ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

ASU researchers explore longer life cycle for batteries

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Lithium-ion batteries are common in consumer electronics. They are one of the most popular types of rechargeable batteries for portable electronics, with a high...

Researchers synthesize new thin-film material for use in fuel cells

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from Cornell University have synthesized a new thin-film catalyst for use in fuel cells. In a paper published March 10 in the journal APL Materials,...

Japan space scientists make wireless energy breakthrough

Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)

Japanese scientists have succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, in a key step that could one day make solar power generation in space a possibility, an of...

High performance, lightweight supercapacitor electrodes of the future

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

As a novel energy storage device, supercapacitors have attracted substantial attention in recent years due to their ultra-high charge and discharge rate, excell...

Mid-IR frequency combs enable high resolution spectroscopy

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

A frequency comb source is a light source with a spectrum containing thousands of laser lines. The development of these sources has been revolutionary for funda...

AVX releases new guide for medium and high power film capacitors

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

AVX Corporation has released a new interactive product selector guide for its medium and high power film capacitors, which are well-known for their self-healing...

Researchers snap-shot fastest observations of superconductivity yet

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

An international team of researchers has used infinitely short light pulses to observe ultrafast changes in the electron-level properties of superconductors, se...

Toward Methuselah - long-living lighting devices

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the Universities of Basel and Valencia have reported important advances in the development of next generation lighting technologies in the journa...

Lockheed Martin Eyes Portable Fusion Engines Within Decade

Mar 10, 2015 (Sputnik)

Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest defense contractor, is aiming to use nuclear fusion to create cheap electrical power that uses water for fuel, produces byp...

Energy-generating cloth could replace batteries in wearable devices

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

From light-up shoes to smart watches, wearable electronics are gaining traction among consumers, but these gadgets' versatility is still held back by the stiff,...

Big box stores could ditch the grid, use natural gas fuel cells instead

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Large facilities like big box stores or hospitals could keep the lights on by using a fuel cell that runs off the natural gas that already flows in pipelines be...

New research could lead to more energy storage

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Lawrence Livermore researchers have identified electrical charge-induced changes in the structure and bonding of graphitic carbon electrodes that may one day af...

Breakthrough in OLED technology

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which are made from carbon-containing materials, have the potential to revolutionize future display technologies, making ...

Glass coating improves battery performance

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

Lithium-sulfur batteries have been a hot topic in battery research because of their ability to produce up to 10 times more energy than conventional batteries, w...

Corvus Energy to supply another hybrid ferry battery solution

Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)

Corvus Energy, Siemens AS and Scandlines have announced the award of the energy storage system contract for the M/V Berlin and M/V Copenhagen battery hybrid fer...

CWRU researchers bring clean energy a step closer

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to replace precious metal catalysts in fuel cells. Now, for the first time, researchers at Case Western R...

Saving energy: Increasing oil flow in the keystone pipeline with electric fields

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers have shown that a strong electric field applied to a section of the Keystone pipeline can smooth oil flow and yield significant pump energy savings....

Lithium from the coal in China

Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)

Coal from China could become a major source of the metal lithium, according to a review of the geochemistry by scientists published in the International Journal...

'Ecosystem services' help assess ocean energy development

Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)

With many projects under development in coastal regions such as New England, tidal power -- which extracts "hydrokinetic" energy from marine environments -- see...

New flow battery to keep big cities lit, green and safe

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

Ensuring the power grid keeps the lights on in large cities could be easier with a new battery design that packs far more energy than any other battery of its k...