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Making better batteries via real-time TEM observation

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has made a surprising discovery that could fix this problem. In the study, published in the July 27th issue of the Journal...

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...

No batteries required: Energy-harvesting yarns generate electricity

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

In a study published in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Science, researchers describe "twistron" yarns and their possible applications, such as harvesting ener...

Scientists make breakthrough in magnesium batteries

Aug 24, 2017 (UPI)

High voltage lithium ion batteries are the current standard but they are expensive and can develop breaches in their internal structure, known as dendrite growt...

ULEMCo plans a fuel cell approach to extend range of electric vans

Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)

The company has developed a fuel cell based unit that will extend vehicle range by supplying additional power to the standard Nissan e-NV200 van; particularly t...

Researchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions surrounding one promising material for such batteries: a compound called li...

Candy cane supercapacitor could enable fast charging of mobile phones

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge have found a way to improve all three problems in one stroke. Their protot...

A quick and easy way to shut down instabilities in fusion devices

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

The suppressed instability is called a global Alfven eigenmode (GAE) - a common wave-like disturbance that can cause fusion reactions to fizzle out. Suppression...

A battery-inspired strategy for carbon fixation

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

Converting carbon dioxide emissions into other carbon-containing compounds is desirable due to carbon dioxide's contribution to the greenhouse effect and global...

Updated computer code improves prediction of particle motion in plasma experiments

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

Podesta modeled the highly energetic ions that are used to heat the plasma. These particles, which physicists inject as neutral atoms, are ionized inside the pl...

IV and cellular fluids power flexible batteries

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

"Current batteries like the lithium-ion ones used in medical implants generally come in rigid shapes," says co-senior author Yonggang Wang, a chemistry professo...

Saliva-powered battery could be helpful in extreme conditions

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

For the last five years, Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi has focused on developing micro-power sources f...

Metal clouds to protect fusion reactor walls from heat flux

Aug 07, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists in Belgium have showed that vapor clouds of liquid metal can successfully reflect heat during extreme temperature flux. Today, fusion energy is only ...

Rice develops dual-surface graphene electrode to split water into hydrogen and oxygen

Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)

The easily fabricated material developed by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour offers a robust and efficient way to store chemical energy. Tests showed the thin...

Study reveals exactly how low-cost fuel cell catalysts work

Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)

"What makes this exploration especially important is that it enhances our understanding of exactly why these alternative catalysts are active," said Piotr Zelen...

How the electrodes of lithium-air batteries become passivated

Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)

However, despite all these advantages, industrial production of lithium-air batteries hasn't started yet since their designers face fundamental problems which c...

BAE Systems installing heat and power plant at Portsmouth, England

Aug 04, 2017 (UPI)

The plant will be completed at the end of next year and will recycle energy, reduce carbon footprint and save the Ministry of Defense as much as $4.7 million in...

Scientists map ways forward for lithium-ion batteries for extreme environments

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and members of his lab have published a review that analyzes recent progress in lithium-ion technology and suggests how...

New chromium-based superconductor has an unusual electronic state

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

These discoveries were made by a research team at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in collaboration with Associate Professor KOTEGAWA Hisashi (Kobe Universit...

Molecular microscopy illuminates molecular motor motion

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

"We can now see biological processes at molecular resolution and at sub-millisecond time scales," said William O. Hancock, professor of biomedical engineering a...