Tag Archives: Department of Energy

Next-Generation Memory and Sensing Devices

U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have noticed that joining magnetic and electric properties can coexist in a special class of metals. Those materials “multiferroics” could be used as basis for next generation of memory, and sensing technology that are faster and more energy efficient. The researchers, who worked with colleagues at the … Continue reading

New Polymers That Heal By Itself

Self Healing Material Material repairing itself,  is magnificent thing that scientists have been trying to approach for some time now,  because it is going to save in raw materials by expanding the life spam of the materials, finally some researches have reached this point,  polymers is a large molecule composed of repeating structural units. Michael Kessler, … Continue reading

New Inventions in 2011

Powermat Charger We need several chargers to charge cell phone, IPod,  IPhone or Blackberry and Laptop. Imagine how many charger you have to carry everywhere, what will happen if you couldn’t find enough plugs?  The powermat answered that question, you need only one plug to charge four Hi Tec gadgets at the same time. You … Continue reading

Saving Energy

The $10 Million Lightbulb With the flick of a switch, Philips Electronics may have just dramatically lowered America’s electric bill. In September the Dutch electronics giant became the first to enter the U.S. Department of Energy’s L Prize competition, which seeks an LED alternative to the common 60-watt bulb. Sixty-watt lights account for 50% of … Continue reading