Two trials have produced cells that could convert 17% of the sunlight they absorb into electricity.
So what we want to do is fine-tune that special characteristic of the light so it shines back and it doesn't absorb into the material and cause damage.
One reason China is setting up its sovereign wealth fund now is that huge trade surpluses and a vast reserve of foreign exchange mean it simply has too much cash to absorb into its own economy, and capital controls keep it from investing in liquid assets like American T-bills.
Often these patients have surgery to transform bits of their bowel into bladder, but this is less than ideal since the bowel's job is to absorb fluid into the body, whereas the bladder's is to store it away before expulsion.
In 2006 Venter finally got his wish to absorb TIGR into the J.
The Romans decided that assimilation was the best form of defence, and many of the exhibits illuminate the lengths to which Roman bureaucrats and soldiers went to absorb foreigners into the machinery of empire.
For now, he looks for the industrial and investment demand to absorb the supply into 2012.
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The U.S. is then pushing the Shiite Iraqi government to absorb these volunteers into the police force itself.
Are we trying to absorb your culture into a faceless blob?
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The danger is that one or two countries out of the five in the group may pursue talks to North Korea independently (especially China, in order for long-term border stability, may seek to absorb North Korea into one integrated Greater Jilin Semi-Autonomous Protectorate), and so lose this unique opening for a larger multi-lateral approach.
Much of the pollution that exists in the garbage patches is plastic waste that gradually breaks down into short lengths of polymer which absorb other pollutants and accelerate their uptake into the marine food-chain.
These countries have produced their own draft document, which would absorb any new agreement into the existing Kyoto framework.
Domestically, the prime candidates would seem to be Meredith Corp. and Hearst, either of which could smoothly absorb most of them into its existing portfolios.
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Mr Tusk wants to unseat Mr Kaczynski as part of a long-term plan to break up Law and Justice and absorb bits of it into his own Civic Platform party.
Guangdong, he says, could learn from Chongqing's efforts to absorb migrants from the countryside into city life.
To be sure, Gronkowski is not the first injured difference-maker to absorb all the attention heading into America's biggest sporting event.
Large pension funds, for example, have distant time horizons, and so are well-equipped to absorb risks that extend far into the future.
It was the biggest increase since June 2011, and it helped absorb the heavy flow of capital into the asset class.
And the air quality around the plant ought to improve, too, Ford says, because the roof will trap dust, absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the environment.
Subscribers however continued to flee the Nextel iDEN network as Sprint accelerated its shutdown, but the company managed to absorb a majority of them back into the core Sprint network at almost double the historical recapture rate.
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We expect gross margin will improve significantly as we move into full production mode and absorb more of the fixed overheads.
Will Washington initiate the necessary belt-tightening slowly enough to allow the strengthening economy to absorb the spending cuts without rolling over into another slowdown?
These journeys into the front office sausage factory absorb so much attention and screen time they feel like an aggravating second season.
There must be a highly specialized machine to turn the jumble of zeros and ones into information that a human can absorb, which is not at all obvious in a timescale measured in hundreds of years.
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What it comes down to in pollution parlance regarding humans and other species is that kids may demonstrate seven times more inhalation and exhalation rates than their parents, meaning, they absorb far more pollutants from off adjacent freeways into their lungs (a clear-cut case of a social justice issue, among other things).
The government poured more money into the economy than it could ever absorb.
For example, you can also take a block of ice and grind it into tiny particles and use that to absorb methane.
Then there is one of the oldest ways of getting power out from the sun: solar "thermal" installations, which absorb the sun's energy, transforming it into heat so it can boil water and run a turbine.
Light at a specific wavelength is beamed into the brain, and the oxygen present will absorb some of that light.
At the same time, we will have to face a new challenge: reintegrating the long-term unemployed into a job market that has the capacity to absorb them, but who may now have significant skills gaps.
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