Can Flags Make Energy?
Jorge Silva Leon and a team of researchers at the University of Manchester recently published a paper in Applied Energy on a technology that generates energy on a much smaller
View ArticleThe Future of Fusion Energy
The Future of Fusion Energy by Jason Parisi (YC ’16), a PhD student at Oxford, and Justin Ball, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, attempts to shift
View ArticleJaime Teevan (TD ’98): Technology with people in mind
As an undergraduate computer science major at Yale, Jaime Teevan (YC ’99) sold her senior thesis to the company she had interned at the summer before. Since then, she has
View ArticleEyes on the Road: Designing sensors for self-driving cars that see through...
The future of the automobile industry depends on the innovations of imaging sensors used in autonomous vehicles. Soon, more cars on the road will be self-driven with greater accuracy and
View ArticleHarvesting a Wide Range of Light: Computational chemistry & organic synthesis...
Nothing is perfect, but often, nature comes pretty close. Photosynthesis, the process that converts light into electrochemical energy, is something researchers want to emulate. It happens to be the single
View ArticleHolding onto Energy: New insights into lithium sulfur batteries
Batteries have revolutionized modern life. Now, there is a push for batteries to undergo their own revolution. The electronics we use on a daily basis run on lithium-ion batteries, but
View ArticleNew, Inexpensive Nanoscale Polymers Have Many Potential Applications
Imagine if we could turn all the world’s saltwater into drinking water using a simple filter with tiny pores to catch salt particles. Such purification technology, which could save millions
View ArticlePowered by the Sun: How surface properties of an iron ore affect solar fuel...
Though the earth’s remaining stores of nonrenewable energy sources like fossil fuels are becoming less abundant, the deleterious effects of these energy sources are not similarly diminishing. As a result,
View ArticleTesting Einstein
The quest to extend physics beyond the Standard Model will take a new turn this February, as an upgraded accelerator at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan
View ArticleThe Role of Error in Quantum Computing
The future of information technology may be in the qubit. The term, a combination of quantum and bit, is used to refer to an electronic circuit that functions as the
View ArticleMaking the most of twists and turns: Harvesting mechanical energy with carbon...
American and South Korean scientists have developed carbon nanotube yarns that convert twisting and stretching motions into electrical signals. The applications range from wearable sensors to...
View ArticleBrilliant Bacteria: Programming Bacteria to Make Materials
Researchers at Duke have used synthetic biology techniques to engineer bacteria to produce a protein capable of constructing an electronic pressure sensor when supplemented with gold nanoparticles....
View ArticleReal-Time Imaging of Dynamic Surfaces: A new microscope images surfaces 5000...
Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have constructed a new microscope that can be used to observe chemical reactions on surfaces at the molecular level, 5000 times...
View ArticleSolarizing Through Social Networks
Installing solar panels can be contagious. Dr. Kenneth Gillingham of Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies researches how solar adoption campaigns in Connecticut can take advantage of the...
View ArticleYale Startup Hopes to Deploy Pipe-Inspecting Robots
How are robots changing the field of the petroleum refineries? Find out how Yale startup ARIX is making its breaking through in cutting costs and improving safety in the oil and gas industry.
View ArticleDecluttering our Landfills: Biodegradable Plastic in Production
The more plastic we have, the bigger of an environmental problem we face. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Professor Yiqi Yang is discovering new polymers to create better biodegradable plastics.
View ArticleHarnessing the Sun for Clean Water
Yale researchers have developed a small-scale, solar-powered water purification system using nanotechnology. The design, created in collaboration with the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems...
View ArticleHardware Security “Fingerprints”
Yale Professor Jakub Szefer has received a National Science Foundation award for his project to improve electronic security. The research uses distinctive hardware features, found in our everyday...
View ArticleUpgrading CO2
As global warming accelerates, researchers are exploring methods to mitigate these effects, such as changing carbon dioxide into more useful reactions. Yueshen Wu, a PhD student at Yale, invented a new...
View ArticlePrinting Power Generators
Researchers at the University of Toronto have designed a technology that could make solar cells more effective and cheaper to produce.
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