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Pathways toward realizing the promise of all-solid-state batteries
Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)
In a review article published in the March 2020 issue of Nature Nanotechnology, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego offer a research roadmap...
'Spillway' for electrons could keep lithium metal batteries from catching fire
Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)
The team made a clever tweak to the part of the battery called the separator, which serves as a barrier between the anode and cathode, so that it slows down the...
Permanent magnets stronger than those on refrigerator could be a solution for delivering fusion energy
Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)
In principle, such magnets can greatly simplify the design and production of twisty fusion facilities called stellarators, according to scientists at the U.S. D...
Fast-charging damages electric car batteries
Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)
Mihri Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Cengiz Ozkan, a professor of mechanical engineering in the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns Colleg...
Feeding fusion: hydrogen ice pellets prove effective for fueling fusion plasmas
Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers showed that icy pellets of hydrogen improve the temperature of the fusion plasma when compared with the gas fueling method now typically used in...
Seasonal storage technology has the potential to become cost-effective long-term electricity storage system
Mar 12, 2020 (SPX)
As energy demand is increasingly electrified, for example through rising numbers of electric vehicles and in buildings, for space heating and cooling, this grow...
Powering the future with revolutionary lithium extraction technique
Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)
The world-first study, published in the prestigious international journal Nature Materials, presents findings that demonstrate the way in which Metal-Organic Fr...
How a magnet could help boost understanding of superconductivity
Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)
A Rutgers co-authored study of the unusual ferromagnetic material appears in the journal Nature. The Rutgers Center for Materials Theory, a world leader in the ...
High energy Li-Ion battery is safer for electric vehicles
Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)
Electric vehicle batteries typically require a tradeoff between safety and energy density. If the battery has high energy and power density, which is required f...
Scientists created an 'impossible' superconducting compound
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
A theory that has evolved in the past fifteen years assumes that hydrogen compounds (hydrides) can make excellent superconductors, that is, substances which hav...
Potassium metal battery emerges as a rival to lithium-ion technology
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrate how they can overcome a ...
New study explains why superconductivity takes place in graphene
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Jyvaskyla showed that graphene can be a superconductor at a much higher temperature than expected, due to ...
Manipulating atoms to make better superconductors
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
A new study by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers published in the journal Nature Communications shows that it is possible to manipulate individual a...
Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devices
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
These batteries can be used in extremely low-frequency communications and in devices such as blinking lights, electronic beepers, voltage-controlled oscillators...
Isotope movement holds key to the power of fusion reactions
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
A research team in Japan has reached a key understanding of this process that may aid the future development and use of fusion plasma. They published their resu...
Design of the W7-X fusion device enables it to overcome obstacles
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
Now collaborative research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Max Planck Institute for Pl...
Cobalt supply can meet demand for electric vehicle and electronics batteries
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The element is often recovered as a byproduct from mining copper and nickel,...
Could water solve the renewable energy storage challenge?
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
"The energy sectors of most countries are undergoing a transition to renewable energy sources, particularly wind and solar generation," says IIASA postdoc Julia...
KIST develops high-capacity EV battery materials that double driving range
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
The batteries currently installed in mass-produced electric vehicles use graphite anode materials, but their low capacity contributes to electric vehicles' havi...
Generating electricity 'out of thin air'
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
As reported in Nature, the laboratories of electrical engineer Jun Yao and microbiologist Derek Lovley at UMass Amherst have created a device they call an "Air-...
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