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Device to Mitigate Power Outages, Prevent Equipment Damage
April 19, 2013 — Engineering researchers have developed equipment that will prevent rolling power outages by regulating or limiting the amount of excess current that moves through the power grid when a surge ... > full story -
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New Solar-Cell Coating Could Enable a Major Boost in Efficiency
April 18, 2013 — Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the ... > full story -
Battery Low? Give Your Mobile Some Water
April 18, 2013 — A power source for your mobile phone can now be as close as the nearest tap, stream, or even a puddle, with the world’s first water-activated charging ... > full story -
Prototype Generators Emit Much Less Carbon Monoxide
April 17, 2013 — Portable electric generators retrofitted with off-the-shelf hardware emitted significantly lower levels of carbon monoxide, according to the results of recent ... > full story -
Super-Nanotubes: 'Remarkable' Spray-on Coating Combines Carbon Nanotubes With Ceramic
April 17, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated a spray-on mixture of carbon nanotubes and ceramic that has unprecedented ability to resist damage while absorbing laser light. Coatings that absorb as much of the ... > full story -
Small in Size, Big on Power: New Microbatteries the Most Powerful Yet
April 16, 2013 — The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car ... > full story -
Building a Better Capacitor With Custom Nanorods
April 16, 2013 — A new process for growing forests of manganese dioxide nanorods may lead to the next generation of high-performance ... > full story -
Turning Algae Into Clean Energy and Fish Food; Helping Africans to Irrigate Crops
April 16, 2013 — Two student teams working hard to move their “green” ideas off the drawing board and into the real world will showcase their ... > full story -
Powerpot Turns Heat and Water Into Electricity
April 16, 2013 — Students have invented a portable cook pot that doubles as a thermoelectric generator, and are now marketing ... > full story -
Neighbors Move Electrons Jointly: Ultrafast Collective Electron Transfer After Excitation of Single Electron
April 16, 2013 — Applying femtosecond x-ray methods, researchers have observed an extremely fast, collective electron transfer of ~100 molecular ions after excitation of a single electron in a crystal of transition ... > full story
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