Printable Batteries and Other ARPA-E Funded Battery Projects
Solid-state lithium-ion battery design by Planar Energy can deliver a three times energy density of today’s lithium-ion batteries at less than half the cost...
Tata Power Company to Build 25MW Solar Photovoltaic Plant in Mithapur
The Tata Power Company has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigram for the construction of a 25MW solar power...
Warnings for Bus Drivers on Cell Phones
Beginning January 12, next year, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) will inflict harsher penalties on bus drivers who use cell phones while driving.
Currently, drivers...
Smart Chip That Can Block Pain Signals Traveling To the Brain
A smart chip that can block pain signals from traveling to the brain has developed by researchers from Sydney, Australia.
This smart chip was developed by...
Understanding the link between magnetism and superconductivity
S-European team revisits 30-year-old breakthrough with new methods, understanding
European and U.S. physicists this week are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is...
Nitrogen Dioxide Gas Sensor Based on Vertically-Grown In As Nanowires
Imec and Holst Centre have developed an innovative sensor for measuring ultra-low concentrations of NO2. These sensors are important for applications that monitor environmental...
How to convert waste heat to electricity at the nanoscale
Scientists have discovered that a class of materials known to convert heat to electricity and vice versa behaves quite unexpectedly at the nanoscale in...
The Idea of Invisible Cloak Which Hides Objects Reloaded
There were many movies which use the invisibility as idea of hide people or things.
Trying to cloak something and make it invisible has been...
The World’s Smallest Battery
A benchtop version of the world’s smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair — has...
Bad Viruses Could Help Us To Build a New Generation Of Highly Efficient Nano-Batteries...
Viruses have a bad rep-and rightly so. The ability of a virus to quickly and precisely replicate itself makes it a destructive scourge to...