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World's Thinnest Crystalline Silicon Solar Panel

DuPont Kabushiki Kaisha and Fujipream Corporation have successfully developed a new thin crystalline silicon (c-Si) glass-glass photovoltaic module that is 25 percent lighter in weight (excluding the frame) compared with...

16 Oct 2010

Polyurethane Nanofoams Double Insulating Performance

Bayer MaterialScience is working on the development of polyurethane nanofoams that could lead to a quantum leap in thermal insulation performance several years down the road.

15 Oct 2010

Shell and MIT to Fund Projects Focusing on Nanotechnology and Other Fields

Shell and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today signed an agreement to invest $25 million in the research and development of high value, sustainable technologies designed to drive innovation in energy del...

15 Oct 2010

GE Partners with Solar Frontier for Thin-Film Solar Modules

Solar Frontier announced today that it will supply GE with its proprietary CIS (copper, indium, and selenium) thin-film solar modules as part of GE’s globally marketed portfolio of solar energy solutions. The co...

14 Oct 2010

Votum to Distribute Ascent Solar’s Thin-Film CIGS Modules in the Czech Republic

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that Votum, a Czech Republic-based solar integrator, will begin distribution of Ascent Solar’s lightweight, flexible, high power thin-film CIGS modules for building integrated (BIPV), building applied (BAPV) and portable power solutions in the Czech Republic.

14 Oct 2010

SiEnergy Systems to Showcase Prototype Thin Film Micro Fuel Cells

SiEnergy Systems LLC, a Harvard spin-off company commercializing novel solid oxide fuel cells using nanometer scale oxide thin films, will be exhibiting at the 2010 Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition to be held in San Anto...

14 Oct 2010

Microscopic Pores in Silicon Improves Storage Capacity of Lithium-Ion Batteries

A team of Rice University and Lockheed Martin scientists has discovered a way to use simple silicon to radically increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.

14 Oct 2010

Contour Energy Systems Acquires Breakthrough Carbon Nanotube Technology from MIT

Contour Energy Systems, Inc. an innovative portable power company commercializing next-generation battery systems, today announced the acquisition of a breakthrough carbon nanotube technology that can dramatically improve the power capability of lithium-ion batteries, through an exclusive technology licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

13 Oct 2010

Ascent Solar Achieves Full IEC 61646 Certification

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of state of the art flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that it has become the first manufacturer of thin-film flexible monolithically integrated CIGS modules to receive full IEC 61646 certification upon completion of environmental testing.

13 Oct 2010

Berkeley Lab Technology Spawns Successful Start-up Companies

What do a smart window company, a microbial analysis start-up and waste-heat recovery start-up have in common? They’re all located in the San Francisco Bay Area and they’re all based on technology developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 12 Oct 2010