ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Using lithium to reduce instabilities in fusion plasmas

Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)

The results, demonstrated by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators on China's Experim...

Clemson researchers blaze new ground in wireless energy generation

Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)

In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator, or U-TENG - a small device made simply of plastic and tape th...

Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

Japan has already announced its intention to become the world's first "hydrogen society" - aiming to open 35 hydrogen fuelling stations by 2020. While Japanese ...

'Chemical net' could be key to capturing pure hydrogen

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

But that process could soon become more efficient and cost-effective thanks to a discovery by an international team of researchers, led in the U.S. by Drexel Un...

Graphene girders doubles life of lithium batteries

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

Graphite has been the default choice of active material for anodes in lithium--ion batteries since their original launch by Sony but researchers and manufacture...

A new approach to rechargeable batteries

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

The findings are being reported in the journal Nature Energy, by a team led by MIT professor Donald Sadoway, postdocs Huayi Yin and Brice Chung, and four others...

Weak hydrogen bonds key to strong, tough infrastructure

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

Seashells made of mother-of-pearl, aka nacre, get their remarkable properties from overlapping micron-sized, mineralized plates held together by a soft matrix. ...

Making fuel cells for a fraction of the cost

Feb 03, 2018 (SPX)

In a paper published in Small, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, describe the development of an inexpensive, efficient catalyst material f...

Model predicts scenarios for energy generation using nuclear fusion

Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)

Designed to reach parameters beyond the ones previously obtained in laboratory experiments, the reactor prototype called ITER - "the way" in Latin - is presentl...

Using electricity to switch magnetism

Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)

Magnetic fields will usually be used to influence magnetic material properties, whilst electrical properties come down to electrical voltage. Then we have multi...

20 percent more trees in megacities would mean cleaner air and water, lower carbon and energy use

Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)

Nearly 10 percent of the world's population live in megacities - cities of at least 10 million people. While those people often rely on nature outside of the ci...

Coupling experiments to theory to build a better battery

Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)

Now, a team of researchers led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported that a new li...

Siberian chemists have improved hydrogen sensors

Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)

High-sensitivity sensors for detecting various gases are very important for the environment, as they allow to make qualitative and quantitative assessment of th...

Hazardous contamination found around lead battery recycling plants in 7 African countries

Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)

Lead battery recycling is a growing hazardous industry throughout Africa. In addition to vehicle applications, lead batteries are used to store solar and wind p...

Surprising discovery could lead to better batteries

Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)

"If you have a cell phone, you likely need to charge its battery every day, due to the limited capacity of the battery's electrodes," said Esther Takeuchi, a SU...

Controlling superconductivity using spin currents

Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)

The team led by Professor Jhinhwan Lee of the Department of Physics identified a basic physical principle required to develop transistors that control supercond...

The LECs now an efficient and bright device

Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)

The light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) can be thin, flexible, and light-weight and be driven to essentially any emission color by the low voltage of a ba...

The atomic dynamics of rare everlasting electric fields

Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)

The experiment was conducted as a collaboration between Duke University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and appeared online in Nature Communications on...

New, greener fuel cells move step closer to reality

Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)

As the global population increases, so too does energy demand. The threat of climate change means that there is an urgent need to find cleaner, renewable altern...

Study boosts hope for cheaper fuel cells

Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)

The findings are from computer simulations by Rice scientists who set out to see how carbon nanomaterials can be improved for fuel-cell cathodes. Their study re...