Turning graphite oxide (GO) into full-fledged supercapacitors turns out to be simple. But until a laboratory at Rice University figured out how, it was anything but obvious. Rice Professor P... Read more
Hybrid Energy Storage Device Is as Small as It Can Possibly Get The world at large runs on lithium ion batteries. New research at Rice University shows that tiny worlds may soon do the same.... Read more
Researchers have demonstrated a penny-sized “nuclear battery” that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes. As radioactive substances decay, they release charged p... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Renewable energy technologies will never get off the ground until they become cheaper than fossil fuels. Today, Nanosolar CEO Martin Roscheisen says his startup took a s... Read more
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Image via Wikipedia With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produ... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new way of stopping machines overheating is being developed NANO-THIS. Nano-that. Nano-the-other. The idea that making things so small you measure their dimensions in n... Read more