{"id":240,"date":"2008-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-106-professor-department-of-soil-sciences\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:49","slug":"innovation-anthology-106-professor-department-of-soil-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/02\/07\/innovation-anthology-106-professor-department-of-soil-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #106: Professor, Department of Soil Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 106.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Who needs a hefty gas tank when you can go nano? <\/p>\n<p> Scientists from the <strong>University of Calgary<\/strong> have developed a new process for capturing and storing gas.   And they call their invention <strong>nano valves.<\/strong>   <\/p>\n<p> According to lead researcher <strong>Dr. George Shimizu,<\/strong> the nano valve material is based on the orderly crystal structure of barium organotrisulphate. <\/p>\n<p> The nano material mechanically traps gas at high densities, so there&rsquo;s no need for high pressure storage tanks.   <\/p>\n<p> The nano material converts from a series of open channels into a collection of airtight chambers.  This transition is controlled by applying heat to close the nano valves.   <\/p>\n<p> The nano valves can then be <strong>reopened by adding water.<\/strong>  This releases gas bubbles trapped by the crystals. <\/p>\n<p> Dr. Shimizu  says the nano valve material can be recycled and used indefinitely because no strong chemical bonds are broken in the process.   <\/p>\n<p> The University of Calgary scientists expect they can develop more nano valve materials using   other chemicals like sodium and lithium.    <\/p>\n<p> The scientists believe their nano valves could be  used to make filters that capture and store greenhouse gases.  And they help in the development of hydrogen fuel cells.     <\/p>\n<p> <strong> FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY, I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>  Photo Credit:  Ken Bendiktsen, University of Calgary <\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Bing Si, PhD, <\/h3>\n<h4>University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-02-07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nWho needs a hefty gas tank when you can go nano?<br \/>\nScientists from the <b>University of Calgary<\/b> have developed a new process for capturing and storing gas.   And they call their invention <b>nano valves.  <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/news_cramb_shimizu_200dpi_sm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}