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Washington, March 20 (ANI): A team of scientists has shown how it is possible to make designer nanomaterials on-demand.
The researchers, from Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, in collaboration with a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown how nanocomposites with desired properties can be designed and fabricated by first assembling nanocrystals and nanorods coated [...]

London, March 17 (ANI): A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US has made crystals of zinc oxide that, when immersed in water, absorb vibrations and develop areas of strong negative and positive charge, leading to clean hydrogen fuel.
According to a report in New Scientist, the changes rip apart nearby water molecules, releasing [...]

Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): Ever thought that your comfy cotton T-shirt could monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyse your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer’’s day? Or have you thought of a pillow that monitors your brain waves, or a solar-powered dress that can charge your ipod or MP4 player? [...]

HSINCHU, Taiwan, March 1 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ — AU Optronics Corp.
(“AUO” or the “Company”) (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) will exhibit at PV EXPO 2010
in Tokyo Big Sight, Japan from March 3-5 to showcase its competitive edge
in
the solar industry value chain. High quality polysilicon, ingots and wafers
produced by M.Setek and high-efficiency [...]

Washington, September 14 (ANI): Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm in Germany have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell.

This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance.

The investigations shed [...]

Washington, September 10 (ANI): In a new research, researchers are working to slow down light to the speed of a bicycle, along with other scientific aims.

The speed of light, 300 million metres per second, was long thought an immutable constant and has defined our [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): Researchers at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev in Israel have developed thin films that exhibit carrier multiplication (CM), which shows promise future solar applications.

The films were synthesized at BGU by Professor Yuval Golan and PhD student Anna Osherov of the Department of Materials Engineering and the Ilse Katz Institute [...]

Sydney, August 27 (ANI): A team of Australian and US researchers has set a new record for solar cell efficiency, by developing a multi-cell array that achieved an efficiency of 43 percent, beating the previous world record by 0.3 percent.

According to a report by ABC News, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Professor Martin Green, [...]

Washington, August 25 (ANI): If scientists have their way, solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle “inks” that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.

For the past two years, Brian Korgel, a University of Texas at Austin chemical engineer [...]

London, July 28 (ANI): By combining two nanoparticles in one tiny package, University of Washington researchers have created a Swiss Army knife of sorts for medical imaging and therapy.

The multipurpose nanotechnology tool could perform wide range of medical uses – imaging tumours, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat.

“This is the first time that a semiconductor [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Scientists have found a new way to make cheap, efficient, and flexible solar cells by using nanopillars made of low-cost and flexible materials.

The design by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence [...]

Graphene – Nanotechnology – Silicon in Computer Chips – Diamond – Graphene is Pure Carbon -  Microchips – Chemical Sensing Instruments – Biosensors – Ultracapacitance Devices – Flexible Displays
Graphene, Since its discovery just a few years ago, has climbed to the top of the heap of new super-materials poised to transform the electronics and nanotechnology [...]

Washington, June 26 (ANI): A physicist has presented a way of increasing the efficiency of concentrator solar cells, in which light is concentrated 400-fold through lenses onto solar cells.

The concentrator technology enables expensive semi-conductor material to be replaced with cheaper lens systems, and greater efficiency to be achieved.

The contacting of the semi-conductor layers plays a [...]

London, June 26 (ANI): Bertrand Picard, a Swiss adventurer is all set to unveil a prototype of a solar-powered plane he hopes eventually to fly around the world.

According to a report by BBC News, the initial version of the solar plane, spanning 61m but weighing just 1,500kg, will undergo trials to prove it can [...]

Washington, June 19 : Performance of a large number of electronic devices, including digital cameras, could soon be enhanced, for researchers have now created light sensor-like a pixel in a digital camera-that benefits from a phenomenon known as multi-exciton generation (MEG).
University of Toronto (UT) scientists, who led the research, claim that they are the first [...]

Washington, May 30 (ANI): Scientists have said that laser technology can contribute to optimizing the manufacturing costs and efficiency of solar cells.

If the latest forecast from the World Energy Council WEC can be believed, global electricity requirements will double in the next 40 years. At the same time, prices for the dwindling resources of [...]

Washington, May 18 (ANI): A team of scientists has identified conditions for enabling graphene-based technology through chemical functionalization.

Graphene is an atomically thin sheet of carbon that has attracted significant attention due to its potential use in high-performance electronics, sensors and alternative energy devices such as solar cells.

While the physics of graphene has been thoroughly [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) say that they have devised a novel way to make a hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube (G-CNT), which can be used as a transparent conductor in solar cells and consumer electronic devices.

Lead [...]

Numeric Power Systems, a provider of uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems, has decided to set up a 1 MW solar energy farm at Palladam near Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu.
The company would setup its first solar independent power project (IPP), through its newly established subsidiary, Numeric Solar Energy Pvt. Ltd.
According to company officials, the company [...]

Washington, April 18 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the Moon dust, which causes hazards like ruining scientific experiments and endangering astronauts’ health, is influenced by the Sun’s elevation.

Lunar dust has long been described as the No. 1 environmental hazard on the Moon.

It causes miscellaneous havoc: from destroying scientific equipment deployed on [...]