The answer to that question is springing up out of the sand in the form of the Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), a multibillion- dollar project with the objective of establishing Dubai as a leading center ...

Construction (sand and concrete) followed by steel and aluminum are by far the largest. There are smaller applications for silicon that are also critical, such as solar energy and specialty parts for ...

A model of Masdar City at the World Future Energy Summit exhibition in Abu Dhabi, Januray 2012. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images) The great traveller and writer, Wilfred Thesiger, was probably the ...

Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be making the case for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this ...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed an anode using pure nano-silicon made from sand that improves the performance of lithium-ion batteries threefold.

Researchers have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry standard by three times. The key material: sand. Yes, sand. Researchers are now focused on using silicon at the ...

Richard Laine, University of Michigan professor and materials scientist, has discovered an inexpensive and relatively non- toxic method for producing a variety of silicon-based chemicals from sand ...

Diatreme Resources has unlocked potential to expand its Northern silica project in north Queensland, defining two conceptual ...