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Canadian Scientists Report Progress Toward a New Type of "Liquid Mirror"

Scientists in Canada are reporting progress toward a new type of "liquid mirror" - mirrors made with highly reflective liquids - whose shape can be changed to provide superior optical properties over conventional solid mirrors.

5 Nov 2008

Hybrid Composites as Functional Materials for Efficient LEDs and Photovoltaic Devices

The Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanoscience) collaborates together with the University of Hamburg in the development of composite materials based on semiconductor nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes as functional materials for efficient light emitting diodes and photovoltaic devices.

4 Nov 2008

Carl Zeiss Receives R+D 100 Award for Most Technologically Significant New Products in 2008

Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment, was honored recently with a prestigious R+D 100 Award for one of the 100 most technologically significant new products in 2008. R+D Magazine recognized Carl Zeiss SMT's new ORION(TM) Helium-Ion-Microscope for its ability to produce images showing features never seen before.

3 Nov 2008

New Antireflective Coating Increases Amount of Sunlight Captured by Solar Panels

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle, the research team has moved academia and industry closer to realizing high-efficiency, cost-effective solar power.

3 Nov 2008

Hague Corp Enters into Binding Letter of Intent with Solterra Renewable Technologies

Hague Corp, a publicly traded resource exploration company, is pleased to announce that on September 24, 2008 Hague signed a binding letter of intent to purchase all of the assets of Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. The agreement between Hague and Solterra requires Hague to fund Solterra a total of five million US dollars within sixty days of signing a final Asset Purchase Agreement.

1 Nov 2008

Thomas R. Baruch '60 Gift to Launch Research on Cutting-Edge Sources of Solar Energy

Thomas R. Baruch, a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees and alumnus of the Class of 1960, has donated a gift that will help to establish a new center at the Institute devoted to bio-energy research. The new center - the Baruch '60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research - will conduct unprecedented research on biochemical solar technology.

1 Nov 2008

Mighty Scope from Aven Has Practical Convenience of Fully Adjustable Magnification from 10X - 200X

High-resolution magnification and image capture are available in a sophisticated, compact Mighty Scope from Aven that incorporates technology advances. The hand-held precision magnifier with a USB interface, introduced recently by the 25-year-old optical inspection systems company based in Michigan, has several best-in-class features to provide maximum precision, sensitivity and convenience.

31 Oct 2008

Save Energy This Holiday Season with dotstrand Energy-Efficient LED Lights

As the winter Holidays approach, thousands of students are faced with a decorating dilemma. Many dorms ban traditional strands of Holiday lights as they use too much electricity, and also often get too hot, raisi...

30 Oct 2008

Researchers Develop New Way of Looking at Molecules

In the quest to slow down and ultimately understand chemistry at the level of atoms and electrons, University of Colorado at Boulder and Canadian scientists have found a new way to peer into a molecule that allows them to see how its electrons rearrange as the molecule changes shape.

30 Oct 2008

Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast and Cheap with New NIST Optical Technique

A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions with nanoscale measurement sensitivity.

28 Oct 2008

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