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Water Tech Discovery Has Potential to Create “Fresh Water”
Jun 23, 2016Separate recent discoveries by scientists have potential to generate or improve fresh water production in different ways. The ramifications could revolutionise capabilities by creating fresh water in drought and desert impacted areas. ...
Tags: fresh water, carbon-rich nanorods
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ASU Researchers Demonstrate White Lasers that Could Potentially Replace LEDs
Nov 12, 2015While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light. Researchers at Arizona State ...
Tags: ASU, White Lasers, LEDs
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Electronic Circuits with Reconfigurable Pathways Closer Will Be on Market
Feb 2, 2015Will it be possible one day to reconfigure electronic microchips however we want, even when they are in use? A recent discovery by a team at EPFL suggests as much. The researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to create conductive ...
Tags: electronic microchips, Electrical
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A Hybrid Form of Perovskite Has Been Used to Make Low-Cost, Easily Manufactured LEDs
Aug 20, 2014A hybrid form of perovskite - the same type of material that has recently been found to make highly efficient solar cells that could replace silicon - has been used to make low-cost, easily manufactured LEDs, potentially opening up a wide ...
Tags: Perovskite Material, LEDs
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Scientists Claim to Have Developed a Fiber Supercapacitor
May 15, 2014Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the USA claim to have developed a fiber supercapacitor that can be woven into clothing and power ...
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Full Infrared Spectrum Has The Potential to Put Heat Vision Technology Into a Contact Lens
Mar 17, 2014The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the ...
Tags: contact lens, light detector, Electronics
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University of Washington Scientists Have Built The Thinnest-Known LED
Mar 12, 2014These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that emit light with the movement of electrons. As devices get smaller and faster, there is more demand for such semiconductors that are tinier, stronger and more energy efficient. University of ...
Tags: semiconductors, three-dimensional LEDs, two-dimensional materials
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Promise for Optoelectronics Is Showed by Two-Dimensional Material
Mar 12, 2014A team of MIT researchers has used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light. This proof-of-concept could lead to ultrathin, lightweight, and flexible photovoltaic cells, light emitting ...
Tags: light emitting diodes, tungsten diselenide, new material
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a Lot of Research Has Been Done on Graphene Recently
Mar 9, 2014A lot of research has been done on graphene recently—carbon flakes, consisting of only one layer of atoms. As it turns out, there are other materials too which exhibit remarkable properties if they are arranged in a single layer. One ...
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Scientists Search for New Tools to Manipulate,Observe & Modify "Building Blocks" of Matter
Mar 2, 2014As science and technology go nano, scientists search for new tools to manipulate, observe and modify the "building blocks" of matter at the nanometer scale. With this in mind, the recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology in which ICFO ...
Tags: Nano-Tweezers, Nano-Objects, nano
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Researchers in Canada Has Found a Way Around The Problem of Large Nanostructures
Feb 11, 2014(Phys.org)—A team of researchers in Canada has found a way around the problem of large nanostructures that are used to combat tumors,remaining in the body after they are no longer needed.In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
Tags: Decomposable Nanostructures, cancer, tumor
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Tablets and Other Gadgets Become Smaller and More Sophisticated
Jan 22, 2014As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside the gadgets to fail. Conventional wisdom ...
Tags: smartphones, tablets, Consumer Electronics
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Traditional Photovoltaic Solar Cells Have an Inherent Limit on The Efficiency
Jan 21, 2014Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
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A New Approach to Harvesting Solar Energy, Developed by Mit Researchers
Jan 19, 2014A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Sunlight
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An Exotic Material for Making Thin, Flexible Light-Based Electronics
Jan 13, 2014Scientists from SLAC, Stanford and Berkeley Lab grew sheets of an exotic material in a single atomic layer and measured its electronic structure for the first time. They discovered it's a natural fit for making thin, flexible light-based ...