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UNO earns $900k award from ONR to build robotic eel

The University of New Orleans is the recipient of a 3-year $937,000 award from the Office of Naval Research to design and build a new type of robotic "eel" that is capable of operating in shallow water environments where Navy personnel could be at risk.

Carbon nanotube composites for enzymes and cosmetics

Toyohashi Tech researchers develop a low cost and efficient method for producing electrically conducting composites based on electrostatic adsorption of CNTs onto resin and ceramic particles for applications including enzymes and cosmetics.

Innovative organic solar cell architecture sets new performance level

The Belgian research centre imec, together with Plextronics and Solvay, present this week at the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC) in Hamburg an organic polymer-based single junction solar cell with 6.9% performance in an innovative inverted device stack.

Microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste

Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals.

Oerlikon Solar wins the Solar Industry Award third time in a row

Oerlikon Solar has been honored the Solar Industry Award in the category of "Thin Film Innovations" for the third time in a row.

Oerlikon Solar launches its new record-breaking module

Oerlikon Solar is launching a new record-breaking module with 154 (peak) watts (W) of stabilized module output and 10.8% efficiency. This represents an increase of 8% over the previous peak value.

Solliance and imec join forces in thin film PV research, development

Imec and Solliance have announced that imec will be a full partner of Solliance and will integrate its thin film PV R&D efforts in Solliance.

UNECS-3000A Spectroscopic Ellipsometer

ULVAC develops and commercializes automatic high-speed Spectroscopic Ellipsometer 'UNECS-3000A'

Imec and Solliance join forces

Imec and Solliance announced yesterday that imec will be a full partner of Solliance and will integrate its thin film PV R&D efforts in Solliance. With imec as a partner, Solliance aims to be an R&D cluster bringing thin film solar energy technology to excellence.

World record for smallest working gears

Researchers from The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) have put Singapore into the Guinness Book of World Records by successfully demonstrating the world's smallest fully controlled rotation of a molecule-sized gear.

New approach to e-bike batteries

IDTechEx Technology Analyst Harry Zervos interviewed Leyden Energy's Aakar Patel, discussing the company's battery technology, the attributes that make it a technology that's attracting the interest of electric vehicle, consumer electronic, smart grid and EV developers as well as the company's prospects and aims for the future.

AUV checks mercury in reservoir

An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle AUV that is a pure EV is part of an experiment aimed at getting toxic mercury out of reservoir water. Under the waters of Newcastle Reservoir, Utah USA, and on the surface, it is doing the work of scientists.

Grants to advance energy harvesting computing

We are also fascinated by the prospect of building processors that can run without a battery because they can harvest all the energy they need from the ambient environment.

Scientists use print technology to develop biomedical sensors

The industrial collaboration is led by Swansea University's Welsh Centre of Printing and Coating which is teaming up with the Institute of Life Science and industry.

Energy from wastewater

Environmental engineer Bruce Logan of Penn State University is working on ways to turn wastewater into energy.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles get cleverer

Kongsberg is the world's largest manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. These are almost always pure electric vehicles but some can have fuel cell range extenders, making them hybrids. A leading researcher developing and deploying AUVs including ones that can surface to garner wave and solar power to charge the batteries before diving on their way is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Magmotor Technologies expands electric motor technology facilities

Magmotor Technologies Inc., a fast-growing, innovative motor developer and manufacturer in Massachusetts, announced that it is expanding its design and manufacturing capacity in response to increased customer demand and continued new development of its electric motor technologies.

Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries.

New material for high-speed organic semiconductors

Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method, say Stanford researchers.

NASA's Juno spacecraft heads to Jupiter with solar power

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this month to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter. Juno is powered by 650 square feet solar panels.