Energy Savings through User-Controlled Efficient Lighting Systems
These days, in newer buildings it’s often hard even to find a plain old-fashioned light switch. Often, the only controls are automatic motion-detector switches...
Antihydrogen Atoms Stored for the First Time
Atoms of antimatter have been trapped and stored for the first time by the ALPHA collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN,...
Street Trees Illuminated by Gold Nanoparticles
The discovery that gold nanoparticles can induce luminescence in leaves has opened up the prospect of using roadside trees as street lights.
Post-doctor Yen-Hsun Su...
Reduce Your Electricity Home Consumption With LumiSmart
What do you think MP3s and light bulbs have in common? Quite a lot, you’ll see when the light bulbs are attached to a...
A greener way to grow carbon nanotubes
Study suggests new way for manufacturers to minimize environmental impact of carbon nanotube production
Given their size, strength and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes — tiny,...
New Highly Stable Fuel-Cell Catalyst Gets Strength from its Nano Core
Palladium core protects precious platinum; enhances reactivity/stability
Stop-and-go driving can wear on your nerves, but it really does a number on the precious platinum that...
Conductive plastic coatings could lead to new solar cells, windows, sensors
Oil and water don't mix, but add in some nanofibers and all bets are off.
A team of UCLA chemists and engineers has developed a...
High efficiency lighting in test on Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The new Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has transformed a key building on the Institute’s storied campus into a...
A Canadian Company Have the Most Powerful Industrial Lithium-Ion Battery
Corvus Energy Company says its transforming renewable-energy, transportation, and marine industries with its release of an advanced lithium-ion battery that can store and distribute...
Light Bulb Battle- Beyond LED to High Intensity Discharge-HID
The battle with light bulbs will always be as long as there is competition on the market, and this can only be positive.
Lighting designers...