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Waste Sulfur Transformed Into Better Thermal-imaging Lens
2014-04-18 14:19:32

University of Arizona Sulfur left over from refining fossil fuels can be transformed into cheap, lightweight, plastic lenses for infrared devices, including night-vision goggles, a University of Arizona-led international team has found. The team successfully took thermal images of a person through a piece of the new plastic. By contrast, taking a picture through the plastic often used for ordinary lenses does not show a person's body heat. "We have for the first time a polymer...

Waste Sulfur Transformed To Improve Batteries
2013-04-15 11:06:40


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