Charging mobile phones with sound, like chants from at football ground, could become a reality, according to a new collaboration between scientists from Queen Mary University of London and N... Read more
Working on dye-sensitized solar cells – researchers from University Malaya (UM) and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) have achieved an efficiency of 1.12 %, at a fraction of the cos... Read more
“One should consider that the production cost of this type of solar cell is several orders of magnitude lower than for conventional solar cells.” The sharp X-ray vision of DESY... Read more
UV-sensors from the oven Placed in fire detectors and water treatment units UV-sensors can save lives; also in many areas of industry and environment the demand for these devices is rising s... Read more
The researchers grew billions of tiny rods (nanorods) made from zinc oxide, then covered them with an active polymer to form a device that converts sunlight into electricity. Playing pop and... Read more
By blending their expertise, two materials science engineers at Washington University in St. Louis changed the electronic properties of a new class of materials — just by exposing it to ligh... Read more
Terabytes, not gigbytes, will be the norm with resistive memory. A team at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a novel way to build what many... Read more
We have very limited information about the quantity or state of these synthetic nanomaterials in the environment right now Sunscreens, lotions, and cosmetics contain tiny metal nanoparticles... Read more
Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes, from driving a car to... Read more
A non-toxic and environmentally friendly way to make tiny nanorods of zinc oxide has been developed for the first time by researchers in Saudi Arabia. Read more
