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Six next-gen battery technologiesOne of them dissolves in water when it's no longer in use.By Inhabitat, 10.08.2016
Gene-modified soil bacteria promise eco-friendly computingThe US Navy is creating nanowires from one of the most renewable resources on the planet.By J. Fingas, 08.22.2016
Brain-like computers may now be realisticArtificial synapses are using less power than the real thing.By J. Fingas, 06.21.2016
ICYMI: VR Mars bus tour, self-assembling nanowire and moreYour kid's smelly old bus just got a little cooler.By K. Davis, 04.19.2016
Inhabitat's Week in Green: TORQ Roadster, quantum-dot solar cells and an invisibility cloakBy Inhabitat, 03.31.2013
New process for nanotube semiconductors could be graphene's ticket to primetime (video)By J. Trew, 09.30.2012
NCSU creates stretchable conductors from silver nanowires, lets gadgets go the extra inchBy J. Fingas, 07.16.2012
Copper-nickel nanowires from Duke University could make ubiquitous printable circuitsBy J. Fingas, 05.31.2012
This electric wire is four atoms thick, and you thought speaker cable was fiddly (video)By S. Sakr, 01.06.2012
Nanowire batteries now as 'small as possible,' could one day be included with nano toysBy S. Sakr, 08.04.2011
MIT's genetically modified viruses boost solar-cell efficiency by herding nanotubesBy J. Hicks, 04.27.2011
NASA makes longer, straighter piezoelectric nanowires in microgravity, no flat iron neededBy M. Gorman, 04.06.2011
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