#New material combines photons for big solar energy gains An innovative new approach to solar energy from University of California Riverside could dramatically increase the amount of light available to contemporary solar panel designs.
the efficiency of solar power could be improved greatly, for an affordable price. Infrared light currently passes straight through most silicon solar cell technologies
The overall costs of solar power lie much more in installation, maintenance, and land use costs than in the panels themselves;
but could still improve the affordability of solar power. Infrared radiation accounts for an enormous amount of the energy in direct sunlight,
In general, this sort of research into the manipulation of light could allow a wider rollout of solar power around the world.
but none is so direct as solar power. Energy will be one of the defining issues of the next few decades,
The automation on display here has been called a 3d printing solution for DNA, and in terms of ease of use that label certainly fits.
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#You can now feel virtual reality with new gloves called Gloveone You would have sensed virtual reality through sight
In the Gloveone, the IMU sensor will track your hands within the virtual world to offer a more realistic experience.
but you can compare weights within the virtual world. The company has finished prototyping the product
#Gloveone lets you feel virtual reality through the Touch sensation You would have sensed virtual reality through sight and sound so far.
In the Gloveone, the IMU sensor will track your hands within the virtual world to offer a more realistic experience.
but you can compare weights within the virtual world. The company has finished prototyping the product
#Cooler computers, smartphones using graphene film Almost half of the total energy used in running a computer goes in cooling it down.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
A team led by professor Johan Liu from Chalmers University had shown earlier that graphene can have a cooling effect on silicon-based electronics
but the challenge was to stick a thick layer of graphene to silicon chips. e have solved this problem by creating strong covalent bonds between the graphene film and the surface,
Moreover, functionalisation using this kind of bonding doubles the thermal conductivity of the graphene. ncreased thermal capacity could lead to several new applications for graphene.
One example is the integration of graphene-based film into microelectronic devices and systems, such as highly Efficient light Emitting Diode lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes, Liu said. raphene-based film could also pave the way for faster,
Wind turbines, especially offshore, could also benefit: the advantages of self healing materials far out to sea is clear. asically, any industry
CEO of cloud security company Bitglass. his is because while credit cards can be cancelled quickly, healthcare records contain social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, family members, income info,
Matt Cullina, CEO of identity protection specialist IDT911, told Foxnews. com that the Anthem hack highlights the importance of extensive cyber security planning. ith high legal costs and the risk of business losses,
#IBM joins forces with Mars taps genomics to boost food safety Tech heavyweight IBM has joined forces with food manufacturing giant Mars in an attempt to boost global food safety.
Scientists from the two companies have founded the Consortium for Sequencing the Food supply Chain tapping advances in genomics to gain a better understanding of food safety.
Metagenomics is using genomics to identify the microorganisms in a sample to determine whether they are healthy
and calculate the best sailing route based on available wind energy. Terje Lade manager of Lade AS told Foxnews. com that the Vindskip concept is being tested using wind tunnels and computational fluid dynamics.
while exploring the use of semiconductor material pieces as parts for quantum computing. The study was begun to investigate the quantum dots,
as segments for quantum computers. An associate professor of physics, Jason Petta at Princeton and the lead author of the study,
The revelation will enhance the continuous endeavors of researchers over the world to utilize semiconductor materials to construct quantum computing frameworks. consider this to be a truly imperative result for our long haul objective,
which is entanglement between quantum bits in semiconductor-based gadgets, said Jacob Taylor, a subordinate associate professor at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland-National Institute of Standards and Technology.
That implies two quantum dots joined together as quantum bits or qubits. Qubits are the basic unit of data in quantum computing. e composed dots to emanate photons
when single electrons hop from a higher to a lower energy level over the dual dot.
A single electron caught in a semiconductor nanostructure can structure the most fundamental of building blocks for a quantum computer.
Though, before practical quantum computers can be acknowledged, researchers need to create a versatile architecture that permits full control over individual electrons in computational arrays p
Hololens is a bit different from the virtual reality headset that has been focused by Samsung, Sony and many others.
The headset is part of the emerging category augmented reality, in which virtual 3-D objects appear to be inserted into the real world.
so that people who wear it can continue to see the physical environment around them, unlike virtual reality headsets that completely envelope people with 3-D imagery.
The US National institutes of health, the US Department of energy, the European Molecular biology Association, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India, the Welch Foundation,
In the future, neurosurgery may be combined with molecular biology to deliver positive clinical outcomes and perhaps treat conditions like spinal cord or nerve injuries,
an ultra-fast, deterministic, highly scalable and balanced parallelization strategy for the discovery of human genetic variation in clinical and population-scale genomics appears in Genome Biology."
and $3 billion to sequence the first human genome,"notes Peter White, Ph d.,principal investigator and director of the biomedical genomics core at Nationwide Children's and the study's senior author."
%"At Nationwide Children's we have a strategic goal to introduce genomic medicine into multiple domains of pediatric research and healthcare.
Also yesterday, Johnson & johnson (J&j) joined the Yale Open data Access (YODA) Project in agreeing to share data from clinical trials for medical devices and diagnostics.
assistant professor of genetics and genomics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai and senior author of the study. iven that phenotypic heterogeneity within a bacterial population can increase its advantage of survival under stress conditions such as antibiotic treatment,
. founding director of the Icahn Institute and professor of genomics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai. he approach we developed can also be used to analyze DNA VIRUSES and human MITOCHONDRIAL DNA,
a trait of cancer cell metabolism that scientists have been eager to exploit. Unlike recent advances in personalized medicine that focus on specific genetic mutations associated with different types of cancer,
#Synthetic Stem Cells Might Eventually Lead to Artificial organs Scientists at the University of Washington (UW) say they have engineered yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that can"talk"to one another,
and cooperative processes that might lead to synthetic stem cells that could grow into artificial organs or organisms that require different types of cells to work together, according to the scientists."
#PCR Makes the Jump to Light speed The amplification of minute amounts of genetic material is the cornerstone of every molecular biology laboratory
and the Internet of things takes shape, the question of how to power it all becomes more pressing.
but the researchers believe they may soon be able to make the process work with tens of rings and more energy storage.
#3d printing breakthrough creates metal and copper structures The method developed at the University of Twente in The netherlands involves microscopic drops created from a thin metal film that is melted by a pulsed laser.
#3d printing breakthrough creates tiny metal structures The method developed at the University of Twente in The netherlands involves microscopic drops created from a thin metal film that is melted by a pulsed laser.
Creating one of the batteries capable of delivering enough microwatts to run a biosensor in the field costs only five cents.
000 grant from the US National Science Foundation to create a self-powered system that can run the paper biosensor independently of other devices.
#3d printed flutes hit the right notes Researchers at Australia's University of Wollongong (UOW) have created a number of 3d printed custom flutes that can play microtonal tunings otherwise unachievable with standard flutes,
and we'd hazard a guess that many guitarists would pick a handmade wooden axe over a new 3d printed alternative, for example.
the new research may offer a compelling reason for flautists to consider trying out a 3d printed flute.
Data from modeling software was fed then into a 3d printing machine, and a custom flute was manufactured duly."
#Graphene used to create world's thinnest light bulb Researchers and engineers from Columbia University, Seoul National University (SNU),
and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) created the device using tiny filaments of graphene attached to metal electrodes,
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications.""Interestingly, the ability of graphene to reach such elevated temperatures without melting
either the underlying substrate or the metal electrodes is because, as graphene is heated up, it is less able to conduct heat away from itself.
As a result, the concentration of heat is limited to the very center of the filaments
and light bouncing off the silicon substrate and back through the graphene filaments themselves.""This (phenomenon) is only possible
because graphene is transparent, unlike any conventional filament, and allows us to tune the emission spectrum by changing the distance to the substrate."
"A graphene lattice is also a particularly efficient way to produce light, due to its inherent ability to maintain excitation levels that allow the freer flow of electrons.
That is, just as graphene is able to rapidly emit electrons when excited by lasers as the electrons remain at an elevated state,
"At the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice,
"These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of the temperature of the sun,
as compared to graphene on a solid substrate.""Not the first graphene light-bulb University of Manchester researchers lay claim to that but certainly the thinnest,
the new device also opens up many possibilities of alternative light generation at the microscale,
The short video below is an animation showing how the graphene filaments generate Light source: Columbia Universit U
#Wonder-ink could soon let you 3d print objects out of stretchy graphene A new 3d printing ink being developed at Northwestern University could soon make it possible to build objects
which are made of graphene for 60 percent of their volume and 75 percent of their weight.
This unprecedentedly high graphene composition means that the oft-praised electric and mechanical properties of graphene might soon find their way into all kinds of macroscopic 3d printed creations, with important consequences for the electronics and biomedical fields (among many others.
While we've already seen 3d printers that can create objects out of carbon fiber, the ability to print objects made mainly out of graphene could raise the bar even higher for material scientists and hobbyists alike.
Previous graphene-based inks could only print objects in two dimensions and, with a graphene content below 20 percent,
were unable to preserve the useful properties of the material. More recently, researchers have laid the foundations for building three-dimensional objects out of graphene,
though this did not extend to 3d printing. Now, however, researcher Ramille Shah and team have built a 3d printing ink that is composed of graphene for 60 percent of volume and 75 percent of weight.
What's more the secondary component of the ink (used as a binder) is a biocompatible, biodegradable and hyperelastic polyester (PLG) that,
according to the scientists involved, makes the objects printed with this ink highly flexible and safe for biomedical applications.
According to Shah and colleagues, the secret to packing such a high percentage of graphene into their ink was embed to it in the form of microscopic flakes.
In its initial state, the ink is highly viscous and the flakes are oriented in random directions.
creating a single filament that maintains the much-celebrated properties of graphene even as it's being expelled from tips as small as 100 micrometers
and at speeds of 40 mm/s (around half the speed of most modern 3d printers) to produce highly uniform
According to the researchers, their ink retains an electrical conductivity greater than 800 S m, an order of magnitude more than previous 3d printed carbon-based materials,
a formulation with 20 percent graphene can stretch longitudinally by as much as 210 percent (at some cost in terms of electromechanical properties).
The 3-D printed graphene scaffolds could also play a role in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine when the scientists populated one of the graphene ink scaffolds with stem cells,
they found that the cells didn't just survive, but also divided, proliferated, and morphed into neuron-like cells.
But the applications of a highly-conductive graphene ink could be just as exciting in building high-performance electronics.
such as Google glass, the ADAMAAS glasses are targeted particularly at elderly and disabled people, and will ultimately provide directions for basic tasks,
as well as Augmented reality (AR) with modern diagnostics and corrective intervention techniques, explains CITEC researcher Thomas Schack.
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a process where a stream of light is directed onto a metallic film, with most,
"So, surface plasmon resonance sensors could become ubiquitous now.""The research is published in the journal Optics Express.
#New energy cell can store up solar energy for release at night A photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) is a special type of solar cell that gathers the Sun's energy
This is an already established type of energy storage cell that is very well-suited for the needs of the electrical grid as it can stay idle for very long times without losing charge,
offering great reversibility (with 95 percent Faradaic efficiency) and allowing for high-capacity energy storage.""We have demonstrated simultaneously reversible storage of both solar energy
and electrons in the cell,"says lead author of the paper Dong Liu.""Release of the stored electrons under dark conditions continues solar energy storage,
thus allowing for continuous storage around the clock.""The team is now working on building a larger prototype,
Flex last month as the latest update of the Smart mobility Plan it first announced in January.
#Smart capsule keeps hold of payload until reaching its target We have drugs to treat nasty conditions like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's disease,
But a new type of capsule holds onto its payload until reaching the large intestine, making for more effective delivery.
and releases the payload. The team tested the capsule in an experiment involving a model that replicates the gastrointestinal tract
renewable energy supply and storing energy for later use. Electricity is imported also from the grid when required and exported to the grid
and a wearable device that measures glucose levels continuously.""As well as being a replacement for finger-prick testing,
This wearable device would then be just one step from a product which sends alerts to smart phones
Foams can also be made by milling or 3d printing, but whatever the method, they are expensive and difficult to manufacture,
#Silk-based functional inks put biosensor data on your fingertips Although we've seen"bio-inks"that allow sensors to be drawn directly on a person's skin
such as color engineering, surface plasmon resonance based sensing and bio-imaging. enzymes printed on paper, to test the ability of the ink to carry small functional biomolecules.
$273 million Cybersecurity: $305 million to improve the cybersecurity of the DOE and the energy sector Some other budget highlights:
$4 billion for The Clean Power State Incentive Fund: Money to support states exceeding the minimum requirements that were established in the Clean Power Plan $2. 72 billion for energy efficiency $325 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Cisco and Itron are using 802.15. 4g wireless for their smart grid and smart city efforts and Toshiba Landis+Gyr is using it for its 27-million smart meter deployment in Tokyo,
he said. s you get into smart cities and internet of things, there are a plethora of devices we can go into, Reeves noted.
These could include parking meters and monitors trash bins and traffic detectors, or air or water pollution sensors, to name a few of the systems most often talked about in the context of networking municipal assets and services.
So far, networked streetlights have been the primary line of smart city business for these vendors. Silver Spring has smart streetlight projects in Paris
Silver Spring says its Milli 5 platform can achieve decades of operation in the field without sacrificing network security
which solar energy still depends. In addition, Asian rivals have made inroads into SMA's markets, putting pressure on equipment prices and profit margins.
So it may seem like energy storage is the big star these days. But it turns out that there were just as many energy efficiency venture capital deals last year, according to a new report.
CB Insights ranked energy efficiency and energy storage as tied for third place, along with green/environmental software for venture capital deals in 2014.
Researchers Tout Solar panels Made With erovskitemineral A new generation of solar panels made from a mineral called perovskite has the potential to convert solar energy into household electricity more cheaply than ever before, according to a study from Britain Exeter University.
California needs more energy storage to match the duck curve Experiencing this net load years ahead of the CAISO forecast has placed not the California grid in crisis. The state's grid has sufficient flexibility today to accommodate the rapid rise of solar power,
the utilities and CPUC should accelerate procurement of energy storage to match the accelerating duck curve.
With the energy storage procurement cycle in progress, let open the long-duration energy storage market in 2015.
Long-duration energy storage offers both the benefits of grid flexibility similar to flexible gas plants, and the reuse of zero-marginal-cost midday solar during the evening energy ramp.
Long-duration energy storage unique functionality uncaps the limits to growth of solar in California--and beyond.
Governor Jerry brown used his 2015 inauguration speech to call for a 50 percent renewable energy future in California.
Beyond air quality and climate change mitigation benefits, California abundant renewable energy resources provide energy with zero marginal cost and zero fuel price volatility to our citizens,
California energy agencies are already collaborating to accelerate penetration of energy storage. Several promising long-duration energy storage technologies are now in early commercial operation homegrown in California with support from the California Energy Commission and the U s. Department of energy.
The CPUC can pull out the playbook that bestowed California with an abundance of solar energy and use it again with energy storage.
we need to use the current CPUC-sponsored energy storage procurement process to bring bankable, long-duration energy storage technologies to market so that they can deliver at scale in 2018--not sometime in the next decade.
Pay attention to what happened with solar--many of those folks are now working in energy storage. In both my consulting practice and in my pro-bono work with Calcharge
What is the opportunity in 2015 to build the market for energy storage in line with the accelerating duck curve?
Utility contracts from the current round of energy storage procurement can provide the market pull for long-duration energy storage technology.
With the energy storage procurement cycle in progress, let open the long-duration energy storage market in 2015.
As solar energy production drops off, CAISO forecasts a 14,000-megawatt resource ramp in 2020 on that date.
The four-to seven-hour ramp period during the afternoon and evening is well within the scale of long-duration energy storage.
The year for energy storage procurement in CAISO CAISO is performing the role for which it was created:
2015 is the year to open the market for long-duration energy storage. To avoid the perverse outcome of curtailment of zero-marginal-cost, greenhouse gas-free renewable resources,
we need to absorb gigawatt-hours'worth of midday solar energy for reuse later in the day or the week.
and the open energy storage procurement proceeding that can, at a modest scale, kick-start the long-duration energy storage market.
Nowhere is investor interest in energy solutions more apparent than at the grid edge. 2014 saw a dramatic increase in venture capital and private equity investment in companies developing innovative solutions, particularly energy storage, demand
Energy storage and fuel cells The two outliers in this category are Boston-Power and Bloom energy. Boston-Power has raised up to $450 million for its lithium-ion battery technology over the past five years.
Five Top-Funded Energy storage Startups, 2010-2014 Source: GTM Research Grid Edge 100: M&a and VC at the Grid Edge The comparison isn exactly apples to apples.
The United kingdom has no clear government policy on energy storage and offers no major incentives to companies and no subsidies at all to households to install energy storage.
To date, only paltry sums have been invested in energy storage projects there. And yet, many are feeling optimistic about where the storage industry is headed.
Several major manufacturers have launched either domestic solar-storage products in the U k. in the last six months,
In the last week, the U k. Renewable energy Association has launched a new trade body dedicated to commercializing energy storage.
To date, according to the U s. Department of energy Global Energy storage Database, the Brits currently have a grand total of 32 projects,
(or soon will be provided by batteries and 5 megawatts by mainly uninterruptible power supply flywheel systems. There are also experimental compressed air,
The DECC has stated also that the energy storage market is forecast to reach $17 billion in 2020,
Some argue that energy storage can help save consumers money by possibly reducing new grid buildout.
If you look at energy storage, it can help meet all three of those requirements. So we can spend £50 billion on rewiring the country,
or we can have more energy storage. Price organization is lobbying for a minimum 2, 000 megawatts of new network-connected electricity storage by the year 2020.
whether the U k. government will take investment in energy storage seriously. Price notes that while the current administration is happy to ick winnersby promoting solar and wind,
said Frank Gordon of the newly launched energy storage section of the U k. Renewable energy Association.""The U k. is home to one of the only electric vehicle battery plants in the world, the Nissan plant in Tyneside.
However, the Aloha state managed to rank seventh in the United states in terms of cumulative solar energy installations, according to the first quarter report by the Solar energy Industries Association and GTM Research.
Hawaii, which ranked ninth overall in the first quarter of 2014, dropped two spots to 11th in the first quarter of this year.
said Biden. ur energy future is in cleaner, cheaper renewable energy. A new organization, PRIME Coalition, is committed to helping foundations manage the complex pipeline process of vetting candidates and helping to lower transaction costs for foundations,
that where we get to this $100 per kilowatt-hour cost. 24m is targeting a lithium-ion energy storage market that already being targeted by contenders like Tesla motors, Boston-Power,
And outside lithium-ion batteries, a host of new chemistries from startups such as Aquion, Eos Energy storage and a long list of flow battery contenders are promising low-cost
and another that looking at hundreds of megawatt-hours per year of utility-facing energy storage project business,
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The project received further attention at the recent Big data and Extreme-scale Computing (BDEC event in Barcelona, a major conference for reporting ground-breaking research at the intersection of big
compute and big data. In a position paper for the 3rd annual BDEC event, a team of researchers from A*Star Computational Resource Centre revealed further details about the implementation of Infinicortex. he approach is not a grid or cloud based,
and straightforward implementation of both concurrent supercomputing over global distances and implemention of very efficient workflows and here it serves as an ideal vehicle to serve both Big data
According to the A*Star team, the time it took to send a 1. 143 terabyte file of genomics data from Australia to Singapore via Seattle
voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of things.
and the burgeoning Internet of things will likely create an enormous demand for small wireless systems, Adams said. nd as the number of services that a device must be capable of supporting grows,
and graphene to create a new material combination that demonstrates so-called superlubricity. Led by nanoscientist Ani Sumant of Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) and Argonne Distinguished Fellow Ali Erdemir of Argonne Energy systems Division, the Argonne team combined diamond
nanoparticles, small patches of graphene, and a diamond-like carbon material to create superlubricity, a highly-desirable property in
as the graphene patches and diamond particles rub up against a large diamond-like carbon surface, the graphene rolls itself around the diamond particle, creating something that looks like a ball bearing on the nanoscopic level. he interaction between the graphene
and the diamond-like carbon is essential for creating the uperlubricityeffect, he said in a statement. he two materials depend on each other.
By creating the graphene-encapsulated diamond ball bearings, or scrolls, the team found a way to translate the nanoscale superlubricity into a macroscale phenomenon.
enough diamond particles and graphene patches prevent the two surfaces from becoming locked in state.
and rotated much more easily than a simple sheet of graphene or graphite, Berman said.
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