Dye-sensitized solar cells more efficient than silicon cells
Dye-sensitized Grätzel solar cells have just set a new efficiency benchmark. By changing the composition and color of the cells, an EPFL team has...
Power Felt – a promising new device that convert body heat into an electrical...
Simply by touching a small piece of Power Felt you can convert your body heat into an electrical current.
Comprised of tiny carbon nanotubes locked...
Clean Energy to Small Business Technology Commercialization
U.S Energy Secretary Steven Chu yesterday announced that the Department of Energy will award a total of $188 million to small businesses in 34...
Liquid-like materials for new thermoelectric devices
In the continual quest for better thermoelectric materials—which convert heat into electricity and vice versa—researchers have identified a liquid-like compound whose properties give it...
More efficient conversion of waste heat into energy
The right material wrapped around your car's exhaust system could one day scavenge heat that would otherwise be wasted, turning it into energy to...
Graphene pioneers – Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov – have been knighted
Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, who demonstrated the remarkable properties of wonder material graphene, have been knighted in the New Year Honours list.
The...
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...
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...
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...
A New Microprocessor of IBM zEnterprise System Break the World’s Speed Record
A world record of IBM’s new zEnterprise System microprocessor was reached by breaking the speed of 5.2 GHz. Created to effectively support the...