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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 [...]
Researchers Develop Sensor Technology to Charge Devices
In a project funded by the Engineering and Physical SciencesResearch Council (EPSRC), scientists at the University of Southamptonare developing a technology that would harvest energy from physicalmovements to generate electricity. Using rapid printing process andactive printed links, the team is trying to create energy-producingfilms in textiles. These films would be embedded in the clothing or [...]
Michigan Researchers Develop World’s Smallest Solar Sensor System
Researchers at the University of Michiganhave developed the world’s smallest self-powered sensor that canoperate nearly perpetually running solely on solar energy. The system’ssolar cells, processor and battery are all located in a tiny framemeasuring just 9-cubic-millimeter. The system can beused in new biomedical implants and various home-, building- andbridge-monitoring devices and could improve the efficiency [...]