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Technology Research News
June 15, 2005 |
Power Sources: Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Heat, Vibration and Fusion Summaries of how each of these power sources work to create energy.   |
Technology Research News
December 1, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Solar Cell Doubles as Battery Scientists have designed a single, compact device that can both convert solar energy to electricity and store the electricity. |
Technology Research News
January 29, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential. |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004
Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery |
Technology Research News
March 10, 2004 |
Charges make micro whirlpools Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have devised a way to define tiny patterns that carry positive, negative or neutral charge on the surface of a microchannel. |
Chemistry World
September 21, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Self-pumping membrane mimics cell machinery US researchers have imitated the transport functions of biological membranes by incorporating tiny pumps into synthetic membranes. They say their 'self-pumping' mimics could be used in compartment-less fuel cells. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Stephen L. Gillett |
A Nanotechnology Revolution for the Geosciences Wastewater streams, acid-mine drainage, seawater, concentrated natural brines such as those in oilfields or saline lakes -- sometimes viewed now as problems -- all could become potential sources of materials with the help of nanotechnology. |
Technology Research News
October 6, 2004 |
Gas flow makes electricity Gas flows at speeds as low as a few meters per second over semiconductor materials and carbon nanotubes have produced electricity. The phenomenon could lead to small, inexpensive, accurate gas flow sensors in less than two years, according to the researchers. |
Technology Research News
August 11, 2004 |
Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge. |
Chemistry World
July 31, 2008 |
Breakthrough Catalyst for Splitting Water Scientists say they have solved a fundamental problem hampering renewable energy generation - how to split water cheaply into oxygen and hydrogen, under benign conditions, so that the gases can be stored as fuels. |
Technology Research News
February 11, 2004 |
Electricity teleportation devised Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have devised a way to teleport electricity. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2010
Hayley Birch |
New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
Jennifer Ouellette |
A new wave of microfluidic devices Flexibility and a variety of uses are the key |
Wired
October 2001
Wil McCarthy |
Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch... |
Chemistry World
June 6, 2014
Philip Ball |
Chemistry gets strange at water's surface The attraction of opposite charges may get even stronger near the interface, say colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Technology Research News
April 23, 2003 |
Juiced liquid jolts metal into shapes One strategy for constructing microscopic devices is finding ways to make materials assemble themselves. Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the Russian Academy of Sciences have found a way to use electricity to drive metal microparticles into patterns. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Joseph Calamia |
Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip Zipping ions down a MEMS racetrack could lead to portable particle beams |
Technology Research News
December 19, 2005 |
Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits. |
Technology Research News
March 26, 2003 |
On-chip battery debuts Researchers from Hosei University in Japan have taken a big step toward giving nano devices and biochips onboard power supplies. |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2003
Eric Lerner |
Briefs Hidden imaging data... Piggy-back chips... Synthetic ion pump... Strong, ductile copper |
