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New ferromagnetic superconductors
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Superconductivity (SC) and ferromagnetism (FM) are mutually antagonistic collective phenomena in solids. Macroscopically, a superconductor expels magnetic fluxe...
3-D paper-based microbial fuel cell operating under continuous flow condition
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the Iowa State University in Ames, IA has demonstrated a proof-of-concept three-dimensional paper-based microbial fuel cell (MFC) tha...
Bangladesh coal plant threatens World Heritage mangrove: petition
Jul 06, 2016 (AFP)
The world's largest mangrove forest, a World Heritage Site, should be listed as endangered due to a coal-fired power plant under construction in Bangladesh, urg...
Coal dust kills 23,000 per year in EU: report
Jul 04, 2016 (AFP)
Lung-penetrating dust from coal-fired power plants in the European Union claims some 23,000 lives a year and racks up tens of billions of euros in health costs,...
Activists denounce murder of Philippine anti-coal campaigner
Jul 04, 2016 (AFP)
A woman who campaigned against the expansion of coal-fired power plants in the Philippines has been killed, police said Monday, the latest death in one of the w...
Building a better battery
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Forget mousetraps - today's scientists will get the cheese if they manage to build a better battery. An international team led by Texas A and M University chemi...
Borophene: A prospective extraordinary sodium anode material for sodium-based batteries
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Sodium-based batteries have drawn considerable attention as a prospective alternative to lithium-based batteries due to the abundance and low price of sodium el...
Next-generation fluorescent and LED lighting thanks to new phosphor
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Strasbourg, and CNRS have discovered a new phosphor that could make next-generation fluorescent and LED ...
AMA Report Affirms Human Health And Environmental Impacts From LEDS
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
A groundbreaking report recently released by the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health affirms known and suspected impacts to ...
New electron microscope method detects atomic-scale magnetism
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists can now detect magnetic behavior at the atomic level with a new electron microscopy technique developed by a team from the Department of Energy's Oak...
Titan shines light on high-temperature superconductor pathway
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
When physicists Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Muller discovered the first high-temperature superconductors in 1986, it didn't take much imagination to envision the ...
Coexistence of superconductivity and charge density waves observed
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists at BESSY II of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin studied an artificial structure composed of alternating layers of ferromagnetic and superconducting materials...
Stanford researchers find new ways to make clean hydrogen and rechargable zinc batteries
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
A Stanford University research lab has developed new technologies to tackle two of the world's biggest energy challenges - clean fuel for transportation and gri...
LG Chem's New High Voltage Batteries Now Compatible With Solaredge Storedge
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
SolarEdge Technologies and LG Chem have announced the compatibility of SolarEdge's StorEdge solutions and LG Chem's new high voltage RESU10H and RESU7H batterie...
Efficient hydrogen production made easy
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
In the 2015 movie "The Martian," stranded astronaut Matt Damon turns to the chemistry of rocket fuel, hydrazine and hydrogen, to create lifesaving water and nea...
Loofah-based material could give lithium batteries a boost
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
Today's mobile lifestyle depends on rechargeable lithium batteries. But to take these storage devices to the next level - to shore up the electric grid or for w...
Storage technologies for renewable energy can pay off
Jun 16, 2016 (SPX)
Utility companies or others planning to install renewable energy systems such as solar and wind farms have to decide whether to include large-scale energy stora...
A new way to control oxygen for electronic properties
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
Hotel managers and materials scientists have a lot in common - they both need to find a way to control properties by managing vacancies. Researchers at the U.S....
Massive trove of battery and molecule data released to public
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation, has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giv...
Switzerland winds up superconductivity
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
The unusual electronic properties of some superconducting materials permit lossless and dense electrical currents at very low temperatures, even in high magneti...
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