New technique could be helpful in developing electronics and improving the efficiency of boilers

Researchers make batteries reliable and longer-lasting using a thin-film coating technique called atomic layer deposition

Researchers suggest seven energy-intensive separation processes they believe should be the top targets for research into low-energy purification technologies

University startup attracts attention from a well-known Japanese battery manufacturer

Scientists have long sought to use nanowires in batteries.

"Inverse spin Hall effect" works in several organic semiconductors

Groundbreaking observations could help develop better, more efficient materials for electronics and alternative energy

However, it would take a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-scalar effort to get there, expert warns.

JPL is working at developing orbiting solar panels to bring a reliable source of electricity to those in developing countries

Microbiologists unravel relationship among plants, mycorrhizal fungi

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers control a promising new way to encode electrons

Findings could help inform the design and engineering of new nanotechnologies to improve crop yields and biomass production