Tag: materials science
SubscribeWearable electronics — the next fashion fad?
May 22, 2012:
Advances in materials science and electrical engineering have paved the way for a new type of electronic device: one that can bend and fold just like a piece of paper. Professor Ana Claudia Arias hopes to take this innovation to the next level: “wearable electronics.” The “Berkeley Science Review” reports.
Chemists to develop new materials for hydrogen storage in vehicles
January 26, 2012:
The big challenge with hydrogen-powered fuel cells is how to safely and cheaply store enough hydrogen to power a vehicle for 300 miles. UC Berkeley and LBNL scientists led by chemists Jeffrey Long and Martin Head-Gordon recently received a three-year, $2.1 million grant from DOE to develop new hydrogen storage technologies for fuel cell electric vehicles.
Invisibility cloak makes bumps disappear
July 29, 2011:
It can’t quite cover Harry Potter, yet, but an invisibility cloak developed by UC Berkeley engineers was able to bounce visible light waves away from a microscopic object about as big as a red blood cell. The experiment using the reflective silicon oxide and silicon nitride material was described in the journal Nano Letters.
