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Stanford scientists spark new interest in the century-old Edison battery

Gabriel — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:38:53 +0000

Stanford University scientists have breathed new life into the nickel-iron battery, a rechargeable technology developed by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. Designed in the early 1900s to power electric vehicles, the Edison battery largely went out of favor in the mid-1970s. Today only a handful of companies manufacture nickel-iron batteries, primarily to store […]

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Student’s research may help increase solar cell efficiency

Gabriel — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:22:31 +0000

Stephen Mulligan, a University of Delaware senior studying mechanical engineering, has co-authored a paper explaining the effects of gas flow on newly developed solar cells. The paper, entitled “Hybrid Effect of Gas Flow and Light Excitation in Carbon/Silicon Schottky Solar Cells,” appeared recently in the Journal of Materials Chemistry. Written during Mulligan’s two-month student exchange […]

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The Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency Rate Improved By Nanomaterials

Adrian — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:43:48 +0000

Frontiers of research are rapidly exceeded. Even in field of solar energy harvest and conversion efficiency, new research ideas come from everywhere. The scientists from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology known as ETH Zurich bring attention on nanotechnology and nanomaterials again. They believe that conversion efficiency could be increased from the current conversion rate of […]

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Harnessing ambient electromagnetic energy at very low cost

Gabriel — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:30:24 +0000

Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scavenging this ambient energy from the air around us, the technique could provide a new way to power networks of wireless sensors, microprocessors and communications chips. “There is […]

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