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Sulphur Breakthrough Significantly Boosts Lithium Battery Capacity

Stanford researchers have discovered a way to use graphene-coated sulphur particles as a means of increasing the specific capacity of…

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Inkjet Printing Could Change the Face of Solar Energy Industry

Engineers have found a way to produce thin film solar electronics using inexpensive inkjet printing technologies.

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New Report on Accelerating Systems Engineering for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency announces the release of a white paper which recommends improvements and actions…

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Engineers Envision 'Two-Dimensional' Graphene Metamaterials and One-Atom-Thick Optical Devices

University of Pennsylvania engineers have proposed the possibility of 'two-dimensional' metamaterials that could be achieved by…

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Microscopy Reveals Source of Extraordinary Nanomaterial's Capabilities

A research team at the University of Texas has made interesting new structures from graphene. The one atom thick material forms a…

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Researchers Say They've Solved the Mystery of LED Lighting "Droop"

Institute faculty members' research featured on DOE energy blog.

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MIT Combines Waste Heat Tech With Solar

A group of researchers at MIT have devised an experimental thermoelectric device that converts solar heat directly into power via the…

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Salty Solution for Energy Generation

A new battery device developed by researchers at Stanford draws power from the salinity difference between freshwater and saltwater and…

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California’s Energy Innovation: New Session Announced for Upcoming Summit on Energy Efficiency

The Institute for Energy Efficiency announced a new session on energy efficiency and innovation in California.

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UCSB Theory Blames Indirect Auger Recombination for Nitride LED Droop

UC Santa Barbara theorists say that the nitride semiconductor LED lighting performance problem, commonly referred to as ‘efficiency…

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LED Efficiency Puzzle Solved by UC Santa Barbara Theorists

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, say they’ve figured out the cause of a problem that’s made light-emitting…

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Will Waste Heat Be Our Next Power Source?

UC Berkeley researchers estimate that over half of U.S. energy consumption is dissipated as waste heat; can such a ubiquitous energy…

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Using Heat to Cool Buildings

New materials developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory improve adsorption chilling and could make practical air…

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Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency will showcase technologies and opportunities for a sustainable energy future

Leaders from industry, academia and government from around the country will gather to discuss the latest advances and opportunities in…

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Grid-Scale Energy Storage Breakthrough? Upgrading Vanadium Redox Batteries

A new development in vanadium redox batteries from DOE's Pacific Northwest Regional Laboratory could make them a promising option for…

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Low-Power Memory from Nanotubes

A new type of nonvolatile memory based on carbon nanotubes requires one percent as much power as flash memory and could improve battery…

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