Finally, NASA gets some props. International Space Station baby!
Read MoreVia press release from University of Wisconsin, we learn that a team of researchers has developed a piezoelectric nanogenerator and experimented with a variety of materials to power it. The…
Read MoreA team of engineers at North Carolina State University has created a small chip that can hold 1TB of data. That’s over 50 times the capacity of today’s silicon-based chip.…
Read MoreACerS member Jeffrey Wadsworth has just been named the winner of the National Materials Achievement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies (of which, ACerS is a member). Wadsworth, president…
Read MoreTeam Germany! Team Germany won first place in the 2009 Solar Decathlon by applying photovoltaics to every available surface. I had been rooting for Virginia Tech for their use of…
Read MoreFollowing up on yesterday’s post about a demonstration of a small version of these buses that going on today in Washington, DC, here is a video that explains some of…
Read MoreAutomotive News reported (registration required) that while Nissan has in hand a laminated lithium ion battery (based on a manganese spinel cathode material) for use in its plug-in hybrid electric…
Read MoreSinautec Automobile Technologies says tomorrow it will showcase on American University’s campus in Washington, DC., a small bus that the company claims is “America’s first ultracapacitor electric vehicle.” The eleven-seat…
Read MoreSecretary Steven Chu announced new investments in wind energy research facilities that aim to produce the most advanced and efficient wind turbines in the world. The funding is from the…
Read More(via Rare Metals) The European Commission announced it is trying to assemble a joint effort by governments, nonprofits and businesses to develop the technologies to address climate change and a…
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