Odyssey Focuses on Cheap Power Storage
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 11, 2009) – Inexpensive tiny power sources, an
artificial lung system and the benefits of good nutrition in fighting toxic compounds are the
focus of the Winter 2009 issue of Odyssey,
UK’s research magazine.
The cover story, “It Pays to Be a Cheapskate,” tells how UK engineer Steve Lipka is building the next generation of capacitors – tiny battery-like devices – that can store energy from the sun and wind. Supported by a $1.2 million grant from global energy company E.ON, Lipka is using cheap sources of carbon, such as rayon, coal byproducts and plastic bottles, to make his capacitors.
Odyssey also features UK surgeon Jay Zwischenberger’s artificial lung system designed to buy time for patients waiting for transplants; a joint project between scholars in Lexington and Tajikistan to save an endangered and unwritten language called Shughni; and pharmaceutical sciences researcher Kim Nixon, who has found that alcoholics who stop drinking can reverse the damage to their brains.
Other articles explore how good nutrition can protect blood vessels from the toxic impact of PCBs, and how nanoparticles and free radicals can destroy PCBs.
The magazine also revisits the work of Ellen Hahn in the College of Nursing, the driving force behind Lexington’s smoke-free initiative.
Odyssey covers the latest research advances, innovative scholarship, and outstanding people that are part of UK’s $300-million-a-year research enterprise. The award-winning magazine, published twice a year through the Office of the Vice President for Research, is also available online.
The cover story, “It Pays to Be a Cheapskate,” tells how UK engineer Steve Lipka is building the next generation of capacitors – tiny battery-like devices – that can store energy from the sun and wind. Supported by a $1.2 million grant from global energy company E.ON, Lipka is using cheap sources of carbon, such as rayon, coal byproducts and plastic bottles, to make his capacitors.
Odyssey also features UK surgeon Jay Zwischenberger’s artificial lung system designed to buy time for patients waiting for transplants; a joint project between scholars in Lexington and Tajikistan to save an endangered and unwritten language called Shughni; and pharmaceutical sciences researcher Kim Nixon, who has found that alcoholics who stop drinking can reverse the damage to their brains.
Other articles explore how good nutrition can protect blood vessels from the toxic impact of PCBs, and how nanoparticles and free radicals can destroy PCBs.
The magazine also revisits the work of Ellen Hahn in the College of Nursing, the driving force behind Lexington’s smoke-free initiative.
Odyssey covers the latest research advances, innovative scholarship, and outstanding people that are part of UK’s $300-million-a-year research enterprise. The award-winning magazine, published twice a year through the Office of the Vice President for Research, is also available online.