Electric vehicles are good, but they can always be better. That’s the motivation behind the big news about Hyundai’s newly announced partnership with the advanced materials firm Toray Industries. The two companies are mum on the details, but a quick look at Toray’s product lineup indicates that carbon fiber is … [continued]
The Canadian startup XlynX aims to improve perovskite solar cells with a new advanced adhesive.
Researchers at UCLA have created a super white paint that can reflect up to 98% of incoming heat from the sun.
It’s been an open secret for quite some time now that much of what goes on in certain parts of the “scientific community” is at this point essentially fraud. It has been labelled the so-called “replicability crisis” and is facing biomedical and social sciences (amongst others). While the meta-science report throwing psychology under the bus was arguably riddled with its own scientific errors (ironically), well known problems that cross disciplines have been summarized well here.
MIT scientists and engineers have a new twist on phase-changing renewable technology. It combines the most efficient generation of solar steam to date by our favorite energy machine, the sun, and a new graphite-based collection system. This method puts out the lowest optical concentration reported thus far: steam generation at an … [continued]
An international team of scientists with roots at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford has shown that ultra-thin sheets of an exotic material remain transparent and highly conductive even after being deeply flexed 1,000 times and folded and creased like a piece of paper. The result could open this class … [continued]
By Andrew Myers One area of intensive research at the nanoscale is the creation of electrically conductive meshes made of metal nanowires. Promising exceptional electrical throughput, low cost and easy processing, engineers foresee a day when such meshes are common in new generations of touch-screens, video displays, light-emitting diodes, … [continued]
