Finland on Wednesday that the concerns could be expressed "without derailing the relationship (with Moscow) and that is what we are working with our Congress to do and we have every reason to believe we can accomplish that."
The 1974 Jackson-Vanik Act tied trade with the then-Soviet Union to Moscow's willingness to allow Jews and other minorities to leave the country. The repeal of Jackson-Vanik is necessary if U.S. businesses are to enjoy lower tariffs and increased access to Russian markets when Russia joins the World Trade Organization this summer.
Following talks with Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, Clinton told reporters that "we discussed this directly with President (Vladimir) Putin when I was with President Obama in Mexico. We made it very clear that, you know, we do have concerns about human rights in Russia."
A Senate panel in Washington moved forward Tuesday on a bill that would impose tough sanctions on Russian human rights violators, a measure certain to be linked to congressional efforts to lift the Cold War-era Jackson-Vanik trade restrictions.
The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate approved the measure that would impose visa bans and freeze the assets of those held responsible for gross human rights violations in Russia, as well as other human rights abusers.
Specifically, it targets those allegedly involved in the imprisonment, torture and death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail in 2009.
Clinton said, "We think there is a way of expressing those concerns without derailing the relationship" with Moscow, and she added that is "what we are working with our Congress to do, and we have every reason to believe we can accomplish that."
"We are very keen in the administration for repealing the Jackson-Vanik bill because we want to open doors to greater trade and investment between our two countries," the secretary said.
"However there is great concern in our country, and in particular in our Congress over human rights in Russia," she added, "and in particular the case of the lawyer Mr. Magnitsky, who died in prison."
"There's a lot of interest in our Congress over a full, transparent investigation of the circumstances of his death in prison," Clinton said. "And so our Congress, while they are being asked by the administration to repeal Jackson-Vanik, want to pass legislation that will require the United States government to take action against any persons who are connected with the death of Mr. Magnitsky."
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Contact: David Ruth david@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University
Technique could turn any surface into a lithium-ion battery; may be combined with solar cells
HOUSTON (June 28, 2012) Researchers at Rice University have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be painted on virtually any surface.
The rechargeable battery created in the lab of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan consists of spray-painted layers, each representing the components in a traditional battery. The research appears today in Nature's online, open-access journal Scientific Reports.
"This means traditional packaging for batteries has given way to a much more flexible approach that allows all kinds of new design and integration possibilities for storage devices," said Ajayan, Rice's Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of chemistry. "There has been a lot of interest in recent times in creating power sources with an improved form factor, and this is a big step forward in that direction."
Lead author Neelam Singh, a Rice graduate student, and her team spent painstaking hours formulating, mixing and testing paints for each of the five layered components two current collectors, a cathode, an anode and a polymer separator in the middle.
The materials were airbrushed onto ceramic bathroom tiles, flexible polymers, glass, stainless steel and even a beer stein to see how well they would bond with each substrate.
In the first experiment, nine bathroom tile-based batteries were connected in parallel. One was topped with a solar cell that converted power from a white laboratory light. When fully charged by both the solar panel and house current, the batteries alone powered a set of light-emitting diodes that spelled out "RICE" for six hours; the batteries provided a steady 2.4 volts.
The researchers reported that the hand-painted batteries were remarkably consistent in their capacities, within plus or minus 10 percent of the target. They were also put through 60 charge-discharge cycles with only a very small drop in capacity, Singh said.
Each layer is an optimized stew. The first, the positive current collector, is a mixture of purified single-wall carbon nanotubes with carbon black particles dispersed in N-methylpyrrolidone. The second is the cathode, which contains lithium cobalt oxide, carbon and ultrafine graphite (UFG) powder in a binder solution. The third is the polymer separator paint of Kynar Flex resin, PMMA and silicon dioxide dispersed in a solvent mixture. The fourth, the anode, is a mixture of lithium titanium oxide and UFG in a binder, and the final layer is the negative current collector, a commercially available conductive copper paint, diluted with ethanol.
"The hardest part was achieving mechanical stability, and the separator played a critical role," Singh said. "We found that the nanotube and the cathode layers were sticking very well, but if the separator was not mechanically stable, they would peel off the substrate. Adding PMMA gave the right adhesion to the separator." Once painted, the tiles and other items were infused with the electrolyte and then heat-sealed and charged.
Singh said the batteries were easily charged with a small solar cell. She foresees the possibility of integrating paintable batteries with recently reported paintable solar cells to create an energy-harvesting combination that would be hard to beat. As good as the hand-painted batteries are, she said, scaling up with modern methods will improve them by leaps and bounds. "Spray painting is already an industrial process, so it would be very easy to incorporate this into industry," Singh said.
The Rice researchers have filed for a patent on the technique, which they will continue to refine. Singh said they are actively looking for electrolytes that would make it easier to create painted batteries in the open air, and they also envision their batteries as snap-together tiles that can be configured in any number of ways.
"We really do consider this a paradigm changer," she said.
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Co-authors of the paper are graduate students Charudatta Galande and Akshay Mathkar, alumna Wei Gao, now a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and research scientist Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, all of Rice; Rice Quantum Institute intern Andrea Miranda; and Alexandru Vlad, a former research associate at Rice, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Universit Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
The Advanced Energy Consortium, the National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education, Army Research Laboratories and Nanoholdings Inc. supported the research.
This news release can be found online at http://news.rice.edu/2012/06/28/rice-researchers-develop-paintable-battery/
Watch a video about Rice's paintable batteries: http://youtu.be/qJDI5cAdhys
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Read the paper at www.nature.com/srep/2012/120628/srep00481/full/srep00481.html
An electron microscope image of a spray-painted lithium-ion battery developed at Rice University shows its five-layer structure. (Credit: Ajayan Lab/Rice University)
Conventional lithium-ion batteries wrap active layers into a canister or other portable container. But Rice University researchers have found a way to paint those layers onto any surface, which opens up the possibility of turning those surfaces into storage devices. (Credit: Neelam Singh/Rice University)
Rice University graduate student Charudatta Galande wires an array of LEDs to a set of batteries painted on the surface of ceramic tiles. A team of Rice researchers has invented a form of paintable lithium-ion battery that can be applied to virtually any surface. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Rice University graduate student Charudatta Galande, Professor Pulickel Ajayan and graduate student Neelam Singh show off the first test device for their paintable batteries, an array of standard ceramic tiles combined with a solar cell and an array of LEDs, which the batteries powered for six hours. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Ceramic tiles coated with battery paints and then heat-sealed powered LEDs spelling out "RICE" for six hours in an experiment at Rice University. The lithium-ion batteries can be painted on virtually any surface. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
A beer stein served as an able substrate for a paintable battery developed at Rice University. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is known for its "unconventional wisdom." With 3,708 undergraduates and 2,374 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice has been ranked No. 1 for best quality of life multiple times by the Princeton Review and No. 4 for "best value" among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. To read "What they're saying about Rice," go to www.rice.edu/nationalmedia/Rice.pdf.
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Technique could turn any surface into a lithium-ion battery; may be combined with solar cells
HOUSTON (June 28, 2012) Researchers at Rice University have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be painted on virtually any surface.
The rechargeable battery created in the lab of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan consists of spray-painted layers, each representing the components in a traditional battery. The research appears today in Nature's online, open-access journal Scientific Reports.
"This means traditional packaging for batteries has given way to a much more flexible approach that allows all kinds of new design and integration possibilities for storage devices," said Ajayan, Rice's Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of chemistry. "There has been a lot of interest in recent times in creating power sources with an improved form factor, and this is a big step forward in that direction."
Lead author Neelam Singh, a Rice graduate student, and her team spent painstaking hours formulating, mixing and testing paints for each of the five layered components two current collectors, a cathode, an anode and a polymer separator in the middle.
The materials were airbrushed onto ceramic bathroom tiles, flexible polymers, glass, stainless steel and even a beer stein to see how well they would bond with each substrate.
In the first experiment, nine bathroom tile-based batteries were connected in parallel. One was topped with a solar cell that converted power from a white laboratory light. When fully charged by both the solar panel and house current, the batteries alone powered a set of light-emitting diodes that spelled out "RICE" for six hours; the batteries provided a steady 2.4 volts.
The researchers reported that the hand-painted batteries were remarkably consistent in their capacities, within plus or minus 10 percent of the target. They were also put through 60 charge-discharge cycles with only a very small drop in capacity, Singh said.
Each layer is an optimized stew. The first, the positive current collector, is a mixture of purified single-wall carbon nanotubes with carbon black particles dispersed in N-methylpyrrolidone. The second is the cathode, which contains lithium cobalt oxide, carbon and ultrafine graphite (UFG) powder in a binder solution. The third is the polymer separator paint of Kynar Flex resin, PMMA and silicon dioxide dispersed in a solvent mixture. The fourth, the anode, is a mixture of lithium titanium oxide and UFG in a binder, and the final layer is the negative current collector, a commercially available conductive copper paint, diluted with ethanol.
"The hardest part was achieving mechanical stability, and the separator played a critical role," Singh said. "We found that the nanotube and the cathode layers were sticking very well, but if the separator was not mechanically stable, they would peel off the substrate. Adding PMMA gave the right adhesion to the separator." Once painted, the tiles and other items were infused with the electrolyte and then heat-sealed and charged.
Singh said the batteries were easily charged with a small solar cell. She foresees the possibility of integrating paintable batteries with recently reported paintable solar cells to create an energy-harvesting combination that would be hard to beat. As good as the hand-painted batteries are, she said, scaling up with modern methods will improve them by leaps and bounds. "Spray painting is already an industrial process, so it would be very easy to incorporate this into industry," Singh said.
The Rice researchers have filed for a patent on the technique, which they will continue to refine. Singh said they are actively looking for electrolytes that would make it easier to create painted batteries in the open air, and they also envision their batteries as snap-together tiles that can be configured in any number of ways.
"We really do consider this a paradigm changer," she said.
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Co-authors of the paper are graduate students Charudatta Galande and Akshay Mathkar, alumna Wei Gao, now a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and research scientist Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, all of Rice; Rice Quantum Institute intern Andrea Miranda; and Alexandru Vlad, a former research associate at Rice, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Universit Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
The Advanced Energy Consortium, the National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education, Army Research Laboratories and Nanoholdings Inc. supported the research.
This news release can be found online at http://news.rice.edu/2012/06/28/rice-researchers-develop-paintable-battery/
Watch a video about Rice's paintable batteries: http://youtu.be/qJDI5cAdhys
Related links:
Read the paper at www.nature.com/srep/2012/120628/srep00481/full/srep00481.html
An electron microscope image of a spray-painted lithium-ion battery developed at Rice University shows its five-layer structure. (Credit: Ajayan Lab/Rice University)
Conventional lithium-ion batteries wrap active layers into a canister or other portable container. But Rice University researchers have found a way to paint those layers onto any surface, which opens up the possibility of turning those surfaces into storage devices. (Credit: Neelam Singh/Rice University)
Rice University graduate student Charudatta Galande wires an array of LEDs to a set of batteries painted on the surface of ceramic tiles. A team of Rice researchers has invented a form of paintable lithium-ion battery that can be applied to virtually any surface. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Rice University graduate student Charudatta Galande, Professor Pulickel Ajayan and graduate student Neelam Singh show off the first test device for their paintable batteries, an array of standard ceramic tiles combined with a solar cell and an array of LEDs, which the batteries powered for six hours. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Ceramic tiles coated with battery paints and then heat-sealed powered LEDs spelling out "RICE" for six hours in an experiment at Rice University. The lithium-ion batteries can be painted on virtually any surface. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
A beer stein served as an able substrate for a paintable battery developed at Rice University. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is known for its "unconventional wisdom." With 3,708 undergraduates and 2,374 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice has been ranked No. 1 for best quality of life multiple times by the Princeton Review and No. 4 for "best value" among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. To read "What they're saying about Rice," go to www.rice.edu/nationalmedia/Rice.pdf.
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Wale, Meek Mill, French Montana, Omarion and Stalley will join Rozay in sit-down with Sway Calloway. By Rob Markman
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Looks like MTV News is going to need a few extra parking passes because Rick Ross will be bringing his entire Maybach Music Group up to "RapFix Live" on Wednesday.
Rozay, Wale, Meek Mill, French Montana, Omarion and Stalley will all be in the building to sit and chop it up with host Sway Calloway on a very luxurious episode of "RapFix Live." On Tuesday (June 26) the MMG crew released their Self Made Vol. 2 label compilation. The LP, led by the T-Pain-assisted single "Bag of Money," features appearances from Nas, T.I., Wiz Khalifa, Kendrick Lamar and Bun B.
The compilation sets up a very busy summer for Rozay and his boys. On July 31 Ross will drop his long-awaited God Forgives, I Don't LP, and Meek Mill is prepping his debut, Dreams and Nightmares, for an August 28 release. French Montana's Excuse My French is also scheduled to drop later this year.
Back in May Ross held a press conference in New York City to announce his label's release dates and the signing of R&B star and former B2K frontman Omarion. "I think it was a great day for hip-hop. It was a great energy for hip-hop," Ross told MTV News of the MMG press conference. "When you reflect on hip-hop on a boss level, for the last 10 years, the business of hip-hop has been kinda shaky, it's been in a decline. ... I think this was a new energy that the hip-hop game needed, a momentum change."
The MMG crew members, though mostly known for music, occasionally make a few headlines outside of the studio as well. Most recently Meek Mill's name came up in reports surrounding the fight between Drake and Chris Brown's entourages at a New York club on June 14. See what Meek has to say about it all on Wednesday.
Catch Rick Ross and his Maybach Music Group on "RapFix Live" on Wednesday, June 27, at 4 p.m. ET on MTV.com!
FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2012 file photo, a Stockton city worker walks away from city hall in Stockton, Calif. Stockton, the California city with the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation, is facing a moment of decision on whether to become the biggest American city to file for bankruptcy, as the deadline for talks between the city and its creditors approaches late Monday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, file)
FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2012 file photo, a Stockton city worker walks away from city hall in Stockton, Calif. Stockton, the California city with the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation, is facing a moment of decision on whether to become the biggest American city to file for bankruptcy, as the deadline for talks between the city and its creditors approaches late Monday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, file)
FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2012 file photo, a banner proclaiming Stockton as an All-America city hangs from city hall in Stockton, Calif. Stockton, the California city with the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation, is facing a moment of decision on whether to become the biggest American city to file for bankruptcy, as the deadline for talks between the city and its creditors approaches late Monday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, file)
FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2012 file photo, a view of the Stockton waterfront is seen from the Waterfront Hotel in Stockton, Calif. Stockton, the California city with the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation, is facing a moment of decision on whether to become the biggest American city to file for bankruptcy, as the deadline for talks between the city and its creditors approaches late Monday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, file)
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ? Stockton officials continued to grapple with the city's financial plight, struggling to restructure millions of dollars of debt threatening to turn the city with the nation's second-highest foreclosure rate into the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.
Council members met Monday night to discuss the financial plight. The city had until 11:59 p.m.to reach a deal with its creditors under a new state mediation law designed to help municipalities avoid bankruptcy.
Stockton spokeswoman Connie Cochran said those negotiations were confidential and that nothing would be announced at the deadline.
"Nothing is going to happen," until the City Council meeting, Cochran said.
Previous negotiating sessions with the 18 creditors have stretched past midnight and remained confidential.
To avoid bankruptcy, any deal would have to result in sufficient savings to make the city solvent.
Officials have made preparations in case mediation efforts fail. The Stockton City Council is scheduled to decide Tuesday night whether to adopt a special budget to close the city's projected $26 million deficit in case bankruptcy protection is sought.
California cities are required by law to adopt a balanced budget by July 1 of each year.
If mediation fails and council members adopt the special budget, Stockton's lawyers could file for Chapter 9 protection in court as early as Wednesday, City Manager Bob Deis said.
City officials say this river port city of 290,000 in the Central Valley has run out of options. In recent years, thousands of new homes mushroomed in Stockton, part of a suburban housing boom that attracted buyers from the San Francisco Bay area and beyond.
When the economy crashed and the construction bubble burst, Stockton was battered by foreclosures and lost income from property taxes and other fees.
Multi-year labor contracts for city workers with escalating costs and generous retirement plans added to the burden. And expensive city investments ? a promenade, a sports arena and a hotel ? failed to produce an economic boon.
The city also has high crime and unemployment rates. It has twice topped Forbes magazine's list of "America's most miserable cities."
In the past three years, officials addressed $90 million in deficits through a series of drastic cuts. They eliminated one-fourth of the city's police officers, one-third of the fire staff and 40 percent of all other employees. They also cut wages and medical benefits.
To plug next year's anticipated $26 million budget hole, the proposed budget suspends debt payments and payments for legal claims; reduces payments for retiree medical benefits; further reduces some pay and benefits; and increases revenue through code enforcement and parking citations.
The proposed budget includes no major service reductions, Deis said.
"The whole purpose of filing Chapter 9 is to avoid an uncontrolled chaotic situation," he said. "Bankruptcy provides the equivalent of a pause button. It retains services and provides structure so you don't have a bunch of lawsuits."
If the city files for bankruptcy, it will still have to work out a court agreement with creditors on how to pay them upon exiting bankruptcy.
Stockton was the first city to test the new state mediation law, Assembly Bill 506, which is less than six months old. Under the law, municipalities considering bankruptcy must first negotiate behind closed doors with creditors for up to three months, with the goal of settling debts without filing for Chapter 9 protection.
If the city is able to reach a deal through mediation, Deis said, City Council members could modify Tuesday's special budget to reflect the deal, or they could adopt the budget and come back in July to modify it.
Officials say they are optimistic, even if they decide to file for bankruptcy. They point to Vallejo, a smaller California city that filed for Chapter 9 protection in 2008 and emerged from bankruptcy last year.
"Vallejo is leaner, smarter and they've got the confidence of their citizenry," Deis said. "I think Stockton will be doing the same."
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Ogarit Younan announced the intent of her university in a meeting with a number of Iraqi and Kurdish intellectuals, including Abdul-Hussein Shaaban, the Iraqi writer and Badran Habeeb, the general director of Kurdistan news agency (AKnews), who visited the university today.
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