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Scared of the dark? Nanotechnology adds color to the blackest blacks

By April Gocha / October 29, 2015

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia are developing their own über black material, although this one’s not competing for a superlative achievement—their gold nanomaterial can reflect any color of choice with a simple addition of dye.

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New Approach to Solar Concentrators

By / April 9, 2009

Researchers at MIT have developed a novel way to concentrate sunlight for solar cells that doesn’t involve mirrors and tracking mechanisms.

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