New rechargeable nanomaterial for hydrogen storage
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to optimize a promising new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage.
During their testing of the...
A new MEMS device generates energy from low-frequency vibrations
Today’s wireless-sensor networks can do everything from supervising factory machinery to tracking environmental pollution to measuring the movement of buildings and bridges.
Working together, distributed...
Microbes Generate Electricity While Nuclear Waste is Cleaned Up
Michigan State University comes with interesting news about how microbes generate electricity while nuclear waste is cleaned up.
The research team headed by Gemma Reguera...
Thinner, better and cheaper solar cells
Do better with less. That is the challenge the researchers of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have set for themselves,...
The world’s first single-molecule electric motor
A Tufts research team has developed the world’s first single-molecule electric motor—which is a mere 1 nanometer across.
"The excitement is in the demonstration that...
Graphene could lead to ultra-fast internet
Internet connection speeds could be tens of times faster than they currently are, thanks to research by University of Manchester scientists using wonder material...
The Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency Rate Improved By Nanomaterials
Frontiers of research are rapidly exceeded. Even in field of solar energy harvest and conversion efficiency, new research ideas come from everywhere.
The scientists from...
Ferroelectric nanostructures directly on plastic
The technique, which uses a heated atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to produce patterns, could facilitate high-density, low-cost production of complex ferroelectric structures for...
Quantum Dots – Key for the Efficient Future Solar Cells
According to the theory of multiple exciton generation, when an electron absorbs light energy can transfer energy to more than another one electron resulting...
Nanocone – based solar cell with 80 percent conversion efficiency
With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jun Xu has boosted the light-to-power...