PV panels on the Mars rover Spirit were covered with dust over a two-year period. Credit: NASA/JPL. Self-cleaning surfaces aren’t a particularly novel idea, and self-cleaning glass commercial products made…
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Read MoreOne of the ways of ensuring a sustainable solar cell industry is to make cheap and stable cells, using abundant and environmentally friendly materials. However, until now, many such solar…
Read MoreSchematic of Daniel Nocera’s personalized energy system. Credit: MIT News Office Daniel Nocera likes it when he is called a revolutionary. “Yes, sure I am!,” he responded when a writer…
Read MoreAt the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to write about, or started to investigate or didn’t even get…
Read MoreThe multimetallic nanoparticle created by Brown University chemists for fuel-cell reactions uses a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell. Credit: Sun Lab/Brown University According to a Brown University press release,…
Read MoreChiang at 2009 Materials Challenge for Alternative andRenewable Energy meeting. Credit: ACerS. When I interviewed Yet Ming Chiang, one of the brains behind A123 System’s lithium-ion battery technology, in 2009,…
Read MoreA FuelCell Energy 1.4 megawatt biogas fuel cell system in use at a watertreatment facility in Turlock, Calif. (Editor’s note: This post has been modified from its original version to…
Read MoreA 15 X 15 micron BE acoustic force microscopy scan of a polymer blend from which the Q-factor has been extracted.Contrast can be seen between the different constituent materials. The…
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