Dec
31
Super Efficiency For Organic Light Emitting Diodes
December 31, 2012 | 3 Comments
Great advances have been made in the development of materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) in recent years. The Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) of Kyushu University announced that it has developed a new OLED light-emitting material that is a fluorescent material and has an internal quantum efficiency of better than 90%. [...]
Dec
28
An Investment With High Merit to Improve Life on Earth
December 28, 2012 | 5 Comments
Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves are London based designers who’ve spent 4 years developing the GravityLight as an off-line project. The pair works for therefore.com, which has over 20 years of experience in designing and developing hand held computing and communication products for a host of pioneers including Psion, Toshiba, NEC, TomTom, Inmarsat, ICO, Sepura, [...]
Dec
27
Rising Heat Captured for Power
December 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
A couple weeks ago the Thiel Foundation announced three new grants awarded through its Breakout Labs, to promote innovation in science and technology. The most recent award takes the program into clean energy, with a bold new proposal to harness the power of atmospheric vortexes. An atmospheric vortex engine (AVE) uses a controlled vortex to [...]
Dec
26
More Sugar Equals More Fuel
December 26, 2012 | 3 Comments
A team of researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, University of California, Berkeley, and Technical University of Denmark set out to identify the enzymes that catalyze the production of galactan. Their new study published in the journal The Plant Cell reveals a novel enzyme involved in the production of galactans. The enzyme may be used [...]
Dec
24
A Strong Hint on Building Synthetic Hydrocarbons
December 24, 2012 | 2 Comments
Colleagues at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia are working to invent novel ways and catalytic materials to activate methane to produce ethylene. The collaborating team published a paper in the online edition of the journal Nature Chemistry detailing the use of sulfur as a possible “soft” oxidant for catalytically converting methane into ethylene, [...]
Dec
21
A Third Kind of Magnetism Proven
December 21, 2012 | 1 Comment
MIT researchers working from earlier theoretical predictions have just demonstrated experimentally, in a mineral called herbertsmithite, the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behavior, adding a third magnetism to the two previously known states of magnetism. MIT professor of physics Young Lee said, “We’re showing that there is a third fundamental state for [...]
Dec
20
A Lower Cost Method to Capture Sulfur From Fuels
December 20, 2012 | 1 Comment
University of Illinois (UI) researchers have developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that more effectively scrub sulfur from petroleum-based fuels than traditional materials. Sulfur is the chemical element that made acid rain such a nasty event downwind from coal and oil burning facilities. When burned sulfur is reformed into toxic acids that persist a short [...]
Dec
19
A Higher Mileage Airplane
December 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Things in flight do entrance some of us. So news of a way to enhance the fuel economy is welcome news. Whether it’s the joy of watching the maneuvers in mid air or simply getting somewhere at lower cost to just cutting the effluent produced – more distance per fuel unit is a good thing. [...]
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