ENERGY TECH - NANO DAILY

Separating charge and discharge in measuring future car batteries

Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)

Lithium ion phosphate batteries are widely used to power the batteries in electric cars, but, unlike the amount of gas in a fuel tank, their state of charge can...

New method to make batteries with organic electrode materials

Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)

With people wanting to use smaller electronic devices, smaller energy storage systems are needed. Researchers of Aalto University in Finland have demonstrated t...

Chinese researchers develop new battery technology

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

A Chinese research team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel, environmentally fri...

Iron nitride transformers could boost energy storage options

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

A Sandia-led team has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transform...

New chemistries found for liquid batteries

Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)

Liquid metal batteries, invented by MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his students a decade ago, are a promising candidate for making renewable energy more pract...

Engineers adapt laser method to create micro energy units

Mar 24, 2016 (SPX)

In the race to design smaller handheld devices and smartphones, a key factor is decreasing the sizes of components. As the demand for thinner and lighter microe...

Pumping up energy storage with metal oxides

Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)

Material scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have found certain metal oxides increase capacity and improve cycling performance in lithium-ion b...

Could bread mold build a better rechargeable battery?

Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)

You probably don't think much of fungi, and especially those that turn bread moldy, but researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on March...

Advanced energy storage material gets unprecedented nanoscale analysis

Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have combined advanced in-situ microscopy and theoretical calculations to uncover import...

Compressing turbulence to improve internal confinement fusion experiments

Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)

Physicists have long regarded plasma turbulence as unruly behavior that can limit the performance of fusion experiments. But new findings by researchers associa...

MIT develops nontoxic way of generating portable power

Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)

The batteries that power the ubiquitous devices of modern life, from smartphones and computers to electric cars, are mostly made of toxic materials such as lith...

Ferrite boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

Photocatalytic hydrogen generation via water splitting has become a hot spot in the field of energy and materials. The goal of this technique is to construct ch...

JLM Energy launches energy storage system Energizr 200

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

JLM Energy today announced the launch of its grid synergistic residential energy storage system, Energizr 200. It is the first product of its kind combining sol...

New fuel cell design powered by graphene-wrapped nanocrystals

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Hydrogen is the lightest and most plentiful element on Earth and in our universe. So it shouldn't be a big surprise that scientists are pursuing hydrogen as a c...

Hot rocks: Kenya taps geothermal heat to boost power

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

Zebra and antelope look on as clouds of white steam twist into the air at Hell's Gate, where Kenya's dream of providing cheap, renewable electricity is becoming...

Catalyst fabrication method may boost fuel cell development

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

The successful future of fuel cells relies on improving the performance of the catalysts they use. Gold nanoparticles have been cited as an ideal solution, but ...

Converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into batteries

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

An interdisciplinary team of scientists has worked out a way to make electric vehicles that are not only carbon neutral, but carbon negative, capable of actuall...

Hundred million degree fluid key to fusion

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists developing fusion energy experiments have solved a puzzle of why their million-degree heating beams sometimes fail, and instead destabilise the fusio...

Multi-scale simulations solve a plasma turbulence mystery

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Cutting-edge simulations run at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) over a two-year period are ...

Plasma processing technique takes SNS accelerator to new energy highs

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

A novel technique known as in-situ plasma processing is helping scientists get more neutrons and better data for their experiments at the Spallation Neutron Sou...