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Apr 25, 2017

From Atoms to Batteries to the Workforce of the Future: Why Research Matters

If you want to build a cell-phone battery as thin as paper that powers your phone for a week, or have an electric vehicle like the Tesla go 500 miles on a single charge and recharge in just 10 minutes, you will have to start thinking small.

Sep 12, 2016

Got Sheep? Want A Solar Farm?

Many solar energy companies have started leasing land from farmers to build solar farms – and hiring sheep to control ground cover. The trend has been a revitalizing force in the North Carolina sheep industry.

Jul 8, 2016

Driving Toward More Efficient Solar Cells

NC State physicist Kenan Gundogdu was part of an international team that produced organic solar cells with fast charge separation and low voltage loss.

Jan 21, 2016

Molecular-like Photochemistry from Semiconductor Nanocrystals

NC State researchers are making huge advances in photochemistry, with implications for everything from solar energy conversion to light therapy for cancer treatment.

Dec 11, 2015

Domain Size and Purity Key to Efficient Organic Solar Cells

As solar energy becomes more popular, the drive to create more efficient, less expensive solar cells increases. Solar energy is abundant, but the devices we use to collect that energy have an efficiency problem – currently, the most efficient polymer-based […]

Jul 22, 2015

Researchers Boost Wireless Power Transfer With Magnetic Field Enhancement

Research shows that passing wireless power transfer through a magnetic resonance field enhancer – which can be as simple as a copper loop – can boost the transfer efficiency by at least 100 percent as compared to transferring through air alone.

Jun 24, 2015

Distributed Technique for Power ‘Scheduling’ Advances Smart Grid Concept

Researchers have developed a new technique for “scheduling” energy in electric grids that advances the smart grid concept by coordinating the energy being produced and stored by conventional and renewable sources.

Sep 24, 2013

The Rolf Buchdahl Lecture on Science, Technology, and Values

2013-2014 Buchdahl Lecture: Thursday, September 26, 2013 — 7:30-9:00 PM Park Shops Room 210, 101 Current Drive, NCSU North Campus (Building #33 on North campus map) Sponsored by the NC…

Aug 27, 2013

Research Triangle Cluster-wide Community: You're invited to our BBQ August 29th!

Power up “your cells” with some Carolina ‘que! Please join the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster and the Duke University Energy Initiative for BBQ and brews Thursday, August 29th. 3:00 –…

Jul 23, 2013

Attitudes to Energy System Change Report

A new report from the Understanding Risk research group at Cardiff University, recently launched at the Royal Society of London on 16th July 2013, shows that the British public overwhelmingly…