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Improving the magnetic bottle that controls fusion power on Earth
Aug 19, 2019 (SPX)
Such errors produce deviations from the symmetrical form of the fields in doughnut-like tokamak fusion facilities that can have a damaging impact on the stabili...
New technique to probe high-temperature superconductivity
Aug 17, 2019 (SPX)
Now researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, collaborating with scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, have shed new ligh...
Supercapacitors turbocharged by laxatives
Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)
Their paper, published in the journal Nature Materials, explains why these detergents, called ionic liquids, are better electrolytes than current materials and ...
NASA's portable trash bin-sized nuclear power module to be ready by 2022
Aug 14, 2019 (Sputnik)
NASA's Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group has stated that its portable nuclear reactor, called Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY)...
How much energy storage costs must fall to reach renewable energy's full potential
Aug 08, 2019 (SPX)
They quantify cost targets for storage technologies to enable solar and wind energy with storage to reach competitiveness with other on-demand energy sources. T...
Physicists make graphene discovery that could help develop superconductors
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
Now, a Rutgers-led team has paved the way to solving one of the most enduring mysteries in materials physics by discovering that in the presence of a moire patt...
Experiments explore the mysteries of 'magic' angle superconductors
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
Now, new experiments conducted at Princeton give hints at how this material - known as magic-angle twisted graphene - gives rise to superconductivity. In this w...
Advance in understanding of all-solid-state batteries
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
Yet solid-state batteries can fail after cycling (repeated charging and discharging) at practical currents, which has been one of the barriers preventing their ...
OXIS Energy to develop proof-of-concept lightweight lithium sulfur cells for BYE AEROSPACE
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
Huw Hampson-Jones, CEO OXIS Energy, said, "Aviation is one of OXIS' target markets, and in the first instance, Regional Rapid Air Taxi Transportation. A key mea...
Ultra-thin layers of rust generate electricity from flowing water
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
New research conducted by scientists at Caltech and Northwestern University shows that thin films of rust - iron oxide - can generate electricity when saltwater...
Demonstration of alpha particle confinement capability in helical fusion plasmas
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
The deuterium-tritium reaction in a high-temperature plasma will be used in fusion reactors in the future. Alpha particles with 3.5 MeV energy are generated by ...
Electricity produced by saltwater flowing over thin layers of rust
Jul 30, 2019 (UPI)
The discovery, detailed this week in the journal PNAS, could pave the way for new forms of sustainable power production. It's not the first time saltwater and m...
Revised computer code accurately models an instability in fusion plasmas
Jul 26, 2019 (SPX)
The leakage cools the plasma, reducing the efficiency of the fusion reactions and damaging the machine. Now, physicists have confirmed that an updated computer ...
High-performance flow batteries offer path to grid-level renewable energy storage
Jul 26, 2019 (SPX)
The new innovation, described in the journal Joule, outlines two aqueous flow batteries, also known as redox flow batteries, which use chromium and organic bind...
Green light for a new generation of dynamic materials
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
In a world-first, researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Ghent University (UGent) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have pioneere...
Harvesting energy from the human knee
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
The group describes the technology in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing. An energy harvester is attached to the wearer's knee and can generate 1.6 mi...
A new material for the battery of the future, made in UCLouvain
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
What do we have now? The Li-ion technology is currently the best performing technology for energy storage based on batteries. Li-ion batteries are used in small...
Materials scientists uncover source of degradation in sodium batteries
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
The challenge? Sodium-ion batteries have shorter lifetimes than their lithium-based siblings. Now, UC Santa Barbara computational materials scientist Chris Van ...
Could the heat of the Earth's crust become the ultimate energy source?
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
Generating electricity from geothermal energy requires devices that can somehow make use of the heat within the Earth's crust. Recently, a team of scientists at...
A new way to measure the stability of next-generation magnetic fusion devices
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
For scientists who confine the plasma in magnetic fields, a key task calls for mapping the shape of the fields, a process known as measuring the equilibrium, or...
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