ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

New fuel cell demonstrates exceptional power density and stability

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

"For years, industry has told us that the holy grail is getting fuel cells to work at 500-degrees Celsius and with high power density, which means a longer life...

Today's highest quality composite-piezoelectric developed at NUST MISIS

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

Piezoelectrics are one of the world's most amazing materials. It is possible to literally squeeze electricity from them. That is, an electric charge appears at ...

More than a well-balanced breakfast: Scientists use egg whites for clean energy production

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

"Hydrogen is a promising fuel and energy storage medium because hydrogen emits no global warming gas when used. Nevertheless, hydrogen generation reactions usua...

New method for waking up devices

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

Angad Rekhi, a graduate student in the Arbabian lab at Stanford, and Amin Arbabian, assistant professor of electrical engineering, have developed a wake-up rece...

New tech for commercial Lithium-ion batteries finds they can be charged 5 times fast

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

The new technology works in-situ during a battery's normal operation without impeding its performance and it has been tested on standard commercially available ...

Converting heat into electricity with pencil and paper

Feb 19, 2018 (SPX)

Residual heat is a by-product of almost all technological and natural processes, such as in power plants and every household appliance, and the human body as we...

Demonstration of a single molecule piezoelectric effect

Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)

The study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society represents a breakthrough in understanding the electromechanical behavior of individual mole...

System draws power from daily temperature swings

Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)

The new system, called a thermal resonator, could enable continuous, years-long operation of remote sensing systems, for example, without requiring other power ...

Chemical cluster could transform energy storage for large electrical grids

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

The key to this technology, called a redox flow battery, is finding chemicals that can not only "carry" sufficient charge, but also be stored without degrading ...

Turning background room temperature heat into energy

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Now researchers centered at Japan's University of Tsukuba have developed a new kind of thermoelectric system that can harness small energy differences at low te...

New lithium collection method could boost global supply

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Benny Freeman, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, and his colleagues at the Monash University De...

New method could open path to hydrogen economy

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Using inexpensive nickel and iron, the researchers developed a very simple, five-minute method to create large amounts of a high-quality catalyst required for t...

Powerful LED-based train headlight optimized for energy savings

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

Train headlights not only illuminate the tracks ahead, they also play an important role in rail transportation. Because trains are difficult to stop, the headli...

New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasma

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

Applying heat in a tokamak produces many interesting phenomena such as changes in plasma rotation and density. DIII-D researchers modeled how different types of...

Missing link to novel superconductivity revealed at Ames Laboratory

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

"In the research of quantum materials, it's long been theorized that there are three types of magnetism associated with superconductivity. One type is very comm...

UNIST researchers develop highly stretchable aqueous batteries

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has presented a bioinspired Jabuticaba-like hybrid carbon/polymer (HCP) composite that was developed into a stretchable cu...

Your gadget's next power supply? Your body

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

That's the idea behind a collaborative research project led by University at Buffalo and Institute of Semiconductors (IoP) at Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). ...

Round-the-clock power from smart bowties

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

Unlike solar panels that are limited by daylight hours and weather conditions, infrared heat can be harvested 24 hours a day. One way to achieve this is to trea...

Army-led effort demos new atomic effect for potential isotopic battery

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists said this significant scientific achievement marks a step in the Army's quest to find and access alternative energy sources far beyond those possible...

Recycling and reusing worn cathodes to make new lithium ion batteries

Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)

This work presents a solution to an environmental concern regarding lithium ion batteries: what to do with them when they wear out. Less than five percent of us...