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How to develop better rechargeable aluminum batteries
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
Professor Wu explained that due to the multi-electron reaction of Al (three-electron-transfer in theory), the direct adoption of Al anode could lead to highly c...
Stanford scientists illuminate barrier to next-generation battery that charges very quickly
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
It comes down to stress - mechanical stress to be more precise - especially during potent recharging. "Just modest indentation, bending or twisting of the batte...
UC Irvine researchers decipher atomic-scale imperfections in lithium-ion batteries
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
As detailed in a paper published in Nature Materials, scientists at the University of California, Irvine and Brookhaven National Laboratory conducted a detailed...
Click beetle-inspired robots jump using elastic energy
Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)
A new study led by mechanical sciences and engineering professor Sameh Tawfick demonstrates a series of click beetle-sized robots small enough to fit into tight...
Electric car batteries could be key to boosting energy storage: study
Jan 19, 2023 (AFP)
Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the need to scale up quickly and th...
Novel design helps develop powerful microbatteries
Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)
Material Science and Engineering Professor Paul Braun (Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Materials Research Laboratory Director), Dr. Sungbong Kim (P...
Turning abandoned mines into batteries
Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)
Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, as sources like sunshine and wind are inherently variab...
Researchers gain deeper understanding of mechanism behind superconductors
Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)
"The fact that the transition temperature of cuprates can be enhanced under pressure has puzzled researchers for 30 years. But until now we didn't know which me...
DOE announces new funding for public-private partnerships to advance fusion energy
Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)
Ignition, in which more energy was derived from fusion than was put into it, had never been accomplished before in a laboratory setting and raised hopes that fu...
Electric car batteries could be key to boosting energy storage
Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)
Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the need to scale up quickly and th...
S.Africa's power supplier defends price hike amid record blackouts
Jan 13, 2023 (AFP)
The energy regulator on Thursday allowed the state-owned firm, struggling with a 400-billion-rand ($23.3 billion) debt, to raise prices by 18.65 percent. Eskom,...
Now on the molecular scale: Electric motors
Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)
Now a multidisciplinary team led by Northwestern University has made an electric motor you can't see with the naked eye: an electric motor on the molecular scal...
World enters 'new age' of clean energy manufacturing: IEA
Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)
The global market for key mass-manufactured technologies including solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, heat pumps and electrolysers for hyd...
Nuclear reactor experiment rules out one dark matter hope
Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)
However new research has definitively ruled out that this strange measurement signalled the existence of a "sterile neutrino", a hypothetical particle that has ...
A new tool helps map out where to develop clean energy infrastructure
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
It can be hard to remember, or for some to even imagine, what life was like before most of us carried around a dynamic mapping platform in our back pocket. Bein...
Lithium-sulfur batteries are one step closer to powering the future
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are researching solutions to these issues by testing new materials in battery co...
New strategy suggested for ultra-long cycle Li-ion battery
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
However, in the process of battery reaction, stress accumulation and lattice oxygen loss will cause some microcracks in lithium rich manganese based materials. ...
Electricity harvesting from evaporation, raindrops and moisture inspired by nature
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
Enormous hydroelectric dams are perhaps the first thing one thinks of when considering sustainable electricity generation, or possibly large tidal barrages. If ...
Cooling 100 million degree plasma with a hydrogen-neon mixture ice pellet
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
Now, a team of Japanese researchers from National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) of Nation...
International fusion energy project faces delays, says chief
Jan 06, 2023 (AFP)
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project seeks to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy. ...
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