Financial sponsorship running into millions has opened the way for the development
of new generations of high energy batteries for use in plug-in hybrid automobiles
and the electric powered vehicles of the future.
Ascent Solar Technologies, which is 35-percent owned by Hydro,
opened a new production facility and headquarters near Denver, Colorado, in
the U.S. on March 24.
Scientists at the U.S. Department
of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method
for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles "particles measuring billionths of a meter" which renders the metal resistant
to corrosion and eliminates the use of toxic chromium for this purpose.
Chemists reported development of what they termed the first economical, eco-friendly
process to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel - a discovery they predict
could one day lead to U.S. independence from petroleum as a fuel.
Sarnoff Corporation today announced the creation of Lightscape Materials Inc., the latest in a series of independent company spin-offs. Lightscape Materials has secured $3 Million in Series A funding from Wisepower Co. L...
Veeco Instruments
Inc., the leading provider of scanning probe microscopes
(SPM) to the nanoscience community, today announced the winners of the first
phase of the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program, "HarmoniX Innovation",
as well as the initiation of its second phase, "SPM in Energy".
Though a year has passed since the discovery of a new family of high-temperature
superconductors, a viable explanation for the iron-based materials' unusual
properties remains elusive.
With the newly-signed Stimulus bill’s heavy emphasis on alternative
fuels, next-generation technology developed by Linde
should help accelerate the commercialization of hydrogen-powered vehicles of
all kinds.
Siemens Energy
is to acquire a 28 percent stake in the Italian solar company Archimede Solar
Energy S.p.A. and thus expand its competencies for solar thermal power plants.
ASE is the sole producer of solar receivers operating with molten salt as the
heat transfer fluid.
Physicists at Michigan Technological University have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.
Electr...
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