TMCnet GreenTech Week in Review

- Alert) low-voltage products, including motor controls, pilot devices and communication devices.  Siemens’ Low and Medium Voltages help clients increase energy efficiency and improve productivity. With these products, clients can avoid expensive power interruptions, equipment breakdowns and start-up costs.

The solutions are widely used in an airports, hospitals, data centers, food processing facilities and shopping centers,

Applied Nanotech Holdings has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, worth $999,990, from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop ultra-lightweight hydrogen fuel tanks using carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforcement. The two-year grant aims to significantly improve the mechanical properties of the carbon fiber/epoxy material used to construct hydrogen fuel tanks with CNT reinforcement. The goal is to reduce the weight of the tanks by 20 percent or more, in order to cut the cost of hydrogen fuel tanks and increase the vehicles’ fuel efficiency.

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), which can be used to create digital displays in television screens, computer monitors and mobile phones, earned revenue of more than $1.69 billion in 2011, according to a report just released by Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert). In OLEDS, a film made of an organic compound emits light in response to an electric current. OLED displays can use either passive-matrix (PMOLED) or active-matrix (AMOLED) addressing schemes. AMOLEDs require a thin-film transistor backplane to switch each individual pixel on or off, but allow for higher resolution and larger display sizes.

The report contends that OLEDs have an advantage over liquid crystal displays (LCD) because their OLED displays are thinner, lightweight and printable.That’s all for this week, but green energy never stops. Check back next week for more!

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