When sunlight shines on today’s solar cells, much of the incoming energy is given off as waste heat rather than electrical current. In a few materials, however, extra energy produces extra electrons — behavior that could significantly increase solar-cell efficiency.
Today, Woolite® announced the launch of Woolite® Everyday with Fiber-Flex™ technology that will debut nationwide in May 2014. Built off the efficacy of the original Everyday formula, this innovative new detergent formula helps protect clothes from color fading and maintains fabric shape and fiber elasticity to leave clothes looking like new even after 20 washes.
Not only rubber is elastic: There is also another, completely different form of elasticity known as superelasticity. This phenomenon results from a change in crystal structure and was previously only found in alloys and certain inorganic materials. A Japanese scientist has now introduced the first superelastic organic compound in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
The existence of element 117 and its decay chain to elements 115 and 113 have been confirmed by a second international team led by scientists at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, an accelerator laboratory located in Darmstadt, Germany. The research will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal, Physical Review Letters.
Northwestern University researchers are the first to develop a new solar cell with good efficiency that uses tin instead of lead perovskite as the harvester of light. The low-cost, environmentally friendly solar cell can be made easily using "bench" chemistry -- no fancy equipment or hazardous materials.
Jordan Kennedy, who will graduate from Montana State University this weekend with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, will soon be swapping out the blue and gold of MSU for the crimson of Harvard, where she will spend a summer doing post-baccalaureate research.
A new physics discovery made by a University of Virginia-led team may lead to more efficient refrigerators, heat pumps and airport scanners, among many possible uses –perhaps within a decade.
Materials that can be used for thermoelectric devices — those that turn a temperature difference into an electric voltage — have been known for decades. But until now there has been no good explanation for why just a few materials work well for these applications, while most others do not.
Senior Scientist Ralph James of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has been named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). James was honored during a special reception held during the annual MRS meeting in San Francisco on April 22.
DataApex announced the release of a control driver for Advion’s expression compact mass spectrometers (CMS). The control module includes both digital control of the detector and digital data acquisition of the detector signal.
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