Nanotech Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 06 May 2019 12:51:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Solar Panels Produce Electricity Under Snow https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-panels-produce-electricity-under-snow-20190506/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-panels-produce-electricity-under-snow-20190506/#respond Mon, 06 May 2019 12:51:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=68317 Harvesting solar energy can be a tough job for panels if they are buried under blankets of snow. That is why a team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a new device that can produce electricity from snow itself. The device is a snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator or “Snow TENG”. As the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-panels-produce-electricity-under-snow-20190506/feed/ 0 68317 New Nanotech Material Could Solve On-Vehicle Hydrogen Storage Problems https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanotech-hydrogen-storage-20170306/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanotech-hydrogen-storage-20170306/#respond Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:53:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=63213 Scientists from Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories developed a hydro-storage system using nanotechnology. This innovative storage system can draw a futuristic picture with hydrogen-powered vehicles. The new technology makes it possible for the hydrogen storage systems to be lightweight and low-pressure. Although these two characteristics are tough to achieve in a hydrogen storage system, a […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanotech-hydrogen-storage-20170306/feed/ 0 63213 Protein Nanotubes Could Make Solar Panels Self-Washable https://www.greenoptimistic.com/protein-nanotubes-could-make-solar-panels-self-washable-20091019/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/protein-nanotubes-could-make-solar-panels-self-washable-20091019/#respond Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:17:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4826 Scientists at the Tel Aviv University (TAU) are sure that their newest research in the nanotechnology field could lead to the development of a new type of solar panels and glass that need no cleaning and apparently put window washers out of work.

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