Ultra-thin Solar Cells Can Easily Bend Around a Pencil
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2016 — Scientists in South Korea have made ultra-thin photovoltaics flexible enough to wrap around the average pencil. The bendy solar cells could […]
Dewatering natural fiber suspensions via compression
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 17, 2016 — The removal of water from dense suspensions is a longstanding and perplexing industrial challenge — one that’s particularly important when it […]
New Insights into California Electricity Crisis May Help Prevent Future Crises
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2016 — Between 2000 and 2001, California experienced the biggest electricity crisis in the U.S. since World War II. Exactly how it happened, […]
Real Rocket Science: How Do Hydrogen Droplets Behave When Hydrogen-oxygen Aerosol Mixtures Burn?
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2016 — Modern rockets and their launch vehicles commonly rely on hydrogen-oxygen mixtures as propellant, but this combination is highly explosive. The Challenger […]
New Tool Could Help Investors Pick the Clean Energy Project Right For Them
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — In 2013, Serbia announced its goal of having 27 percent of the country's power be generated from renewable sources by 2020. […]
Seeing Atoms
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — Life in the nano lane is fast and just got faster in terms of knowledge of fundamental mechanisms working at the […]
Laboratory Breakthrough may Lead to improved X-ray Interferometers
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute’s Swiss Light Source in Villigen, Switzerland, have developed an X-ray grating interferometry setup which does […]
Silicon Sees the Light: Tiny Lasers Enable Next-Gen Microprocessors to Run Faster, Less Power-Hungry
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2016 — A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Sandia National Laboratories […]
Calculating the Mechanics of a Rough Sphere
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2016 — The scientific community uses spheres for all sorts of things — artificial limbs, cars, molecular chemistry — but there’s always a little […]