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Nanotech Center Scientists Use Weeds for Solar Cell Development

Pokeberries - the weeds that children smash to stain their cheeks purple-red and that Civil War soldiers used to write letters home - could be the key to spreading solar power across the globe, according to researchers a...

24 Apr 2010

New Breed of Micro-Supercapacitors Boosting Performance and Longevity of Portable Electric Energy Storage Devices

"Just think how often your fancy new mobile phone or computer has become little more than a paperweight because the battery lost its zeal for doing its job," says John Chmiola, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 23 Apr 2010

New Optical Material Opens Door to Superlensing Phenomena

A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a metamaterial—with a particular three-dimensional structure such that light exhibits a negative index of refraction upon entering the material.

23 Apr 2010

Electrical Engineering Student Develops New Low-Cost Solar Concentrator

A new solar concentrator design from an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego could lead to solar concentrators that are less expensive and require fewer photovoltaic cells than existing solar concentrators.

23 Apr 2010

UJI to Conduct Research on New Solar Cells Based on Nanotechnologies

After responding to a call for proposals, the research group led by Juan Bisquert at Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has won the bid for a scientific and technological research project on new types of solar cells based on nanotechnologies. The project entitled “Células solares nanodiseñadas de bajo coste basadas en nanocristales semiconductores” (“Low cost nanodesigned solar cells based on semiconductor nanocrystals”) will be funded with a 25 000 € grant from the Ministry of Science and Innovation for a period of three years.

23 Apr 2010

CNSE's Center for Sustainable Ecosystem Nanotechnologies Spearheads Effort to Remove Debris

More than 50 students, faculty and staff from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany marked the 40th anniversary of Earth Day today by cleaning up litter and debris along the Hudson River to highlight environmental awareness and stewardship.

22 Apr 2010

Nanointermediate Suppliers Target the Growing Cleantech Sector

Environment and energy, or "cleantech," applications have become a target for more and more companies developing intermediate products, like batteries and solar cells, based on nanotechnology -- products called "nanointermediates."

22 Apr 2010

Innovative Technology to Produce Thin Film Absorbers for Solar Cells

Researchers have made an important breakthrough in the use of continuous flow microreactors to produce thin film absorbers for solar cells – an innovative technology that could significantly reduce the cost of sola...

21 Apr 2010

Successful Bonding of Glass Reservoir to the Microfluidic Layer of NanoBattery

mPhase Technologies, Inc., the developer of Power On Command™ battery technologies, will be announcing this afternoon at the NanoBusiness Conference/NYC, an event sponsored by the NanoBusiness Alliance, that it has successfully bonded a glass reservoir capable of holding various electrolytes to the microfluidic structured layer of the mPhase Smart NanoBattery -- a key step in the packaging and assembly phases of this innovative new power source.

From MyPebble 21 Apr 2010