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Portuguese lithium, fuel of Europe's electric vehicle revolution?
Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)
The southern European nation is thought to have the continent's largest lithium reserves. Alongside nickel and cobalt, lithium has become a prized raw material ...
MIT engineers produce the world's longest flexible fiber battery
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers envision new possibilities for self-powered communications, sensing, and computational devices that could be worn like ordinary clothing, as wel...
Redrawing the lines: Growing inexpensive, high-quality iron-based superconductors
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
Key to the dissipation-free conduction of currents in superconductors in the presence of a magnetic field is a property called "pinning potential." Pinning desc...
A carbon-air battery as a next-generation energy storage system
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
However, these systems suffer from poor efficiency and often need to be large in size to compensate for it. This, in turn, makes for complex thermal management ...
Activating lattice oxygen in perovskite oxide to optimize fuel cell performance
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
A research team led by Professor Jeong Woo Han and Ph.D. candidate Chaesung Lim (Department of Chemical Engineering) of POSTECH, in joint research with Professo...
Spire Global deploys and operates US-made battery in orbit for US Space Force
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
Spire modified the power system of the satellite to successfully integrate ZeroVolt 18650 battery cells provided by EnerSys?, a global leader in stored energy s...
An attractive strategy for sustainable fuels manufacturing in a carbon-neutrality age
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
As a result, figuring out how to employ low-carbon technologies, such as electrochemical technologies, to achieve energy conversion and systematic carbon reduct...
China Pursues Helium-3 on the Moon
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
This particular isotope is very rare on Earth, but thought to be abundant in lunar surface material. Verification of the presence of helium-3 could be very impo...
NTU Singapore scientists develop biodegradable printed paper batteries
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The NTU Singapore-developed zinc batteries are made up of electrodes (through which the electrical current leaves or enters the battery) screen-printed on to bo...
Galp, Northvolt to build lithium plant in Portugal
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
The facility will produce up to 35,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide per year, the quantity needed to make batteries for 700,000 electric vehicles, the two compan...
Stretchy, washable battery brings wearable devices closer to reality
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
"Wearable electronics are a big market and stretchable batteries are essential to their development," says Dr. Ngoc Tan Nguyen (he/him), a postdoctoral fellow a...
'Nobody's dump': Lithium mine stirs unrest in Serbia
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
The future of the vast mineral deposits near the city of Loznica has become the latest flashpoint in Serbia, pitting festering distrust in the country's increas...
Britain to build first Americium space battery
Dec 09, 2021 (UPI)
The country's National Nuclear Laboratory and the UK Space Agency made the announcement Friday. Americium is a man-made radioactive metal that is solid under no...
Scientists identify another reason why batteries can't charge in minutes
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
In new research from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have found interesting chemical behavior of one of the batter...
Battery 'dream technology' a step closer to reality with new discovery
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
Sodium and sulfur stand out as appealing materials for future battery production because they are cheaper and more widely available than materials such as lithi...
Combined heat and power as a platform for clean energy systems
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
The paper, digitally available now and in print on December 15 in the journal Applied Energy, finds that CHP - or cogeneration - could measurably reduce Georgia...
Sodium-based material yields stable alternative to lithium-ion batteries
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
For about a decade, scientists and engineers have been developing sodium batteries, which replace both lithium and cobalt used in current lithium-ion batteries ...
An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
"The transition to clean energy requires energy storage systems of different durations for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing," says Emre Gen...
Artificial intelligence to advance energy technologies
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
Titled "Infusing theory into deep learning for interpretable reactivity prediction," their paper in the journal Nature Communications details a new approach cal...
Big batteries on wheels can deliver zero-emissions rail while securing the grid
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
The recent dramatic decline in battery prices has created a new possibility for electrification of freight trains. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energ...
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