A web of single-crystalline titanium disilicide absorbs light efficiently and may be a useful catalyst to split water.
Two stories today in ScienceDaily point to different nanotech applications that could enable a solar solution to our energy problems.
A new nanotech catalyst now enables the efficient conversion of syngas to ethanol.
A role for nanotech applications can be seen in the responses to the US energy crisis made by both candidates for the US Presidency.
Chinese scientists have developed a nanotech solution to harvest energy from multiple electrons—something alternative approaches to artificial photosynthesis have not yet managed to do.
Carbon nanotubes with the proper imperfections were found to replace more problematic and expensive materials in dye-sensitized solar cells.
Researchers have developed a method of producing titanium oxide crystals with more reactive surfaces.
Nanowires of indium phosphide grown directly on an electrode greatly increase the flow of electrons through a polymer film to the electrode.
Phil McKenna at NewScientist.com news service describes a nanotechnology advance that turns radiation directly into electricity, leading us to wonder if it thus simultaneously provides a use for nuclear waste. This nanotech application appears to be in the early stages of development, so aside from questions of just how efficient and how expensive it would… Continue reading Nanotechnology to produce electricity from nuclear waste?
By combining more precise core-shell nanoparticle synthesis techniques with electronic structure theory to predict the properties of nanoparticles, nanotechnology researchers have produced a better catalysts for fuel cells.
