A group of scientists show a low cost route to manufacture high quality aluminum foam.
Earth and environment
Photovoltaics researcher elected to Royal Society
Martin Green from UNSW, a pioneer in solar photovoltaic science and engineering, has been elected into the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Nanodevices can be both battery and memory
Resistive memory cells open up new possibilities in nanoelectronics.
Material design approach improves solar cell efficiency
Development method allows researchers to more efficiently utilize the solar spectrum.
MIT team shatter efficiency limit of solar cells
Researchers show that there is a way to blow past Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit — once seen as an ultimate limit.
High-performance capacitors could come from manganese dioxide nanorods
Fabricated nanorods are not only straight and tall (at least by nano-standards), but also have an optimal crystal structure.
New microbatteries are the most powerful on the planet
Technology out-powers even the best supercapacitors and could drive new applications in radio communications and compact electronics.
University of Ulster secures EPSRC funding for solar tech research
£700,000 grant will support research to drive down energy costs in an environmentally friendly way.
Major study into the environmental effects of nanosilver
Swiss researchers show that nanosilver is quickly transformed into less problematic substances on its way to the wastewater treatment plant.
Japanese and Russian researchers win 2013 Global Energy Prize
Dr. Akira Yoshino and Vladimir Evgenyevich Fortov are this year’s recipients of $1.2 million endowment.
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