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Mini heat engine could power tomorrow's tiny machines
May 15, 2017 (UPI)
"Heat engines are devices that turn thermal energy into a useful form known as 'work,'" Ahsan Nazir, a research fellow at the University of Manchester, said in ...
Understanding of superconductor's 'normal' state may help solve longstanding puzzle
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Now experiments done at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Madhavan and Abbamonte laboratories, in collaboration with researchers at six inst...
Laser pulses reveal the superconductors of the future
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
An international collaboration, led by the scientists of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Universita Cattolica di Brescia a...
Harnessing geometric frustration to tune batteries for greater power
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from the University's School of Physical Sciences (SPS), working with scientists from other European institutions, formulated a recipe to increase t...
Electroplating delivers high-energy, high-power batteries
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois, Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation and Nanjing University in China developed a method for electroplating lithium-ion...
New model of plasma stability could help researchers predict and avoid disruptions
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
This research was reported in a paper published in Physics of Plasmas in February 2017, and received funding from the DOE's Office of Science (Fusion Energy Sci...
No batteries necessary, new medical implant derives energy from the human body
May 11, 2017 (UPI)
That's the hope of a team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut, who recently unveiled a so-called biological supercapacitor capable of tur...
Can the motion of checking your smartwatch charge it?
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The short answer is yes. New research from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in South Korea, published this week in APL Materials, from AIP Publis...
Graphane could act as efficient and water-free hydrogen fuel cell membrane
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering have found that the unusual properties of graphane - a two-dimensional polymer of ca...
NRL breakthrough enables safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
Joseph Parker, Jeffrey Long, and Debra Rolison from NRL's Advanced Electrochemical Materials group are leading an effort to create an entire family of safer, wa...
Super P carbon black for reversible lithium and sodium ion storage
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Super P carbon black (SPCB), produced from partial oxidation of petrochemical precursors exhibiting a large specific surface area and superb electrical conducti...
Revolutionary method reveals impact of short circuits on battery safety
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Although catastrophic failure is extremely rare, recent high-profile cases including the recall of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 smartphone line and the grounding of ...
Thin layers of water hold promise for the energy storage of the future
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
"This is a proof of concept, but the idea of using water or other solvents to 'tune' the transport of ions in a layered material is very exciting," says Veronic...
New breakthrough in battery charging technology
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
In this work, the team of Professor Sang-Young Lee and Professor Kwanyoung Seo of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST presented a new class of monolithical...
Freezing lithium batteries may make them safer and bendable
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Liquid electrolyte is currently used in commercial lithium batteries, and, as everyone is now aware, it is highly flammable, causing safety issues with some lap...
A more than 100% quantum step toward producing hydrogen fuel
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Recently, in an article published in the journal Nature Energy, lead author Yong Yan, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sc...
Bright future for self-charging batteries
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Lithium-ion batteries have allowed the rapid proliferation of all kinds of mobile devices such as phones, tablets and computers. These tools however require fre...
Clarifying the mechanism for suppressing turbulence through ion mass
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
In numerous plasma experiments being conducted in countries around the world, the use of deuterium is improving the confinement of heat and particles. That is, ...
Stanford scientist's new approach may accelerate design of high-power batteries
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
In work published recently in Applied Physics Letters, the researchers describe a mathematical model for designing new materials for storing electricity. The mo...
Electrochemical performance of lithium-ion capacitors
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
Internal short-circuit method (ISC) is also called direct contact (DC) method. The pre-lithiated can achieved through direct physical contact between negative e...
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