Development of Industry’s First Lubricating Oil Supply Unit with Self-power Generator
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New Solar Module Efficiency Record Set, 33.5% Efficiency
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Development of Fully Digital Portable Speaker and Headphone
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Development of Fully Digital Portable Speaker and HeadphoneGreat Transition Part I
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New Solar Power Monitoring Partnership
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Use Your Smartphone To Pay At An EV Charging Station
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Renewable Energy Investment Continues To Leave North America
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South Africa Approves $5.4 Billion In New Renewable Energy Projects
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Savings From Choosing Transit = $9,934 Per Year (Average American)
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Is New York State Building The Smartest Grid In America?
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David LeBlanc talks about Molten Salt Reactors
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home October 30, 2012 David LeBlanc talks about Molten Salt Reactors Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet At the 18 minute , talks about current University consortium starting to work towards 25 MWE prototype and a major engineering firm . Oil sands' 200 Billion carbon taxes over 35 years , 65279 mandated to be spent on . cleantech At about 17 minutes , talks about the opportunity to use molten salt reactors for oilsands and then bridge over to pure nuclear energy powered . civilization If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 10 30 2012 Labels : economic impact fission molten salt physics science thorium uranium David LeBlanc talks about Molten SaltTri-Alpha Energy Comes Out With Boron Fuel News
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Tri-Alpha Energy has allowed a bit of its research out into the world with a 79 page pdf document rich in background, results of the efforts early research, and a surprise about how the potential fuel, Boron (pB11) would react in a fusion reaction. Hat tip to Brian Wang’s Next Big Future. Tri-Alpha’s position is, [...]Emerging Nuclear Fission and Fusion Innovations Talk by Mark Halper
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home October 30, 2012 Emerging Nuclear Fission and Fusion Innovations Talk by Mark Halper Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Introduction for 4 minutes then fast neutron reactors Terrawave , China , and others , Full size reactor should be commercial 2030 General Atomics 6.5 minutes 2 page datasheet 8 page executive summary China at about 8 minutes QPower Pebble bed in South America . 30 . MW Nuclear fusion General Fusion , Lawrenceville Plasma Physics and others about 15:00 minutes starts Tri-alpha Energy has raised over 140 million . If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 10 30 2012 Labels : china dense plasma focus energy fission focus fusionTrailer for the “State of Green” Renewable Energy Documentary
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Malachite Technologies (California Solar Startup) Looks To Hugely Improve Solar Cell Efficiency
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Nuclear Energy’s US & Global Exit
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Low-Resistance Connections Facilitate Use of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Interconnects
Updated: 2012-10-30 18:10:07skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home October 30, 2012 Low-Resistance Connections Facilitate Use of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes for Interconnects Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Georgia Tech Using a new method for precisely controlling the deposition of carbon , researchers have demonstrated a technique for connecting multi-walled carbon nanotubes to the metallic pads of integrated circuits without the high interface resistance produced by traditional fabrication . techniques Based on electron beam-induced deposition EBID the work is believed to be the first to connect multiple shells of a multi-walled carbon nanotube to metal terminals on a semiconducting substrate , which is relevant to integrated circuit fabrication . Using this three-dimensionalDevelopment of Facial Expression Technology by OMRON
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Development of Facial Expression Technology by OMRONThe Lithium Ion Battery May Be Having a Revolution
Updated: 2012-10-30 06:05:31California Lithium Battery (CLB), a finalist in Department of Energy’s 2012 Start Up America’s Next Top Energy Innovator challenge, has announced the record-setting performance of its new lithium ion battery anode. Called the “GEN3” the anode is a silicon graphene composite material engineered with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) over the past eight months. Independent test [...]Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128
Updated: 2012-10-29 07:25:15skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home October 29, 2012 Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128 is up at Atomic Power Review If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by brian wang at 10 29 2012 Labels : carnival of nuclear energy energy nuclear Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128 The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 128 is up at Atomic Power Review If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by . Disqus blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscription Options Get Updates by RSS Get Free Updates by Email Read latest headlines inIBM Researchers Demonstrate Initial Steps toward Commercial Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Chip
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home October 28, 2012 IBM Researchers Demonstrate Initial Steps toward Commercial Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Chip Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet For the first time , IBM scientists precisely place and test more than ten thousand carbon nanotube devices in a single chip using mainstream manufacturing . processes Novel processing method helped pave the way for carbon technology as a viable alternative to silicon in future . computing IBM scientists have demonstrated a new approach to carbon nanotechnology that opens up the path for commercial fabrication of dramatically smaller , faster and more powerful computer chips . For the first time , more than ten thousand working transistors made of nano-sized tubes of carbon haveExperiment Shows How Heat Moves
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A research team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has developed a novel system showing heat move by examining and measuring nanoscale thermal conductance at the interface between two materials. The UIUC team’s system starts with a substrate base of quartz crystal, upon which the researchers place molecular chains that are 12 carbon [...]Development of Paper-Like Color Reflective LCD
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Development of Paper-Like Color Reflective LCDDevelopment of World Largest Projection Size TFT LCD HUD Technology
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Development of World Largest Projection Size TFT LCD HUD TechnologyDevelopment of Smart Analog a Configurable Amplifier Circuit, Powering Smart Sensors
Updated: 2012-10-28 15:40:06Development of Smart Analog a Configurable Amplifier Circuit, Powering Smart SensorsDevelopment of High Performance Polyester film with World’s Highest Level of Protection of UV light
Updated: 2012-10-27 08:41:22Development of High Performance Polyester film with World’s Highest Level of Protection of UV lightElectron microscope used for highly-precise graphene defects
Updated: 2012-10-26 10:14:03Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Electron microscope used for highly-precise graphene defects Tweet Technical Research Creating atomic-scale defects in graphene is very effective in order to achieve certain attributes recent research for example shown that defects in graphene can make it stronger more suitable as battery anode material and even help it transfer data Now researchers from Oxford University published a new high-precision approach to engineer graphene's atomic . structure The new method replaces the shotgun approach usually used with a minutely-controlled beam of electrons fired from an electron microscope . This method is much more precise four orders of magnitude better , in fact and they call a sniper . method The current method is difficult to scaleGraphene is an excellent choice for EMI shielding
Updated: 2012-10-26 10:07:03Researchers from Korea have shown that single-layer graphene is an excellent high-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield. They used CVD-synthesized graphene, and have found that it features seven times greater EMI shielding effectiveness (in terms of dB) than gold film of the same thickness.The researchers say that an ideal single-layer graphene can shield as much as 97.8% of incident waves (!) - the most effective material in terms of effectiveness per mass. The actual graphene sheet they used shielded about 40% of incident waves. read moreRecycling Magnets for the Rare Earth Elements
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is working to more effectively remove the neodymium, a rare earth element, from the mix of other materials in a magnet. The initial results show the recycled material maintains the properties that made rare-earth magnets useful in the first use. The potential is important because rare earth prices [...]A Two Step Pyrolysis For Making Fuels
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Iowa State University (ISU) engineers Song-Charng Kong, left, and Nicholas Creager are studying and refining a new bio-oil gasifier where heat and pressure vaporize bio-oil to produce a combination of (mostly) hydrogen and carbon monoxide that’s called synthesis gas. The new gasifier is a second step in a two-stage pyrolysis process. The ISU team starts [...]Cancer Genomics
Updated: 2012-10-24 05:00:00Learn about other technologies that can solve big problems:Carbon Capture
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Updated: 2012-10-24 05:00:00Learn about other technologies that can solve big problems:Self-Driving Cars
Updated: 2012-10-24 05:00:00Learn about other technologies that can solve big problems:Graphene based membranes can be useful as water filters or drug delivery agents
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Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Graphene based membranes can be useful as water filters or drug delivery agents Tweet Graphene applications Medicine Technical Research Researchers from MIT and the Oak Ridge national Laboratory ORNL developed a promising new graphene-based membrane that can be useful to filter microscopic contaminants from water or for drug delivery . The membrane features high flux and tunability i.e . it can quickly filter fluids but also be easily tunable to let certain molecules through while stopping others To develop the membrane , the team fabricated a 25 square millimeter graphene sheet using CVD . They managed to transfer the sheet to a polycarbonate substrate dotted with holes . They thought that the graphene will be totally impermeable ,A Startup To Convert Methane to Liquid Fuels
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The startup company Calysta Energy was formed in 2011 as a spinout of DNA2.0, the largest US-based provider of synthetic genes for industrial and academic customers. The new firm’s goal is for engineered organisms to use methane as a feedstock in producing liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that are cost-effective, scalable and reduce [...]First Theoretical Model of Charging Cycle Performance Could Revolutionise Battery Research
Updated: 2012-10-23 05:59:00Being able to simulate the change in battery performance after thousands of charging cycles could significantly accelerate battery research, say engineersA Solar Cell Breakthrough
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has engineered silicon solar cells using a new nanotechnology technique for an efficiency of 18.2% by cutting light reflection of the silicon solar cell surface. The “best” and most efficient solar cells are still built from silicon. But the costs have just crushed the buying interest even in the [...]Graphene to replace Platinum as a fuel-cell catalyst
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Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Graphene to replace Plastinum as a fuel-cell catalyst Tweet Batteries Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from Brown University designed the world's best non-platinum catalyst , based on cobalt-graphene . This can be used to replace Platinum with a more durable and less expensive material as a fuel-cell . catalyst To create this new material , the researchers used a self-assembly method . First , they dispersed cobalt nanoparticles and graphene in separate solutions . The two solutions were then combined and pounded with sound waves to make sure they mixed thoroughly . That caused the nanoparticles to attach evenly to the graphene in a single layer . Using a centrifuge , the material was removed from the solution , andInterview with UCB's professor on their graphene-based molecular gas membranes
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Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Interview with UCB's professor on their graphene-based molecular gas membranes Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Earlier this month we reported on a new research by the University of Colorado Boulder that demonstrated new efficient graphene membranes that be used to make natural gas production more efficient , and reduce CO2 emissions AZoNano posted an interview with Professor Scott Bunch from UCB regarding graphene , this interesting research and its findings , and what's holding off . commercialization Oct 21, 2012 Login register to post comments Similar entries Graphene used to make efficient molecular gas membranes Graphene based membranes for gas separation being developed at MIT Graphene membrane pore photo GrapheneNew York awarded $250,000 to two graphene-based energy storage projects
Updated: 2012-10-19 07:44:30Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products New York awarded 250,000 to two graphene-based energy storage projects Tweet Financial Graphene applications Ultracapacitors New York State Energy Research and Development Authority NYSERDA awarded 2 million for energy storage projects . They support eight companies each will receive 250,000. Two of these projects are based on . graphene Graphene devices will develop powerful graphene-based supercapacitors with three times the energy density of current commercial devices at the same cost . Custom Electronics Inc aims to develop an electrolytic graphene capacitor to back up the electricity grid during power shortages , voltage spikes , and momentary electricity . interruptions Source : CleanTechnica Oct 19, 2012 Login register to postThe Best Non Platinum Catalyst So Far
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Platinum as a catalyst is expensive, and it degrades over time, but it works great in many applications especially in hydrogen fuel cells. A Brown University chemist team has engineered a cheaper and more durable catalyst using graphene, cobalt, and cobalt-oxide – perhaps the best non platinum catalyst so far. The team’s paper has been [...]A Better Inverter To Change DC Current to AC
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Professor Afshin Izadian, a researcher at the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has invented a power inverter that employs just a single switching transistor and generates infinite-level voltages. It’s an idea that has really turned heads and garnered attention. The breakthrough was once thought impossible, but the [...]New $2.7 million research program to study carbon nanoparticles in the US
Updated: 2012-10-17 12:24:14Rice University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a $2.7 million, five-year cooperative research agreement to study how nanoparticles – particularly fullerenes (aka buckyballs), nanotubes and graphene – operate and interact with other materials at the molecular, even atomic, scale. The goal is to enable the manufacture of high-end products that incorporate carbon-based nanomaterials for enhanced optical, electrical, mechanical and thermal properties. read moreThe DOE selected XG Sciences to develop high-energy graphene based battery materials
Updated: 2012-10-16 17:08:15Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products The DOE selected XG Sciences to develop high-energy graphene based battery materials Tweet Batteries Graphene applications Nano-platelets Technical Research XG Sciences XG Sciences announced today that the US Department of Energy DOE selected the company to develop high-energy Lithium-ion battery materials for use in extended range electric vehicle applications . XG-Sciences developed a silicon-graphene nanocomposite anode material based on their xGnP graphene nanoplatelets and XG Leaf graphene sheets that demonstrated significant increases in energy storage capacity over traditional . graphite The DOE targets 600 mAh g reversible anode capacity and 1000 cycle life in 250 mAh cells . XG Sciences will collaborate on this project withNanoscale electric transformer made from stacked graphene sheets
Updated: 2012-10-15 05:10:08Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Nanoscale electric transformer made from stacked graphene sheets Tweet Electronics Graphene applications Photonics Technical Research Scientists from the University of Manchester , including Nobel prize-winner Professor Andre Geim constructed a multi-layer graphene structure made by placing individual sheets one on top of the other . This cake' like structure behaves like a nanoscale electric transformer which could be used to make new electronic transistors and photonic detector . devices In the new device , electrons moving in one metallic layer pull electrons in the second metallic layer by using their local electric fields . The layers are only separated by a tiny few interatomic distance much shorter than anything done before . ToGraphene-based 3D sponge-like material is useful for supercapacitors
Updated: 2012-10-14 14:27:01Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Graphene-based 3D sponge-like material is useful for supercapacitors Tweet Batteries Graphene applications Technical Research Ultracapacitors Scientists from the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada developed a new material , a 3D sponge-like graphene that can be used to make supercapacitor electrodes . The big advantage o f this new material is a high energy density at ultra high power densities 7.1 Wh kg at 48,000 W kg . This could lead towards supercapacitors that can compete with Li-Ion . batteries The new material was synthesized the sponge-like graphene out of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and cobalt phthalocyanine PC molecules that attach to nucleation sites in the nanotube skeleton . Heating theResearchers create the lightest graphene framework, offers excellent properties
Updated: 2012-10-14 14:18:30, Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Researchers create the lightest graphene framework , offers excellent properties Tweet Graphene applications Technical Research Video Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology created the lightest graphene framework to date which is also fire resistant and has record-breaking adsorption and capacitance . The new materials has a density of 2.1mg cm 3 not the lightest material ever , but the lightest one made from graphene . To develop the new material , the researchers doped graphene with nitrogen by treating graphene oxide with pyrrole an aromatic , nitrogen-containing compound in a steam oven . This creates a large gel framework which was later frozen dry and annealed at high . temperature The material is fire resistantAngstron Materials developed a new graphene-modified lubricant
Updated: 2012-10-14 09:12:16Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Angstron Materials developed a new graphene-modified lubricant Tweet Angstron Materials Graphene applications Angstron Materials developed a new graphene-modified lubricant , and has been awarded a US patent for the material 8,222,190 The material is made by dispersing single-layer nano graphene platelets NGPs at a weight ratio of 0.001 to 60 based on total fluid weight in a fluid containing a petroleum or synthetic . oil Angstron has demonstrated the ability of the new lubricant lubricant to provide improved thermal conductivity and friction reduction . These characteristics help extend wear performance . In addition to exceptional viscosity stability , the thermal conductivity values for the NGP-modified fluid are the highest onKonstantin Novoselov released a graphene roadmap
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Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Konstantin Novoselov released a graphene roadmap Tweet Batteries Conductors Displays Electronics Energy generation Flexible Graphene applications Graphene production Medicine Photonics Technical Research Transistors Transparency Ultracapacitors Nobel Prize-winner together with Andre Geim Professor and Kostya Novoselov Professor Volodya Falko from Lancaster University have released a graphene roadmap . The roadmap discusses the different possible applications for graphene and also the different ways to produce the . material The authors says that the first key application is conductors for touch-screen displays replacing ITO where they expect can be commercialized within 3-5 years . They also see rollable e-paper displays soonSponge-like graphene makes promising supercapacitor electrodes
Updated: 2012-10-12 16:10:01(Phys.org)—While most of today's electric vehicles rely on batteries to store energy, supercapacitors have enjoyed significant improvements that have made them serious competitors to batteries. Batteries traditionally have the upper hand in terms of capacity, since supercapacitors' low capacities mean very short driving ranges for electric vehicles. Supercapacitors' biggest advantage lies in their much higher power density compared to batteries, enabling a quicker charge time and the ability to quickly discharge for fast acceleration.Graphene can be selectively and reversibly doped with light
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Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Graphene can be selectively and reversibly doped with light Tweet Electronics Graphene applications Photonics Technical Research Trying to investigate several doping methods for graphene , researchers have found a way to dope graphene with light . This kind of doping is selective and reversibly meaning that you can change the material attributes using different light colors , angles or polarization . To achieve that doping method , the researchers attached a plasmonic nano antenna to the graphene . The graphene was doped by hot electrons generated from the . antenna The doping can be controlled by changing the antenna size or the laser's wavelength and power density . n-type graphene provided a larger doping efficiency than p-type .New method to mass produce graphene based materials
Updated: 2012-10-11 20:04:12Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products New method to mass produce graphene based materials Tweet Batteries Graphene production Nano-platelets Technical Research Researchers from Lawrence Livermore have developed a new method to mass produce graphene based materials . The idea is to use polymer-derived carbon foams and selectively removing carbon atoms from a network composed of both unstructured carbon and graphite nanoplatelets . This creates a materials whose physical properties can be dynamically changed by an external . signal The researchers says that the new technique is inexpensive , scalable , and yields mechanically robust , centimeter-sized monolithic samples that are composed almost entirely of interconnected networks of single-layer graphene nanoplatelets . TheGraphene with Graphone domains can be used to pack molecules
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Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products Graphene with Graphone domains can be used to pack molecules Tweet Batteries Graphene applications Medicine Researchers from Singapore's A STAR institute and the US have designed a new way to pack molecule using graphene and graphone graphene that is hydrogenated on one side structures . The idea is to use a graphene sheet with a graphone domain that can be used to trap molecules . This is achievable because the graphone region is distorted in 3D to form a cap shape and it is stable well above room . temperature In the research they used fullerenes as model molecules . It turns out that you can trap several molecules in the same graphone domain . This kind of structure can be useful for energy storage or biological . applicationsDenso’s Lithium-ion Battery Pack help to Increase Fuel Efficiency in Vehicles
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Denso’s Lithium-ion Battery Pack help to Increase Fuel Efficiency in VehiclesGraphene pore size controlled, may lead the way to cheap DNA sequencing
Updated: 2012-10-09 10:23:57Researchers from UT Dallas have managed to shrink the size of a graphene pore to less than one nanometer - small enough to thread a DNA strand. This can be useful for DNA sequencing.The researchers used new technique to manipulate the size of the pore, by using an electron beam from an advanced electron microscope and in-situ heating up to 1200 degree Celsius temperature. They say that this is the first time that a graphene nanopore has been controlled. The next step is to build a prototype device to sequence DNA. read more