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New Off-Grid Desalination NanoTechnology Uses Solar Energy to Convert Salt Water into Drinking Water

An off-grid technology using only the energy from sunlight to transform salt water into fresh drinking water has been developed as an outcome of the effort from a federally funded research.

20 Jun 2017

Lithium Metal Batteries Improved by Using Hybrid Graphene Nanotubes as Anode

Researchers from the Rice University have developed a rechargeable lithium metal battery with a capacity that is three times that of commercial lithium-ion batteries. They achieved this by overcoming a problem that has challenged researchers for a long time, namely, the dendrite problem.

19 May 2017

Japanese Researchers Develop a Photocatalyst that Increases Hydrogen Production Tenfold

Hydrogen is an alternative source of energy that can be developed from renewable sources of water and sunlight. A photocatalyst capable of increasing hydrogen production tenfold has been developed by a group of Japanese Researchers.

19 May 2017

New 2D Materials Prove to be Fast in Conducting Electricity

New two-dimensional materials, with breakthrough magnetic and electrical attributes capable of making them building blocks of future quantum computers and several other improved electronics, have been fabricated by physicists at the University of California, Irvine.

27 Apr 2017

Scientists Engineer Nanomaterial for Efficient Harvesting of Sunlight

In the future, with the help of nanomaterials, sunlight can be used more efficiently to stimulate chemical reactions such as artificial photosynthesis.

29 Mar 2017

Scientists Use Graphene to Make Heat Energy Convertor More Efficient

Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented to potentially work with traditional power stations to help them convert heat to electricity more efficiently, meaning we would need less fossil fuel to burn for power.

7 Mar 2017

Mass Spectrometry Performance Improved by Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Mechanical energy harvested from the environment is converted into electricity by triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG). This electricity is used to recharge consumer electronics or powering small devices such as sensors.

28 Feb 2017

Tiny Nanoparticles Help Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel Using Ultraviolet Light as Energy Source

Duke University researchers have developed tiny nanoparticles that help convert carbon dioxide into methane using only ultraviolet light as an energy source.

24 Feb 2017

Researchers Perform Experimental Validation of Heat Transport at the Nanoscale

The phenomenon of heat transport is highly significant as its regulation, for example, is inevitable for efficient cooling of smaller chips.

20 Feb 2017

Scientists Demonstrate Efficient Performance of Germanium in Energy Efficient Transistors

The first transistor based on germanium capable of being programmed between electron- (n) and hole- (p) conduction was demonstrated by scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at the Dresden University of Technology.

6 Feb 2017