Sector: Energy & Sustainability
Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization in Ohio
The Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC) was funded as a means of strengthening the photovoltaics research and manufacturing base in Ohio. Activities revolve around eliminating market barriers currently facing companies in the photovoltaics [...]
Harnessing the power of the sun, the wind…and the media? Why cleantech companies need to innovate both in the lab and in their communications
As clean technologies move into even greater prominence in the minds of consumers and on the screens and pages of the media world, the noise level surrounding the clean tech environment will rise as well. [...]
Good Policy Makes for Good Business – and Visa Versa
In rapidly emerging industries like Clean Technology, lawmakers are challenged to come up with good public policy that will accomplish society’s goals. Hence new, well-funded policies like the 43.2 billion California Solar Initiative and the [...]
Clean Technology & Sustainable Design Applied to the New York State Alternative Fuel Vehicle Research Laboratory (AFVRL)
The proposed presentation will highlight how this emissions laboratory’s nano-particle-focused awareness is elevated through a marriage of the sciences and arts. This is accomplished by employing innovative architectural and engineering sustainable building concepts into a [...]
Synthesis of visible light active nanocrystalline bismuth oxide based photocatalysts
Akurati K.K., Vital A., Reifler F., Ritter A., Graule T., Swiss federal laboratories for materials science & technology, EMPA, CH
Photocatalysis phenomenon has attracted considerable interest in recent years because of its usage in water purification, environmental cleaning, solar energy conversion and generation of alternative energy resources. To date, TiO2 has undoubtedly proven to be [...]
Microbial fuel cell
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells, PE-FC, use hydrogen or methanol as fuel. Water soluble organic compounds, like starch, glucose, acetates, can not serve as fuel because of limited catalytic activity of common metal catalysts. Opposite to [...]
Block Copolymer Directed Nanocomposites for Fuel Cell Applications
Block copolymers [1,2] and ionomers comprising fluoro/non-fluoro segments have significant potential applications in the field of fuel cell. However, they are very difficult to synthesize; because fluoro monomers are not amenable to living ionic polymerization [...]
Hydroxyapatite-imidazole-polymer composite films as a proton conductor under no humidified condition
We prepared the proton conduction system, hydroxyapatite (HAp)-imidazole (Im)-polymer composite films and investigated their structure, conduction behavior and mechanical properties. HAp particles used in our investigation were prepared with two different ways, a-HAp and n-HAp. [...]