Nanowerk.com reported that the Clean Energy Alliance, the national association of clean energy business incubators, announced the formation of the Department of Energy Small Business and Clean Energy Alliance Partnership.…
Read MoreUniversity of Michigan researchers have developed a new equation that describes the current–voltage relationship at the junctions of organic semiconductors. Organic semiconductors present special challenges for researchers because they are…
Read MoreSpahr About a week ago I wrote that the current executive director of ACerS, Scott Steen, would be leaving in mid-November to lead a forestry organization, and that the Society’s…
Read MoreEni CEO Paolo Scaroni and MIT President Susan Hockfield at the Solar Frontiers Center inauguration. Last week I reported on Shell’s hefty donation of $25 million to MIT Energy Initiative…
Read MoreTruly amazing! OSU Materials blog has shared this slow motion film of water droplets falling on a superhydrophobic carbon nanotube array. The video was filmed by Adrianus Aria and Morteza…
Read MoreI’ll be writing from Houston for the rest of the week, covering the MS&T’10 and the ACerS Annual Meeting events. Many consider Houston to be one of the centers of…
Read MoreThe world shouldn’t take China’s rare earth supply for granted, according to a new Bloomberg story. The ministry of commerce of the Asian nation that, effectively, controls much of the market…
Read MoreOver six months ago, Ann reported that PNNL researchers were starting to see some success in re-engineering the form of sodium beta batteries (NBB) from a cylinder-type of construction to…
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 MoreThis isn’t materials science, but I think this work by a Yahoo! Research team (appearing as a free download in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) has…
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