Solar Roadways to generate electrical power
The Solar highway is an intelligent road that provides clean renewable energy, while providing safer driving conditions, along with power and data delivery. The...
Developing a high-performance low-cost green LEDs, the key to white LEDs
First discovered in the 1920s, LEDs – light-emitting diodes – are semiconductors that convert electricity into light.
When switched on, swarms of electrons pass through...
Cheaper Hydrogen Fuel Cells Soon Available
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a way to avoid the use of expensive platinum in hydrogen fuel cells, the environmentally friendly devices...
Miniature Fuel Cells To Power Mobile Phones
Technology using catalysts which make hydrogen from formic acid could eventually replace lithium batteries and power a host of mobile devices.
Edman Tsang of ...
Trap Light – Converting Waste Energy Back Into Light
Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson created a new lamp that is completely powered by light energy absorbed from ambient sources.
By utilizing photo luminescent pigments...
Smart Windows – Block Heat On Hot Days But Let In The Heat In...
New materials science research could hasten the creation of "smart" windows that reflect heat from the sun on hot summer days but let in...
Self-cooling effect in graphene at nanoscale
With the first observation of thermoelectric effects at graphene contacts, University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that...
Thermoelectric materials for heating and cooling applications
For some years now, NASA has been using what are called thermoelectric materials to power its space probes. The probes travel such great distances...
First practical nanogenerator could replace conventional batteries
After six years of intensive effort, scientists are reporting development of the first commercially viable nanogenerator, a flexible chip that can use body movements...
Fujitsu Laboratories had developed a new hybrid harvesting energy device
Alternative energy sources are clean and green but generate less energy compared to fossil fuels. The scientists are trying to use different sources of...