• Chevy Volt Driver’s Savings After One Year (Getting 980 MPG!)

    Updated: 2012-11-30 16:00:02
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  • Smart City San Diego & Mayor Jerry Sanders Unveil Completed Solar-To-EV Project At San Diego Zoo

    Updated: 2012-11-30 12:00:01
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  • Combining Graphene and Nanotubes for Electrodes

    Updated: 2012-11-30 07:01:55
    Rice University chemist James Tour led his researchers to successfully growing forests of carbon nanotubes that rise quickly from sheets of graphene to astonishing lengths of up to 120 microns forming a single surface with three dimensions. The seamless graphene/nanotube hybrid creation may be the best electrode interface material possible for many energy storage and [...]

  • Fuel Cell Stocks: Plug Power (Nasdaq:PLUG) Announces Additional Site for Procter & Gamble

    Updated: 2012-11-29 21:00:02
    : join login services submit news Membership Stock Alerts Featured Stocks Newsletter Equity Research News Video Green Investor Stock Directories Funding Fuel Cell Stocks : Plug Power Nasdaq:PLUG Announces Additional Site for Procter Gamble Fuel Cells Now Powering Lift Trucks at Four P G Manufacturing Facilities Category : Investment , Renewable Energy Subscribe to Investor Ideas Green Newswire

  • How to Pick Renewable Energy Stocks in Changing Markets: John McIlveen

    Updated: 2012-11-29 21:00:02
    : join login services submit news Membership Stock Alerts Featured Stocks Newsletter Equity Research News Video Green Investor Stock Directories Funding How to Pick Renewable Energy Stocks in Changing Markets : John McIlveen Source : Zig Lambo of The Energy Report Category : Investment , Renewable Energy Subscribe to Investor Ideas Green Newswire

  • Greener storage for green energy

    Updated: 2012-11-29 17:00:01
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  • Costa Rica’s 1st Solar Power Park Completed

    Updated: 2012-11-29 17:00:01
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  • A New Cheap and Abundant Thermoelectric Material Found

    Updated: 2012-11-29 07:01:51
    A team of Michigan State University researchers have developed a new thermoelectric material based on natural minerals known as tetrahedrites, the most widespread sulfosalts on Earth. So where are these tetrahedrites?  They’re found pretty much anywhere there is dirt, common ordinary dirt. The researchers, led by Donald Morelli, a professor of chemical engineering and materials [...]

  • New graphene-based device could lead to spintronic switches

    Updated: 2012-11-29 00:49:34
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us New graphene-based device could lead to spintronic switches Tweet Graphene applications Spintronics Technical Research Researchers from Germany , Russia and the USA managed to increase graphene's conduction electrons' spin-orbit coupling by a factor of 10,000. They say this could enable a Spintronics switch that is controlled by a small electric field . To develop this , the researchers placed graphene on a nickel substrate in which atoms are separated by the same distance as the graphene's hexagonal meshes . They then deposited gold atoms on the device which ended up between the graphene and nickel .

  • US Crude Production continues to increase by about 150,000 barrel per day per month since Summer of 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-28 21:52:53
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home November 28, 2012 US Crude Production continues to increase by about 150,000 barrel per day per month since Summer of 2012 Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet US daily crude oil production increased to 6.818 million barrels per . day This was an increase of 108,000 barrels per day from the prior week . This is the most crude oil produced by the US since February , 1994. This seems to indicate that oil from North Dakota Bakken and Texas Eagle Ford has likely increased by 200,000 to 300,000 barrels per day since the September , 2012 state level oil . reports US Total daily oil liquids production is 11.17 million barrels per . day If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks

  • Memristor based nanostore memory and logic could be 100 times more energy efficient

    Updated: 2012-11-28 19:34:17
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home November 28, 2012 Memristor based nanostore memory and logic could be 100 times more energy efficient Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Eetimes HP still on track for 2016 to 2018 for nanostore memory and logic chips that could be 100 times more energy efficient We have the opportunity for new building block , 8221 said Ranganathan . It’s really a 3-D stack amenable to traditional workloads and even more so to new workloads , really changing the game with potentially a hundred-fold increase in performance per watt . HP Labs continues to conduct experiments on the nanostore concept with promising results . But Ranganathan declined to provide any specifics , noting the work is still as much as three years from commercial

  • New carbomorph plastic composite for 3d printed electronics

    Updated: 2012-11-28 19:28:02
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home November 28, 2012 New carbomorph plastic composite for 3d printed electronics Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet The University of Warwick researchers have created a simple and inexpensive conductive plastic composite that can be used to produce electronic devices using the latest generation of low-cost 3D printers designed for use by hobbyists and even in the home.The material , nicknamed carbomorph’ , enables users to lay down electronic tracks and sensors as part of a 3D printed structure allowing the printer to create touch-sensitive areas for example , which can then be connected to a simple electronic circuit board.So far the team has used the material to print objects with embedded flex sensors or with touch-sensitive

  • New method to make ordered GO with good electronic properties

    Updated: 2012-11-28 07:40:45
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us New method to make ordered GO with good electronic properties Tweet Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Photonics Sensors Technical Research Transistors Unlike graphene , graphene-oxide GO has a bandgap , but has poor electronic properties due to disorganized arrangement of atoms Now researchers from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee have developed a method to make ordered GO . They hope that this method will enable ideal bandgap carbon based devices to be used as transistors , sensors and optoelectronic . devices The researchers made a device made from layers of oxygen-poor graphene sandwiched

  • AZ Electronic Materials license Rice University's GNR technology, will sponsor further research

    Updated: 2012-11-28 07:31:58
    , Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us AZ Electronic Materials license Rice University's GNR technology , will sponsor further research Tweet Financial Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Nanoribbons Photonics AZ Electronic Materials have entered into a licensing and sponsored research agreements with William Marsh Rice University in the field of graphene nanoribbons GNRs for application to electronic and advanced optical devices . AZ will gain exclusive world-wide rights to several patent families invented by Dr . James Tour and his working group at Rice , covering preparation methods and application of . GNRs This technology could

  • Concentrating Solar Energy

    Updated: 2012-11-28 07:01:25
    Ju Li, an MIT is a professor and corresponding author of a paper proposing a “solar energy funnel” that takes advantage of materials under elastic strain. The MIT idea tries to answer a quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’s energy to produce electricity.  Li said, “We’re trying to use elastic strains to produce [...]

  • Toyota Plugs Away at the Next-Gen Electric-Car Battery

    Updated: 2012-11-28 05:00:00
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  • Energy Ideas Need to Go to Houston

    Updated: 2012-11-27 14:30:35
    Houston is home to SURGE Accelerator, an incubation and mentorship program for startups in the energy software space.  At a year and a half old SURGE can provide the accepted startup company with $30,000 in seed funding, free office space, and access to dozens of mentors in Houston’s vibrant energy sector in exchange for a [...]

  • Grafoid and Canada's IREQ to develop next-gen LFP-graphene batteries

    Updated: 2012-11-27 09:55:30
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Grafoid and Canada's IREQ to develop next-gen LFP-graphene batteries Tweet Batteries Graphene applications Grafoid has signed a 3-year R D agreement with Hydro-Quebec's Research Institute IREQ for the development of next generation rechargeable batteries using graphene with lithium iron phosphate materials . This is a 50-50 collaborative agreement that aims to create patentable inventions by combining graphene , supplied by Grafoid from the Lac Knife graphite resource of Focus Metals with Hydro-Quebec's patented lithium iron phosphate . technologies Grafoid and the IREQ are targeting two specific

  • Development of Low-Melting Glass to be used as Low Temperature Sealant

    Updated: 2012-11-26 13:45:11
    Development of Low-Melting Glass to be used as Low Temperature Sealant

  • Development of Four Legged ROBOT by Toshiba

    Updated: 2012-11-26 13:22:07
    Development of Four Legged ROBOT by Toshiba

  • Thorium To Be Used In a Working Reactor

    Updated: 2012-11-26 07:01:19
    A Norwegian company led by Alf Bjørseth will start burning thorium fuel in a conventional test reactor owned by Norway’s government with help from U.S.-based nuclear giant Westinghouse. Bjørseth is now running his private company Scatec AS, and establishing new companies within Scatec based on the latest technologies in the areas of renewable energy and [...]

  • The Algae That Eats Other Plants

    Updated: 2012-11-23 07:01:02
    A research team at Bielefeld University has made a groundbreaking discovery that one plant, the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, not only engages in photosynthesis, but also has an alternative source of energy: it can draw it out from other plants. Plants need water and light to grow using sunlight energy to produce their biomass from [...]

  • A Thanksgiving Day For One Small Nuclear Reactor

    Updated: 2012-11-22 07:01:53
    The Obama Administration’s Energy Department has announced an award to support a  project to design, license and help commercialize a small modular reactor (SMR) in the United States.  The lucky partnership members are Babcock & Wilcox with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bechtel who will receive a dollar for dollar cost match in funding to [...]

  • Development of Battery-Free Display RFID Device by Toppan

    Updated: 2012-11-21 15:12:48
    Development of Battery-Free Display RFID Device by Toppan

  • Split Out Hydrogen with Gold and Sunshine

    Updated: 2012-11-21 07:01:05
    Stony Brook University Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Alexander Orlov, PhD and his team are producing hydrogen from water using sunlight and gold nanomaterials. The university press release is claiming Orlov’s team has done the first-ever experiment of its kind demonstrating that clean energy hydrogen can be produced from water splitting by using [...]

  • World’s First Li-ion Battery Monitoring Chip Set capable monitoring up to 16 Cells

    Updated: 2012-11-20 15:05:05
    World’s First Li-ion Battery Monitoring Chip Set capable monitoring up to 16 Cells

  • Nanoparticle Laced Water to Steam By Solar Energy

    Updated: 2012-11-20 07:01:04
    Rice University scientists have unveiled a revolutionary new technology that uses nanoparticles to convert solar energy directly into steam.  The technology’s inventors said they expect it will first be used in sanitation and water-purification applications in the developing world. Maybe – the team has tested the technology with distillation experiments and found that solar steam [...]

  • How Friction May Someday Charge Your Cell Phone

    Updated: 2012-11-19 18:50:00
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  • Development of Revolutionary Method of Drug Injection by FujiFilm

    Updated: 2012-11-19 16:31:55
    Development of Revolutionary Method of Drug Injection by FujiFilm

  • Researchers manage to create Bernal-stacked bi-layer graphene sheets

    Updated: 2012-11-19 11:38:04
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Researchers manage to create Bernal-stacked bi-layer graphene sheets Tweet Electronics Graphene production Technical Research Transistors Researchers from Rice University discovered a way to create Bernal-stacked bi-layer graphene sheets . These kinds of structures in which every other carbon atom in the six-carbon rings of the top graphene layer sits over the middle of the hexagonal space created by a six-carbon ring of the bottom layer exhibit a small band . gap To create these sheets with controlled thickness on copper substrates , the researchers used pressure-tuned CVD chambers , while keeping

  • A New Power Generation Technique

    Updated: 2012-11-19 07:01:58
    A Louisiana Tech University and University of Texas at Arlington team of professors and Louisiana Tech graduate students have created a hybrid nanomaterial that can be used to convert light and thermal energy into electrical current as a thermoelectric generator. The team has synthesized a combination of copper sulfide nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes.  They [...]

  • Graphene nanoribbons trenches enable a substantial electronic bandgap

    Updated: 2012-11-19 05:05:19
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Graphene nanoribbons trenches enable a substantial electronic bandgap Tweet Electronics Graphene applications Nanoribbons Technical Research Transistors Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology managed to create an substantial electronic bandgap in graphene nanoribbons by coating bi-layer graphene on silicon carbide nanometer-scale steps . This could lead the way towards graphene based . electronics The 1.4-nanometer ribbons created a bandgap of about 0.5 electron-volts . The researchers do not yet understand why the bent graphene creates the . bandgap To produce this new structure , the

  • Researchers developed a quick, cheap and efficient way to measure graphene's thickness

    Updated: 2012-11-18 10:25:29
    , Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Researchers developed a quick , cheap and efficient way to measure graphene's thickness Tweet Technical Research Using a standard optical microscope , researchers from China's Harbin Institute of Technology developed a quick , cheap and efficient way of measuring graphene's thickness . The researchers have shown that the thickness of graphene and other 2D materials , by the way can be calculated by reflecting light from the material's surface and measuring the red , green and blue . components The contrast of red , green and blue values between the substrate on which the sample is placed and the

  • Helium ion beam used to control the electrical conductivity of graphene

    Updated: 2012-11-18 10:18:53
    Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) developed a new way to control the electrical conductivity of graphene.The idea is to use helium ion beam (using a helium ion microscope) to artificially introduce a low concentration of crystal defects on a graphene sheet. This enabled the researchers to modulate the movement of electrons and holes in the graphene by applying a voltage to the gate electrode. Source: AzoNano

  • A simple method to create nanofluidic devices from graphene-oxide

    Updated: 2012-11-18 10:12:15
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us A simple method to create nanofluidic devices from graphene-oxide Tweet Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Technical Research Researchers from Northwestern University developed a new method to manufacture large-scale nanofluidic devices , using graphene-oxide . These devices feature thin channels that can transport ions and so high electric current and so are useful to make batteries and water purification . systems The idea is to stack up graphene-oxide sheets to create a flexible paper-like material . Such a paper features tens of thousands of very useful channels as a gap forms naturally between

  • Coating technology used to make new graphene-tin oxide based Li-Ion battery anode material

    Updated: 2012-11-18 10:00:16
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Coating technology used to make new graphene-tin oxide based Li-Ion battery anode material Tweet Batteries Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Technical Research Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel , developed a new coating technology a few years ago as part of their sol-gel chemistry in hydrogen-peroxide-rich solutions research . This technology uses nanometric metal oxide dots . Now this technology is used to synthesize graphene-tin oxide composites based Li-Ion battery anodes . This new application was developed in collaboration with Singapore's National Research

  • General Motors Raises Its Ante on Electric Cars

    Updated: 2012-11-16 20:55:00
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  • Nanotube Muscles Bench 50,000 Times Their Own Weight

    Updated: 2012-11-15 19:54:00
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  • All-Carbon Solar Cells Will Mean Cheap and Flexible Solar Panels

    Updated: 2012-11-15 05:00:00
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  • Doping graphene with gold improves its performance as a UV LED electrode

    Updated: 2012-11-13 09:42:38
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Doping graphene with gold improves its performance as a UV LED electrode Tweet Conductors Graphene applications Technical Research Transparency Researchers from Korea developed a new gold-doped graphene based transparent and current-spreading electrode TCSE for UV LEDs . Graphene was already studied as a conductive layer for UV LEDs and now it turns out that doping it with gold improves the performance . A gold-doped graphene LED features about 20 more emission compared to an ITO . LED UV 300-400nm LEDs are useful in several applications such as germicidal instrumentation , biological agent

  • Silver nanowires used to increase graphene's conductivity dramatically

    Updated: 2012-11-11 10:26:52
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Silver nanowires used to increase graphene's conductivity dramatically Tweet Conductors Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from Purdue University discovered a while that using silver nanowires can dramatically increased graphene's conductivity . The nanowires are used to bridge defects and crystal boundaries . Now researchers from the University of Texas demonstrated how this . works When making large graphene sheets , there are many defects ripples , folds and tears and also large graphene sheets are currently made from many small crystals , and the boundaries between the crystals

  • Electron conductivity studies on graphene nanowires

    Updated: 2012-11-11 10:18:27
    Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Photos Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Electron conductivity studies on graphene nanowires Tweet Conductors Graphene applications Nanoribbons Technical Research Researchers from the Max Planck Society are researching how a graphene nanowire conducts electricity . They discovered that electrons are tunneling through the graphene wire by means of a quantum mechanical process . The researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to perform complicated measurements to determine how the conductance of the carbon strip depends on its length and the energy of the . electrons The researchers say that those graphene wires or nanoribbons are

  • A solar cell made entirely from carbon, contains graphene electrodes

    Updated: 2012-11-07 19:51:30
    , Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products A solar cell made entirely from carbon , contains graphene electrodes Tweet Conductors Energy generation Flexible Graphene applications Technical Research Researchers from Stanford University managed to build a solar cell made entirely from carbon . Solar panels made from such materials can provide high performance at a low cost . The entire panel can be built using a coating process the materials are soluble and can be made . flexible The two electrodes in the device are made from graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes . The active layer sandwiched between the electrodes is made from buckyballs which can be used to create graphene quantum-dots by the way The current device is not very efficient less than 1 but the researchers

  • XG Sciences and the ORNL to develop a titanium-graphene composite

    Updated: 2012-11-06 18:32:30
    Home Introduction Graphene Investing Graphene Products XG Sciences and the ORNL to develop a titanium-graphene composite Tweet Graphene applications Nano-platelets Technical Research XG Sciences XG Sciences announced that it had launched a joint program with Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL to develop a titanium-graphene composite using an advanced powder metallurgy manufacturing . process Titanium is light , strong and corrosion resistant and is useful in many industrial , commercial , and military applications . The problem is that it has low thermal conductivity . The programs aims to solve this issue by adding graphene which has excellent thermal conductivity . In this collaboration , XG Sciences has the capability to mass-produce graphene nanoplatelets in high volume , while ORNL

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