ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

New Method Reveals Nanoscale Details Of Battery Materials

Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)

Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions, scientists at the U.S. Depar...

LEDs made from 'wonder material' perovskite

Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)

Colourful LEDs made from a material known as perovskite could lead to LED displays which are both cheaper and easier to manufacture in future. A hybrid form of ...

Researchers uncover novel process for creation of fuel and chemical compounds

Aug 06, 2014 (SPX)

A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has identified the genes and enzymes that create a promising compound - the 19 carbon furan-contain...

Chemists develop MRI technique for peeking inside battery-like devices

Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)

A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices call...

'Wetting' a battery's appetite for renewable energy storage

Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)

Sun, wind and other renewable energy sources could make up a larger portion of the electricity America consumes if better batteries could be built to store the ...

Refocusing research into high-temperature superconductors

Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)

Below a specific transition temperature superconductors transmit electrical current nearly loss-free. For the best of the so-called high-temperature superconduc...

Study finds physical link to strange electronic behavior

Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have new clues this week about one of the baffling electronic properties of the iron-based high-temperature superconductor barium iron nickel arsenid...

OMV puts hydrogen at front for fuel strategy

Aug 04, 2014 (UPI)

Austrian energy company OMV said Monday it was reviewing hydrogen as a potential future fuel choice for drivers and automobile manufacturers. "We are addressing...

All-in-one system offers green power for off-grid homes and farms

Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)

An innovative 'trigeneration' system fuelled entirely by raw plant oils could have great potential for isolated homes and businesses operating outside grid syst...

Cool-burning flames in space and better engines here on earth

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

A team of international researchers has discovered a new type of cool burning flames that could lead to cleaner, more efficient engines for cars. The discovery ...

Physicists unlock nature of high-temperature superconductivity

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

Physicists have identified the "quantum glue" that underlies a promising type of superconductivity -- a crucial step towards the creation of energy superhighway...

Magnets for fusion energy

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) in Japan, has achieved an electrical current of 100,000 ...

Stanford team builds stable lithium anode

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

Engineers across the globe have been racing to design smaller, cheaper and more efficient rechargeable batteries to meet the power storage needs of everything f...

Organic zeolites

Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)

Yushan Yan, Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Delaware, is known worldwide for using nanomaterials to solve problems in energy enginee...

Google offers big prize for small power box

Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)

Google is offering a million-dollar prize for a breakthrough that would make solar or wind generated electricity more enticing for everyday uses. Google teamed ...

Creating optical cables out of thin air

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

Imagine being able to instantaneously run an optical cable or fiber to any point on earth, or even into space. That's what Howard Milchberg, professor of physic...

NIST develops prototype meter test for hydrogen refueling stations

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

To support the fair sale of gaseous hydrogen as a vehicle fuel, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a protot...

Improving the cost and efficiency of renewable energy storage

Jul 22, 2014 (SPX)

A major challenge in renewable energy is storage. A common approach is a reaction that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, and uses the hydrogen as a fuel to...

Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

Using a newly developed, ultrafast femtosecond infrared light source, chemists at the University of Chicago have been able to directly visualize the coordinated...

New materials for future green tech devices

Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)

From your hot car to your warm laptop, every machine and device in your life wastes a lot of energy through the loss of heat. But thermoelectric devices, which ...