This goal has sent chemistry, materials science and electronic engineering researchers on a quest to boost the energy-absorption efficiency of photovoltaic…
Researchers from the universities of Bonn and Regensburg have developed a novel type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED). These lights are suitable for the…
Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have designed a…
A pair of University of Cincinnati researchers has seen the light – a bright, powerful light – and it just might change the future of how building interiors…
The technique, called instant inkjet circuits, allows the printing of arbitrary-shaped conductors onto rigid or flexible materials and could advance the…
Scientists are now reporting that among dozens of sources of biomass, processed pellets burned under realistic conditions in China emit relatively low levels…
The University of Delaware’s Cristina Archer and her Atmosphere and Energy Research Group found that staggering and spacing out turbines in an offshore wind…
The new switches come equipped with additional safety features, are easier to install, and can be retrofitted with additional functions at any time. The first…
A Korean research team from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, developed a high performance and stable metal-free…
Did you know that crystals form the basis for the penetrating icy blue glare of car headlights and could be fundamental to the future in solar energy…
The report appears in the journal Electrochimica Acta.“Supercapacitors are power devices very similar to our batteries,” said study leader Junhua Jiang, a…
Governments are pressuring industries to reduce energy consumption for both environmental and economic reasons. Optimizing factory processes and improving…
Battery-powered cars offer many environmental benefits, but a car with a full tank of gasoline can travel further. By improving the energy capacity of…
These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design invented by material scientists at Vanderbilt University that is described in a…
The 5SL4 miniature circuit breaker safely shuts down circuits in buildings in case of overloads or short circuits and thus protects cables and devices from…
As electronics approach the atomic scale, researchers are increasingly successful at developing atomically thin, virtually two-dimensional materials that could…