SLAC, Stanford Gadget Grabs More Solar Energy to Disinfect Water Faster In many parts of the world, the only way to make germy water safe is by boiling, which consumes precious fuel, or by p... Read more
Ultimately, Zhong Lin Wang notes, the research could lead to complete atomic-thick nanosystems that are self-powered by harvesting mechanical energy from the environment. Researchers from Co... Read more
A promising light source for optoelectronic chips can be tuned to different frequencies. Chips that use light, rather than electricity, to move data would consume much less power — and energ... Read more
A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire, a finding that could be a step towards building computer chips capable of transporting di... Read more
The material could be used for glass fronts, letting most of the light in, but still creating electricity. Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to combine two semic... Read more
Could be applied to solar cells, ultracapacitors for energy storage, or advanced transistors for energy efficient electronics, among many other applications Researchers at Penn State’s Cente... Read more
Engineer brings new twist to sodium ion battery technology with discovery of flexible molybdenum disulfide electrodes Gurpreet Singh, assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineerin... Read more
The work opens a new door for the production of cheap hydrogen Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) may work as a... Read more
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale – meaning the films are only one atom thi... Read more
MIT engineers propose a new way of harnessing photons for electricity, with the potential for capturing a wider spectrum of solar energy. The quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’... Read more
In the future, it could also enable entirely new kinds of devices. MIT researchers produce complex electronic circuits from molybdenum disulfide, a material that could have many more... Read more
Creating cheaper and better catalysts has become a big and important field now University of California, Berkeley, chemists are reimagining catalysts in ways that could have a profoun... Read more