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Unique 2-level cathode structure improves battery performance
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
Building a better battery is a delicate balancing act. Increasing the amounts of chemicals whose reactions power the battery can lead to instability. Similarly,...
Stanford battery shuts down at high temps, restarts when it cools
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Stanford researchers have developed the first lithium-ion battery that shuts down before overheating, then restarts immediately when the temperature cools. The ...
A simple way to make lithium-ion battery electrodes that protect themselves
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at three Department of Energy national laboratories have discovered how to keep a promising new type of lithium ion battery cathode from developing a...
A nanophotonic comeback for incandescent bulbs
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Traditional light bulbs, thought to be well on their way to oblivion, may receive a reprieve thanks to a technological breakthrough. Incandescent lighting and i...
Two-stage power management system boosts energy-harvesting efficiency
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
A two-stage power management and storage system could dramatically improve the efficiency of triboelectric generators that harvest energy from irregular human m...
More info needed to save carbon capture and storage from being dumped
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Carbon capture and storage, which is considered by many experts as the only realistic way to dramatically reduce carbon emissions in an affordable way, has fall...
Inventive thinkers at NREL reach record number
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
The eureka moments can come fast and furious at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which last fiscal year racked up a record 1...
Scientists simulate starting up tokamaks without using solenoid
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have produced self-consistent computer simulations that capture the evo...
Desert sand from UAE efficiently stores thermal energy
Jan 07, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in United Arab Emirates have discovered a new solar energy storage material just outside their bac...
Hoverboard sparks house fire in Australia
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
An Australian family home was gutted when a hoverboard caught fire as it was charging, officials said Tuesday. Authorities said the hoverboard -- a Christmas gi...
Melting, coating, and all-solid-state lithium batteries
Jan 04, 2016 (SPX)
The joint research team of Prof. Yoon Seok Jung (UNIST, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering) and Prof. Seng M. Oh (Seoul National University) discovered a...
Generating electric current without energy consumption at room temps
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
A group of researchers in Japan and China identified the requirements for the development of new types of extremely low power consumption electric devices by st...
Physicists come up with a way to make cleaner fuel cells
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
An international group of scientists from Russia, France, and Germany have developed ion-exchange synthetic membranes based on amphiphilic compounds that are ab...
Probing Mars, charging cars
Dec 28, 2015 (ESA)
Engineers developing a drill for probing Mars, the Moon and asteroids have created the world's first portable charger to power up electric cars anywhere, anytim...
ORNL achieves milestone with plutonium-238 sample
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
With the production of 50 grams of plutonium-238, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have restored a U.S. capability dorman...
New hybrid electrolyte for solid-state lithium batteries
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a novel electrolyte for use in solid-state lit...
NREL research advances hydrogen production efforts
Dec 23, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made advances toward affordable photoelectrochemical (PEC) production of...
Neutrons offer guide to getting more out of solid-state lithium-ion batteries
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Although they don't currently have as much conductivity, solid-state electrolytes designed for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are emerging as a safer alternative ...
Real-time tracking shows how batteries degrade
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
How disposable Lithium batteries degrade during normal use has been tracked in real-time by a UCL-led team using sophisticated 3D imaging, giving a new way to n...
New flow battery offers lower-cost energy storage
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Energy storage system owners could see significant savings from a new flow battery technology that is projected to cost 60 percent less than today's standard fl...
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