Posts by Lisa McDonald
U.K.’s Nexeon announces record Li-ion performance
Nexeon, a U.K.-based silicon anode producer, claims to have developed the world’s highest energy-capacity Li-ion batteries proportional to size, based…
Read MoreDOE study poinpoints public land for solar development
Peter offered readers a heads up Wednesday about yesterday’s meeting with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of…
Read MoreInput Needed on ACerS Structure Review Project
President Pascucci requests your help on the Volunteer Structure Review Project. In a letter to membership, she states that the project will impact organization structure and member feedback is vital.
Read MoreVideo of the week: “Carbon Smackdown” – Smart Windows
Credit: Berkeley Lab; YouTube The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab this summer hosted a brilliant lecture series enthusiastically called “Carbon Smackdown,”…
Read MoreNASA solar sail lost in space
NASA’s first solar sail was scheduled to be released into orbit last week, but the space agency reports that it…
Read MoreMaterials stories that may also be of interest
At the end of each day, I end up with a list of stories I started to write about, or…
Read MoreSoladigm windows get $30M infusion, upping electrochromics competition
Last month we had a story about Saint-Gobain Glass’s $80 million investment in Sage Electrochromics. Today, another electrochromic window maker,…
Read MoreA method to defeat damage propagation autonomously in self-healing materials
Researchers out of the Multiscale Adaptive Sensors and Structures Lab at Arizona State University have developed an interesting but relatively…
Read MoreIt’s a snake! It’s a fish! No, it’s a PV-wrapped highway.
In a post today on Wired.com, Swedish architect Mans Tham’s shares his ideas on transforming the Santa Monica Freeway into…
Read MoreElectric current restores function to damaged nanobelts
After denting the zinc oxide nanobelt with an AFM tip, electric current helped the nanobelts heal and regain much of…
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