This site has support of Itaipu Binacional. This post is about the astronomical pole Casimiro Montenegro Filho of Itaipu Binacional, located in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. What is showed here…
Category: Materials
The space debris problem
This post’s subject is space debris, your origin, the problems caused and possible solutions to reduce or eliminate this problem.
How prosthetics work?
This post’s subject is an introduction about prosthetics which replace limbs and how they are controlled.
News: methane cycle in Mars
The NASA robot Curiosity discovered evidence of methane seasonal variation.
How to extract and enrich uranium?
Where it comes from and how it’s made the nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants? It is this post`s subject.
What is the most complex mineral in the world?
Will be shown the mineral which has the most complex structure and the greater number of bits.
How the LED works?
The Light Emitter Diode (LED) is a component present in almost all electronic devices and probably will dominate the public illumination. This post will explain how they work.
Polymer artificial muscles
In this post I will talk about artificial muscles based in polymer. An alternative to electrical motors to move robots and create prosthesis.
Lithium: properties, extraction and applications
In this post I will talk about a very important element to modern technologies. The use of lithium allowed the improvement of batteries. The best batteries have lithium.
Tantalum
Meeting demands, the subject of this post is tantalum, an element similar to the niobium. I will talk about the properties, reserves, extraction and applications.