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Dipping May Improve Ultracapacitors and Batteries

Adding a coating of graphene or carbon nanotubes is showing promise for improving the energy density of traditional ultracapacitors and…

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A Simple Way to Boost Battery Storage

Berkeley researches engineer a new, stretchy, conductive polymer binder that may increase the capacity of lithium ion batteries by 30%…

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Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Are On the Way

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a new, polyfluorene-based conducting polymer that may lead to the use of silicon within…

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UCSB Professor Develops Efficient Light Displays

UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura to receive an Emmy for inventing high efficiency blue and green LEDs.

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Nanotube Cables Hit a Milestone: As Good as Copper

Materials researchers at Rice University have created carbon nanotubes with the ability to carry as much current as regular copper wires…

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British to Test Geoengineering Scheme

Researchers will soon attempt to pump water a kilometer into the air to test a geoengineering technique for offsetting the warming…

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A New and Improved Moore's Law

"Koomey's law" claims that at a fixed computing load, the battery power needed will drop by a factor of two approximately every 18…

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The First Fully Stretchable OLED

Researchers at UCLA are on their way to developing the first OLED display screens that can stretch, shrink and fold.

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Supercapacitors Enable Harsh-environment Energy Storage

New, high-energy batteries that can withstand harsh environments developed using nanotube-based supercapacitors at Rice University.

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Advanced Electrodes for Better Li-Ion Batteries

Korean researchers have developed a new anode that holds three times more charge than conventional graphite anodes. This could lead to…

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IBM's New Chips Compute More Like We Do

Researches at IBM have developed two chip prototypes that intertwine computational power with memory, similar to the how the human brain…

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Energy-Harvesting Displays

Two separate research groups have developed light-harvesting filters that can be added to LCD displays to recharge batteries in portable…

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Nanoscale Pillars Could Have a Big Role in Future Batteries

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory experimenting with tin and graphene have discovered a new way of structuring…

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Pure Nanotubes by the Kilo

Researchers at Rice University have improved on a method for making pure nanotubes called amplification that could allow them to turn a…

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Solar Panels Can Be 3-D Printed Onto Regular Paper, Folded 1,000 Times

MIT engineers have created a tough solar cell that cannot only flex, but still function properly after being bent or folded.

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Solar Cells that See Red

Stanford researchers are working on a method of upconversion that increases the conversion efficiency of amorphous-silicon solar cells…

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