Researchers are going back to Thomas Edison's old nickel-iron battery design more than 100 years later to make a new, high-performance way to store en.

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University's James Tour in ACS ...

When Thomas Alva Edison was painstakingly testing carbonized filaments for his early light bulbs in 1879, he was chasing a practical, long‑lasting glow, not a new form of matter. Yet new laboratory ...

Did one of history’s most famous inventions quietly create the superstar material of modern clean tech more than a century ahead of its time? A new materials science study suggests that the carbon ...

Eleven years ago the general manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.’s electric storage battery factory, George E. Stringfellow. yelled into Edison’s less deaf ear: “Mr. Edison, would you be willing to ...