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Fuel cell membrane patented by Sandia outperforms market
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
Fuel cells provide power without pollutants. But, as in the Goldilocks story, membranes in automobile fuel cells work at temperatures either too hot or too cold...
A first for direct-drive fusion
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Rochester have taken a significant step forward in laser fusion research. Experiments using the OMEGA laser at the University's ...
Fusion facilities at PPPL and Culham, England, could provide path to limitless energy
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
Creating "a star in a jar" - replicating on Earth the way the sun and stars create energy through fusion - requires a "jar" that can contain superhot plasma and...
Flywheel technology could create new savings for light rail transit
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
University of Alberta mechanical engineering professors Pierre Mertiny and Marc Secanell are looking to make an old technology new again and save some money for...
Chemists develop possible cheap battery for grid energy storage
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
Chemists at the University of Waterloo have developed a long-lasting zinc-ion battery that costs half the price of current lithium-ion batteries and could help ...
Extending battery life for mobile devices
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
In a paper presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group on data communication (SIGCOMM) conference in Florianopolis, Brazil, a ...
New electrical energy storage material shows its power
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
A powerful new material developed by Northwestern University chemist William Dichtel and his research team could one day speed up the charging process of electr...
New class of fuel cells offer increased flexibility, lower cost
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
A new class of fuel cells based on a newly discovered polymer-based material could bridge the gap between the operating temperature ranges of two existing types...
Stretchy supercapacitors power wearable electronics
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
A future of soft robots that wash your dishes or smart T-shirts that power your cell phone may depend on the development of stretchy power sources. But traditio...
Spherical tokamak as model for next steps in fusion energy
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
Among the top puzzles in the development of fusion energy is the best shape for the magnetic facility - or "bottle" - that will provide the next steps in the de...
Battery you can swallow could enable future ingestible medical devices
Aug 25, 2016 (SPX)
Non-toxic, edible batteries could one day power ingestible devices for diagnosing and treating disease. One team reports new progress toward that goal with thei...
Fungi recycle rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)
Although rechargeable batteries in smartphones, cars and tablets can be charged again and again, they don't last forever. Old batteries often wind up in landfil...
Researchers reduce expensive noble metals for fuel cell reactions
Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)
Washington State University researchers have developed a novel nanomaterial that could improve the performance and lower the costs of fuel cells by using fewer ...
UCLA physicists discover 'apparent departure from the laws of thermodynamics'
Aug 22, 2016 (SPX)
According to the basic laws of thermodynamics, if you leave a warm apple pie in a winter window eventually the pie would cool down to the same temperature as th...
Scientists find exception to the laws of thermodynamics
Aug 19, 2016 (UPI)
To effectively control and study ions, scientists must cool the high-energy particles. To do so, they rely on a basic premise of the laws of thermodynamics -- t...
Superconductivity: After the scenario, the staging
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
Superconductivity with a high critical temperature (high Tc) continues to present a theoretical mystery. While this phenomenon is experimentally well establishe...
Scientists uncover origin of high-temperature superconductivity in copper-oxide compound
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
Since the 1986 discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in copper-oxide compounds called cuprates, scientists have been trying to understand how these ma...
Down to the wire: ONR researchers and new bacteria
Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct ele...
Enhanced electron doping on iron superconductors discovered
Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)
The IBS research team headed by the associate director of CCES, KIM Chang Young, presented the possibility of unifying theories to explain the working mechanism...
Solid batteries improve safety
Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)
Lithium-ion batteries store a lot of energy in a small space, making them the energy source of choice for mobile electronic devices. Today, mobile phones, lapto...
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