Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Dyes Enhance Light Harvesting in Solar Energy Solutions

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) rely on dyes that absorb light to mobilize a current of electrons and are a promising source of clean energy.

Power and Electrical Engineering

'Fracking' in the dark: Biological fallout of shale-gas production still largely unknown

As gas extraction continues to vastly outpace scientific examination, a team of eight conservation biologists from various organizations and institutions,…

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Stanford team achieves 'holy grail' of battery design: A stable lithium anode

Engineers across the globe have been racing to design smaller, cheaper and more efficient rechargeable batteries to meet the power storage needs of everything…

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Siemens Launches Europe’s First Onshore Power Supply for Cruises

The first European onshore power supply system of this type has a capacity of 12 megavolt amperes (MVA) and works with a patented, mobile robot arm designed…

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New Advances in Robotic Grasping for Everyday Tasks

Twisting a screwdriver, removing a bottle cap, and peeling a banana are just a few simple tasks that are tricky to pull off single-handedly. Now a new…

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Lasers Could Replace Quartz in Future Electronics

For nearly 100 years, these oscillators have relied upon quartz crystals to provide a frequency reference, much like a tuning fork is used as a reference…

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Innovative Carbon Characterization for Improved Lithium-Ion Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon…

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Silicon Sponge Enhances Lithium-Ion Battery Efficiency

The lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops and electric vehicles could store more energy and run longer on a single charge with the help of a sponge-like…

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Sand-Powered Lithium-Ion Battery Boosts Performance

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry…

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New Research Boosts Solar Energy Efficiency: Key Findings

A perspective article published last month by University of California, Riverside chemists in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters was selected as an…

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Boosting Energy Efficiency: Insights from Stuttgart’s New Index

The Institute for Energy Efficiency in Production (EEP) of the University of Stuttgart published the 2nd energy efficiency index in the framework of the energy…

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Nanohole Solar Cells Boost Cost-Effectiveness in Renewables

Increasing the cost-effectiveness of photovoltaic devices is critical to making these renewable energy sources competitive with traditional fossil fuels. One…

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Nanotechnology Innovations in Transparent Electronics

Two-dimensional sheets of electronic materials, such as graphene, show promise for practical nanoelectronics applications, including transparent electronic…

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Solar Panels Transform Carbon Dioxide Into Sustainable Fuel

Drawing on two of these approaches, researchers in the laboratory of Andrew Bocarsly, a Princeton professor of chemistry, collaborated with start-up company…

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Unlocking High-Temperature Superconductors: New Study Insights

Their research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found a remarkable phenomenon in copper-oxide (cuprate)…

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New Inline Inspection Tool Boosts SiC Epiwafer Quality Control

This DLS system enables a more efficient optimization of the production process of SiC epiwafers as well as an inline quality control along the device…

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