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George Fitzgerald

George Fitzgerald

Materials modeling and informatics specialist
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Hurray! I have one of the top 5% most viewed @LinkedIn profiles for 2012. http://www.linkedin.com/in...
Climate change: What can Obama do without Congress? http://storify.com/Digital...
The financial woes of the solar power industry are starting to hurt the chemical companies supply raw materials http://cen.acs.org/article...
Materials Science makes the Colbert Report: Donald Sadoway from MIT discusses materials http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...
Researchers observe reactions on Li-O2 rechargeable batteries. Great experiment. Why didn't they use modeling? http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012...
Good news for the environment. Antarctic snow pack shows decline in Arsenic concentrations sine 1990's http://cen.acs.org/article...
The pressure to publish leads to an alarming number of bad papers. Read "Prize Fight" by Morton Meyers. http://cen.acs.org/article...
Looking for a good place to work? C&EN's top companies for chemists. #1 is ADInstruments in Australia http://cen.acs.org/article...
Taming the Long Tail of Science - how do you transform ever-growing data feeds into scientific knowledge http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire...
Quantum computing is one practical application of the latest Nobel-prize winning research http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire...
Is the universe a simulation? New ideas make this a testable hypothesis http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire...
There's more to supercomputing than making a computer 1000x faster. How about 1000x easier to use? http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire...
Cleaning up after fracking: a flood of new businesses for water treatment emerge http://cen.acs.org/article...
Coca-cola to begin using biopolymers: ethanol-based ethylene glycol http://cen.acs.org/article...
Organic catalyst splits water into hydrogen and oxygen without costly precious metals http://cen.acs.org/article...
New chemical explosives are safer, have lower environmental impact = but still explode. http://cen.acs.org/article...
New solar cells use low-grade silicon that costs 1/5 as much http://cen.acs.org/article...
Graphene continues to amaze. Now there are even medical applications: sensors for Parkinson's http://www.rsc.org/chemist...
Another use for graphene: high-rate capable Li-ion anode material http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012...
bismuth sulfide, part of the active ingredient in Pepto-Bismol increases efficiency of Iron-air batteries. http://www.futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/technol...
What happens to Si when you try to use it in a Li ion battery? It deforms. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012...
Nanotech is going to make teeny hard drives even teenier. New manufacturing approach makes smaller read heads: http://cen.acs.org/article...
Better sports thru chemistry. New advanced materials improve athletes' performance http://cen.acs.org/article...
Supercomputers now make ultra-high resolution climate models possible . Animation of global weather 2009 is way cool. http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire...
ORNL develops improved battery based on nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012...
Tumeric may treat Alzheimer's!? I guess that means we should eat more curry. http://cen.acs.org/article...
Sustainability: are we running out of minerals? Great article with stats on usage & reserves for important elements http://cen.acs.org/article...
Climate change and green energy: Shrinking Snowpack Puts Hydroelectric Power at Risk in California http://www.californiareport.org/archive...
Real-life applications of chemistry. Why do some food combinations taste good while others don't? http://cen.acs.org/article...
Environmentally friendly plastics get tough as steel - read about super strength polypropylene http://www.aftau.org/site...
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