Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Visit to the Naval Research Lab
Part of our team was kindly hosted by Dr. Leonard Tender and his lab at the Naval Research Laboratories in Washington DC. We learned a great deal from our visti there, and very much appreciate their time and expertise!!
Monday, July 11, 2011
Carbon nanotubes for the developing world?
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Professor Liming Dai of Case Western Reserve, and two research associates S. Wang and D. Yu showed that polymer-coated carbon nanotubes can function as cathode catalysts as well as the much more (650X more!) expensive platinum catalyst!
If these work well with microbial fuel cells we might well have joined two hitherto incongruous buzz word fields into one harmonious twang.
Hopefully we can rope in a collaborator on this one - making our own seems a little... intense.
If these work well with microbial fuel cells we might well have joined two hitherto incongruous buzz word fields into one harmonious twang.
Hopefully we can rope in a collaborator on this one - making our own seems a little... intense.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Welcome to Zoe Xiao!
We'd like to welcome Zoe Xiao as the newest member of Team TerraWatt!
Zoe is a rising junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in electrical engineering, and as a summer-fall she'll be working with Jordan on the electronics and with Aviva on optimizing cell design.
Welcome Zoe!!
Zoe is a rising junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in electrical engineering, and as a summer-fall she'll be working with Jordan on the electronics and with Aviva on optimizing cell design.
Welcome Zoe!!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
New Members of Team TerraWatt
Jonathan Sapan received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2004, and is now a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD.
Jordan Stephens received his A.B. in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard in 2007 and a Masters degree in finance from Tulane in 2009. He is completing his Masters degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, and at Covalent Solar.
(JS... JS.... I wonder what that means?)
They will be working over the next few months on the electrical components and power management of the system, and developing interfaces with specific relevant devices.
Welcome!
Jordan Stephens received his A.B. in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard in 2007 and a Masters degree in finance from Tulane in 2009. He is completing his Masters degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, and at Covalent Solar.
(JS... JS.... I wonder what that means?)
They will be working over the next few months on the electrical components and power management of the system, and developing interfaces with specific relevant devices.
Welcome!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
IRB Approval!
Our project was approved by Harvard University's IRB so we are ready to start building!
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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