ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)

Instead of combating the heat, two University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have embraced it as an alternative energy source that would allow computing at ultra...

A battery prototype powered by atmospheric nitrogen

Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)

The "proof-of-concept" design works by reversing the chemical reaction that powers existing lithium-nitrogen batteries. Instead of generating energy from the br...

New battery coating could improve smart phones and electric vehicles

Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)

But, the performance of carbon based materials is limited because of the weight and energy density, which is the amount of energy that can be stored in a given ...

How some battery materials expand without cracking

Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)

The answer may have finally been found. A team of researchers at MIT, the University of Southern Denmark, Rice University, and Argonne National Laboratory has d...

Art of paper-cutting inspires self-charging paper device

Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)

Portable electronic devices, such as watches, hearing aids and heart monitors, often require only a little energy. They usually get that power from conventional...

Controlling electron spin for efficient water splitting

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

Israeli and Dutch researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Eindhoven University of Technology have succeeded in almost fully suppressing the produ...

Group works toward devising topological superconductor

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

What started with graphene has evolved to include numerous related single-atom-thick materials, which have unusual properties due to their ultra-thinness. Among...

Physicists develop ultrathin superconducting film

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

The particularly interesting aspect of this work is that the research team has succeeded in creating superconducting nanowires that can be woven into an ultra-t...

Scientists further understanding of a process that causes heat loss in fusion devices

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

Specifically, in a phenomenon known as secondary electron emission (SEE), electrons strike the surface of the wall, causing other electrons to be emitted. Those...

How does oxygen get into a fuel cell

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

Fuel cells use a simple chemical reaction, such as the combination of oxygen and hydrogen to form water, to generate electricity. The question of which is the b...

Clarifying how lithium ions ferry around in rechargeable batteries

Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)

Although most of our electronic devices, like mobile phones, laptops and electric vehicles use lithium rechargeable batteries, what is going on inside them is n...

Building a market for renewable thermal technologies

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Though a mature technology, renewable thermals occupy a small niche in Connecticut - and in the U.S. at large. A new Yale-led study analyzes the market potentia...

New gel-like coating beefs up the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Yale scientists have developed an ultra-thin coating material that has the potential to extend the life and improve the efficiency of lithium-sulfur batteries, ...

New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Like a potter shaping clay as it spins on a wheel, physicists use magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control and shape the plasma as it twists and t...

TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the main cause of ageing in cells. To counter this, nature uses ...

Non-toxic material that generates electricity through hot and cold

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Thanks to the discovery of a new material by University of Utah engineers, jewelry such as a ring and your body heat could generate enough electricity to power ...

Exhaust fumes as a resource

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Chemists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have developed a process in which nitrogen oxides generated during industrial processes can ...

Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia

Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)

A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said Wednesday as they warned about the dangers of ba...

Discovery in new material raises questions about theoretical models of superconductivity

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has successfully created the first pure, single-crystal sample of a new iron arsenide superconductor, CaKFe4As4,...

Australia PM, Musk discuss offer to fix power woes

Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)

Australia's prime minister held talks with Elon Musk Sunday after the US innovator offered to solve the energy crisis plaguing a southern region in a hundred da...