Materials science and engineering assistant professor Dane Morgan and Ph.D. student Edward (Ted) Holby have developed a computational model that could optimize…
Carmen Lilley, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is working on new procedures for making…
According to Dr. Ron Gilgenbach, an AFOSR-sponsored researcher at the University of Michigan, a new class of magnetrons was invented that holds the potential…
– Research at the offshore wind energy test site alpha ventus- Rotor Blade Competence Center- Technical Reliabity- Wind Power-Management-System WPMS”We offer…
The researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube. Reported online Sept. 11 in…
During that time it propelled itself 3,050 miles (more than 4,900 kilometers) through the water of the Northeast Pacific racking up a distance equivalent to…
He was the new owner of a 1972 MGB – a red convertible, perfect for life in the Palmetto State, where he could zip along the highways and city streets with the…
Just consider the turbine blades that spin in the wind: a single blade can be 40 to 50 meters long and 12,000 to 15,000 pounds. It has to be built within…
A group of researchers at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University have discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of these algae can serve…
There's enough power in trees for University of Washington researchers to run an electronic circuit, according to results to be published in an upcoming issue…
To aid such searches, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with support from the Department of Homeland Security, has developed a new…
The findings are revolutionary since this means, on the one hand, that it will be much easier to find these sources of energy and, on the other hand, that they…
A team of engineers from the University of Zaragoza believes it is “technically viable and economically reasonable” for wind energy to account for 30% of…
Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around…
Professor Derek Lovley from the University of Massachusetts, USA isolated bacteria with large numbers of tiny projections called pili which were more efficient…
Today, they are strongly involved in projects which amount to more than 50 percent of the available U.S. Department of Energy stimulus awards to modernize the…