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New Thermoelectric Material Could Help Improve Gas Mileage

With gasoline at high prices, it's disheartening to know that up to three-quarters of the potential energy you are paying for is wasted. A good deal of it goes right out the tailpipe instead of powering your car. ...

10 Oct 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Develop Sustainable Energy Systems

Nanotechnologies can be used to develop sustainable energy systems while reducing the harmful effects of fossil fuels as they are gradually phased out over the next century. This optimistic scenario is coming closer to r...

9 Oct 2008

U of M Materials Research Center Receives Renewed Funding from NSF

The University of Minnesota Materials Research Science and Engineering Center announced today that it has received $16.8 million in renewed funding over the next six years from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The ...

9 Oct 2008

KU Researchers Devising Nanotechnology that Could Help Supplant Fossil Fuels and Curb Climate Change

A team of physicists, engineers, chemists and biologists at the University of Kansas and partner institutions is devising nanotechnology that could help supplant fossil fuels and curb climate change. Led by Judy Wu, Univ...

9 Oct 2008

Solterra Concluded Worldwide Exclusive License with Rice University

Hague Corp., a resource exploration company, is pleased to announce that Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. has concluded the worldwide exclusive license with the William Marsh Rice University for intellectual propert...

9 Oct 2008

Nanotechnology Conference Providing Start-Ups Opportunity to Seek Funding from Venture Capitals

Clean tech and nanotech companies and entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to seek early stage funding from venture capitalists, angel investors and other sources at the 5th Annual International Congress of Nano Bio C...

8 Oct 2008

Largest Roll-to-Roll Flexible Thin Film Solar Manufacturing Facility in the World

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has opened the largest roll-to-roll flexible thin...

8 Oct 2008

Researchers Developed a New and Cost-Effective Alternative to Conventional Seals

From petroleum to food and beverage to pharmaceuticals, most industries use mechanical pumps, and all these pumps rely on seals to reduce leaks and maintenance costs. Argonne researchers, along with industry partners, have developed a new, efficient and cost-effective alternative to conventional seals.

8 Oct 2008

Discovery of New Material Allows the Use of Hydrogen as a Clean Fuel

A team of scientists from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has designed a material with such high ion conductivity that it allows the use of hydrogen as a clean fuel. The research work has been published in th...

7 Oct 2008

CFX Battery Recognized for Novel Primary Carbon Fluoride Battery

Based on its recent analysis of the battery market, Frost + Sullivan recognizes CFX Battery, Inc. with the 2008 North American Frost + Sullivan Award for Emerging Company of the Year for its novel primary carbon fluoride...

7 Oct 2008