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Electrocatalyst nanostructures key to improved fuel cells, electrolyzers
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
Fuel cells, which use chemical reactions to produce energy, and electrolyzers, which convert energy into hydrogen or other gases, use electrocatalysts to promot...
'Instantly rechargeable' battery could change the future of electric and hybrid automobiles
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
The innovation could expedite the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles by eliminating the time needed to stop and re-charge a conventional electric car's ba...
Self-healing catalyst films for hydrogen production
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
A team involving Stefan Barwe, Prof Dr Wolfgang Schuhmann and Dr Edgar Ventosa from the Bochum Chair of Analytical Chemistry reports on this in the journal Ange...
Off-the-shelf, power-generating clothes are almost here
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
She says, "Our lab works on textile electronics. We aim to build up the materials science so you can give us any garment you want, any fabric, any weave type, a...
Printed, flexible and rechargeable battery can power wearable sensors
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
The work appears in the April 19, 2017 issue of Advanced Energy Materials. The researchers made the printed batteries flexible and stretchable by incorporating ...
Nanoalloys 10 times as effective as pure platinum in fuel cells
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Even though there have been fuel cell cars for about fifty years, advances have not led to a commercial breakthrough. The catalysts in today's fuel cells requir...
Graphene-nanotube hybrid boosts lithium metal batteries
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
The Rice battery stores lithium in a unique anode, a seamless hybrid of graphene and carbon nanotubes. The material first created at Rice in 2012 is essentially...
Self-healing tech charges up performance for silicon-containing battery anodes
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
The group developed a battery that uses a silicon nanoparticle composite material on the negatively charged side of the battery and a novel way to hold the comp...
New approach to revolutionize the production of molecular hydrogen
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
In many of the approaches for hydrogen production, the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) from water splitting is the most economical and effect...
Stretching the limits of elastic conductors
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
The development of wearable devices such as those monitoring a person's health or physical performance, like heart rate or muscle activity, is currently underwa...
Feather light metal cathodes for stable lithium-oxygen batteries
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
Xin-Bo Zhang and colleagues note that most of the problems associated with lithium-oxygen battery systems arise from two highly reduced oxygen species that reac...
Better cathode materials for lithium-sulphur-batteries
May 23, 2017 (SPX)
One interesting alternative is the lithium-sulphur battery. In this case, the cathode does not consist of heavy metals, but instead of sulphur - an economical a...
How scientists turned a flag into a loudspeaker
May 23, 2017 (SPX)
The audio breakthrough could eventually lead to such consumer products as a foldable loudspeaker, a voice-activated security patch for computers and even a talk...
Advancing next-generation Stable, safe, smart, sustainable batteries
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
They reviewed the latest development of functional membrane separators in liquid-electrolyte next-generation batteries and based on which they reported the four...
Photocatalyst makes hydrogen production 10 times more efficient
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery was made by a joint research team led by Associate Professor TACHIKAWA Takashi (Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University) and Profe...
Physicists discover that lithium oxide on tokamak walls can improve plasma performance
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The research was conducted by former Princeton University physics graduate student Matt Lucia under the guidance of Robert Kaita, principal research physicist a...
Understanding of superconductor's 'normal' state may help solve longstanding puzzle
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Now experiments done at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Madhavan and Abbamonte laboratories, in collaboration with researchers at six inst...
Harnessing geometric frustration to tune batteries for greater power
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from the University's School of Physical Sciences (SPS), working with scientists from other European institutions, formulated a recipe to increase t...
Mini heat engine could power tomorrow's tiny machines
May 15, 2017 (UPI)
"Heat engines are devices that turn thermal energy into a useful form known as 'work,'" Ahsan Nazir, a research fellow at the University of Manchester, said in ...
Laser pulses reveal the superconductors of the future
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
An international collaboration, led by the scientists of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Universita Cattolica di Brescia a...
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