Integrated intensity of YHO-7 110 diffraction peak as a function of temperature. Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated the potential of a new, thin-film ferroelectric material that could improve the performance of next-generation...
This illustration shows a qubit attached to a waveguide where light in the form of microwaves enters and exits.Credit: University of Waterloo
Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) recorded an interaction between light and matter...
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new process for treating metal surfaces that has the potential to improve efficiency in piston engines and a range of other equipment.
The method improves the ability...
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard have developed a new method to make and collect nanofibers and control their size and...
To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an off-the-shelf hand-crank flashlight (the red parts at each side) by cutting it in half and installing a small supercapacitor in the center, in a conventional button battery...
A hot CN molecule cools in solution by collisions with solvent molecules that reduce both its speed and how quickly it is rotating. The three panels show schematic snapshots of this cooling at successively later times as the CN...
Data shows benchmark gas prices ('Henry Hub' prices) in the past four years to be cheaper than coal from Appalachia for over 88% of the months. Even the cheapest coal, in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, competes poorly in generating...
University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells.
This unique pairing of breweries and batteries could set...
To direct-write the logo of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists started with a gray-scale image. They used the electron beam of an aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope to induce palladium from a solution to deposit...
A false-colored electron microscopy image shows alternating lutetium (yellow) and iron (blue) atomic planes.Credit: Emily Ryan and Megan Holtz/Cornell
Researchers have engineered a material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices, packing in more computing power while...
Combining concentrating solar and thermoelectric materials raises efficiency
Researchers at the University of Houston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported a substantial advance in generating electricity through a combination of concentrating solar power and thermoelectric materials.
By combining concentrating solar...
