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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. The report is based on the findings of a major MIT symposium on retrofitting coal-fired power...
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Location: Weizmann Institute, Israel
A lot of research on metal structures / molecules / semiconductor are currently in Israel and the world, but they generally have to advance molecular electronics or develop chemical or biochemical detectors. Research designed specifically to...
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Location: Boston, United States
One problem with solar cells is that they only produce
electricity during the day. A promising way to use the sun's energy more
efficiently is to enlist it to split water into hydrogen gas that can be stored
and then...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
A new approach is able to create a dramatic improvement in
cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball
design -- tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres -- researchers at
the...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Durham University, United Kingdom
A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham
University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects
into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.
The £6.3million...
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Location: University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers
and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit
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Location: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School
of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep
over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a...
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Location: Gemini, SINTEF, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway, Norway
Today the solar cells have an effectiveness of 17% if it is considered that 100% represent the energy of the sunlight converted into electricity. There are two types of solar cells, the cells of first and second generation. The most important...
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