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Transparent Conductive Material Could Lead to Power-Generating Windows
November 3, 2010 — Scientists have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge over a relatively large area. The material could be used to develop transparent solar ... > full story -
Scarcity of New Energy Minerals May Trigger Trade Wars, Expert Suggests
November 1, 2010 — It's not hard to argue in favor of alternatives to fossil fuels these days, but one popular argument -- domestic energy security -- may be standing on very shaky legs. A lot of rare metals are needed ... > full story -
Current Loss Tracked Down by Magnetic Fingerprint; Researchers Solve the Case of Lost Current in Organic Solar Cells
October 26, 2010 — Conventional solar cells made from crystalline silicon are difficult and energy-intensive to manufacture. Organic solar cells are cheaper, but have always produced less electricity. Why this is so ... > full story -
Green Carbon Center Takes All-Inclusive View of Energy
October 22, 2010 — Rice University has created a Green Carbon Center to bring the benefits offered by oil, gas, coal, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other energy sources together in a way that will not only help ... > full story -
Falkland Islands Radar Study Impacts Climate Research: New Equipment Will Monitor Activity Which Creates the ‘Southern Lights’
October 22, 2010 — Physicists and engineers have installed a radar system on the Falkland Islands to monitor the upper atmosphere activity which creates the 'Southern Lights'. The new radar joins a network of 22 such ... > full story -
New Equation Could Advance Research in Solar Cell Materials
October 20, 2010 — A groundbreaking new equation could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic semiconductors: help to enable their wider ... > full story -
Photovoltaic Medicine: Miniature Solar Cells Might Make Chemotherapy Less Toxic
October 19, 2010 — Micro-scaled photovoltaic devices may one day be used to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy less toxic to surrounding ... > full story -
Planar Power: Flat Sodium-Nickel Chloride Battery Could Improve Performance, Cost of Energy Storage
October 12, 2010 — A redesign of sodium-nickel chloride batteries promises to overcome some of the obstacles long associated with rechargeable batteries. Replacing their typical cylindrical shape with a flat disc ... > full story -
Efficient, Inexpensive Plastic Solar Cells Coming Soon
October 10, 2010 — Physicists have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells. The discovery reveals that excitons, or energy-carrying particles generated ... > full story -
Researchers Design, Fabricate Innovative Energy Harvesting Device
October 8, 2010 — Electrical engineers have reported success in designing and fabricating a device that allows microscale electronic devices to harvest their own wasted ... > full story
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