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Imaging method promises industrial insight into fuel cells
Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)
"Our method is not limited to fuel cells or water. There's a lot of compounds in the chemical industries, including electrochemistry, electrolytes for batteries...
Cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries pinpointed
Oct 15, 2019 (SPX)
The team, led by Chongmin Wang at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has shown that the presence of certain compounds in the elec...
First fully rechargeable carbon dioxide battery
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to show that lithium-carbon dioxide batteries can be designed to operate in a fully rechargea...
Controlling superconducting regions within an exotic metal
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
Future technologies, however, will harness the total synchrony of electronic behavior in superconductors - a property called the phase. There is currently a rac...
Scientists finally find superconductivity in place they have been looking for decades
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
The simulations they ran, published in Science, suggest that researchers might be able to toggle superconductivity on and off in copper-based materials called c...
How to startup fusion devices every time
Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), working with researchers at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy ...
Pressure may be key to thermoelectric generators
Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)
Alternative energy sources are key to combating climate change caused by carbon emissions. Compounds with thermoelectric capabilities can convert thermal energy...
Air Force scientists discover unique stretchable conductor
Oct 03, 2019 (SPX)
The material recently developed by AFRL scientists, called Polymerized Liquid Metal Networks, does just the opposite. These liquid metal networks can be straine...
A new way to turn heat into energy
Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)
The discovery, published last week in the journal Science Advances, could create more efficient energy generation from heat in things like car exhaust, interpla...
How to predict crucial plasma pressure in future fusion facilities
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Central to these predictions is forecasting the pressure that the scrape-off layer, the thin strip of gas at the edge of the plasma, exerts on the divertor - th...
Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heat
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
The research team includes scientists from North Carolina State University, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Chinese Academy...
Solving the longstanding mystery of how friction leads to static electricity
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Now a Northwestern University team developed a new model that shows that rubbing two objects together produces static electricity, or triboelectricity, by bendi...
Thermoelectric device harnesses cold of space to power LED light at night
Sep 13, 2019 (UPI)
"Remarkably, the device is able to generate electricity at night, when solar cells don't work," Aaswath Raman, an assistant professor of materials science and e...
Breakthrough enables storage and release of mechanical waves without energy loss
Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)
In a newly published paper in Science Advances, a group of researchers led by Andrea Alu, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science ...
First report of superconductivity in a nickel oxide material
Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)
Also known as a nickelate, it's the first in a potential new family of unconventional superconductors that's very similar to the copper oxides, or cuprates, who...
Physicists' study demonstrates silicon's energy-harvesting power
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
The collaborative project demonstrated that silicon's ability to harvest energy from heat can be greatly increased while remaining mass-producible. Dr. Mark Lee...
Coating developed by Stanford researchers brings lithium metal battery closer to reality
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
A new coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, a boon for development of next-generation electric vehicles. (Image credit: ...
Ammonia for fuel cells
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Delaware are working on technology to make fuel cells cheaper and more powerful so that fuel cell vehicles can be a viable opti...
A hallmark of superconductivity, beyond superconductivity itself
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
The thing that's more weird is that it looks like there are two different energy scales. There's a higher energy scale where the pairs form, and there's a lower...
New technique could streamline design of intricate fusion device
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
"Our main result is that we came up with a new method of identifying the irregular magnetic fields produced by stellarator coils," said physicist Caoxiang Zhu, ...
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