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An EV could be entirely powered by supercapacitors in body panels

A car powered by its own body panels could soon be driving on our roads after a breakthrough in nanotechnology research.

Chemists gain edge in next-gen energy

Rice University scientists who want to gain an edge in energy production and storage report they have found it in molybdenum disulphide.

New nanomaterial introduced into electrical machines

Engineers have constructed the world's first electrical motor applying a textile material; carbon nanotube yarn.

Cheap hybrid outperforms rare metal as fuel-cell catalyst

Graphene quantum dots created at Rice University grab onto graphene platelets like barnacles attach themselves to the hull of a boat. But these dots enhance the properties of the mothership, making them better than platinum catalysts for certain reactions within fuel cells.

Raymor Industries, Inc.

Raymor Nanotech is a division of the Raymor Industries, a Canadian private company located near the Montreal area. It initially started supplying spherical titanium powdres synthesized using a plasma atomisaiton method. In 2010 it started work on single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and the titanium activity has since been acquired (dec 2013) by Arcam for a reported fee of $35 million. Raymor has also acquired NanoIntegris (operating as a subsidiary) which brings value in the post processing steps of CNT production, i.e., purifying and separating metallic and semiconducting ones.

A smashing new look at nanoribbons

Carbon nanotubes "unzipped" into graphene nanoribbons by a chemical process invented at Rice University are finding use in all kinds of projects, but Rice scientists have now found a chemical-free way to unzip them.

Researchers identify one of world's thinnest piezoelectric materials

Researchers have identified one of the thinnest possible piezoelectric materials on the planet - graphene nitride.

Flexible battery, no lithium required

A Rice University laboratory has flexible, portable and wearable electronics in its sights with the creation of a thin film for energy storage.

Flexible battery, no lithium required

Researchers have developed a flexible material with nanoporous nickel-fluoride electrodes layered around a solid electrolyte to deliver battery-like supercapacitor performance that combines the best qualities of a high-energy battery and a high-powered supercapacitor without the lithium found in commercial batteries today.

Quantum Materials Corporation (QTMM)

Quantum Materials Corp is using two proprietary disruptive technologies (1) a novel QD synthesis method licensed from Rice University, and (2) industrial scale production of QD using advanced flow chemistry microreactor technology to produce tetrapod quantum dots. QMC's strategy is to use its strengths in quantum dot synthesis and mass production, along with quantum dot printing abilities in creating new product paradigms in industrial and commercial applications.

AZ Electronic Materials & Axium Nanofibers LLC sponsor joint research

AZ Electronic Materials, a leading global producer of high quality, high-purity specialty chemical materials used in the manufacturing of semiconductors, flat panel displays and LEDs, and Axium Nanofibers LLC, a material science company headquartered in Austin, TX commercializing a novel class of nanomaterials for a broad range of applications including energy storage, announce that they have initiated co-sponsored research at Cornell University with the goal of developing materials based upon AZ's graphene nano-ribbons (GNRs) and silicon-based materials to address applications in energy storage devices and other fields.

Findings at Supercapacitors USA 2013

This third edition of IDTechEx's Supercapacitors event was held in Santa Clara, California on 20-21 November.

Graphene LIVE USA 2013

Graphene LIVE! USA was a huge success. It brought together 30 top-class speakers and 16 graphene exhibitors, giving them access to a pool of more than 2,000 business-oriented attendees and 160+ exhibiting companies.

Carbon's new champion

Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk.

Key to high-temperature supercapacitors

Clay, an abundant and cheap natural material, is a key ingredient in a supercapacitor that can operate at very high temperatures.

Not-weak knots bolster carbon fiber

Large flakes of graphene oxide are the essential ingredient in a new recipe for robust carbon fiber created at Rice University.

Inorganic flexible thin film solar cell fabricated by solution process

Scientists of Natcore Technology Inc. in collaboration with researchers at Rice University have successfully fabricated the first inorganic flexible thin film solar cell by solution processes.

Diamonds, nanotubes find common ground in graphene

What may be the ultimate heat sink is only possible because of yet another astounding capability of graphene.

Unzipped nanotubes unlock potential for batteries

Researchers at Rice University have come up with a new way to boost the efficiency of the ubiquitous lithium ion (LI) battery by employing ribbons of graphene that start as carbon nanotubes.

Organic polymers show sunny potential

The photovoltaic devices created are based on block copolymers, self-assembling organic materials that arrange themselves into distinct layers.