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University of Nottingham Joins SCALENANO to Develop Cost-Effective Solar Energy

The SCALENANO project aims to develop cost-effective solar energy technology using sophisticated thin film technologies. The €10 million project is a part of the European Commission’s FP7-ENERGY programme. The University of Nottingham will play a major role in this project.

10 Jul 2012

Dye-Based Nanotubes for Efficient Light Harvesting

Current manufacturers of solar cells have been able to produce solar devices with sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency not exceeding 20%. In this industry, even a 1% improvement would be hailed as significant progress.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9 Jul 2012

Department of Defense Awards $6.25M to Professor for Innovations in Nanotechnology

Professor Hao Yan from the Arizona State University has been granted a research reward of US $6.25 million to be dispersed over a five-year period by the Department of Defense (DoD) under its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.

5 Jul 2012

Researchers Demonstrate New Technique to Fabricate Flexible Supercapacitors

In a paper published in the Advanced Materials journal, Xiaodong Li and Lihong Bao, researchers from the University of South Carolina, have described a technique to convert a cotton T-shirt material into an electrical power source.

2 Jul 2012

New Technique Turns Any Surface into Storage Devices

A paintable lithium-ion battery has been developed at the lab of Pulickel Ajayan, a materials scientist at the Rice University. The study results have been published in Scientific Reports, an online and open access journal of Nature.

29 Jun 2012

Nano-Sandwich Technique Helps Reduce Production Costs of Thin-Film Solar Cells

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a novel technique to fabricate ultra-thin-film solar cells without compromising the solar energy absorption capability, thus paving the way to reduce production costs of solar cells.

From North Carolina State University 26 Jun 2012

Low-Cost, High-Performance Nanorod Catalyst for Use in Fuel Cells

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have developed nitrogen-enriched iron-carbon nanorods, which can be used as a low-cost alternative to platinum catalysts used in microbial fuel cells (MFCs).

25 Jun 2012

UIC Scientists Explore Ways to Develop Low-Cost Solar Cells Using Metal Chalcogenide Nanoparticles

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant worth $390,000 to Professor Luke Hanley, Head of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to investigate coating techniques for solar panel films utilizing metal chalcogenide nanoparticles.

20 Jun 2012

Sandia Researchers Develop High-Indium-Content Nanowire Solar Cell

Researchers believe that indium gallium nitride, part of III-nitrides family, is an ideal material for photovoltaic applications because by altering indium concentration the material’s response can be tuned to collect solar energy from different wavelengths.

From Sandia National Laboratories 19 Jun 2012

Researchers Design New Class of Pyroelectric Nanogenerators

A report in Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society, has described a first-of-its-kind ‘pyroelectric nanogenerator,’ which operates on the basis of the pyroelectric effect, a phenomenon first explained by the Greek philosopher Theophrastus 2,300 years ago.

From American Chemical Society 15 Jun 2012