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!!

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.

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!!