ENERGY TECH - SATURN DAILY

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

To prevent such accidents, the current solution is to encapsulate the anode - which is the negative (-) electrode of the battery, opposite to the cathode (+) - ...

UW shatters long-range communication barrier for near-zero-power devices

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

For example, flexible electronics - from knee patches that capture range of motion in arthritic patients to patches that use sweat to detect fatigue in athletes...

A revolution in lithium-ion batteries is becoming more realistic

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

Commercially available lithium-ion batteries consist of two electrodes connected by a liquid electrolyte. This electrolyte makes it difficult for engineers to r...

Army, UMD researchers develop water-based lithium-ion batteries that don't explode

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

This technology will bring the Soldiers a "completely safe and flexible Li-ion battery that provides identical energy density as the SOA Li-ion batteries. The b...

Corvus Energy wins contract to provide battery systems for hybrid fishing vessels

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

Each fishing vessel will be equipped with an ESS, with capacity of approximately 250kWh, which will be utilized during many aspects of the fishing vessel operat...

Researchers challenge status quo of battery commercialization

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

A pair of Northwestern University researchers and a Northwestern-affiliated startup, however, are touting a different way and have pulled inspiration from a see...

More durable, less expensive fuel cells

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

They describe their results in a paper published in Nature Communications on Monday, Sept. 4. Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are a green alternative to internal co...

Why US battery startups fail and how to fix it

Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)

However, the scientific research needed to bring the necessary advances in materials to market in the US remains a formidable challenge. Hurdles include high up...

Researchers devise a new way of producing hydrogen fuel

Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)

Professor Vladimir Chupin, who holds a ScD in chemistry and heads the Laboratory of the Chemistry and Physics of Lipids at MIPT's Research Center for Molecular ...

Scientists unveil explosion-free lithium-ion batteries

Sep 06, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists have developed a batter that uses a water-salt solution as the electrolyte medium. The electrolyte helps ferry lithium ions between the battery's cat...

Researchers develop new material for hydrogen storage

Sep 06, 2017 (UPI)

Hydrogen has been promised as the remedy for the world's addiction to fossil fuels. But to make hydrogen more economically viable, researchers must find cheaper...

Electricity production: When enzymes rival platinum

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

In recent years, the identification of biocatalysts, enzymes with remarkable properties, has revitalized research in this area: their oxygen, and especially hyd...

New device could turn heat energy into a viable fuel source

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

The device is a multicomponent, multilayered composite material called a van der Waals Schottky diode. It converts heat into electricity up to three times more ...

Lithium-ion batteries will get more efficiency due to silicon, germanium, carbon nanowalls

Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)

Lithium-ion batteries refer to the most popular type of energy storage systems, applied in modern electronic devices. Such batteries are composed of two electro...

Silicon solves problems for next-generation battery technology

Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)

In a climate-neutral society, renewable and emission-free sources of energy, such as wind and solar power, will become increasingly widespread. The supply of en...

NREL analysis identifies where commercial customers might benefit from energy storage

Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)

The analysis represents the first publicly available survey of commercial-sector demand charges across the United States. By determining locations where compara...

Recipe for safer batteries - Just add diamonds

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Bach professor in the College of Engineering, and his research team from the Department of Materials Science and...

A new twist toward practical energy harvesting

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

However, efforts to harness energy from stretching or torsional motion have been limited to circuits with very small currents. Here, Shi Hyeong Kim and colleagu...

Tweaking thermoelectric voltage across atomic-scale gold junction by mechanical force

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

These interferences are strongly dependent on the structure, including minute defects, of the atomic-scale contact and surrounding material, which determine ele...

Physicists find strange state of matter in superconducting crystal

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

The paper, Electronic in-plane symmetry breaking at field-tuned quantum criticality in CeRhIn5, was published in the journal Nature. Electrons in most metals ac...