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Electroplating delivers high-energy, high-power batteries
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois, Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation and Nanjing University in China developed a method for electroplating lithium-ion...
Can the motion of checking your smartwatch charge it?
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The short answer is yes. New research from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in South Korea, published this week in APL Materials, from AIP Publis...
No batteries necessary, new medical implant derives energy from the human body
May 11, 2017 (UPI)
That's the hope of a team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut, who recently unveiled a so-called biological supercapacitor capable of tur...
New model of plasma stability could help researchers predict and avoid disruptions
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
This research was reported in a paper published in Physics of Plasmas in February 2017, and received funding from the DOE's Office of Science (Fusion Energy Sci...
Graphane could act as efficient and water-free hydrogen fuel cell membrane
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering have found that the unusual properties of graphane - a two-dimensional polymer of ca...
NRL breakthrough enables safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
Joseph Parker, Jeffrey Long, and Debra Rolison from NRL's Advanced Electrochemical Materials group are leading an effort to create an entire family of safer, wa...
Super P carbon black for reversible lithium and sodium ion storage
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Super P carbon black (SPCB), produced from partial oxidation of petrochemical precursors exhibiting a large specific surface area and superb electrical conducti...
Thin layers of water hold promise for the energy storage of the future
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
"This is a proof of concept, but the idea of using water or other solvents to 'tune' the transport of ions in a layered material is very exciting," says Veronic...
Revolutionary method reveals impact of short circuits on battery safety
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Although catastrophic failure is extremely rare, recent high-profile cases including the recall of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 smartphone line and the grounding of ...
New breakthrough in battery charging technology
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
In this work, the team of Professor Sang-Young Lee and Professor Kwanyoung Seo of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST presented a new class of monolithical...
A more than 100% quantum step toward producing hydrogen fuel
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Recently, in an article published in the journal Nature Energy, lead author Yong Yan, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sc...
Bright future for self-charging batteries
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Lithium-ion batteries have allowed the rapid proliferation of all kinds of mobile devices such as phones, tablets and computers. These tools however require fre...
Freezing lithium batteries may make them safer and bendable
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Liquid electrolyte is currently used in commercial lithium batteries, and, as everyone is now aware, it is highly flammable, causing safety issues with some lap...
Clarifying the mechanism for suppressing turbulence through ion mass
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
In numerous plasma experiments being conducted in countries around the world, the use of deuterium is improving the confinement of heat and particles. That is, ...
Stanford scientist's new approach may accelerate design of high-power batteries
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
In work published recently in Applied Physics Letters, the researchers describe a mathematical model for designing new materials for storing electricity. The mo...
Electrochemical performance of lithium-ion capacitors
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
Internal short-circuit method (ISC) is also called direct contact (DC) method. The pre-lithiated can achieved through direct physical contact between negative e...
USC team develops new method to create the next fuel-efficient renewable energy
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
In research published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, chemists at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute outlined a car...
New infrared-emitting device could allow energy harvesting from waste heat
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
The new technology could be used to improve thermophotovoltaics, a type of solar cell that uses infrared light, or heat, rather than the visible light absorbed ...
NYSERDA Announces $15.5 Million Available for Energy Storage Projects to Support the Electric Grid
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Energy storage can save power generated from clean energy systems such as solar, wind and combined heat and power (CHP) for later use, enabling buildings to red...
Making batteries from waste glass bottles
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Titled "Silicon Derived from Glass Bottles as Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Full Cell Batteries," an article describing the research was published this week i...
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