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Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)

The all-stock deal values Maxwell at $4.75 a share, according to a statement. The move comes with Tesla facing increasing competition in the sector and electric...

Researchers find a way to boost sodium-ion battery performance

Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)

The findings were published in Scientific Reports in November of 2018 and was headed by Naoto Tanibata, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at the Department of Advan...

Superconductors: Resistance is futile

Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)

The search for high-temperature superconductors is extremely difficult, because many of the quantum effects related to superconductivity are not yet well unders...

Putting that free energy around you to good use with minuscule energy harvesters

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

Nowadays, it would be hard to not notice that electronic devices have become incredibly small. The use of miniature sensors in the upcoming Internet of Things (...

Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2D materials

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

Devices that convert AC electromagnetic waves into DC electricity are known as "rectennas." The researchers demonstrate a new kind of rectenna, described in a s...

Proton transport 'highway' may pave way to better high-power batteries

Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)

The research team led by Xiulei (David) Ji of OSU's College of Science, along with collaborators at the Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Californi...

New method yields higher transition temperature in superconducting materials

Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)

The results, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest a previously unexplored avenue for achieving higher-temperature supercondu...

Static electricity could charge our electronics

Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)

"Nearly everyone has zapped their finger on a doorknob or seen child's hair stick to a balloon. To incorporate this energy into our electronics, we must better ...

Novel device may rapidly control plasma disruptions in a fusion facility

Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), and the University of Washington have developed a novel prototy...

UMass Amherst materials chemists tap body heat to power 'smart garments'

Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)

Writing in an early online edition of Advanced Materials Technologies, Andrew and Allison explain that in theory, body heat can produce power by taking advantag...

North Sea rocks could act as large-scale renewable energy stores

Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)

An advanced technique could be used to trap compressed air in porous rock formations found in the North Sea using electricity from renewable technologies. The p...

Researchers discover new evidence of superconductivity at near room temperature

Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)

Superconductivity is the lack of electrical resistance and is observed in many materials when they are cooled below a critical temperature. Until now, supercond...

Fiery sighting: A new physics of eruptions that damage fusion experiments

Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)

Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have directly observed a possible and previously unknown pro...

Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria

Jan 14, 2019 (SPX)

Scientists and engineers are exploring ways to harness these microbial power plants to run fuel cells and purify sewage water, among other uses. But pinning dow...

Cartilage could be key to safe 'structural batteries'

Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)

The idea behind structural batteries is to store energy in structural components - the wing of a drone or the bumper of an electric vehicle, for example. They'v...

Model predicts lithium-ion batteries most competitive for storage applications by 2030

Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)

They developed a model to determine the lifetime costs of 9 electricity storage technologies for 12 different applications between 2015 and 2050. The model, whi...

New catalysts for better fuel cells

Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) transform the chemical energy produced during a reaction between hydrogen fuel and oxygen into electrical energ...

Scientists discover a process that stabilizes fusion plasmas

Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)

Replicating fusion, which releases boundless energy by fusing atomic nuclei in the state of matter known as plasma, could produce clean and virtually limitless ...

UTokyo engineers create a wireless charger you can easily cut to shape

Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)

"I really wish to live in a wireless world," says Ryo Takahashi of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. "Imagine homes and offices without...

Unlocking new paths toward high-temperature superconductors

Jan 07, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unveiled a clue into the cuprates' unusual propert...