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Exciting Next Level Solar Technologies
As the world begins to transition from fossil fuel energy to more sustainable forms of power, interest in solar panels has grown exponentially. New solar panel technologies currently under development will make it easier and more cost-efficient to use on new homes, as well as for retrofitting older homes to solar power. Understanding Solar Panels [...]
Nano Coating Could Make Solar Panels Self-Cleaning
Seamus “Shay” Curran, director of the University of Houston’s Institute for NanoEnergy, doesn’t like cleaning windows. “My wife gets after me about it,” he said. A new hydrophobic nano coating he and his team of researchers at UH have developed holds the promise of self-cleaning windows. Of course, that’s just a pleasant byproduct. Curran developed [...]
Nanotrees: The Future of Solar?
Growing concern over rising greenhouse emissions and climate change has led many people to feel a drive to develop cleaner, cheaper methods of energy production. Solar energy is one such method that has seen a boom of development and purchase over the past several years due to the attractiveness of harvesting solar energy for use [...]
Nanowire-based Fuel Cell from Tsinghua University
Blood could produce electricity soon. Researchers in China and theUS have developed a miniature fuel cell that can produce electricityfrom biological fluids. The team at Tsinghua University in Beijing has successfully constructed a fuel cell by coupling tworedox enzymes via a nanowire of a polymer composite capable ofconducting single protons. This fuel cell was able [...]