Thermoelectric Paint Harvests Electricity from Waste Heat
A research team at UNIST (Korea) has succeeded in developing a technique that can be used to turn industrial waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other [...]
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Amorphous Silicon Cracks Open Advances for Lithium Ion Batteries
Given the dominance of lithium-ion chemistry in the storage market, research efforts to increase capacity, performance and safety are intensifying. Now a team at Shangdong [...]
New Energy Department EMN Drives Advanced Materials for Solar Modules
The U.S. Department of Energy rolled out the new Durable Module Materials (DuraMat) National Lab Consortium led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). DuraMat is [...]
Nanofilters to Capture Shipping Pollution
Cargo ships are among the leading sources of pollution on the planet. According to the European Environment Agency, merchant ships emit 204 times more sulfur than the [...]
Your Next Car: Less CO2 with Super-Titanium?
Sometimes incremental advances can prove highly significant. This is the case with recent work at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL). Scientists at the labs have [...]
New Perovskites Shown to Recycle Light for Solar
A team of scientists at Cambridge, Oxford and FOM Institute in Amsterdam have discovered that a highly promising group of materials known as hybrid lead halide perovskites [...]
NREL: SunStop Window Technology Ready for Market
Window glass that can tint on demand, in response to the application of an electronic charge, has been available for some time. But many pricey, commercially-available [...]
MIT: Graphene filter to improve desalination efficiency
California’s drought has led the state to accelerate the construction of desalination plants; however, reclaiming seawater is a prohibitively expensive and [...]
Boeing: Lightest Metal Structure Ever is 99.9% Air
While not a new development, Boeing recently got visibility for a new video on the lightest metal structure ever made, a microlattice by its jointly-owned research unit HRL [...]
POSTECH: Scientists Create Stronger, Lighter Steel
In new research published in Nature, Professors Nack J. Kim and Hansoo Kim and doctoral student Sang-Heon Kim at the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT) at Pohang [...]
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