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CAS researchers develop selective electrocatalysts to boost direct methanol fuel cell performance
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
When methanol, the fuel of DMFCs, crosses over from the anode to the cathode through the proton exchange membrane (PEM), fuel cell performance is significantly ...
New metrology technique measures electric fields
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
"Existing electric field probes rely on a calibration process that poses something of a chicken-and-egg dilemma," said Christopher L. Holloway, a scientist at t...
Tiny bubbles provide tremendous propulsion in new microparticles research-Ben-Gurion U
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The new technique could have significant implications in the development of micromotors and optical devices for use in solar cell optics. "What we ultimately ho...
Multifunctional catalyst for poison-resistant hydrogen fuel cells
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The oxidation of hydrogen to release energy and water using fuel cells containing catalysts is being researched intensively. However, catalysts used in hydrogen...
Nickel for thought: Compound shows potential for high-temperature superconductivity
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The team successfully synthesized single crystals of a metallic trilayer nickelate compound, a feat the researchers believe to be a first. "It's poised for supe...
Inexpensive organic material gives safe batteries a longer life
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers, led by Yan Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, report their use of quinones - an inexpensive, earth-abundant and e...
Illuminating a better way to calculate excitation energy
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
A glow stick's color offers a direct way to visualize excitation energy, the energy required to send a single electron into an excited state. But this phenomeno...
Getting the biggest bang out of plasma jets
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
Capillary discharge plasma jets are those that are created by a large current that passes through a low-density gas in what is called a capillary chamber. The g...
How protons move through a fuel cell
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
Empa physicist Artur Braun and Qianli Chen, a doctoral student at ETH Zurich, conducted neutron scattering experiments on the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source (S...
A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved at EPFL
Jun 26, 2017 (SPX)
The study, which has just been published in Science, was led by Kosmas Tsakmakidis, first at the University of Ottawa and then at EPFL's Bionanophotonic Systems...
New efficient, low-temperature catalyst for hydrogen production
Jun 23, 2017 (SPX)
"This catalyst produces a purer form of hydrogen to feed into the fuel cell," said Jose Rodriguez, a chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven...
Rosatom Develops Radiation-Powered Electricity Source for Medicine, Outer Space
Jun 23, 2017 (Sputnik)
Russia's "Luch" enterprise, which is part of the scientific division of Rosatom, has created a small-scale power source based on the radioactive nickel-63 (Ni-6...
Deceleration of runaway electrons paves the way for fusion power
Jun 23, 2017 (SPX)
It takes high pressure and temperatures of about 150 million degrees to get atoms to combine. As if that was not enough, runaway electrons are wreaking havoc in...
Battery improvements spark HEV EV market breakthrough
Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)
"Aside from charging infrastructures, battery cost and life have proved the greatest obstacles to growth in the HEV/EV market so far. It's definitely not the el...
Zig-zagging device focuses high-energy radiation emissions
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
To design devices that steadily emit a specific type of radiation, physicists use a special kind of crystal, referred to as a crystalline undulator. In a recent...
Making hydrogen fuel from humid air
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Traditionally, hydrogen destined for industrial use has come from fossil fuels. But this approach creates carbon byproducts and other pollutants. In search of a...
Liquified gas electrolytes power new lower-temperature battery
Jun 16, 2017 (UPI)
The technology could help make lithium ion batteries safer and more efficient, as well as boost the range of electric vehicles during cold winter months. The ne...
A seaweed derivative could be just what lithium-sulfur batteries need
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
In research led by Gao Liu, the team unexpectedly found that carrageenan, a seaweed derivative, acts as a stabilizer in lithium-sulfur batteries. Better stabili...
Clean energy stored in electric vehicles to power buildings
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Dr Kotub Uddin, with colleagues from WMG's Energy and Electrical Systems group and Jaguar Land Rover, has demonstrated that vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology can...
Batteries from scrap metal
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the rust is converted directly into a compact layer with a grid structure that can store potassium ions. A coating...
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