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Large-Scale Australia-China Partnership on Nanomaterials and Fuel Cell Technologies

The University of Queensland will lead a large-scale Australia-China partnership on clean energy technologies, targeting clean coal, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen production and energy storage.

From Chinese Academy of Sciences 18 Aug 2008

Manganese Cluster Converting Water into Oxygen and Hydrogen

An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrog...

17 Aug 2008

MIT Develops Novel Self-Assembly Method that Could Break Size Barrier

Using a novel system based on molecules that can assemble themselves into precise patterns, MIT researchers have come up with a way of beating size limitations that would otherwise crimp improvements in data-storage media and electronic microchips.

15 Aug 2008

Leading Fuel Cell Developer Creates Strategic Partnership with IceMOS Technology

Neah Power Systems, Inc., a leading developer of fuel cells for military, industrial and consumer portable electronic devices, announced today that it has created a strategic partnership with IceMOS Technology Ltd. to ut...

14 Aug 2008

Scientists Developing New Storage Modules for Hybrid Vehicles

Hybrid technology combines the advantages of combustion engines and electric motors. Scientists are developing high-performance energy storage units, a prerequisite for effective hybrid motors. The vehicle is powered...

14 Aug 2008

Metal Carbide Set to Make Biofuel Production Economically Viable

A new metal carbide Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst developed by Oxford Catalysts looks set to make second-generation biofuel production using small-scale FT microchannel reactors environmentally and economically viable. ...

14 Aug 2008

Nanoscale Catalysts Could Tap Syngas as Cheap Source of Ethanol

Say the word "biofuels" and most people think of grain ethanol and biodiesel. But there's another, older technology called gasification that's getting a new look from researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University.

14 Aug 2008

Ener1 Strengthened its Advantage in the Lithium-Ion Battery Race

Ener1, Inc., maker of advanced battery technology designed to power the next generation of hybrid and electric vehicles, strengthened its advantage in the lithium-ion battery race, by acquiring exclusive ownership of Ene...

13 Aug 2008

LDK Solar to Supply Multicrystalline Solar Wafers under Agreement

LDK Solar Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of solar wafers, today announced that it has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to India-based XL Telecom + Energy Limited.

13 Aug 2008

Company Unveils Highly-Anticipated Details Behind Solar Cell Component

BioSolar, Inc. surprised attendees at today's SPIE Symposium on Solar Applications and Energy in San Diego by revealing that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company's proprietary BioBacksheet(TM), a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar cells.

13 Aug 2008