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How does a machine smell? Better than it did
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
Every odour has its own specific pattern which our noses are able to identify. Using a combination of proteins coupled to transistors, for the first time machin...
Charge instability across all copper-based superconductors
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
University of British Columbia physicists have detected 'charge ordering' in electron-doped cuprate superconductors for the first time, according to research pu...
Training the next generation of power engineers
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
Most people only think about the electricity that powers our homes and gadgets when it isn't there. When the power is humming, we tend to take it for granted. T...
Phenomenon that fights with superconductivity universal
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have spotted charge ordering - a phenomenon that interferes with superconductivity - in electron-doped copper-oxide crystals for the first time. The...
Glass for battery electrodes
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
For some time now, energy experts have been adamant that we will need much more clean energy in the future if we are to replace fossil fuel sources and reduce C...
A new step towards using graphene in electronic applications
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
Few materials have received as much attention from the scientific world or have raised so many hopes with a view to their potential deployment in new applicatio...
New superconducting hybrid crystals developed at Copenhagen
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
A new type of 'nanowire' crystals that fuses semiconducting and metallic materials on the atomic scale could lay the foundation for future semiconducting electr...
Chemist one step closer to a new generation of electric car battery
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
An ultra-thin nanomaterial is at the heart of a major breakthrough by Waterloo scientists who are in a global race to invent a cheaper, lighter and more powerfu...
Compact batteries enhanced by spontaneous silver matrix formations
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
In a promising lithium-based battery, the formation of a highly conductive silver matrix transforms a material otherwise plagued by low conductivity. To optimiz...
DARPA starts research project on energy conversion materials
Jan 09, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started a program to develop new materials to convert one form of energy into another. Energy transductio...
Nanowire could keep people warm
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
To stay warm when temperatures drop outside, we heat our indoor spaces - even when no one is in them. But scientists have now developed a novel nanowire coating...
Aquion Energy to build microgrid battery system in Hawaii
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
Aquion Energy has announced that it has signed an agreement to supply a 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery system as part of an off-grid solar microgrid at Bakken Ha...
Green walls, effective acoustic insulation
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
Zaloa Azkorra, an agricultural engineer of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, is conducting research at the University School of Mining and Public Wo...
New concept of fuel cell for efficiency and environment
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
The Center for Nanoparticle Research at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has succeeded in proposing a new method to enhance fuel cell efficiency with the s...
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Village to be hydrogen-powered: report
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
The athletes village for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo will be a futuristic "hydrogen town" where electricity and hot water are generated from the abundant element...
Scientists reveal breakthrough in optical fiber communications
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Southampton have revealed a breakthrough in optical fibre communications. Academics from the University's Optoelectronics Res...
Making a Good Thing Better for Lithium Ion Batteries
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
The lithium-ion batteries that mobilize our electronic devices need to be improved if they are to power electric vehicles or store electrical energy for the gri...
Universality of charge order in cuprate superconductors
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
The discovery of superconductivity in cuprates, a class of ceramic materials, in 1986 has boosted an impressive effort of research all around the world. These m...
Bettter rechargeable batteries by focusing on graphene oxide paper
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
A Kansas State University engineering team has discovered some of graphene oxide's important properties that can improve sodium- and lithium-ion flexible batter...
Computational clues into the structure of a promising energy conversion catalyst
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Hydrogen fuel is a promising source of clean energy that can be produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. The reaction is difficult but achievab...
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