Displays Controlled By Flexible Fins & Liquid Droplets More Versatile & Efficient Than LED Screens
Engineers inspired by the morphing skins of animals like chameleons and octopuses
Engineers inspired by the morphing skins of animals like chameleons and octopuses
Chemists led by Beckman researcher Xiao Su have demonstrated that water remediation can be powered in part — and perhaps even exclusively — by renewable energy sources.
Competitors Represent the Next Generation of Energy-Savvy Architects and Engineers Who Will Build Our Clean Energy Future
Researchers at the University of Illinois say they have found a new way to manufacture polymer structures for cars, trucks, buses, and airplanes that uses 90% less energy.
The cost of solar energy in the US will continue its rapid downward slide with $102 million in new DOE funding for new tech and market strategies.
One dollar is not much to some folks. It is to others. However, for everyone, one dollar from a vast number of people is enough to do something significant. Grace Kyung, a graduate student studying urban planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign considered this before leading a campaign for bicycling on campus. Her idea … [continued]
Researchers have been edging closer to having their energy storage cake and eating it, too, by merging the attractively powerful charge-discharge rate of supercapacitors with rechargeable lithium battery technology. Here’s an interesting angle from the University of Illinois College of Engineering based on lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2), which just released … [continued]
A new type of sugarcane possessing a photosynthetic rate that’s been increased by 30%, boosted oil production, and improved cold-tolerance has been developed by a multi-institutional research team. The new sugarcane was developed with the intention of allowing large-scale biodiesel production to be undertaken in the US, using the new … [continued]
Flexible solar cells that are lightweight, energy efficient, and mass-producible are now one step closer to being a reality thanks to new research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Researchers at those universities devised a new way of creating large sheets … [continued]
According to a recent press release from the National Science Foundation, large wind farms in certain areas in of this country appear to affect local land surface temperatures. The news is based on a paper published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Liming Zhou, an atmospheric scientist at the State … [continued]