Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today’s electricity expenses.

Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today’s electricity expenses.
Materials will be marketed by Altuglas International as Plexiglas/Altuglas Rnew biopolymer alloys.
Researchers create junctions, essential to electronics fabrication, by transferring graphene films onto patterned monolayer substrates.
The 2012 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) took place in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from November 25 to November 30.
Cornell research team shed light on electron cooling through the first known direct measurements of hot electrons cooling down in graphene.
A new hyperspectral goniometry technique, to measure 3D angular scattering of light, shows scattering from polymer opals is anisotropic.
Carbon nanotube arrays have been used to produce high-resolution holograms with high contrast and large field of view.
Bio-based plastic packaging produced using the new technique also offers superior quality.
MIT researchers find that adding a coating of graphene has little effect on how a surface interacts with liquids – except in extreme cases.
Nantero, Inc., the company pioneering the use of nanotubes in new semiconductor devices, has announced the closing of an over $10 million financing round.