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Nanostructures on Optical Fiber Make "Hidden" PV Cells
Using zinc oxide nanostructures grown on optical fibers and coated with dye-sensitized solar cell materials, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new type of three-dimen...
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Read more3-D system based on optical fiber could provide new options for photovoltaics
Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs. Using zinc oxide nanostructures grown on optical fibers and coated wit...
Power and Electrical Engineering | Read moreLANL Roadrunner simulates nanoscale material failure
Very tiny wires, called nanowires, made from such metals as silver and gold, may play a crucial role as electrical or mechanical switches in the development of future-generation ultrasmall nanodevices...
Materials Sciences | Read moreDeath by Light
The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective...
Life Sciences | Read moreWeb-based in-service training requires new skills
Mona Nilsen from the Department of Education and Didactics, University of Gothenburg, has analysed continued professional development within the food production industry, a sector with a generally low...
Science Education | Read moreTennessee foresters helping to return chestnuts to American forests
Once used extensively for building, for tanning leather, as an important source of food for humans and wildlife, and even as nutritious fodder for hogs, the American chestnut seemed destined to be a m...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreLooking deeply into polymer solar cells
This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance. The findings were published online in Nature Materials on Sunday 13 Septembe...
Materials Sciences | Read moreCement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded
Oddly enough, the three-dimensional crystalline structure of cement hydrate - the paste that forms and quickly hardens when cement powder is mixed with water - has eluded scientific attempts at decodi...
Life Sciences | Read moreIntelligent Structural Elements – Support Frames, Adaptive Engine Hoods And More To Come
Based on new hybrid intelligent construction elements (HICE), researchers at the University of Stuttgart have developed a shell structure which is able to adapt to changing environmental conditions....
Materials Sciences | Read moreWorld's smallest semiconductor laser heralds new era in optical science
This breakthrough, described in an advanced online publication of the journal Nature on Sunday, Aug. 30, breaks new ground in the field of optics. The UC Berkeley team not only successfully squeezed l...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreNew material for nanoscale-computer chips
Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. In the contact...
Materials Sciences | Read moreNanoelectronic transistor combined with biological machine could lead to better electronics
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have devised a versatile hybrid platform that uses lipid-coated nanowires to build prototype bionanoelectronic devices. An artist's repr...
Power and Electrical Engineering | Read moreHIPS fireproof coatings can really take the heat
HIPS coatings can withstand temperatures of over 1000°C compared to current commercial coatings used on building materials and structures which break down at between 150-250°C.HIPS coatings co...
Materials Sciences | Read moreNew Digital Rotary Control Valve to Boost Fuel Economy, Reduce Emissions - Nominated for People’s Choice Design Award at NPE
“When you think of the sophisticated systems in a vehicle today, it comes as a surprise that we still use analog systems to control the interaction of the engine with the radiator system,” said Hollis...
Machine Engineering | Read moreNanotechnology may increase longevity of dental fillings
"Dentin adhesives bond well initially, but then the hybrid layer between the adhesive and the dentin begins to break down in as little as one year," says Dr. Franklin Tay, associate professo...
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