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Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?
Now, the gold standard in the industry is the lithium ion battery, which can be recharged hundreds of times and works really well. Its only problem is that it…
Pitt Engineers to Design Affordable CO2 Thickener to Augment Oil Extraction
Current oil-extraction methods across the United States involve oil being “pushed” from underground layers of porous sandstone or limestone reservoirs using a…
Mug handles could help hot plasma give lower-cost, controllable fusion energy
A new finding from the University of Washington could help contain and stabilize the plasma using as little as 1 percent of the energy required by current…
Light might prompt graphene devices on demand
Rice University researchers are doping graphene with light in a way that could lead to the more efficient design and manufacture of electronics, as well as…
Improving Nanometer-Scale Manufacturing with Infrared Spectroscopy
One of the key achievements of the nanotechnology era is the development of manufacturing technologies that can fabricate nanostructures formed from multiple…
Solar cells made from black silicon
In contrast, black silicon solar cells are specifi cally designed to absorb this part of the Sun‘s spectrum – and researchers have recently succeeded in…