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Grafoid, CapTherm Systems to Co-Develop Advanced Graphene Cooling Systems

Focus Graphite Inc. on behalf of Grafoid Inc., announced today Grafoid's joint venture development agreement with Coquitlam, British Columbia-based CapTherm Systems Inc. to develop and commercialize next generation, multiphase thermal management systems for electric vehicle (EV) battery and light emitting diode (LED) technologies.

10 Apr 2013

Sol Voltaics’ SolInk Nanomaterial Shows Promise to Improve Solar Module Performance

Sol Voltaics today unveiled SolInk™, an economical nanomaterial that promises to increase the efficiency of crystalline silicon or thin film solar modules by up to 25 percent or more, leading to solar power plants and rooftop solar arrays that will generate far more electricity than today's best commercially available systems.

10 Apr 2013

Ill-Conceived Cuts Could Set Back Progress in Nanotechnology

Cuts in federal funding of nanotechnology research threaten to slow progress toward some of the field's greatest promises, including commercialization of sustainable new energy sources that do not contribute to global warming, an international authority in the field cautioned here today.

From American Chemical Society 9 Apr 2013

Nanowire Solar Cells Demonstrate Better Efficiency than Silicon for Energy Production

Capture up to 12 times more light to produce more energy? Nanowires do just that and surpass expectations on solar energy production.

8 Apr 2013

Scientists Make Progress in Producing Fully Functional Nanocellulose for Biofuels

Genes from the family of bacteria that produce vinegar, Kombucha tea and nata de coco have become stars in a project — which scientists today said has reached an advanced stage — that would turn algae into solar-powered factories for producing the "wonder material" nanocellulose.

From American Chemical Society 8 Apr 2013

Perfect Lithium Seeks Patent for Technology to Boost Performance of Nano-Scale Ceramic Powders

Vancouver-based Perfect Lithium Corp. ("Perfect Lithium or the "Company") has filed patents for its innovative materials processing technology. These novel methods have the potential to reduce energy storage costs ($/kWh) of lithium-ion battery materials by as much as 50%.

4 Apr 2013

Study Demonstrates Great Potential of Nanowire-Based Solar Cells

Scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have shown that a single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity. The results are surprising and the potential for developing a new type of highly efficient solar cells is great.

25 Mar 2013

Nanoenergy News

Grafoid, CapTherm Systems to Co-Develop Advanced Graphene Cooling Systems

Sol Voltaics’ SolInk Nanomaterial Shows Promise to Improve Solar Module Performance

Ill-Conceived Cuts Could Set Back Progress in Nanotechnology

Nanowire Solar Cells Demonstrate Better Efficiency than Silicon for Energy Production

Scientists Make Progress in Producing Fully Functional Nanocellulose for Biofuels

Perfect Lithium Seeks Patent for Technology to Boost Performance of Nano-Scale Ceramic Powders

Study Demonstrates Great Potential of Nanowire-Based Solar Cells

mPhase Evaluates Integration of Graphene into Smart NanoBattery Technology

New Nano-sized, Spinning Magnetic Droplets have Implications in Creating Spin-based Computers

Bacterial Nanowires Require Key Amino Acids to Conduct Electricity

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Revolutionary Nanofibers Made from Flour for Tissue Regeneration

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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