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Scientists take step toward safer batteries by trimming lithium branches

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

The team, led by Susumu Arai, a professor of the department of materials chemistry and head of Division for Application of Carbon Materials at the Institute of ...

New computation help identify new solid oxide fuel cell materials

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

A solid oxide fuel cell is essentially an engine that provides an alternative way to burn fossil fuels or hydrogen to generate power. These fuel cells burn thei...

Shedding high-power laser light on the plasma density limit

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

A group of Japanese researchers led by Osaka University has proposed that substances heated with high-power lasers produce an ultrahigh pressure plasma state, c...

Charging ahead to higher energy batteries

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

Professor Nobuyuki Zettsu from the Center for Energy and Environmental Science in the Department of Materials Chemistry of Shinshu University in Japan and the d...

New method for waking up devices

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

Angad Rekhi, a graduate student in the Arbabian lab at Stanford, and Amin Arbabian, assistant professor of electrical engineering, have developed a wake-up rece...

More than a well-balanced breakfast: Scientists use egg whites for clean energy production

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

"Hydrogen is a promising fuel and energy storage medium because hydrogen emits no global warming gas when used. Nevertheless, hydrogen generation reactions usua...

Today's highest quality composite-piezoelectric developed at NUST MISIS

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

Piezoelectrics are one of the world's most amazing materials. It is possible to literally squeeze electricity from them. That is, an electric charge appears at ...

New tech for commercial Lithium-ion batteries finds they can be charged 5 times fast

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

The new technology works in-situ during a battery's normal operation without impeding its performance and it has been tested on standard commercially available ...

New fuel cell demonstrates exceptional power density and stability

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

"For years, industry has told us that the holy grail is getting fuel cells to work at 500-degrees Celsius and with high power density, which means a longer life...

Converting heat into electricity with pencil and paper

Feb 19, 2018 (SPX)

Residual heat is a by-product of almost all technological and natural processes, such as in power plants and every household appliance, and the human body as we...

System draws power from daily temperature swings

Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)

The new system, called a thermal resonator, could enable continuous, years-long operation of remote sensing systems, for example, without requiring other power ...

Demonstration of a single molecule piezoelectric effect

Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)

The study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society represents a breakthrough in understanding the electromechanical behavior of individual mole...

Turning background room temperature heat into energy

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Now researchers centered at Japan's University of Tsukuba have developed a new kind of thermoelectric system that can harness small energy differences at low te...

New method could open path to hydrogen economy

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Using inexpensive nickel and iron, the researchers developed a very simple, five-minute method to create large amounts of a high-quality catalyst required for t...

New lithium collection method could boost global supply

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Benny Freeman, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, and his colleagues at the Monash University De...

Chemical cluster could transform energy storage for large electrical grids

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

The key to this technology, called a redox flow battery, is finding chemicals that can not only "carry" sufficient charge, but also be stored without degrading ...

Missing link to novel superconductivity revealed at Ames Laboratory

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

"In the research of quantum materials, it's long been theorized that there are three types of magnetism associated with superconductivity. One type is very comm...

Powerful LED-based train headlight optimized for energy savings

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

Train headlights not only illuminate the tracks ahead, they also play an important role in rail transportation. Because trains are difficult to stop, the headli...

New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasma

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

Applying heat in a tokamak produces many interesting phenomena such as changes in plasma rotation and density. DIII-D researchers modeled how different types of...

Army-led effort demos new atomic effect for potential isotopic battery

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists said this significant scientific achievement marks a step in the Army's quest to find and access alternative energy sources far beyond those possible...