"Sun-Believable"!

Prashant Kamat, professor of chemistry and biochemistry within the University Notre-Dame, finalized a revolutionary mixture!

Photosynthesis as an energy source, natural or artificial

A very interesting article from ADIT, about today state of researches in USA on how to produce energy in the most efficient way, especially inspired by the complex natural process of plant photosyn

Carbon nanotubes to create batteries

MIT scientists have discovered a strange and potentially interesting phenomenon : to coat carbon nanotubes with an inflammable substance and to then initiate combustion produces a high po

Orange-skin-like photovoltaïc panels

Scientists from the Roman Tor Vergata University have developed photovoltaïc panels using food waste, more precisely organic pigments coming from orange or eggplant peels. This new genera

The emerging technologies of 2009...

Each year, Technology Review chooses 10 emerging technologies with the potential to change lives around the world.

Biomimicry

For decades, human design engineers have been laboring to make more efficient machines, like propeller blades that produce steady airflow patterns.

Hot carpet

Mix a handful of carbon nanotubes with textile fibres and make a carpet out of it.

A textile generating energy...

American scientists just developped a microfibre textile that generates electricity. Mp3 devices as well as mobile phones, for instance, could therefore never tired out!

Black silicium, holly graal

Some Harvard scientists discovered by chance that silicium, when submitted to a very powerful laser beam, becomes a brand new type of material : the black silicium.

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