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New opportunities for light-powered battery and fuel cell design
Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)
In a study recently published in Applied Materials Today, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have revealed that ultraviolet light can modulate oxide ion...
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)
That advance paves the way, they say, for the long-sought creation of practical, inexpensive, carbon-free power plants that could make a major contribution to l...
When walked on, these wooden floors harvest enough energy to turn on a lightbulb
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
The team began by transforming wood into a nanogenerator by sandwiching two pieces of functionalized wood between electrodes. Like a shirt-clinging sock fresh o...
Using liquid metal to turn motion into electricity even underwater
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
"Mechanical energy - such as the kinetic energy of wind, waves, body movement and vibrations from motors - is abundant," says Michael Dickey, corresponding auth...
Turning thermal energy into electricity could help soldiers
Aug 31, 2021 (SPX)
Hot objects radiate light in the form of photons into their surroundings. The emitted photons can be captured by a photovoltaic cell and converted to useful ele...
Digging for newer, cleaner solutions: WVU-led team tapped to explore geothermal energy
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
The research team, led by Nagasree Garapati, visiting assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, has been awarded $7.25 million from the U.S. D...
Thermoelectric ink turns car exhaust pipes into power generators
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers found that the tube-shaped device is more effective than conventional devices. This breakthrough has been jointly led by Professor Han Gi Chae and P...
Stanford researchers make rechargeable batteries that store six times more charge
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
The advance, detailed in a new paper published Aug. 25 in the journal Nature, could accelerate the use of rechargeable batteries and puts battery researchers on...
An innovative process which prevents irreversible energy loss in batteries
Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)
In an effort to overcome this issue, a joint research team at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), led by Dr. Minah Lee from the Center for Ene...
Smallest biosupercapacitor provides energy for biomedical applications
Aug 24, 2021 (SPX)
The breakthrough was achieved by an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt, Professorship of Materials Systems for Nanoelectronics at Ch...
UK-based consortium established to develop prototype solid-state batteries
Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)
Solid-state batteries offer significant potential advantages over conventional lithium-ion batteries and could be transformational in meeting the UK's net zero ...
New technique for large-scale energy storage developed by polymer scientist
Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)
Electric vehicles require power to be available anywhere and anytime without delay to recharge, but solar and wind are intermittent energy sources that are not ...
PPPL-hosted workshop displays substantial progress in battling fusion disruptions
Aug 19, 2021 (SPX)
The event was the ninth in the series of workshops that PPPL launched in 2013 to help predict and mitigate disruptions on ITER, the international experiment und...
Nuclear scientists hail US fusion breakthrough
Aug 17, 2021 (AFP)
Experts focused their giant array of almost 200 laser beams onto a tiny spot to create a mega blast of energy -- eight times more than they had ever done in the...
Scientists detect characteristics of the birth of a major challenge to harvesting fusion energy on Earth
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
Initial energy "We need to see these electrons at their initial energy rather than when they are fully grown and moving at near the speed of light," said PPPL p...
Department of Energy to provide $100 million for high energy physics research
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
"High energy physics plays a role in many major innovations of the 21st century. America must keep its competitive edge, which is why we're investing in the sci...
Department of Energy announces $9.35 million for research on high energy density plasmas
Jul 28, 2021 (SPX)
High-Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP) research explores the behavior of ionized matter at extreme conditions such as high temperature, density, or pres...
Europe to boost battery production as electric shift accelerates
Jul 25, 2021 (AFP)
Far from being autonomous, Europe needs to accelerate domestic battery output as a national security issue as well as a boost for businesses and jobs. Batteries...
Gaming graphics card allows faster, more precise control of fusion energy experiments
Jul 24, 2021 (SPX)
One challenge to performing this reaction on Earth is the dynamic nature of plasmas, which must be controlled to reach the required temperatures that allow fusi...
Tesla mints nickel deal with Aussie mining giant
Jul 22, 2021 (AFP)
Under the agreement, the innovative carmaker will lock in supplies from a mine in Western Australia, one of the world's largest sources. Most nickel today is us...
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