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- SunShot Awards $10 Million For Chemical-Based Thermal Storage Technologies For CSP Plants (Solar Industry)- June 2, 2014
- The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $10 million through its SunShot Initiative to six research teams in order to develop a new generation of ... More...
- Phase change materials offer innovative solutions for saving energy (Business Standard)- June 2, 2014
- Further, as climatic changes become erratic, energy has become all the ... Phase change materials (PCMs) are suitable for storing thermal energy in ... More...
- Texas A&M Research Experiences for Undergraduates (Texas A&M University)- June 2, 2014
- The energy-related research will potentially benefit thousands of people through alternative sources and improved, less-polluting combustion devices. More...
- Hydrogen cooling improves efficiency in decentralized plants (Gas to Power Journal)- May 26, 2014
- “Hydrogen has a thermal conductivity nearly seven times that of air, resulting in much better heat transfer through forced convention,” Steve Kilmartin, ... More...
- DOE Continues to Push Concentrating Solar Power Systems (POWER magazine)- May 26, 2014
- CSP uses mirrors to direct and concentrate sunlight onto a receiver from which a heat transfer fluid carries the thermal energy to a power block to ... More...
- Graphene nanomotor mimics internal combustion engine (Nanowerk)- May 19, 2014
- (Nanowerk Spotlight) Efficient and perhaps autonomous molecular motors play an essential part in many visionary goals of nanotechnology, just like ... More...
- Nanocoated solar thermal panels: Black is back (Nanowerk)- May 19, 2014
- Martin Joly, of the Laboratory of Solar Energy and Building Physics, researched a novel process for the conversion of solar thermal energy. More...
- Physicists show unlimited heat conduction in graphene (R & D Magazine)- May 12, 2014
- "We recognized mechanisms of heat transfer that actually contradict Fourier's law in the micrometer scale. Now all the previous experimental ... More...
- Novel Nanomaterials Could Help Optimize Thermal Budget of Nanoelectronic Devices (AZoNano.com)- May 12, 2014
- Physicists are now designing novel materials with physical properties tailored to meet specific energy consumption needs. Before these so-called ... More...
- First Woman President of ASME To Receive Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Davies Medal (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)- May 5, 2014
- Rensselaer will honor Fitzroy, an internationally recognized and honored expert in heat transfer and fluid flow, with a ceremony at 4 p.m. Monday, May ... More...