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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2008 | solar, nanotech
    Flexible Nanoantenna Arrays Capture Abundant Solar Energy

    Quoted: Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The new technology is the first step toward a solar energy collector that could be mass-produced on flexible materials, say the researchers.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 10 2008 | technology, solar, nanotech, MIT
    MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize-Teams

    The MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize is awarde through MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition -- Energy Track. MIT student teams, other student teams, and professional start-up teams are eligible to participate in the Energy Track only. The process will include networking and team building events, professional mentoring and skills development, along with a unified judging process.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 05 2008 | solar, nanotech, Nanosolar
    Revolutionary solar technology is set to transform energy generation - Salt Lake Tribune

    The news is that a revolution in solar power technology has begun. The maker of this news is a Silicon Valley company called Nanosolar that has come up a with a way to produce solar panels 100 times thinner and 100 times faster than anything we've seen before.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 13 2008 | nanotech, solar, displays
    Unidym - Carbon for Electronics

    Unidym is focused on the electronics industry where its initial product is a transparent electrode for touch screens, flat panel displays, solar cells, and solid state lighting. Unidym is developing thin film transistors for printable electronics and the emerging flexible display market. Additionally, Unidym has developed a range of proprietary CNTs for conductive polymers, structural reinforcement materials, and anti-static films.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 31 2007 | solar, nanotech
    Nanotechnology aids large-area solar cell

    Quoted: A scientist at Israel's Bar-Ilan University claims that he has managed to create a solar cell 100 times bigger than a typical solar cell, using nanotechnology methods.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 30 2007 | nanotech, solar, environment
    Nano Firms See Green in Clean-Tech - Forbes.com

    Quoted: Global warming, pollution, dwindling natural resources and soaring energy costs are very much on everyone's mind these days. So it comes as no surprise that there is a strong investor interest in clean technologies, otherwise known as "clean-tech."

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 02 2007 | solar, Nanotech, google, nanosolar
    Cellule photovoltaïque: les promesses de Nanosolar

    Quoted: L'entreprise californienne Nanosolar semble s'approcher d'une solution. Soutenue par de nombreux "venture capitalists" y compris les fondateurs de Google, cette société se donne pour ambition ...

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 18 2007 | solar, Nanotech
    $135 Million for innovative Solar Technology

    Newington, Conn., Schüco International KG, German parent company of Schüco USA L.P., and German energy giant E.ON AG are jointly investing $135 million to develop new photovoltaic (PV) modules based on thin-film technology for metal and glass facades. Production begins in mid 2008.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 18 2007 | solar, Nanotech
    Nanosolar

    Nanosolar is on track to make solar electricity:
    # cost-efficient for ubiquitous deployment
    # mass-produced on a global scale
    # available in many versatile forms.

    Nanosolar awarded largest Solar America contract.
    Nanosolar secures 647,000 sqft of manufacturing space.
    Nanosolar raises $100,000,000; building factory.
    IBM's top manufacturing executive joins Nanosolar.
    Google founders invest in Nanosolar.