The company hopes to be able to supply users with a new, low-cost and robust sort of solar cell, printed onto plastic strips, within two years.

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But of the five basic ways to design fuel cells, only two work at room (let alone North Atlantic) temperatures and only one, the alkaline fuel cell, is robust enough to do the job.

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Her research will produce a unique, robust platform that allows for the first time high sensitivity detection of biomarkers without cell manipulation, with high temporal resolution, and for long continuous periods of time.

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