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Adding some salt to the recipe for energy storage materials
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
The secret to making the best energy storage materials is growing them with as much surface area as possible. Like baking, it requires just the right mixture of...
Seebeck thermoelectric device achieves higher conversion efficiency
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
A thermoelectric (TE) device using cutting edge thermoelectric conversion technology has been created by a team comprising NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporatio...
Saft to deliver megawatt-scale Li-ion battery system to Fortum in Finland
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
Saft has been awarded a megawatt-scale Li-ion (lithium-ion) battery energy storage contract by Fortum, the Finnish energy company. A Saft Intensium Max containe...
Cleaning up hybrid battery electrodes improves capacity and lifespan
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
Hybrid batteries that charge faster than conventional ones could have significantly better electrical capacity and long-term stability when prepared with a gent...
All powered up
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
University of California, Irvine researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us close...
New method enlists electricity for easier, cheaper, greener chemistry
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a new and better way to achieve a chemical reaction that is used widely in the pharmaceutical as ...
China produces key component for nuclear fusion facility
Apr 26, 2016 (XNA)
A world-class ion cyclotron resonant heating (ICRH) antenna, a key part of nuclear fusion facility, was delivered to a French institute in Anhui Province on Mon...
Measuring the heat capacity of condensed light
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
Liquid water is a very good heat storage medium - anyone with a Thermos bottle knows that. However, as soon as water boils or freezes, its storage capacity drop...
Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
An unexpected discovery has led to a rechargeable battery that's as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy density. The new bat...
A new way to get electricity from magnetism
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
By showing that a phenomenon dubbed the "inverse spin Hall effect" works in several organic semiconductors - including carbon-60 buckyballs - University of Utah...
Tesla and other tech giants scramble for lithium as prices double
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Demand for lithium-the hottest commodity on the planet and the only commodity to show positive price movement in 2015-is poised to continue on its upward trajec...
Princeton grad student writes program to help stabilize fusion plasma
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
Imene Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...
Stanford scientists use DNA to investigate cleaner energy sources
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
The key to unlocking cleaner energy might be in our DNA, according to a new study by Stanford scientists. By combining synthetic DNA with microscopic particles,...
Physicists build engine consisting of one atom
Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)
An article in the latest edition of the journal Science describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one single atom. The engine is the ...
Detection of atomic scale structure of Cooper-pairs in a high-TC superconductor
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
The international scientific team reported the first ever observation of the atomic scale structure of Cooper-pairs in the superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x: a mat...
Physicists gain new view of superconductor
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of physicists has directly observed some unique characteristics of a superconductor for the first time, according to a paper published Wed...
Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
University of Houston physicists report finding major theoretical flaws in the generally accepted understanding of how a superconductor traps and holds a magnet...
New magnetism research brings high-temp superconductivity applications closer
Apr 15, 2016 (SPX)
A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has discovered that only half the atoms in some iron-based superconduct...
Battery components can take the heat
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
Rice University materials scientists have introduced a combined electrolyte and separator for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that supplies energy at usable ...
Oxygen key to containing coal ash contamination
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
As energy companies decide what to do with aging coal ash disposal facilities in North Carolina and across the nation, they may be overlooking a fundamental but...
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