The Crook Factory adapted from the album's liner notes. Certifications and sales. E=MC² (Mariah Carey album) E=MC² is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released in the United States on April 15, 2008, by Island Records. The singer began recording the album in 2007 in Anguilla, after writing and composing most of its material during and after her 2006 Adventures of Mimi Tour. Carey worked with various songwriters and producers on the project, including Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, Stargate, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, Scott Storch and Danja. The album revealed a 	E=MC² (Mariah Carey album)
13531278	Nanodot Nanodot Nanodot can refer to several technologies which use nanometer-scale localized structures. Nanodots generally exploit properties of quantum dots to localize magnetic or electrical fields at very small scales. Applications for nanodots could include high-density information storage, energy storage, and light-emitting devices. Information storage. Magnetic nanodots are being developed for future information storage. Nanodot technology could potentially store over one hundred times more data than today's hard drives. The nanodots can be thought of as tiny magnets which can switch polarity to represent a binary digit. Hard drives typically magnetize areas 200-250 nm long to 	Nanodot
13531279	store individual bits (as of 2006), while nanodots can be 50 nm in diameter or smaller. Thus nanodot-based storage could offer considerably higher information density than existing hard drives. Nanodots could also lead to ultrafast memory. Battery. In 2014 self-assembled, chemically-synthesized bio-organic peptide nanodots were proposed to reduce charging times in batteries. They are claimed to improve energy density and electrolyte performance. The new battery is said to operate like a (fast-charging) supercapacitor for charging and a (slow-discharge) battery for providing power. Lithium-Ion Battery. Applications with nanodot technology have been test in Lithium	Nanodot
13531280	-Ion batteries. It has been shown that binder-free three-dimensional (3D) macro-mesoporous electrode architecture yields a high performance supercapacitor-like lithium battery. It is about ten times more efficient compared to the current model of a state-of-the-art graphite anode. This electrode architecture simultaneously allows for rapid ion transfer and ultra-short solid-phase ion diffusion resulting in an efficient new binder-free electrode technique towards the development of high-performance supercapacitor-like Li-ion batteries. Lithium-Sulfur Battery. Incorporation of nanodot technology into Lithium-Sulfur batteries is crucial because rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries are a 	Nanodot
13531281	significant energy-storage device owing to their eco-friendliness and high theoretical energy density. However, the shuttle effect of soluble polysulfides as well as the slow redox kinetics constrains the development of Li-S batteries. Studies have shown that the coexistence of micropores, mesopores, and macropore in the hierarchical porous carbon are beneficial for physical accommodating/immobilizing active materials sulfur and rapid charge/ion transfer, superior to the most reported biochar-based electrodes, creating an avenue to the design of multifunctional sulfur host for advanced Li-S batteries in the future. The shuttle effect in lithium-sulfur (Li–S) batteries 	Nanodot
13531282	mainly originates from the diffusion of soluble polysulfides (LiPSs) and their depressed redox kinetics and is responsible for the progressive leakage of active material within the battery itself. Researchers have developed a layer composed of acorn shell porous carbon/Sn4P3 nanodots electrocatalyst which serve as a conductive interface but also provides a dual-adsorption barrier to retain active material and inhibit the LiPSs migrating. Sodium-Ion Battery. Sodium-Ion batteries are very similar to Lithium-Ion batteries in that they are both cations. In these cells however, poor cycle stability due to stacking is one of its main challenges but 	Nanodot
13531283	studies have proved that sulfur nanodots are employed as an efficient antiblocking agent of MoS2 sheet. This arrangement of these sulfur sheets exhibit a higher current density with excellent cycling stability, surviving 300 full charge/discharge cycles with a retention of 83.8%. Sodium-ion batteries also offer an attractive option for potential low cost, large scale energy storage because of the earth's abundance of natural sodium. Red phosphorus is considered as a high capacity anode for sodium-ion batteries. Like silicon in lithium-ion batteries, several limitations, such as large volume expansion upon sodiation/desodiation and low electronic conductance	Nanodot
13531284	, inhibit the performance of red phosphorus anodes. Scientists have deposited nanodots densely and uniformly onto reduced graphene oxide sheets to minimize the sodium ion diffusion length and the sodiation/desodiation stresses, and creates free space to accommodate the volume variation of phosphorus particles. This results in significant performance improvement for red phosphorus anodes for sodium-ion chemistry and flexible power sources for wearable electronics and smart phone technology. Potassium-Ion Battery. Researchers have shown that Antimony-based materials with high theoretical capacity have been considered as a promising anode materials for potassium-ion batteries (PIBs). Unfortunately, the large volume expansion 	Nanodot
13531285	leads to rapid capacity fading and poor rate capability. Ultrafine nanodots can shorten the ions diffusion distance with enhanced kinetic process in the battery cell. When applied as the anode for potassium-ion batteries, they all show satisfactory potassium-storage properties in terms of high reversible capacity and superior rate capability, especially the excellent electrochemical performances. Nanodot Nanodot can refer to several technologies which use nanometer-scale localized structures. Nanodots generally exploit properties of quantum dots to localize magnetic or electrical fields at very small scales. Applications for nanodots could include high-density information storage, energy storage, and light-emitting 	Nanodot
13531286	The Crook Factory The Crook Factory The Crook Factory is a thriller novel by American author Dan Simmons. The book was initially published by William Morrow on March 1, 1999. The novel tells a fictionalized version of the real life counter-espionage and spy ring, known as the Crook Factory, that was set up by Ernest Hemingway in Cuba during World War II. Overview. The novel is narrated by Joe Lucas, an FBI agent who is sent to Cuba by J. Edgar Hoover to monitor Hemingway's activities. Lucas is at first bewildered why the director of the FBI has taken a personal 	The Crook Factory
13531287	interest in Hemingway and his spy network, which Lucas considers amateurish and almost silly. As the novel unfolds it becomes clear that Hemingway's ragtag organization is at the center of a complicated game of war-time counter-intelligence involving the FBI, the OSS, British intelligence, and the two German intelligence organizations operating at that time, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the Abwehr. Lucas goes from a reluctant monitor of Hemingway to an active participant in the Crook Factory's operations. Basis on actual events. While the novel is fictional, it incorporates multiple real events and almost all real people as 	The Crook Factory
13531288	characters. An author's note at the end of the novel reveals that many of the novel's events are based in fact, most notably the existence and organization of the Crook Factory, along with Hoover's interest in Hemingway, the support Hemingway received from the US Ambassador to Cuba, the activities of German intelligence agents in Cuba and South America, and the various historical and celebrity figures who frequented the finca" where Hemingway lived outside Havana. The Crook Factory The Crook Factory is a thriller novel by American author Dan Simmons. The book was initially published by William Morrow