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Energy
on September 23, 2009
Rice University and the Alberta, Canada have announced plans to collaborate on green energy production through nanotechnology.
"Under the agreement, Rice's Richard E. Smalley Institute for ...
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Energy
on September 10, 2009
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have published an article in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Transactions on Nanotechnology, which finds that trees...
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on September 9, 2009
NanoFilm CEO Scott E. Rickert today published an excellent IndustryWeek editorial looking at the multiple ways nanotechnology can assist in improving the efficiency of compressed natural gas (CNG) v...
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Energy
on June 11, 2008
LED flashlights seem to get brighter every few years. Fortunately, the price also seems to be coming down on these super-bright devices that are power-efficient. What's more amazing about LED tec...
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on August 22, 2007
The addition to quantum dots to solar cells could lead to a tripling in efficiency, boosting from the usual 10% up to 40% or 60% (with concentrators). Silicon nanocrystals (quantum dots) are able to e...
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Energy
on December 17, 2006
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed what they call the first photoconducting nanostructures, nanocables that convert light into electricity.
The cables, 16 nanometers in diameter an...
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Energy
on November 17, 2006
In every solar cell, light energy is converted to electricity. But even the most advanced solar cells can harness only a small percentage of the available sunlight energy. The majority of the energy i...
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on July 23, 2006
David Carroll, director of the Center for Nanotechnology at Wake forest University in North Carolina, talks to Earth & Sky about living off the grid with flexible solar cells.
"You can go to...
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on July 13, 2006
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created small bacteria-powered batteries by causing tiny microbes to sprout electrically conductive nanowires f...
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on June 27, 2006
Nanoscale capsules that stabilize extremely dangerous compounds normally prone to igniting or exploding can safely generate more than enough hydrogen gas to beat U.S. Department of Energy goals for hy...
