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New research findings could lead to safer and more powerful lithium-ion batteries

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

Instability in lithium-ion batteries due to liquid-state electrolytes that help carry charges from one battery electrode to another is one hazard scientists can...

Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

That was the case for ASU Regents' Professor and biophysicist Stuart Lindsay, who has spent his career building new microscopes that have become the eyes of nan...

Scientists get first close-ups of finger-like growths that trigger battery fires

Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)

Dendrites and the problems they cause have been a stumbling block on the road to developing new types of batteries that store more energy so electric cars, cell...

When humidity benefits batteries

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

It is well known that the robustness of the electrodes in these batteries, which are used in a host of devices, is key to their useful life. According to the te...

Piezoelectrics stretch their potential with a method for flexible sticking

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated a new technique for making piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) by connecting a sa...

UNIST researchers introduce novel catalyst for rechargeable metal-air batteries

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has presented novel catalyst to accelerate the commercialization of metal-air batteries. This breakthrough has been jointl...

Ames UConn team discover superconductor with bounce

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Shape-memory materials "remember" their original shape and return to it after they are deformed. They are commonly metallic alloys that make possible "unbreakab...

Plastic and metal-organic frameworks partner for sensing and storage

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

The material is called a metal-organic framework, or MOF - perhaps not as familiar a substance as plastic, but one that may prove as broadly useful. They are ea...

Rapid cellphone charging getting closer to reality

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Their novel design roughly doubles the amount of electrical energy the rapid-charging devices can hold, helping pave the way for eventual use in everything from...

Electronic entropy enhances water splitting

Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)

Now a Northwestern University team led by Chris Wolverton has discovered that cerium's electronic entropy, which is created when an electron transitions among v...

Scientists solve a magnesium mystery in rechargeable battery performance

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

And the places where solid meets liquid - where the oppositely charged battery electrodes interact with the surrounding chemical mixture known as the electrolyt...

The blob that ate the tokamak

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed new simulations that could provide insight in...

Loops of liquid metal can improve future fusion power plants

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

"There are many challenges to developing fusion energy and the handling of heat on divertor plates is among them," said PPPL physicist Masa Ono, lead author of ...

A new miniature solution for storing renewable energy

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

Now, according to USC scientists, it turns out that metal-organic frameworks can conduct electricity in the same way metals do. This opens the door for metal or...

PPPL takes detailed look at 2-D structure of turbulence in tokamaks

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), scientists have assembled a large database of detailed measurements of the ...

'Air-breathing' battery could cut costs of renewable energy storage

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

Now MIT researchers have developed an "air-breathing" battery that could store electricity for very long durations for about one-fifth the cost of current techn...

Sulfur may be key for safe rechargeable lithium batteries

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

"We demonstrated this method in a coin battery," said Donghai Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering. "But, I think it could eventually become big ...

Low-cost battery from waste graphite

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

These metals offer a high degree of safety, even if the anode is made of pure metal. This also offers the opportunity to assemble the batteries in a very simple...

Metal supplies unlikely to seriously hamper battery use

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

A new analysis by researchers at MIT and elsewhere indicates that for the near future, there will be no absolute limitations on battery manufacturing due to sho...

Sodium could replace lithium for more cost-efficient battery storage

Oct 10, 2017 (UPI)

Lithium-ion batteries have been the standard bearer for the last 25 years. But lithium is becoming increasingly scarce and mining costs are steep. Sodium -- whi...