Erik Marstein, head of the Norwegian Research Center for Solar Cell Technology, head of Research for the solar cell unit at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) at Kjeller outside of Oslo, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo (UiO) with Professor Aasmund Sudbø in the Department of [...]
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Researchers at Northwestern University’s McCormick Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed a new design for organic solar cells that could lead to more efficient, less expensive solar power. The battle on production expense for silicon cells has an estimated 10 times cost disadvantage to coal, transmission and distribution costs. So it’s a long climb. Organic [...]
A new way of making crystalline silicon could make the crucial ingredient of computers and solar cells much cheaper and greener. It may also be useful in the topic of the post January 23rd, Nano Silicon Powder Produces Hydrogen Without Energy. Silicon dioxide, that we see as typical sand, makes up about 40 percent of [...]
No Boeing 787 Dreamliners have crashed or burned to the ground, but lithium ion technology is back in the news with a vengeance. The lithium ion batteries that are used in the Boeing 787 are not good enough – they have runaway overheating and discharge smoke and fumes. In flight this would be very alarming [...]
Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Videos News archive Other resources Contact us The University of Cambridge establishes a new graphene center with over 12 million in funding Tweet Batteries Electronics Financial Graphene applications Graphene production Technical Research Ultracapacitors The University of Cambridge announce plans to establish a new center for graphene research . The Cambridge Graphene Centre CGC will start operation on February 1st 2013 and the university will open a dedicated facility with state-of-the-art equipment towards the end of 2013. The UK government gave a grant of over 12 million to support the new center's activities . The CGC will use the money to buy
Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Graphene research program to get 1 billion over ten years from the EU Tweet Batteries Electronics Financial Graphene applications Sensors Technical Research Back in May 2011, a graphene research program called GRAPHENE-CA was shortlisted for one of two 1 billion EU research initiatives Today we're happy to report that this project was indeed chosen by the European Commission . This is set to be a huge boost to graphene research and will hopefully accelerate commercialization of graphene based products . The EU will officially announce their decision next week January 28 The graphene project is led by
, Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Controlling graphene's crumpling and unfolding can lead to applications in health-care , robotics and energy Tweet Batteries Energy generation Flexible Graphene applications Medicine Technical Research Transparency Researchers from Duke University are developing ways to control the crumpling and unfolding of large area graphene . By attaching the graphene to a pre-stretched rubber film . When the film was relaxed , parts of the graphene sheet detached , forming an attached-detached pattern with a feature size of a few nanometers . When the film was stretched again , the adhered spots of graphene pulled on
, Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Videos News archive Other resources Contact us HEAD's graphene tennis rackets now shipping , starting at 170 Tweet Graphene applications A couple of weeks ago HEAD announced their new range of graphene tennis rackets YouTek Graphene Speed series and these rackets are now shipping HEAD offers five different rackets the Speed Pro 18 20, Speed MP 16 19, Speed S , Speed REV and PWR Speed ranging from 170 to 286 with some cheaper racket for kids The graphene rackets apparently uses graphene coating on the shaft to make it stronger and lighter . HEAD says that by the graphene helps distribute the weight better and creates a stronger and better controlled .
Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Videos News archive Other resources Contact us The Swedish Energy Agency grants 60,000 to Graphensic Tweet Financial Graphene production Technical Research The Swedish Energy Agency granted 60,000 to Graphensic a Swedish based company established in March 2012 as a spin-off from the Linköping University that aims to produce single layer graphene on hexagonal silicon carbide for the electronic equipment market , and related . markets Graphensic founders have decided to bring in an experienced entrepreneur to bring in complementary business experience in the company as it goes into its next stage now . They will recruit a chairman of the board that will
Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have developed thin film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new record efficiency of 20.4% for converting sunlight into electricity. The new Swiss cells are based on the semiconducting material copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) that’s already known for its potential [...]
Getting those high efficiency products should be getting more affordable. According to researchers at Berkeley Lab projections published yesterday, efficiency programs funded by electric and natural gas utility customers will double by 2025 to about $9.5 billion per year. Rates are sure to be going up, so catching the improvement grants is going to be [...]
Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Videos News archive Other resources Contact us UK project aims to use graphene for efficient BioFuel creation Tweet Energy generation Financial Graphene applications Graphene production Technical Research A few weeks ago the UK government announced extra funding of 21.5 million to boost graphene research and development in the UK One of the project that got 1.1 million is a joint-venture between the University of Bath and the University of Exeter University to develop a new graphene production method and new graphene applications , the most exciting of which is efficient BioFuel . creation This project located at the University of Bath's Center of
Home About Introduction to graphene News Graphene investing Graphene products Companies Resources Events Jobs board Reports Books History Videos News archive Other resources Contact us Graphene Oxide used to soak radioactive waste Tweet Graphene applications Graphene Oxide Technical Research Researchers from Rice University and Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered that Graphene Oxide can quickly remove radioactive material from contaminated water . They found out that graphene oxide bind quickly to natural and human-made radionuclides and condense them into . solids This discovery is obviously useful in contaminated site cleanups such as the Fukushima nuclear plants but is also useful in hydraulic fracturing fracking” for oil and gas recovery and rare earth mineral . mining The
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