Coincidentally, or not, researchers at Rice University and Tsinghua University have come to essentially the same conclusion as researchers at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering — carbon nanotubes can help improve dye-sensitized solar cells and cut their costs. Here’s more detail on the matter from a Rice University news … [continued]
As far as I’m aware, we haven’t written about dye-sensitized solar cells in years. But I ran across this article below on a potential breakthrough in the dye-sensitized solar cell arena and thought it might interest you all. Here’s the full article, from ResearchSEA: Dye-sensitized solar cells that use … [continued]
While on sabbatical from RMIT University in Melbourne, Associate Professor Dr Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, joined MIT Associate Professor Michael Strano’s nanotechnology research group and together accidentally discovered a new way to generate power. Their work was published in the December IEEE Spectrum … [continued]
This is a pretty fascinating video of Justin Hall-Tipping talking about the world’s greatest challenges — global warming, energy security, and water security– and nanotechnology’s potential for solving these. Below the video is more on Justin. More on Justin from his TED author page: Some of our most serious … [continued]
I have been hearing about carbon nanotubes for a while now, and they are indeed very promising, as this news proves:
Rice University researchers have developed a carbon-nanotube-based cable that is able to carry as much electric current as copper, and it is lighter. This has potential sustainability, durability and efficiency advantages.
Wind and solar power are surging these days, but with great power comes a great problem: how to guarantee a steady stream of energy when the source comes and goes. The solution, of course, is to find more efficient ways of storing energy. Among the new developments is a light-as-air … [continued]
Like some tantalizing cursed treasure, boron nitride nanotubes have been tempting researchers with their promise of high heat tolerance, which makes them excellent candidates for components in the next generation of microscopic-scale high efficiency electronics. But for years the tiny nanofibers, which are similar to carbon nanotubes, have lead researchers … [continued]
Researchers at the University of San Diego have discovered that carbon nanotubes don’t have to be perfect to do a better job. The team of UCSD Professor Prabhakar Bandaru and grad student Mark Hoefer found that defective carbon nanotubes actually store energy more effectively than their unflawed counterparts. [social_buttons] The … [continued]
Researchers at Rice University have announced the discovery of a new breakthrough method for producing carbon nanotubes in bulk fluids. Rice’s new nanotube “stew” could spur the inexpensive mass production of carbon nanotube-based products, much like the plastics industry employed bulk loads of melted polymers as a cheap base for … [continued]
A University of Rochester team has been awarded $1.7 million to generate hydrogen fuel with sunlight using artificial photosynthesis and nanotubes. Generating hydrogen without using a fossil fuel is not easy. Using sunlight to split hydrogen off from water has been done before, but the process has not been cheap … [continued]
