Oct
9
Electricity Found In Power Plant Cooling Water
October 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment
In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that form on a superhydrophobic surface, and then “jump” away from that surface, carry an electric charge. Initially the finding was that droplets could jump from a condenser surface – a component at the heart of most of the world’s electricity-generating power […]
Oct
8
Breakthroughs in Photonic Computers
October 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment
A research team led by University of Colorado-Boulder (UC) researcher Miloš A. Popović, an assistant professor of electrical, computer and energy engineering, developed a new technique that allows microprocessors to use light, instead of electrical wires, to communicate with transistors on a single chip. The team is a collaboration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]
Oct
3
Gasoline Made by Engineered E Coli Bacteria
October 3, 2013 | 6 Comments
Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has reported, for the first time, the development of a novel strategy for microbial gasoline production through the metabolic engineering of E. coli bacteria. The Institute’s scientists succeeded in producing 580 mg […]
Oct
2
On the Path to Plants Making Their Own Fertilizer
October 2, 2013 | 2 Comments
A discovery by a team of University of Missouri (MU) researchers could be the first steps toward helping crops use less nitrogen fertilizer. Nitrogen fertilizer costs U.S. farmers approximately $8 billion each year, and some of the unused or excess fertilizer can find its way into rivers and streams, damaging the delicate water systems. Getting […]
Oct
1
Nano Scale Electrode Architectures For Lithium Ion Batteries
October 1, 2013 | 4 Comments
A University of California, San Diego (UCSD) electrical engineer leads new research improving lithium-ion batteries through possible new electrode architectures with precise nano-scale designs. Shadi Dayeh, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering leads a team of researchers in creating nanowires that block […]
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