Researchers have created an anti-reflective coating that allows light to travel through it, but lets almost none bounce off its surface. At least 10 times more effective than the coating on sunglasses or computer monitors, the material, which is made of silica nanorods, may be used to channel light into solar cells or allow more photons to surge through the surface of a light-emitting diode (LED).
Publishing in the March 1, 2007, Nature Photonics, lead author Jong Kyu Kim and More …
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New Coating Is Virtual Black Hole for Reflections
28 February 2007 at 11:00 pm
Program Director, AD-0806-04/04, MPS/DMR (Closes: 04/16/2007)
28 February 2007 at 11:00 pm
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Life Can Be a Strain
20 February 2007 at 11:00 pm
From enormous mining trucks to human knee implants, sensor technology is teaching us when enough is enough More …
From Farm Waste to Fuel Tanks
15 February 2007 at 11:00 pm
Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks.
The breakthrough, announced today in Kansas City, Mo., is a significant step forward in the nationwide effort to fit more automobiles to run on methane, an abundant fuel that is domestically produced and cleaner burning tha More …
