Georgia Tech

Cool shades—sunglasses that turn from dark to clear with the push of a button

By Stephanie Liverani / July 17, 2015

A group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have developed a polymer coating for glass that can change the lens color of eye glasses instantly with a small, user-controlled electrical current.

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Farewell, sixth sense: Analytics, science provide urban planners with more than intuition

By Jessica McMathis / November 13, 2014

Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have developed tools that provide city planners with something greater than the sixth sense—analytics.

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The piezoelectric diet: Molybdenum disulfide thins down to charge up

By April Gocha / October 24, 2014

Researchers from Columbia University and Georgia Institute of Technology might still be fist-pumping at how right they were about some interesting properties of thin molybdenum disulfide that aren’t present in the bulk material.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / October 8, 2014

Fuel cells provide mobile power, making perfect solar absorbers, oxide-based magnetism for the future of computing, material defects make better batteries—and other materials stories that may be of interest for October 8, 2014.

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NIST awards 19 grants to bolster manufacturing, innovation

By Jessica McMathis / May 19, 2014

NIST recently handed out advanced manufacturing technology grants to 19 U.S. universities and nonprofits to strengthen manufacturing and innovation through technology roadmapping.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Eileen De Guire / February 25, 2014

Other materials stores that may be of interest

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Ballistic transport in graphene nanoribbons grown on silicon carbide

By April Gocha / February 17, 2014

Graphene is big–new reports detail generation of graphene nanoribbons on silicon carbide or in a solution-based approach.

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$60 million in DOE support aimed at advancing solar technology

By Jim Destefani / November 7, 2013

The US Department of Energy last week announced awards totaling about $60 million to support innovative solar energy research and development of both solar materials to improve efficiency and so-called “soft” costs such as solar photovoltaic system design, permitting, and installation.

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IBM’s Watson, unchained for materials discovery

By Jim Destefani / October 18, 2013

IBM is working hard to harness the firepower of its Watson computer system to solve real-world problems, including materials discovery.

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Harnessing solar with ceramic particles

By Jim Destefani / September 20, 2013

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to improve falling-particle receiver technology, a solar energy approach that dates to the 1980s.

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