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Tiny granules can help bring clean and abundant fusion power to Earth
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
Now, physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and General Atomics have concluded that injecting tiny ber...
Highview Power Unveils CRYOBattery, World's First Giga-Scale Cryogenic Battery
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
This technology reaches a new benchmark for a levelized cost of storage (LCOS) of $140/MWh for a 10-hour, 200 MW/2 GWh system. Highview Power's cryogenic energy...
Scientists found a way to increase the capacity of energy sources for portable electronics
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
As portable devices evolve, the demand for new types of energy sources grows. Scientists keep looking for an effective way to improve the performances of electr...
AI and high-performance computing extend evolution to superconductors
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Owners of thoroughbred stallions carefully breed prizewinning horses over generations to eke out fractions of a second in million-dollar races. Materials scient...
Flexible generators turn movement into energy
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has adapted laser-induced graphene (LIG) into small, metal-free devices that generate electricity. Like rubbing a balloon on ...
Researchers introduce novel heat transport theory in quest for efficient thermoelectrics
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
Crystals and glasses conduct heat in fundamentally different ways: the regular arrangement of atoms in a crystal means that heat is conducted by the propagation...
Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
A progress report published in Nature publicly discloses the group's collaboration for the first time. The group, which included about 30 graduate students, pos...
Researchers set new mark for highest-temperature superconductor
May 23, 2019 (UPI)
An international team of researchers observed superconductivity at minus-23 degrees Celsius, or minus-9 degrees Fahrenheit -- a new record. The breakthrough, de...
Machine learning speeds modeling of experiments aimed at capturing fusion energy on Earth
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are using ML to create a model for rapid control of plasma - the...
Wearable cooling and heating patch could serve as personal thermostat and save energy
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
"This type of device can improve your personal thermal comfort whether you are commuting on a hot day or feeling too cold in your office," said Renkun Chen, a p...
New surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Now, researchers at MIT have made significant progress in promoting droplet formation and shedding in such fluids. This approach could lead to efficiency improv...
Aerojet Rocketdyne and ZAF Energy Team Up
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
"Our battery management systems provide unprecedented control and health monitoring capabilities for a variety of energy storage solutions," said Aerojet Rocket...
Self-repairing high-capacity long-life batteries
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
From smartphones to pacemakers and now even cars, batteries power much of our world and their importance only continues to grow. There are two particular aspect...
Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes
May 16, 2019 (SPX)
The Cambridge researchers, working in collaboration with colleagues at Jiangnan University in China, have shown how graphene - a two-dimensional form of carbon ...
A step for a promising new battery to store clean energy
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
In a study published Friday in the journal Batteries and Supercaps, researchers from The Ohio State University detailed their findings centering around the cons...
New Argonne coating could have big implications for lithium batteries
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
Building a better lithium-ion battery involves addressing a myriad of factors simultaneously, from keeping the battery's cathode electrically and ionically cond...
Manipulating superconductivity using a 'mechanic' and an 'electrician'
May 13, 2019 (SPX)
Although a large number of strongly correlated materials have been examined with different parameters to understand the mechanism of superconductivity, the rang...
Army discovery opens path to safer batteries
May 13, 2019 (SPX)
Completely free of transition metal and delivering unprecedented high capacity by reversibly storing Li-ion at high potential (~4.2 V), the finding opens a poss...
Army researchers improve battery safety with new cathode chemistry
May 10, 2019 (UPI)
Currently, soldiers must regularly carry batteries weighing between 15 and 20 pounds. But thanks to a new type of cathode and electrolyte, soldiers could soon b...
Development of 'transparent and flexible battery' for power generation and storage at once
May 09, 2019 (SPX)
Senior Researcher Changsoon Choi's team actively used 'single-layered graphene film' as electrodes in order to develop transparent devices. Due to its excellent...
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