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Fraunhofer Researchers Develop Metamorphic Triple-Junction Solar Cell

Solar energy will play a crucial role in the energy mix of tomorrow as solar energy is available in unlimited quantities. With the aid of concentrator solar cells, even more sunlight can be converted into electricity.

19 May 2010

Silicon Carbide - An Up-and-Coming Semiconductor Material

Silicon carbide is an up-and-coming semiconductor material. In a thesis project, the qualities of the crystals and the epitaxial layers underwent precise analysis. Another project combines the advantages of crystalline t...

19 May 2010

Innovative Paint Reduces CO2 Emissions for Airplanes and Ships

To lower the fuel consumption of airplanes and ships, it is necessary to reduce their flow resistance, or drag. An innovative paint system makes this possible. This not only lowers costs, it also reduces CO2 emissions.

19 May 2010

Improving Orthopedic Implants with Nanotubes

Titanium and its alloys have a leg up on all other materials used to make the orthopedic implants used by surgeons to repair damaged bones and joints.

18 May 2010

Brookhaven Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences

J. C. Séamus Davis, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Director of DOE's Center for Emergent Superconductivity at Brookhaven Lab, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 18 May 2010

Scientists Find Evidence for Significant Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry

Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday, May 14, that they have found evidence for significant violation of matter-antimatter symmetr...

18 May 2010

New Images Provide Hints to Superconductivity in Pnictides

New images of iron-based superconductors are providing telltale clues to the origin of superconductivity in a class of ceramic materials known as pnictides.

18 May 2010

A Step Toward the Realization of New Hydrogen Production System Using Solar Light

Kazuhiro Sayama, Yugo Miseki, et al. of Solar Light Energy Conversion Group, the Energy Technology Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, developed a tungsten oxide (W...

17 May 2010

Startup that Eyes Radical Shift in Cement Industry Wins MIT $100K Business-Plan Competition

Judging by history, an MIT-student startup company called C-Crete Technologies, which won this week's finals of the annual student-run MIT $100K Business Plan Competition, stands a good chance of beating the odds to ...

14 May 2010

Research Expands List of Potential Electrode Materials that Could Be Used to Store Energy

Expanding on work published two years ago, MIT's Daniel Nocera and his associates have found yet another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials, that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity.

14 May 2010