Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of a new finding from researchers at MIT. They found that using carbon nanotubes for one of the battery's electrodes produced a significant increase - up to tenfold - in the amount of power it could deliver from a given weight of material, compared to a conventional lithium-ion battery.
Jun 20th, 2010
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For the first time, physicists at Harvard University have tracked individual atoms in a gas cooled to extreme temperatures as the particles reorganized into a crystal, a process driven by quantum mechanics. The research opens new possibilities for particle-by-particle study and engineering of artificial quantum materials.
Jun 19th, 2010
Read moreThe President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) wants to hear from you about how the Federal government can best use its resources so three of the newest and most promising technologies provide the greatest economic benefits to society.
Jun 19th, 2010
Read moreThe all-encompassing annual review on TiO2 pigment for industry participants including producers, end-consumers, new entrants and the financial community.
Jun 19th, 2010
Read moreThe fastest growing waste in the EU could soon be helping to combat hospital infections, according to scientists at the University of York.
Jun 18th, 2010
Read moreResearchers have for the first time experimentally realised, almost a century later, an idea dating from 1912. In that year the physicist Smoluchowski devised a prototype for an engine at the molecular scale in which he thought he could ingeniously convert Brownian motion into work.
Jun 18th, 2010
Read morePhysicists at the University of Sydney have brought silicon chips closer to performing all-optical computing and information processing that could overcome the speed limitations intrinsic to electronics, with the first report published of an on-chip all-optical temporal integrator.
Jun 18th, 2010
Read moreA team of University of Minnesota-led researchers has cleared a major hurdle in the drive to build solar cells with potential efficiencies up to twice as high as current levels, which rarely exceed 30 percent.
Jun 18th, 2010
Read moreNow, thanks to Lehigh University's unrivaled electron microscopy and spectroscopy facilities, researchers have gained unmatched insights that could improve the efficiency and extend the applications of the powerful nanoparticles.
Jun 18th, 2010
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Using cutting-edge spectroscopy at atomic resolutions, researchers have discovered how to grow ultra-thin manganite films while retaining their magnetic properties.
Jun 18th, 2010
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Physiker erzeugen ein Bose-Einstein-Kondensat in der Schwerelosigkeit - ein Schritt hin zu extrem sensiblen Quantensensoren fuer die Gravitation.
Jun 18th, 2010
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Artificial 'molecules' with an asymmetric structure can control the flow of electrons in semiconductor materials.
Jun 18th, 2010
Read moreThe EU will add EUR 40 million to its contribution to the international Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) programme.
Jun 17th, 2010
Read morePhysicists at UC Santa Barbara have created a microscopic device to assist biologists in making very fast molecular measurements that aid the understanding of protein folding.
Jun 17th, 2010
Read morePhysicists at Harvard University have, for the first time, tracked individual atoms in a gas cooled to extreme temperatures as the particles reorganized into a crystal, a process driven by quantum mechanics.
Jun 17th, 2010
Read moreConventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin.
Jun 17th, 2010
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