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Virginia Tech Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study "Tensional Integrity"

Cornel Sultan, assistant professor of aerospace and ocean engineering at Virginia Tech, is the latest faculty member at the university to learn he has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

11 Feb 2010

Breakthrough Holds Potential to Deliver More Energy at a Fraction of the Cost

IBM today announced it has built a solar cell -- where the key layer that absorbs most of the light for conversion into electricity, is made entirely of readily-available elements -- that set a new world record for efficiency and holds potential for enabling solar cell technology to produce more energy at a lower cost.

11 Feb 2010

Harnessing Micro-Sources of Power for Sensors

It can be inconvenient to replace batteries in devices that need to work over long periods of time. Doctors might have to get beneath a patient's skin to replace batteries for implanted biomedical monitoring or treatment systems.

11 Feb 2010

LDK Solar Joins PV CYCLE

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") (NYSE: LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has become a member of PV CYCLE, an organization based in Brussels, Belgium that p...

10 Feb 2010

Using Nanotechnology to Bring About New "Plasma-Facing" Materials for Advanced Thermonuclear Fusion Devices

Two Purdue University researchers are among 69 chosen nationwide by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive awards through the DOE's new Early Career Research Program. Jean Paul Allain, an assistant professor of ...

9 Feb 2010

Researchers Develop Smallest Solar-Powered Sensor System

A 9 cubic millimeter solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan is the smallest that can harvest energy from its surroundings to operate nearly perpetually. The U-M system's processor, sol...

9 Feb 2010

Nanophotocathode for Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen-powered fuel cells and solar energy are the best hope for a more environmentally friendly and resource-sparing energy supply in the future. A combination of the two is considered to be particularly "clean" the production of hydrogen by splitting water with sunlight.

9 Feb 2010