Simulations Help North and South Dakota Researchers Decide Which Technology Would Make a Better Solar Collector, Quantum Dot or Nanowire A trio of researchers at North Dakota State Universit... Read more
New technique could one day help improve the performance of microelectronics in devices ranging from batteries to spacecraft Carbon nanotubes’ outstanding mechanical, electrical and thermal... Read more
Tiny Nanoscale Filaments Could be Breakthrough for Smaller, Denser Memory Devices Memory based on electrically-induced “resistive switching” effects have generated a great deal o... Read more
Chinese Academy of Sciences Team Describes a Portable Diagnostic Device that can Travel to the Patient in the journal Biomicrofluidics Reaching a clinic in time to receive an early diagnosis... Read more
“Silver and titanium are much more abundant than indium in the earth’s crust” Indium tin oxide (ITO) has become a standard material in light-emitting diodes, flat panel pla... Read more
Abandoned Mine Tunnels Might Ferry Geothermal Energy from Deep Underground Underground mining is a sweaty job, and not just because of the hard work it takes to haul ore: Mining tunnels fill... Read more
These bioreactors produce biomass yields an order-of-magnitude greater than conventional cultivation methods Microalgae are single-cell plants that comprise nature’s smallest and most... Read more
Self-sealing valves also increase data reliability for airborne industrial and battlefield gas detection and point-of-contact medicine An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to c... Read more
They are capable of delivering higher torque, require low currents instead of high “Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor,” writes a team of researchers... Read more
Pool boiling is the most common and familiar method of heating By adding an incredibly thin coating of alumina to a metal surface, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology h... Read more
Battery technology hasn’t kept pace with advancements in portable electronics, but the race is on to fix this. One revolutionary concept being pursued by a team of researchers in New Z... Read more
Image via Wikipedia High energy costs are one drawback of making clean water from waste effluents. According to an article in the journalBiomicrofluidics, which is published by the American... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Wind turbines may be one of the best renewable energy solutions, but as turbines get larger they also get noisier, become more of an eyesore, and require increasingly lar... Read more