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A lithium-ion battery that can be painted on virtually any surface has been developed at Rice University. The rechargeable battery consists of spray-painted layers, each ... Read More »
Quantum computing based on electron spin -- aka spintronics -- has long promised to replace conventional electronics. The problem has been that electron spin, which... Read More »
UCLA researchers use a novel application of technology to develop a powerful microwave oscillator that may lead to cheaper and more efficient mobile communications... Read More »
Physicists from Rice University, Kyoto University and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) are offering new details about similarities between the... Read More »
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have provided new insight which could help engineers create more efficient memory storage devices. “Universal... Read More »
Tightening or easing the tension on a drumhead will alter the drum sound. This is also the case for drumheads made from graphene. However, instead of changing the... Read More »
General Electric’s “Vehicle Innovation Center,” as it is called, opens for business today in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Customers can test on a... Read More »
Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since its discovery in 2004. Just one atom thick, the famed material has several remarkable properties. It... Read More »
Duke University chemists created a new set of flexible, electrically conductive nanowires from thin strands of copper atoms mixed with nickel. A new study shows that... Read More »
Generally, gold is highly prize the large scale. However, scientists at the Vienna University of Technology are interested in gold at the smallest scale possible... Read More »
Southern California Gas Co. has launched a multi-year demonstration of an advanced concentrated solar cogeneration system. The project’s goal is to benefit area ... Read More »
Clean energy development is proving to be a more innovative reality at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless... Read More »
A new study has found that small bumps have an unexpectedly large effect on the paths that electrons follow on the semiconductor gallium arsenide. This nano-effect is ... Read More »
Synergy Dairy owner John Noble has will not only be selling milk to local cheese factories this year, but has also incorporated cow manure as an added opportunity... Read More »
The nation's current electric grid is so backward and inflexible that to integrate more sources of renewable energy ironically requires more power plants... Read More »
Sheets of carbon-based nanomaterial graphene -- akin to a sheet of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- has some remarkable properties. A single sheet of graphene is just one ... Read More »
Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have developed a technique for encapsulating liquids of... Read More »
IBM announced that industry leaders Asahi Kasei and Central Glass will join its Battery 500 project. They will collaborate on extensive research in hopes of the... Read More »
In a study of the energy-producing potential of untapped US dams, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers found that 54,000 dams not currently used to generate ... Read More »
A new genre of electric power-generating stations could supply electricity for more than a half billion people by tapping just one-tenth of the global potential of a... Read More »