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Altairnano Receives SBIR Grant to Support Strategic Initiatives for NAVSEA

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) (Nasdaq: ALTI), a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced the company has received a Small Business Innovati...

From Altair Nanotechnologies 30 Jul 2009

Research to be Centered at Argonne National Lab in Chicago

Advanced lithium-ion automotive battery producer EnerDel and the Nissan Motor Co. of Japan are teaming up to research a new generation of electrical conductive material intended to reduce cost and improve the performance of electric and hybrid vehicle batteries.

From Argonne National Laboratory 30 Jul 2009

Findings Open Door to Improved Microbial Fuel Cell Architecture

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power.

29 Jul 2009

How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power

A new class of economically viable solar power cells-cheap, flexible and easy to make-has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have deepened their understanding of the complex organic films at the heart of the devices.

28 Jul 2009

Silver Markets for Photovoltaics

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Silver Markets for Photovoltaics" report to their offering. At present, the vas...

From Research and Markets 28 Jul 2009

Researchers Press on in Their Mission to Power Nanodevices of Tomorrow

Much like humans, materials are capable of some pretty remarkable things when they're placed under pressure. In fact, under the right conditions, materials can even produce electricity. Driven by the vision of ou...

27 Jul 2009

A Step Toward Lithium Fuel Cell Using Recyclable Lithium

Haoshen Zhou the Energy Interface Technology Group, the Energy Technology Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Yonggang Wang have developed a new-type lithium-air cell with large-capacity based on new structure.

27 Jul 2009

IMEC Expands Research on Sub-32nm CMOS, Solar Cells and Biomedical Electronics

The Belgian nanoelectronics research institute IMEC starts with the expansion of its research labs with 2,800m2 including the extension of its state-of-the-art clean room at its Leuven campus.

From IMEC 26 Jul 2009

UN Secretary-General Visits Sunfab Solar Module Reliability Testing Facility in China

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (center) stands in front of the world's largest thin film solar panel (5.7m2) manufactured by Applied Materials' SunFab production line during a visit to the company's SunFab Solar Module Reliability Testing facility on Saturday.

From Applied Materials Inc. 25 Jul 2009

Mathematical Issues Arising from PEM Fuel Cell Modelling

Concerns about dwindling fossil fuel resources, current levels of petroleum consumption, and growing pressure to shift to more sustainable energy sources are among the many factors prompting the transition from our curre...

24 Jul 2009