It is cheap to make and can be produced in large quantities A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana is reporting the creation of a “solar paint”... Read more
Efforts to create self-cleaning cotton fabrics are bearing fruit in China. Engineers have created a chemical coating that causes cotton materials to clean themselves of stains and rem... Read more
Clearly, more research is needed Show of hands: who would like to see computers that are smaller and more powerful? Or a cancer therapy that precisely targets only cancer cells? Or fo... Read more
1,000 square metres of the coated panels eat up the equivalent NOx output of four cars What material can you find in toothpaste, sunscreen, solar cells, on the baseline at Wimbledon,... Read more
The new technology could allow batteries to be charged to half of their full capacity in less than 30 seconds Waiting for batteries to recharge sucks, but thanks to a recent breakthro... Read more
Last year, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that they had successfully used carbon nanotubes for “funneling” and concentrating electrons... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers from University of Minnesota have removed a barrier to improving solar cell efficiency by showing how heat energy currently lost from semiconductors can be ca... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The Earth receives more solar energy in one hour than the human race currently consumes in a year. At least, that’s what the scientists at Canada’s Université du Québec à... Read more
An artificial leaf that captures solar energy and uses it efficiently to change water into hydrogen fuel Producing an artificial leaf capable of harnessing Mother Nature’s ability to produce... Read more