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Self-heating, fast-charging battery makes electric vehicles climate-immune
Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)
"Electric vehicles are popular on the west coast because the weather is conducive," said Xiao-Guang Yang, assistant research professor in mechanical engineering...
Buildings as power stations - data shows they work: They generate more energy than they consume
Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)
The findings were announced as the researchers launched the next phase of their research, gathering data and evidence on an office building, constructed using s...
New experimental results from the largest and most sophisticated stellerator
Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)
Besides preparing for new experiments, researchers are analyzing data from the first experiment campaign that took place in 2016, hoping to understand the scien...
Atomic movie of melting gold could help design materials for future fusion reactors
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Nuclear fusion is the process that powers stars like the sun. Scientists want to copy this process on Earth as a relatively clean and safe way of generating vir...
Paving the way for safer, smaller batteries and fuel cells
Jun 25, 2018 (SPX)
Improvements to that barrier, known as an electrolyte, are needed to make energy storage devices thinner, more efficient, safer, and faster to recharge. Commonl...
Turbocharge for lithium batteries
Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists are therefore working on ways to improve the power densities and charging rates of all-round batteries. "An important factor is the anode material," ...
Sodium- and potassium-based batteries hold promise for cheap energy storage
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
But that growth has led to concerns that the world's supply of lithium, the metal at the heart of many of the new rechargeable batteries, may eventually be depl...
The first experimental discovery in the world of the propagation of plasma turbulence
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
Because the high-temperature regions and the low temperature areas are mixed due to the turbulence, the core temperature cannot be effectively raised. Thus, res...
Rutgers-led research could lead to more efficient electronics
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
Their findings, which involved using a special mix of materials with magnetic and insulator properties, are published online in Nature Physics. "This material, ...
Nickel ferrite promotes capacity and cycle stability of lithium-sulfur battery
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
Xue-Ping Gao and co-workers, from Nankai University, tell us "Till now, the volumetric energy density of 500 Wh/L is not satisfied. But it was already realized ...
Taking a closer look at 'electrifying' chemistry
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
However, exactly how these electrocatalysts work is not yet fully understood. This could now all change with a new method developed by researchers from Friedric...
Tripling the energy storage of lithium-ion batteries
Jun 15, 2018 (SPX)
A collaboration led by scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the U.S. Army R...
Physicists use terahertz flashes to uncover state of matter hidden by superconductivity
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
It takes intense, single-cycle pulses of photons - flashes - hitting the cooled alloy at terahertz speed - trillions of cycles per second - to switch on this hi...
New model sheds light on key physics of magnetic islands that halt fusion reactions
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, which overturn long-held assumptions of the structure and impact of magnetic islands, are from simulations led by visiting physicist Jae-Min Kwon....
Novel NUS-developed hydrogel invented harnesses air moisture for practical applications
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
The unique hydrogel is a form of zinc oxide - a compound found in sunscreen - in a gel-like state. It can absorb water from the surrounding environment more tha...
Better, faster, stronger: Building batteries that don't go boom
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
Lithium ion batteries hold incredible promise for improved storage capacity, but they are volatile. We've all heard the news about lithium ion batteries in phon...
Scientists improve ability to measure electrical properties of plasma
May 30, 2018 (SPX)
Now, recent research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) indicates a way to more accurately measur...
Researchers predict materials to stabilize record-high capacity lithium-ion battery
May 30, 2018 (SPX)
"This battery electrode has realized one of the highest-ever reported capacities for all transition-metal-oxide-based electrodes. It's more than double the capa...
Why bioelectrodes for energy conversion are not stable
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
However, the proteins, which are stable in nature, are not functional in semi-artificial systems in the long term because reactive molecules are formed that dam...
Turning up the heat on thermoelectrics
May 28, 2018 (SPX)
Over the last 60 years or so, scientists have studied a number of materials to characterize their thermoelectric potential, or the efficiency with which they co...
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