Posts by Lisa McDonald
Offshore Technology Conference coincides with Gulf disaster
The Offshore Technology Conference is occurring this week and I expect it isn’t exactly the best of times. I don’t…
Read MoreARPA-E announces $106M in new awards for electrofuels, batteries and clean-coal projects
Energy-related materials R&D is going to be getting a nice boost in the near future according to ARPA-E’s latest announcement…
Read MoreCarbon nanotube aerogel developed for low cost, industrial scale
Scientists at the Paul Pascal Research Center in France have developed an industrial-scale method for low cost manufacturing of carbon…
Read MorePNNL charged to transform large-scale energy storage
According to a Pacific Northwest National Lab press release, a team of researchers at PNNL and EaglePicher Technologies is developing…
Read MoreSandia, NREL now have 180-teraflop computer for energy modeling
Sandia National Lab and the National Renewable Energy Lab have just unveiled a nice, new tool: a 180-teraflop supercomputer designed…
Read MoreDOE video: Why ARPA-E funded 1366’s direct wafer technology for photovoltaic units
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy; YouTube I continue to be really impressed with 1366 Technologies’ technical work and and business…
Read MoreUPenn researchers find wrinkle in AFM nanoscale friction mystery
A group out of University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics thinks it knows why, at nanoscales,…
Read MoreElectrostrictive ceramic actuators to shape mirror of next space telescope
According to a NASA Tech Brief, the Next Generation Space Telescope – aka, the James Webb Space Telescope – will…
Read MoreGlass fiber drawing technology to process carbon nanotubes
According to an ORNL press release, by adapting conventional glass fiber drawing technology to process carbon nanotubes into multichannel assemblies,…
Read MoreMetamaterial discovery could improve light collection for solar cells
Caltech researchers, led by Harry Atwater, have engineered a type of metamaterial that allows it to bend light in part…
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