Solar power is gaining ground as mainstream energy technology, but the cost of materials and low efficiencies are still holding it back.
By Reginald Davey
9 Aug 2012
Hydrogen is an extremely promising form of energy storage. Nanotechnology could provide some of the answers to the problems with production and storage of hydrogen which have been holding back the hydrogen economy.
By Will Soutter
7 Aug 2012
The memory technologies used in today's computers are very limited to specific applications, requiring the use of three or four types of memory in a single system.
By Will Soutter
30 Jul 2012
Photocatalytic nanoparticles can use the energy in sunlight to decompose molecules, from dirt molecules on glass surfaces to water molecules.
By Will Soutter
30 Jul 2012
Nanoparticles in our consumer products will inevitably find their way into the environment. What effect will that have on ecosystems? Can we recover nanoparticles from waste streams?
By Will Soutter
26 Jul 2012
Conventional silicon-based microprocessors will eventually reach a performance limit - some say it will be very soon. Can nanotechnology provide a way to produce the computers of the future?
By Will Soutter
23 Jul 2012
Nanosilver has been used to kill off bacteria for well over a hundred years. But do we understand its effects as well as we think?
By Will Soutter
16 Jul 2012
Printing electronics onto flexible substrates is becoming more and more viable, and nanotechnology is helping to make the manufacturing techniques commercially viable and increase the performance of the printed circuits.
By Will Soutter
7 Jul 2012
An ultracapacitor, also known as a supercapacitor, or electrochemical capacitor, is a device for storing electrical energy.
By Will Soutter
6 Jul 2012
Batteries are devices that store electrical energy by converting it to chemical energy, to be released slowly at a later time.
By Will Soutter
5 Jul 2012