Artificial photosynthesis to create cheap hydrogen for fuel
The production of cheap hydrogen for automotive or jet fuel may be possible by mimicking photosynthesis, according to a Penn State materials chemist,...
United Kingdom’s Charging Stations for its Electric Vehicles
A number of 4,700 charging stations expect to be operational in United Kingdom this year, only 704 have been installed.
According to BBC News two-third...
Magnetic Ceramics Films for Smaller Transformers
Magnetic ceramic films are made by Siemens to develop smaller devices much more easier to manufacture. This type of circuit could adapt the voltage,...
Luxury Cell Phone: Result of Collaboration between Mobiado and Aston Martin
The Canadian luxury mobile phone maker Mobiado has unveiled the upshot of collaboration with Aston Martin, the CPT002 concept cell phone. Launching at the...
Dye-sensitized solar cells more efficient than silicon cells
Dye-sensitized Grätzel solar cells have just set a new efficiency benchmark. By changing the composition and color of the cells, an EPFL team has...
Better Battery is Celebrated by the Royal Society of Chemistry
The lithium-ion battery is used in electric cars, mobile phones, laptops and even hearing aids, and by the military and NASA in surveillance and communications...
Climate change scientists turn up the heat in Alaska
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are planning a large-scale, long-term ecosystem experiment to test the effects of global warming...
Nanoscale Photodetectors Detect the Speed of Electrons
Scientists led by Professor Alexander Holleitner, physicist at the Technische Universität Muenchen (TUM), have found a way to directly measure the time during which...
From pollution to solution
A low cost catalysts transform carbon dioxide gas into valuable building blocks for organic synthesis
Chemists are helping to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which...
Rechargeable batteries and hydrogen-fuel production cheaper now
A team of researchers at MIT has found one of the most effective catalysts ever discovered for splitting oxygen atoms from water molecules —...