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Activity descriptors for electrocatalysts in energy storage applications
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
There are some challenges to design high-activity catalysts for electrochemical conversions. Scientists from State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics a...
Statoil: Batteries can address wind power variability
Nov 28, 2017 (UPI)
The company said Tuesday its Hywind facility off the coast of Scotland, the first floating wind farm in service in the world, will be equipped next year with ba...
New computational method provides optimized design of wind up toys
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
The new computational system includes analytic modeling of a wide variety of elemental mechanisms found in common wide-up toys, including their geometry and kin...
Musk beats deadline for building world's biggest battery
Nov 23, 2017 (AFP)
State Premier Jay Weatherill said testing of the massive lithium ion battery would begin within days, ahead of the December 1 deadline Musk set for himself when...
A new way to store thermal energy
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
Now, a new chemical composite developed by researchers at MIT could provide an alternative. It could be used to store heat from the sun or any other source duri...
Reusing waste energy with 2-D electron gas
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
More than 60% of the energy produced by fossil fuels is lost as heat. Thermoelectric energy conversion has attracted much attention as a way to convert waste he...
Renaissance of the iron-air battery
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
Together with American Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), they successfully observed with nanometre precision how deposits form at the iron electrode during ...
Fuel cell X-ray study details effects of temperature and moisture on performance
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
But seeing inside a working fuel cell at the tiny scales relevant to a fuel cell's chemistry and physics is challenging, so scientists used X-ray-based imaging ...
Researchers take next step toward fusion energy
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
The sun makes energy by fusing hydrogen atoms, each with one proton, into helium atoms, which contain two protons. Helium is the byproduct of this reaction. Alt...
Study helps make microgrids a more reliable power source
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
Increasingly, many rural and some urban communities are turning to microgrids as an alternative source of electricity. Microgrids are small-scale power systems ...
Scientists make progress in quest for fusion energy
Nov 14, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists have developed a new method for creating resilient materials -- possibly strong enough to survive the intensity of a fusion core. Fusion energy is th...
'Perfectly frustrated' metal provides possible path to superconductivity
Nov 13, 2017 (SPX)
Condensed matter physicists use the term "frustrated" to describe a kind of magnet in which the spins fail to align into stable magnetic order. In perfectly fru...
Cool textiles to beat the heat
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
Now researchers report in ACS Nano the development of a new material for clothing that we could one day don as our own personal cooling unit, without any extern...
A novel layered superconductor based on tin and arsenic
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
The research group of Yoshikazu MIZUGUCHI (Associate Professor) and Yosuke GOTO (Project Researcher) specializes in the discovery of two-dimensional layered str...
Scientists design smart paper capable of detecting water, conducting electricity
Nov 07, 2017 (UPI)
Even small leaks in a city's maze of pipes can prove costly. Left alone, the problem can get worse. And finding the leak can prove timely. The American Water Wo...
Microscopic defects make batteries better
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
Rice materials scientist Ming Tang and chemists Song Jin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Linsen Li at Wisconsin and the Massachusetts Institute of Te...
Scientists create magnetic system that transforms heat into motion
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
The innovative new study by a team of international researchers including Professor Gino Hrkac from the University of Exeter, created a magnetic system capable ...
UNIST unveils new fast-charging, high-energy electric-car battery technology
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
This breakthrough has been led by Professor Hoi Ri Moon in the School of Natural Science at UNIST, Professor Hyunchul Oh of Gyeongnam National University of Sci...
New studies on disordered cathodes may provide much-needed jolt to lithium batteries
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
In a pair of papers published this month in Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters (PRL), a team of scientists led by Gerbrand Ceder has come up with...
Cobalt and tungsten the key to cheaper, cleaner hydrogen
Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)
'Normally, hydrogen is obtained from using a cheap process called steam reforming. But this is not clean hydrogen, this process uses natural gas and produces ca...
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