The Danish company Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S and Riso DTU have received a grant of 54.5 million DKK from the Danish Energy Agency's Programme for Energy Technology Development and Demonstration (EUDP). This will ensure that the current efforts within solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) will be continued, leading to prototypes in 2012 which meet market demands for efficiency, life time and price.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreTen years of intensive research and development at Riso DTU is now materialized in a fully operational production line for polymer solar cells at the Danish company Mekoprint A/S. Polymer solar cells which is an inexpensive alternative to silicon solar cells, has a significant industrial potential.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreThe Dichtel group in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University has developed a method to organize organic dyes into stacked sheets that are porous for incorporation into flexible solar cells.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreAs part of a joint venture with the VDE Institute and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Group, Fraunhofer has joined in laying the cornerstone for a new international test laboratory for photovoltaic modules.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreDid you ever open a freshly-bought cereal or bag of potato-chips that was not fresh at all? Did it taste sticky and rubber-like? To prevent unpleasant surprises like this, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (Fraunhofer FEP) in Dresden developed a method to coat plastic foils with a very thin barrier layer that keeps out humidity and oxygen, the main culprits of food deterioration.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreThe number of companies around the world that are involved in nanotechnology research, manufacturing or applications keeps growing at a considerable pace.
Jul 1st, 2010
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The traditional tunnel and borer christening celebration today marked the start of construction of the tunnel system for the X-ray laser European XFEL.
Jul 1st, 2010
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Die richtigen Akteure zusammen bringen! Das ist das Ziel des 'Netzwerks Innovative Werkstoffe' Rheinland (NIW) dessen Startschuss auf dem 'materials day 2010' gefeiert wurde. Darueber hinaus wurde mit der 'Innomateria' eine neue Kooperations- und Informationsplattform im Bereich der innovativen Werkstoffe angekuendigt.
Jul 1st, 2010
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Halle, Germany, have created a new generation of filtration membranes: They developed ceramic membranes with a uniform pore structure and a very tight and even pore size distribution.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreUsing a unique hybrid nanostructure, University of Maryland researchers have shown a new type of light-matter interaction and also demonstrated the first full quantum control of qubit spin within very tiny colloidal nanostructures (a few nanometers), thus taking a key step forward in efforts to create a quantum computer.
Jun 30th, 2010
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Dartmouth researchers have discovered a potentially important piece of the quantum/classical puzzle - learning how the rules of physics in the quantum world (think smaller than microscopic) change when applied to the classical world (think every day items, like cars and trees).
Jun 30th, 2010
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The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show its unique ability to control the behaviors of individual electrons within simple atoms and molecules by stripping them away, one by one - in some cases creating hollow atoms.
Jun 30th, 2010
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The bottled water, soda pop, or micro brew-beer that you drank in Pittsburgh, Dallas, Denver or 30 other American cities contains a natural chemical imprint related to geographic location. When you consume these beverage you may leave a chemical imprint in your hair that could be used to track your travels over time, a new study suggests.
Jun 30th, 2010
Read moreNew CO2 capture technology under development could reduce CO2 emissions from the production of synthetic crude oil from the Oil Sands by up to 25%.
Jun 30th, 2010
Read moreThe 2010 Millennium Technology Prize was awarded in June 2010 in Helsinki to Professor Michael Graetzel, who discovered dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC), also known as 'Graetzel cells'. In the New Energy Technologies Group, led by Professor Peter Lund from the Department of Applied Physics at Aalto University, research in DSCs has been carried out since 2001.
Jun 30th, 2010
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Nano-sized advance toward next big treatment era in dentistry.
Jun 30th, 2010
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