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Innovative Thin-Film Device for Converting Electronics' Waste Heat into Energy

Each year, in the US, about 70% of the energy produced is wasted as heat. At present, engineers have designed a thin-film system that can be fitted to such sources of waste heat to generate energy at levels never before achieved for this type of technology.

18 Apr 2018

Gold Tab Attached to Skin Converts Mechanical Energy into Power for Self-Powered Electronics

Devices get electricity from a tiny metallic tab that, when attached to the body, is capable of producing electricity from basic movements.

14 Feb 2018

Improvements on the Development of Triboelectric Nanogenerators

An engineer team from the University of Alberta has created a new way for producing electrical power capable of charging handheld devices or sensors that have the potential to monitor anything from medical implants to pipelines.

12 Dec 2017

Adding Tin to Nanoparticle’s Germanium Core Allows Particles to Absorb More Light

Germanium nanoparticles with enhanced photoluminescence have been developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, making them potentially promising materials for solar cells and imaging probes.

30 Nov 2017

Carbon Nanofiber Supercapacitor Produced Without a Flammable Electrolyte Solution

Drexel University researchers have developed a fabric-like material electrode capable of making energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors and batteries, faster and less susceptible to disastrous meltdowns and leaks.

21 Sep 2017

Efficient Conversion of CO2 into Fuels Via Copper Catalyst

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created an innovative electrocatalyst with the ability to directly convert carbon dioxide into alcohols and multicarbon fuels with the need for very low energy inputs.

20 Sep 2017

Researchers Provide New Insights about Physics of Conductive Materials by Examining Electrons in Graphene

Compared to copper, graphene is much more conductive, partly due to its 2D structure. In a majority of metals, conductivity is restricted by crystal flaws which cause electrons to often scatter like billiard balls when they travel through the material.

23 Aug 2017

New Mathematical Model Helps Researchers Study Catalytic Effects of Nanoreactors

A new mathematical model of two different molecules reacting within so called nano reactors that serve as catalysts, has been developed by theoretical physicists.

7 Aug 2017

Scientists Trap Noble Gas in a 2D Porous Structure at Room Temperature

Recently, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory completed an experiment with a two-dimensional (2D) structure synthesized by them for catalysis research when, to their surprise, they studied that atoms of argon gas were trapped within the structure’s nanosized pores.

18 Jul 2017

New Off-Grid Desalination NanoTechnology Uses Solar Energy to Convert Salt Water into Drinking Water

An off-grid technology using only the energy from sunlight to transform salt water into fresh drinking water has been developed as an outcome of the effort from a federally funded research.

20 Jun 2017

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Innovative Thin-Film Device for Converting Electronics' Waste Heat into Energy

Gold Tab Attached to Skin Converts Mechanical Energy into Power for Self-Powered Electronics

Improvements on the Development of Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Adding Tin to Nanoparticle’s Germanium Core Allows Particles to Absorb More Light

Carbon Nanofiber Supercapacitor Produced Without a Flammable Electrolyte Solution

Efficient Conversion of CO2 into Fuels Via Copper Catalyst

Researchers Provide New Insights about Physics of Conductive Materials by Examining Electrons in Graphene

New Mathematical Model Helps Researchers Study Catalytic Effects of Nanoreactors

Scientists Trap Noble Gas in a 2D Porous Structure at Room Temperature

New Off-Grid Desalination NanoTechnology Uses Solar Energy to Convert Salt Water into Drinking Water

How Piezo Controller Design Influences Thermal Stability

Novel Nanomaterials for Improved Food Safety

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Nanoenergy News

1 Innovative Methodology of Using Water Microdroplets to Produce Gold Nanoparticles

2 Using Nanoporous Graphene for Smart Filters and Sensors

3 Individual Impurity Atoms Successfully Detected in Graphene

4 Innovative Thin-Film Device for Converting Electronics' Waste Heat into Energy

5 Researchers Study the Behavior of Gold Nanoparticles Under Very High Temperatures

6 Carbon Nanotube Technology Used to Create Strong Water Desalination Membranes

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