Measurement tool created by UC Riverside assistant professor also helps better prepare the electricity market for the smart grid RIVERSIDE, Calif.— A University of California, Riverside assistant professor of electrical engineering and several colleagues have created a new measurement tool that could help avoid an energy crisis like the one California endured during the early […]
New Uses for Tiny Carbon Nanotubes
Adding ionic liquid to nanotube films could build smaller gadgets, and create more cost effective ‘Smart Windows’ that darken in bright sun The atom-sized world of carbon nanotubes holds great promise for a future demanding smaller and faster electronic components. Nanotubes are stronger than steel and smaller than any element of silicon-based electronics—the ubiquitous component […]