energy

NASA's Biological and Physical Sciences Division sponsored a team that developed the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE). It enables a two-phase fluid flow and heat transfer experiment on the ISS in the long-duration…

Honeywell flies into the future with its revolutionary ethanol-to-jet fuel technology, bringing us closer to green in the blue. The company's new, innovative ethanol-to-jet fuel (ETJ) processing technology allows producers to convert…

Bo Zhao is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Univerisity of Houston, and he may have just had the most significant breakthrough in solar energy. Finding more efficient ways to harvest solar energy is critical for…

A significant challenge for undersea exploration is powering underwater cameras. Researchers can tether it to their vessel or send a ship and diver to recharge its batteries. MIT researchers are overcoming the challenge, developing a…

A new nanophotonic material just broke records for high-temperature stability. Implications are that the material may enable more efficient electricity production and new possibilities in controlling and converting thermal radiation. The…

Charging your EV in the evening or overnight? A new Stanford study says we're doing it wrong. The study focused on the western United States but can work with an array of populations. They published their findings in Nature Energy.…

onsemi held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its silicon carbide (SiC) facility in Hudson, New Hampshire. Several guests of honor attended the event, including several government dignitaries. The new facility will increase the company's SiC…

Silicon’s properties as a semiconductor are far from ideal. Although silicon lets electrons whizz through its structure easily, it is less accommodating to electrons’ positively charged counterparts. Harnessing both is important for some…

For the first time, researchers showed that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes – the two ways a charge is carried in a semiconducting material. This is a significant advance for…

For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have discovered that there are two ‘lanes’, and electrons can take both simultaneously! The flow of electrons carries the current in a wire. If the wire is…