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ULEMCo plans a fuel cell approach to extend range of electric vans
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
The company has developed a fuel cell based unit that will extend vehicle range by supplying additional power to the standard Nissan e-NV200 van; particularly t...
A quick and easy way to shut down instabilities in fusion devices
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
The suppressed instability is called a global Alfven eigenmode (GAE) - a common wave-like disturbance that can cause fusion reactions to fizzle out. Suppression...
Candy cane supercapacitor could enable fast charging of mobile phones
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge have found a way to improve all three problems in one stroke. Their protot...
Researchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions surrounding one promising material for such batteries: a compound called li...
Updated computer code improves prediction of particle motion in plasma experiments
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
Podesta modeled the highly energetic ions that are used to heat the plasma. These particles, which physicists inject as neutral atoms, are ionized inside the pl...
IV and cellular fluids power flexible batteries
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
"Current batteries like the lithium-ion ones used in medical implants generally come in rigid shapes," says co-senior author Yonggang Wang, a chemistry professo...
A battery-inspired strategy for carbon fixation
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
Converting carbon dioxide emissions into other carbon-containing compounds is desirable due to carbon dioxide's contribution to the greenhouse effect and global...
Saliva-powered battery could be helpful in extreme conditions
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
For the last five years, Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi has focused on developing micro-power sources f...
Metal clouds to protect fusion reactor walls from heat flux
Aug 07, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists in Belgium have showed that vapor clouds of liquid metal can successfully reflect heat during extreme temperature flux. Today, fusion energy is only ...
Study reveals exactly how low-cost fuel cell catalysts work
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
"What makes this exploration especially important is that it enhances our understanding of exactly why these alternative catalysts are active," said Piotr Zelen...
Rice develops dual-surface graphene electrode to split water into hydrogen and oxygen
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
The easily fabricated material developed by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour offers a robust and efficient way to store chemical energy. Tests showed the thin...
How the electrodes of lithium-air batteries become passivated
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
However, despite all these advantages, industrial production of lithium-air batteries hasn't started yet since their designers face fundamental problems which c...
BAE Systems installing heat and power plant at Portsmouth, England
Aug 04, 2017 (UPI)
The plant will be completed at the end of next year and will recycle energy, reduce carbon footprint and save the Ministry of Defense as much as $4.7 million in...
Scientists map ways forward for lithium-ion batteries for extreme environments
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and members of his lab have published a review that analyzes recent progress in lithium-ion technology and suggests how...
New chromium-based superconductor has an unusual electronic state
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
These discoveries were made by a research team at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in collaboration with Associate Professor KOTEGAWA Hisashi (Kobe Universit...
Molecular microscopy illuminates molecular motor motion
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
"We can now see biological processes at molecular resolution and at sub-millisecond time scales," said William O. Hancock, professor of biomedical engineering a...
Natural molecule to boost the performance of electrodes for rechargeable batteries
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
Currently, the most widely used battery technology is based on lithium ions. No other rechargeable storage device for electric energy has comparable application...
UMD engineers invent the first bio-compatible, ion current battery
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
In our bodies, flowing ions (sodium, potassium and other electrolytes) are the electrical signals that power the brain and control the rhythm of the heart, the ...
First basic physics simulation of impact of neutrals on turbulence
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
These atoms are neutral, meaning that they have no charge and are thus unaffected by the tokamak's magnetic field or plasma turbulence, unlike the electrons and...
High-temperature superconductivity in B-doped Q-carbon
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
The previous record for superconductivity in boron-doped diamond was 11 Kelvin, or minus 439.60 degrees Fahrenheit. The boron-doped Q-carbon has been found to b...
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