ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Algorithm allows easy switch out and recharge of electric car batteries

Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)

Imagine being able to switch out the batteries in electric cars just like you switch out batteries in a photo camera or flashlight. A team of engineers at the U...

Lithium-sulfur batteries closer to commercial reality with more energy

Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)

A fevered search for the next great high-energy, rechargeable battery technology is on. Scientists are now reporting they have overcome key obstacles toward mak...

Novel capability enables first test of real turbine engine conditions

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

Manufactures of turbine engines for airplanes, automobiles and electric generation plants could expedite the development of more durable, energy-efficient turbi...

Water-Based Nuclear Battery Can Be Used To Generate Electrical Energy

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

From cell phones to cars and flashlights, batteries play an important role in everyday life. Scientists and technology companies constantly are seeking ways to ...

Cutting the cloud computing carbon cost

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

Cloud computing involves displacing data storage and processing from the user's computer on to remote servers. It can provide users with more storage space and ...

China bans 'dirty' coal sale, imports

Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)

China will ban the sale and import of "dirty" coal in less than four months, a top government body said, in an anti-pollution move that could have repercussions...

New Family of Materials for Energy-Efficient Information Storage and Processing

Sep 16, 2014 (SPX)

Switching the polarity of a magnet using an electric field (magnetoelectric memory [MEM] effect), can be a working principle of the next-generation technology f...

Study sheds new light on why batteries go bad

Sep 16, 2014 (SPX)

A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid-charging the battery and using it to do high-power, rapidl...

Plugged-in to the future

Sep 15, 2014 (SPX)

Electric vehicle and advanced battery specialists, engineers and executives will be gathering next week at The Battery Show / Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Techno...

Mg Box phone battery runs on water, magnesium

Sep 15, 2014 (UPI)

A Japanese company said its water-powered emergency battery generates enough juice to charge a smartphone up to 30 times. Furukawa Battery announced the Mg Box,...

Scottish scientists make 'tremendously important' breakthrough in water to hydrogen production proce

Sep 12, 2014 (UPI)

Chemists in Scotland say they have made a major advancement in the process of producing hydrogen from water that may offer cleaner and cheaper gas, and a renewa...

Titania-Based Material Holds Promise as New Insulator for Superconductors

Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)

Research from North Carolina State University shows that a type of modified titania, or titanium dioxide, holds promise as an electrical insulator for supercond...

Phosphorus a promising semiconductor

Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)

Defects damage the ideal properties of many two-dimensional materials, like carbon-based graphene. Phosphorus just shrugs. That makes it a promising candidate f...

NREL Updates Cetane Data Energy Efficient Fuel and Engine Development

Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a long-anticipated update to the source-of-record for cetane number data. This ...

Light detector to revolutionise night vision technology

Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers have developed a light detector that could revolutionise chemical sensing and night vision technology. In the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology,...

Researchers Part Water

Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)

Using an "electric prism", scientists have found a new way of separating water molecules that differ only in their nuclear spin states and, under normal conditi...

Clean coal key to combating climate change: Rio Tinto

Sep 09, 2014 (AFP)

Mining giant Rio Tinto said Tuesday clean coal was key to tackling climate change and that developing the technology was a challenge greater than the first moon...

First-ever look inside a working lithium-ion battery

Sep 09, 2014 (SPX)

For the first time, researchers have been able to open a kind of window into the inner workings of a lithium-ion battery. Using a neutron beam, chemists and eng...

Ultrasensitive Biosensor from Molybdenite Semiconductor Outshines Graphene

Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)

Move over, graphene. An atomically thin, two-dimensional, ultrasensitive semiconductor material for biosensing developed by researchers at UC Santa Barbara prom...

Live from inside a battery

Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)

Lithium-ion batteries are seen as a solution for energy storage of the future and have become indispensible, especially in electromobility. Their key advantage ...