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Eco Factor: Solvents and resins to be replaced by organic compounds.
Once used as a fat alternative in chips, olestra-based organic compounds can be used in paints to replace toxic resins and solvents which paints contain. Scientists at Procter and Gamble Chemicals have engineered a new compound dubbed Sefose, which is made from a combination of sugar and vegetable oil.
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Eco Factor: Rugged solar cell design for more efficiency.
The amount of solar electricity generated by solar cells depends on the amount of sunlight the cells receive, which further depends on the amount of reflected light. The more the reflection, the less the output. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new mechanism by which solar cells can be made m
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Eco Factor: Thin-film organic solar cells with 4.9% efficiency.
Mitsubishi has made sure that its faded-out TFT technology doesn’t go to waste and is reused in some form that can yield better results for them. The company has reused their old technology to develop the newest in solar cells, which they showcased at the PV EXPO 2009.
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Eco Factor: Biodegradable credit cards fully degrade in five years.
The credit crunch might have rendered several of your credit cards useless. The same is with millions of other people all over the world. Just imagine the amount of plastic that will be thrown in landfills just because of this. Plastic takes thousands of years to degrade and till then it just pollutes natural resourc
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Eco Factor: Portable fuel cells could soon become a reality in mobile electronics.
Today’s world is an electronics driven world, which mostly is powered by batteries small in size and cost. These lithium based batteries are cheap but are not as efficient as one would want in future cars and other portable electronics.
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Rewritable holograms have become a reality, with this new technology developed by University of Arizona researchers. Using modified optical communications film, images can be rewritten in under a minute by changing the distribution of electrical charges rather than the entire laser-based structure itself.
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The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today’s two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester.
Unlike past attempts at 3-D chips, the Rochester chip is not simply a number of regular processors stacked on top of one ano
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Last week the Internationale Funkausstellung was held in Berlin. This is the largest consumer electronics convention in Europe, equaling and perhaps
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