Energy Efficiency
Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages
Rice University calculations show double-walled nanotubes could be highly useful for solar panels and other nanoelectronics applications such as photovoltaics.
Understanding power quality, improving manufacturing system reliability
Voltage sags and interruptions can have a detrimental effect on manufacturing processes. Understanding how and why they happen is crucial.
Breadboards integrated onto physical products
MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms used for electronics prototyping to quickly test circuit functions and user interactions with products such as smart devices and flexible electronics.
Material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
MIT researchers have designed an electrical heat valve, which can vary the thermal conductivity on demand, and could help create controllable insulation and harvest the energy of waste heat.
Metal battery using Potassium could be alternative to Lithium-ion
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a metal battery that relies on potassium instead of Lithium-ion, which could create more energy efficient batteries for consumers.
Three energy meter selection tips
Energy saving designs: Consider how long energy data collection is needed, how many phases and accuracy, and how the data should be collected.
Wearable health tech gets efficiency upgrade
North Carolina State University engineers have demonstrated a flexible device designed to harvest the heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
Electrode design may lead to more powerful batteries
An MIT research team has devised a lithium metal anode that could improve the longevity and energy density of future batteries.
Wearable electronics powered by flexible batteries
Stanford University researchers have developed an experimental device designed to provide a comfortable power source for technologies that bends and flexes with the human body.
Research into next-generation rechargeable batteries supported
The National Science Foundation is supporting Texas A&M researcher Dr. Matt Pharr in his work on developing improved rechargeable batteries.