Bright future for solar power in space
Solar power gathered in space could be set to provide the renewable energy of the future thanks to innovative research being carried out by...
LED Lighting Market Will Surpass $1 Billion in Annual Revenue by 2014
Groom Energy and Greentech Media Research predict that the LED enterprise lighting market will grow next year by 30 percent and surpass $1 billion in...
Unique mobility on demand with smart car2go
car2go, Daimler's new mobility concept, will be launched in Hamburg in spring 2011, as announced today in the Hanseatic city by the...
The piezoelectric effect in graphene at nanoscale
By depositing atoms on one side of a grid of the “miracle material” graphene, researchers at Stanford have engineered piezoelectricity into a nanoscale material...
Electrified highways for electric trucks and cars in Sweden
The dream of electrified highways for car and truck transport has remained on the spot.
Electric cars are starting to reach the mainstream, the vision...
Water-Based Artificial Leaf Produces Electricity
A team of U.S. and Korean scientists have invented water-based “artificial leaves” that can act like solar cells to produce electricity.
The flexible devices have...
Photovoltaic Panels for 30,000 Homes in UK
Energy-efficiency specialist Eaga has secured £300m from a number of banks to fund plans to install photovoltaic panels on more than 30,000 UK homes.
The...
Nanocrystal-coated fibers might reduce wasted energy
Researchers are developing a technique that uses nanotechnology to harvest energy from hot pipes or engine components to potentially recover energy wasted in factories,...
Light Emitting Devices with Fluorographene
Professor Andre Geim, who along with his colleague Professor Kostya Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene – the world’s thinnest material, has...
Self-cooling effect in graphene at nanoscale
With the first observation of thermoelectric effects at graphene contacts, University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that...