Researchers with the California NanoSystems Institute recently developed a new battery-like supercapacitor, a device that stores charge, which may rival conventional energy storage technology. The Kaner Laboratory, where the capacitor was created, published a paper on the technology in early March and presented it Saturday at the Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and […]
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UCLA lab develops Google Glass app for rapid diagnosis of plant health
Bingen Cortazar takes a leaf, slides it into a small plastic box and holds it in front of his face. He looks at it a moment, then presses a button on the side of the red eyeglass frame-turned-computer. With a quick photograph, the graduate student in electrical engineering determined the chlorophyll level and health of […]
UCLA engineers develop flexible, transparent electronic display
Researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science recently developed an elastic, flexible and transparent lighting panel out of organic materials. Organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, run electricity through carbon-based, solid-state polymers to emit light. The process offers advantages over traditional incandescent and fluorescent lighting. OLEDs prove more energy efficient and longer […]