ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Superconductor could be realized in a broken Lorenz invariant theory

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

Today theoretical physicists are facing the difficulty that General Relativity is not (pertubatively) renormalizable, and find that it is very hard to construct...

Single-catalyst water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost water splitter that uses a single catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas 24 hours a day, seven...

Distributed technique for power 'scheduling' advances smart grid concept

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for "scheduling" energy in electric grids that moves away from centralized manag...

Building a better semiconductor

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Research led by Michigan State University could someday lead to the development of new and improved semiconductors. In a paper published in the journal Science ...

Carnegie Mellon chemists characterize 3-D macroporous hydrogels

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Carnegie Mellon University chemists have developed two novel methods to characterize 3-dimensional macroporous hydrogels - materials that hold great promise for...

Organic crystal, large-scale field-effect transistors based fabricated

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Field-effect transistors (FETs) made of organic single crystals show superior mobility values as organic single crystals have fewer structural defects than thei...

New technique for 'seeing' ions at work in a supercapacitor

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, together with French collaborators based in Toulouse, have developed a new method to see inside battery-like devic...

Nanowires could be the LEDs of the future

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

The latest research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that LEDs made from nanowires will use less energy and provide better light. The researchers studied nan...

Can heat be controlled as waves?

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

A growing interest in thermoelectric materials -- which convert waste heat to electricity -- and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful mi...

Discovery paves way for new kinds of superconducting electronics

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors -- materials discov...

Researchers confirm novel method for controlling plasma rotation

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Rotation is key to the performance of salad spinners, toy tops, and centrifuges, but recent research suggests a way to harness rotation for the future of mankin...

Could we one day control the path of lightning?

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

Lightning dart across the sky in a flash. And even though we can use lightning rods to increase the probability of it striking at a specific location, its exact...

X-ray imaging reveals secrets in battery materials

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

In a new study, researchers explain why one particular cathode material works well at high voltages, while most other cathodes do not. The insights, published i...

Unravelling the mysteries of carbonic acid

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Blink your eyes and it's long gone. Carbonic acid exists for only a tiny fraction of a second when carbon dioxide gas dissolves in water before changing into a ...

Key to quick battery charging time

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

University of Tokyo researchers have discovered the structure and transport properties of the "intermediate state" in lithium-ion batteries - key to understandi...

Renewable energy from evaporating water

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

An immensely powerful yet invisible force pulls water from the earth to the top of the tallest redwood and delivers snow to the tops of the Himalayas. Yet despi...

Hematite 're-growth' smoothes rough edges for clean energy harvest

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Finding an efficient solar water splitting method to mine electron-rich hydrogen for clean power has been thwarted by the poor performance of hematite. But by '...

Study finds a way to prevent fires in next-generation lithium batteries

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

In a study that could improve the safety of next-generation batteries, researchers discovered that adding two chemicals to the electrolyte of a lithium metal ba...

Graphene gets bright with ultra thin lightbulb

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National Unive...

Next-gen illumination using silicon quantum dot-based white-blue LED

Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)

A Si quantum dot (QD)-based hybrid inorganic/organic light-emitting diode (LED) that exhibits white-blue electroluminescence has been fabricated by Professor Ke...