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Pressure cooking to improve electric car batteries

By creating nanoparticles with a controlled shape, researchers believe smaller, more powerful and energy efficient batteries can be built.

Invisible printed electronics using carbon nanotubes

Researchers have demonstrated the first fully printed and invisible electronics using carbon nanotubes.

Cure for crack-prone high-capacity batteries

Researchers have shown that mixing silicon microparticles with self-healing polymers helps prevent a longer-lasting battery from failing.

Supercapacitors USA 2013

There are just three weeks left until IDTechEx's Supercapacitors USA event in Santa Clara California, on November 20-21.

Seamless integrated circuits etched on graphene

Researchers have introduced and modeled an integrated circuit design scheme in which transistors and interconnects are monolithically patterned seamlessly on a sheet of graphene, a 2-dimensional plane of carbon atoms.

Stanford engineers build basic computer using carbon nanotubes

Unprecedented feat points toward a new generation of energy-efficient electronics.

A stretchable, foldable transparent electronic display

magine an electronic display nearly as clear as a window, or a curtain that illuminates a room, or a smartphone screen that doubles in size, stretching like rubber. Now imagine all of these being made from the same material.

Water a possible key to energy storage for electric vehicles

scientists from GE and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) may have just the recipe for next-generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries that achieve desired driving range and cost for consumers.

Scientists publish theory, formula to improve plastic semiconductors

The first theoretical framework that includes molecular-level structural inhomogeneity, seeking to understand, predict and improve the conductivity of semiconducting polymers.

Creating sustainable energy with footsteps

A novel engineering experiment that trumpets the use of renewable energy is about to get a boost.

Just add water: possible key to energy storage for electric vehicles

A water-based, flow battery capable of more than just traditional, stationary energy storage.

Pigments used to prototype light-harvesting antennas

A ring of protein and pigments, half synthetic and half natural, can be used to quickly prototype light-harvesting antennas that absorb more sunlight than fully natural ones.

Paper thin e-skin responds to touch

A research team has created the first user-interactive sensor network on flexible plastic.

Device could coat smart phone screens with energy harvesting material

Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, researchers have developed a two-layer, see-through solar film that could be placed on windows, sunroofs, smartphone displays and other surfaces to harvest energy from the sun.

Supercapacitors gain ascendancy

Life is good for supercapacitors manufacturers and developers.

Quantum Materials' tetrapod quantum dots break Kasha's Rule

Since 1950, Kasha's Rule 1, a principle of photochemistry, held true that if a source of light excited a molecule enough, the molecule would fluoresce in a single color.

Flexible energy harvesting: enabling new form factors in electronics

Flexible portable electronics, in order to retain their versatility would benefit from harvesters and batteries or supercapacitors on plastic substrates.

New 'electronic nose' nano-sensor being developed

The "electronic nose" sensor will be further refined to detect deadly pathogens including toxic pesticides in the global food supply chain, according to a recently signed product development and distribution agreement.