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Sorting out the nanotubes, for better electronics.

A new technique developed by Stanford researchers advances commercial potential of semiconducting carbon nanotubes for printable circuits, bendable display screens, stretchable electronics and solar technology.

New features built into a new transparent skin-like pressure sensor

Stanford researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor.

CNTs made into tiny artificial muscles

UBC researchers invent tiny artificial muscles with the strength, flexibility of elephant trunk

First human heart cells that can be paced with light

A team from Stanford describe how they have for the first time engineered human heart cells that can be paced with light using a technology called optogenetics.

Most efficient colloidal quantum dot solar cell ever

Researchers from the University of Toronto, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology and Pennsylvania State University have created the most efficient colloidal quantum dot solar cell ever.

New material for high-speed organic semiconductors

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

Innovative transparent flexible battery

Stanford transparent batteries: seeing straight through to the future?

Nanowire electronics

Electronic circuitry composed of nanowires can now be fitted to a surface of almost any shape on an object made of virtually any material, using a new approach to fabrication and transfer of nanowire electronics developed by Stanford researchers.

High-density, temperature tolerant battery development

Last week IDTechEx reported on work at Stanford University tackling the issues of low energy and power densities in lithium-ion batteries using sulphur particles. Now another significant problem associated with electric vehicle batteries is being explored by US based company Leyden Energy by exchanging traditional battery chemistries.

Transparent batteries

Thanks to new research by several Stanford scientists, transparent cell phones are one step closer to becoming a reality.

Sulphur particles in graphene enable high energy lithium batteries

Lithium batteries have become ubiquitous in modern society. More than likely, every house has several in the different portable electronic devices it's equipped with. Although there's been tremendous performance improvements in recent years, lithium batteries are still not fully up to the demanding task of powering the next generation of electric vehicles due to low energy and power densities.

River water and salty ocean water create electricity

Stanford researchers have developed a battery that takes advantage of the difference in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce electricity.

Nano College awarded $57.5M

The University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering has been awarded $57.5 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to create a solar manufacturing consortium that could rival what Sematech did for the computer chip industry and the city of Austin, Texas two decades ago.

Stretchable solar cells for super skin

Ultrasensitive electronic skin developed by Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao is getting even better. It can now be powered by a new, stretchable solar cell she's developed in her lab, opening up more applications in clothing, robots, prosthetic limbs and more.

Stanford's new stretchable solar cells will power 'super skin'

Stanford researcher's new stretchable solar cells will power artificial electronic 'super skin'. Ultrasensitive electronic skin developed by Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao is getting even better. Now she's demonstrated that it can detect chemicals and biological molecules, in addition to sensing an incredibly light touch. And it can now be powered by a new, stretchable solar cell she's developed in her lab, opening up more applications in clothing, robots, prosthetic limbs and more.

C3Nano closes US $3.2 million series-A funding from GSR Ventures

Proprietary hybrid carbon nanotube electrode material poised to challenge indium tin oxide for display, solar and OLED Industries

Graphene electrodes for organic solar cells

A promising approach for making solar cells that are inexpensive, lightweight and flexible is to use organic (that is, carbon-containing) compounds instead of expensive, highly purified silicon. But one stubborn problem has slowed the development of such cells.

Honda ranked greenest among automakers

Honda has been named America's "Greenest Automaker" for the fifth consecutive time by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The award is earned by the company with the lowest combined score of its smog-forming and greenhouse gas emissions (primarily CO2) in its U.S. automobile fleet.