Materials
Large-scale power storage on grids made feasible using new nanoparticle electrode
By By Louis Bergeron | 23 Nov 2011
Researchers have used copper compound nanoparticles to develop an inexpensive high-power electrode that could be used to build batteries for economical large-scale energy storage on the electrical grid
Want fuel cells? Think outside the hydrogen tank
21 Nov 2011
An incredible shrinking material: how scandium trifluoride contracts with heat revealed
05 Nov 2011
Materials that don't expand under heat are useful in a variety of applications such as in mechanical machines that require extreme precision.
Robot speeds up glass development
04 Nov 2011
Custom glass bending
02 Nov 2011
Graphene grows better on certain copper crystals
By By Liz Ahlberg, physical sciences editor, University of Illinois News Bureau | 28 Oct 2011
Tiny stamps for tiny sensors
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 19 Oct 2011
Amorphous diamond, a new superhard form of carbon created under ultrahigh pressure
By By Louis Bergeron | 18 Oct 2011
Nano Materials by design: No Small Breakthrough
17 Oct 2011
New form of superhard carbon observed
12 Oct 2011
Graphene shows unusual thermoelectric response to light
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 08 Oct 2011
The finding could lead to improvements in photodetectors and night-vision systems, and possibly to a new approach to generating electricity from sunlight
Sulfur in hollow nanofibres overcomes challenges of lithium-ion battery design
By By Sarah Jane Keller | 05 Oct 2011
New solar cell technology gives light waves “amnesia”
27 Sep 2011
Scientists increase efficiency of solar cells by changing the wavelength of the light absorbed by them.
Microwave ovens a key to energy production from wasted heat
21 Sep 2011
Thermoelectric power generation, researchers say, is a way to produce electricity from waste heat — something as basic as the hot exhaust from an automobile, or the wasted heat given off by a whirring machine.
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