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First direct observation and measurement of ultra-fast moving vortices in superconductors
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
Superconductivity is a state of matter in which an electric current can flow with absolutely no resistance. This occurs when certain materials are cooled below ...
Ultrathin device harvests electricity from human motion
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
A new, ultrathin energy harvesting system developed at Vanderbilt University's Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory has the potential to do just that. Ba...
Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries focus of Sandia Labs study
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
In its San Francisco Bay Renewable Energy Electric Vessel with Zero Emissions study, known as SF-BREEZE, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories concluded l...
Giant charge reversal observed for the first time
Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)
Results reported this week in the Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, confirm, for the first time, giant charge reversal for a surface in contact ...
Using the stairs just got easier with energy-recycling steps
Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)
The spring-loaded stairs compress when someone comes down the stairs, saving energy otherwise dissipated through impact and braking forces at the ankle by 26 pe...
Study: Mini cellular antennae helps turn muscle into fat
Jul 13, 2017 (UPI)
New research shows the tiny cellular antennae plays a key role in the muscle-to-fat transformation process. While the realization is unlikely to unlock the foun...
Conductive electrodes are key to fast-charging batteries
Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)
The team, led by Yury Gogotsi, PhD, Distinguished University and Bach professor in Drexel's College of Engineering, in the Department of Materials Science and E...
Smart transformers could make reliable smart grid a reality
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
The idea of a smart grid that can handle power flows not just from the power company to our homes, but also back from our homes to the power company has been ar...
Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
By establishing this, the scientists have at the same time succeeded in widening the general understanding of another group of newcomers - copper-based supercon...
First battery-free cellphone makes calls by harvesting ambient power
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
The team also made Skype calls using its battery-free phone, demonstrating that the prototype made of commercial, off-the-shelf components can receive and trans...
Electron orbitals may hold key to unifying concept of high-temperature superconductivity
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
According to the scientists, the materials' dissimilar electronic characteristics actually hold the key to commonality. "Scientists have thought that because th...
New material may help cut battery costs for electric cars, cellphones
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
But a novel manganese and sodium-ion-based material developed at The University of Texas at Dallas, in collaboration with Seoul National University, might becom...
PPPL researchers demonstrate first hot plasma edge in a fusion facility
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Recent experiments on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX), the first facility to fully surround plasma with liquid lithium, showed that lithium coatings can pr...
International team develops new way to produce pure hydrogen efficiently
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
The new catalyst produces a purer form of hydrogen to feed into the fuel cell. The paper, Atomic-layered Au clusters on a-MoC as catalysts for the low-temperatu...
Temperature sensor could power more energy-efficient wearable devices
Jul 05, 2017 (UPI)
Engineers believe the sensor could make wearable and implantable devices, as well as other environmental monitoring technologies, much more energy efficient. Th...
Ruthenium rules for new fuel cells
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Catalysts that drive the oxygen reduction reaction that lets fuel cells turn chemical energy into electricity are usually made of platinum, which stands up to t...
CAS researchers develop selective electrocatalysts to boost direct methanol fuel cell performance
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
When methanol, the fuel of DMFCs, crosses over from the anode to the cathode through the proton exchange membrane (PEM), fuel cell performance is significantly ...
Nickel for thought: Compound shows potential for high-temperature superconductivity
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The team successfully synthesized single crystals of a metallic trilayer nickelate compound, a feat the researchers believe to be a first. "It's poised for supe...
Tiny bubbles provide tremendous propulsion in new microparticles research-Ben-Gurion U
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The new technique could have significant implications in the development of micromotors and optical devices for use in solar cell optics. "What we ultimately ho...
Inexpensive organic material gives safe batteries a longer life
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers, led by Yan Yao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, report their use of quinones - an inexpensive, earth-abundant and e...
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