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Catalyst advance could lead to economical fuel cells
Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)
Their work is published in the Advanced Energy Materials journal. Hydrogen fuel cells are critical for the clean energy economy as they are more than two times ...
Water vapor annealing technique on diamond surfaces for next-generation power devices
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
In Japan, a collaboration between researchers at Kanazawa University's Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology and AIST in Tsukuba, led by Ryo Yoshida...
This bright blue dye is found in fabric. Could it also power batteries?
Aug 28, 2018 (SPX)
But University at Buffalo scientists think it may be possible to give this industrial pollutant a second life. In a new study, they show that the dye, when diss...
AECOM and Lockheed Martin enhance energy resilience at Fort Carson with battery peaker
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Though there are some existing energy storage systems at military bases, this unit will be the largest stand-alone commercially contracted battery at an army ba...
Scientists tame damaging plasma instabilities in fusion facilities
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
In a set of recent experiments, scientists have tamed a plasma instability in a way that could lead to the efficient and steady state operation of ITER, the int...
These lithium-ion batteries can't catch fire because they harden on impact
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
They will present their results at the 256th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's largest scientific society...
Juelich researchers are developing fast-charging solid-state batteries
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
"With the concepts described to date, only very small charge and discharge currents were possible due to problems at the internal solid-state interfaces. This i...
A paper battery powered by bacteria
Aug 21, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers will present their results at the 256th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's largest scienti...
Scientists turn to the quantum realm to improve energy transportation
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
They published their results on July 24 in Quantum Information, a Nature Partner Journal. "Energy transport is at the core of natural life, as well as our curre...
Advanced plasma switch for more efficient transmission
Aug 20, 2018 (SPX)
Now the General Electric (GE) company, with assistance from scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), is d...
Doubling performance with lithium metal that doesn't catch fire
Aug 17, 2018 (SPX)
By using a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte, engineers can harness the power of lithium metal batteries without the historic issues of poor durability and short...
Superconductivity above 10 K discovered in a novel quasi-one-dimensional compound K2Mo3As3
Aug 13, 2018 (SPX)
For the unconventional high-Tc superconductors of cuprates and iron pnictides/chalcogenides, the occurrence of superconductivity is highly related to the existe...
Scientists design material that can store energy like an eagle's grip
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
These kinds of materials are called auxetics and behave quite differently from regular materials. Instead of bulging out when squeezed, they collapse in all dir...
Lining up surprising behaviors of superconductor with one of the world's strongest magnets
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists set out to answer this question in one such superconductor made of the elements lanthanum, strontium, copper, and oxygen (LSCO). They disco...
Physicists find surprising distortions in high-temperature superconductors
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
Rice physicists Pengcheng Dai and Andriy Nevidomskyy and their colleagues used simulations and neutron scattering experiments that show the atomic structure of ...
Scientists create biodegradable, paper-based biobatteries
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
For years, there has been excitement in the scientific community about the possibility of paper-based batteries as an eco-friendly alternative. However, the pro...
Old mining techniques make a new way to recycle lithium batteries
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
"We got a lot of 'oh wow!' responses, from eight-year-olds wanting to know how it worked to EPA officials wondering why no one had done this before," says senio...
Expanding the limits of Li-ion batteries: Electrodes for all-solid-state batteries
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
The fabricated batteries showed excellent electrochemical properties that greatly surpass those of traditional and ubiquitous Li-ion batteries; thereby, demonst...
A breakthrough of monitoring energy storage at work using optical fibers
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
The sensor is embedded inside the capacitor and is able to measure the state of charge of the electrodes and electrolytes in real time, while it operates, and o...
Workshop advances plans for coping with disruptions on ITER
Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)
Disruptions, the sudden loss of heat in plasma that halts fusion reactions, can seriously damage ITER and other doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamak...
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