麻省理工学院化学工程教授迈克尔·斯特拉诺解释道:“我们正在思考如何设计植物来代替我们日常使用的东西的功能。”
"We're thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day," explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.
斯特拉诺表示,该技术将来可能用于房间照明,甚至可以将树木改造为自供电路灯。该团队希望未来可以开发此技术的新形式,用于喷洒植物叶片,一次操作,终生有效。
The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps. In the future, the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant's lifetime.
“热浪把电子从毫微管里像挤牙膏一样挤出来,”斯特拉诺解释说。
“The thermal wave squeezes electrons out of the nanotubes like a tube of toothpaste, ” Strano explained.
“热浪把电子从毫微管里像挤牙膏一样挤出来,”斯特拉诺解释说。
"The thermal wave squeezes electrons out of the nanotubes like a tube of toothpaste," Strano explained.
“我们基本上是在重复自然数百万年前就发现的戏法”,斯特拉诺说道,“尤其是可逆性,一种消解后可重组的能力。”
“We’re basically imitating tricks that nature has discovered over millions of years” — in particular, “reversibility, the ability to break apart and reassemble,” Strano says.
如果某件事连续几周成为报纸的头条,那么在世界的某个角落一定会有某些人,拿着诺斯·特拉达·穆斯的400年前的书,说:“他知道这会发生,一直知道。”
If an event made headlines for more than a few weeks, rest assured that someone, somewhere, is holding up a copy of Nostradamus' 400 year old tome and claiming that he knew it would happen all along.
斯特拉诺表示,由于各个纳米管很细微,可以大批量地生产,给较大的设备供应相当数量的电力。
And while the individual nanowires are tiny, Strano suggests that they could be made in large arrays to supply significant amounts of power for larger devices.
斯特拉诺表示他相信小组的发现在几年之内就可以转化成商业的电池。
Strano said he was confident his team's discovery could be translated into commercial batteries within a few years.
本季西哈姆虽然出人意料地签下阿根廷世界杯二将马斯切拉诺和卡洛斯·特维斯,并且全力以赴,却连续七场没有进球,输了比赛。
West Ham have struggled this season despite the surprise signing of Argentine World Cup duo Mascherano and Carlos Tevez, losing their last seven games and failing to score in any of them.
然而,赫罗德告诉纽约站讯记者说,赞安诺并没有溶解在茶里,所以她相信特拉维斯其实一点药都没喝进去。
However, Herold told New York station WABC that the Xanax didn't dissolve in the tea, and she doesn't believe Travis had any of the drug in his system.
斯特拉诺小组现在正致力于研究如何将激子从纳米纤维的一层游弋到另一层时所带来的能量损失降到最小,和如何能够使一个光子可以激发不止一对激子。
Strano's team is now working on ways to minimize the energy lost as excitons flow through the fiber, and on ways to generate more than one exciton per photon.
斯特拉诺小组首次在光伏组件中植入了两层具有不同电特性的纳米管结构的纤维——这些纤维具有不同的特性和禁带结构。
Strano's team built, for the first time, a fiber made of two layers of nanotubes with different electrical properties — specifically, different bandgaps.
在北约(北大西洋公约组织)举行于斯特拉斯堡和凯尔的峰会上,丹麦首相安诺斯·福格·拉斯穆森被选为下一任北约秘书长。
AT the NATO summit in Strasbourg and Kehl, Denmark's prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was chosen as the alliance's next secretary-general.
一位资深的反黑手党检察官已在西西里岛说,“科萨·诺斯特拉”(美国黑手党犯罪集团的秘密代号, 意为“咱们的行当”)的最后两个“幕后头目”都将不在监狱中,如果法律更早生效的话。
A senior anti-Mafia prosecutor in Sicily has said that neither of Cosa Nostra's last two “bosses of bosses” would be in prison if the law had been in force earlier.
斯特拉诺小组开发的太阳能电池通过纳米天线结构将进入太阳能电池的光子束缚在纳米烟囱中,大大增加了可以被捕获并将光能转化为电能的光子数量。
Strano's nanotube antenna boosts the number of photons that can be captured and transforms the light into energy that can be funneled into a solar cell.
他们有一个销量很好的《大力水手》系列,有一个以《诺斯费拉图》领衔的经典恐怖电影系列,还有一个名为“活死人娃娃”的哥特风格儿童形象的娃娃系列。
They have a very popular Popeye series, old horror movie characters with Nosferatu leading the pack, and goth adapted baby dolls called Living Dead Dolls .
“为了做这个商业的装置,我们有许多工程上的挑战要战胜,”斯特拉诺说,“但是没有什么会比最初的研发更艰难。”
We have a lot of engineering challenges that we have to overcome in order to make this a commercial device, " Strano said, "but nothing is as difficult as the initial discovery."
如果有人有诺斯特·拉达姆书的拷贝本,也许伦敦人会提前知道灾难的到来。
If only someone had passed along a copy of Nostadamus' book, maybe Londoners might have known it was coming.
斯特拉诺和他的同事在3月7号的《自然材料》杂志上详细说明了他们的发现。
Strano and his colleagues detail their discovery in the March 7 issue of the journal Nature Materials.
如今,查尔斯和希尔达·罗迪(Charles and HildaRoddey)化学工程的副教授迈克尔·斯特拉诺(MichaelStrano)和他的研究团队已可以模仿这一过程。
That process has now been imitated by Michael Strano, the Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and his team of graduate students and researchers.
但是他与其他的企业家们却无法仅靠自己就打败“科萨·诺斯特拉”组织。
But he and other entrepreneurs cannot defeat Cosa Nostra alone.
而且不要忘了还有网球明星玛蒂娜·纳芙拉蒂诺娃,六次蝉联铁人冠军的戴夫·斯考特,四次获得环球先生的比尔·珀尔,卧推的世界纪录保持者斯坦·普里斯。
And let's not forget about tennis star Martina Navratilova, six-time Ironman winner Dave Scott, four-time Mr. Universe Bill Pearl, or Stan Price, the world-record holder in bench press.
而且该协议承诺了GLG的三大巨头——诺姆·戈特斯曼,皮埃尔·拉格朗日和伊曼纽尔·罗马会留任3年。
And the agreement commits GLG's three big fish, Noam Gottesman, Pierre Lagrange and Emmanuel Roman, to stay for three years.
西西里的企业家每年大概会向“科萨•诺斯特拉”组织支付80亿欧元。
Sicily's entrepreneurs pay Cosa Nostra an estimated euro8 billion ($12 billion) a year.
哈利现在听出他的声音了,特拉弗斯是被召唤到谢诺菲留斯家的食死徒之一。
Harry recognized his voice now; Travers was one of the Death Eaters who had been summoned to Xenophilius's house.
布莱和327星际军陪伴塞库拉游历新霍尔斯·泰斯、霍诺格、安扎特和萨卢卡迈。
Bly and the 327th Star Corps served with Secura on Tours that took them to New Holstice, Honoghr, Anzat and Saleucami.
上周星期六斯科拉打得更有效率了,完全超越斯普里特和巴西,为阿根廷赢得一张奥运会入场券。他如此引人注目当然也有吉诺比利和奥贝托缺阵的原因。
Scola was more effective Saturday, too. Then Scola outscored Splitter and Brazil, guaranteeing Argentina an Olympic berth, impressive because both Ginobili and Fabricio Oberto weren't involved.
上周星期六斯科拉打得更有效率了,完全超越斯普里特和巴西,为阿根廷赢得一张奥运会入场券。他如此引人注目当然也有吉诺比利和奥贝托缺阵的原因。
Scola was more effective Saturday, too. Then Scola outscored Splitter and Brazil, guaranteeing Argentina an Olympic berth, impressive because both Ginobili and Fabricio Oberto weren't involved.
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