Published July 27, 2015 This content is archived.
An article in First Bell, a weekday newsletter of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), reports that UB engineers are working to develop a next-generation power control system for the Navy.
ECN (7/22) magazine reports that as the U.S. Navy prepares for “powerful next generation weapons” and works to improve energy efficiency, it is thinking of ways to overhaul how electricity is distributed aboard oceangoing vessels. Researchers are considering “using graphene, which, since its discovery in 2004, has become the material of choice for researchers working to improve everything from solar cells to smartphone batteries.”
The piece notes that the Office of Naval Research has given engineers at the University of Buffalo “an $800,000 grant to develop narrow strips of graphene called nanoribbons that may someday revolutionize how power is controlled in ships, smartphones and other electronic devices.”
Read the Controlled Environments Magazine story here.
Read the iConnect007 story here.
Read the Nanowerk News story here.
Read the Product Design & Development story here.
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