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Lightweight, High-Temperature Composite Material for Energy Storage Applications

A group of Penn State researchers have experimentally demonstrated that an innovative, lightweight composite material has the ability to store energy in electric vehicles, flexible electronics, as well as aerospace applications at operating temperatures considerably greater than when compared to prevalent commercial polymers.

1 Aug 2017

New Magnet Displays Electronic Charge Carriers that Have Almost No Mass

Improvements in recent electronics have necessitated the requisite hardware, transistors, to be smaller in each new iteration. The size of silicon transistors has been reduced to the order of 10 nm by the recent progress in nanotechnology.

31 Jul 2017

Material Scientists Unearth the Reasons Behind Higher Efficiency of Perovskites

In the recent past, there has been a major revolution in the solar cell industry due to the use of perovskites, which are not only easy to synthesize and inexpensive but also highly flexible to use.

27 Jul 2017

Researchers Report Period Doubling Route to Chaos with Magnetic Field Strength

A magnet placed on one’s refrigerator might keep a calendar in place, but Indian researchers from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics discovered that when a magnet is placed outside a plasma chamber it creates a localized, fireball-like structure.

26 Jul 2017

Researchers Develop Self-Disposing Supramolecular Materials with a Tunable Lifetime

Materials capable of assembling themselves and then just disappearing toward the end of their lifetime are relatively common in nature. Recently, researchers at the Technical University Munich (TUM) developed supramolecular materials that have the potential to disintegrate at a predetermined time.

20 Jul 2017

Researchers Develop New Process for Manufacturing Supercapacitor Electrode Materials

Supercapacitors are devices that have been aptly named as they are capable of storing and delivering energy in a much faster manner that the standard batteries. They are in great demand for applications including high-powered lasers, wireless telecommunications and electric cars.

18 Jul 2017

New Transistor Concept for Developing Inexpensive Transistors and Computer Chips with Lower Power Consumption

Transistors, as used in billions on every single computer chip, are presently based on semiconductor-type materials, generally silicon.

18 Jul 2017

Scientists Observe Energy from Light Flowing Through Atomic Ripples in a Molecule

A research team succeeded in watching energy from light flow via atomic ripples in a molecule. Such insights could provide new methods for developing a class of materials capable of improving efficiency and reducing the size of memory storage devices and solar cells.

14 Jul 2017

New Polymer Material Goes for a Walk Under the Influence of Light

A new material capable of undulating and thus propelling itself forward under the influence of light has been developed by scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology and Kent State University. A strip of this polymer material is clamped in a rectangular frame. It goes for a walk all on its own when illuminated.

29 Jun 2017

New Flexible Thermoelectric Energy Harvester Enhances Performance of Flexible Wearable Electronics

A flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the efficiency of the currently available power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy has been designed by North Carolina State University engineers in a proof-of-concept study.

23 Jun 2017

Energy News

Lightweight, High-Temperature Composite Material for Energy Storage Applications

New Magnet Displays Electronic Charge Carriers that Have Almost No Mass

Material Scientists Unearth the Reasons Behind Higher Efficiency of Perovskites

Researchers Report Period Doubling Route to Chaos with Magnetic Field Strength

Researchers Develop Self-Disposing Supramolecular Materials with a Tunable Lifetime

Researchers Develop New Process for Manufacturing Supercapacitor Electrode Materials

New Transistor Concept for Developing Inexpensive Transistors and Computer Chips with Lower Power Consumption

Scientists Observe Energy from Light Flowing Through Atomic Ripples in a Molecule

New Polymer Material Goes for a Walk Under the Influence of Light

New Flexible Thermoelectric Energy Harvester Enhances Performance of Flexible Wearable Electronics

Testing Medical Device Connections In-Line with ISO 80369

The Evolution of Plasma Treatment

Hardness Testing and Direct Certification

Isostatically Pressed Alumina Crucibles

Producing of Fuel Cell Electrodes with Nafion®-Powder

Testing Food Ingredients with the QUASIR 3000 Integrating Sphere FT-NIR

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2 Oxford Instruments Enables Real-time Chemical Imaging

3 Material Scientists Unearth the Reasons Behind Higher Efficiency of Perovskites

4 Morgan Advanced Materials Gains EU Certification for Structural Steel Fire Protection System

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