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Chemists Receive Patents for Fuel-Cell Catalysts

Chemists Receive Patents for Fuel-Cell Catalysts

The newly patented catalysts, as well as a method for making a particular type of catalyst with a thin layer of platinum, could greatly reduce the cost and increase the use of fuel cells in electric vehicles. The catalysts and the technique are available for licensing.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 20 May 2010

Light-Control Glass using Nanotechnology

Light-Control Glass using Nanotechnology

Hisashi Tanaka and Tohru Kawamoto of Molecular Nanophysics Group, Nanotechnology Research Institute, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in collaboration with Yamagata University, have succeeded in producing gel electrolytes for use in a light-control glass device using nanoparticles of Prussian blue-type complexes.

20 May 2010

Fraunhofer Researchers Develop Metamorphic Triple-Junction Solar Cell

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

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

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

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 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

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