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Ben-Gurion University researchers achieve breakthrough in process to produce hydrogen fuel
Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)
The team is the first to successfully reveal the fundamental chemical reaction present in solar power that could form the missing link to generate the electrici...
CCNY study breaks Forster resonant energy transfer distance limit
Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)
Reported in the journal ACS Photonics, this breakthrough breaks the Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) distance limit of ~10-20 nanometers, and leads to t...
Whiskers, surface growth and dendrites in lithium batteries
Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)
To make a longer-lasting battery, it needs to be bigger, and bigger isn't better when it comes to cell phones or electric cars - not to mention pacemakers. Lith...
Discovery of new superconducting materials using materials informatics
Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)
his study experimentally demonstrated that MI enables efficient exploration of new superconducting materials. MI approaches may be applicable to the development...
Nanotubes may give the world better batteries
Oct 26, 2018 (SPX)
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour showed thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites that grow naturally from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries....
Scientists unravel the mysteries of polymer strands in fuel cells
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
A Russian and Australian collaboration has now shown that this Nafion separator membrane partially unwinds some of its constituent fibers, which then protrude a...
Nuclear fusion: wrestling with burning questions on the control of 'burning plasmas'
Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)
Fission and fusion are very different nuclear reactions, according to Eugenio Schuster, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at L...
Chilean court authorizes Chinese group's lithium production purchase
Oct 25, 2018 (AFP)
The court rejected an appeal to halt the sale by SQM's controlling shareholder, the Pampa Group, which argued that such a deal would break competition rules as ...
Pushing the extra cold frontiers of superconducting science
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
How cold? Lower than 0.05 Kelvin (-272C). "For many modern (quantum) materials, to properly study the fine details of their quantum mechanical behavior you need...
3D-printed lithium-ion batteries
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
Most lithium-ion batteries on the market come in cylindrical or rectangular shapes. Therefore, when a manufacturer is designing a product - such as a cell phone...
A stabilizing influence enables lithium-sulfur battery evolution
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
Technology companies have known for some time that the evolution of their products, whether they're laptops, cell phones or electric cars, depends on the steady...
esVolta selected for 4 energy storage projects totaling 38.5 MWhs in Southern California
Oct 16, 2018 (SPX)
Under the contracts, which are pending approval by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), esVolta will develop, build, and operate the Wildcat Energ...
Building a better battery layer by layer
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
The research team was led by professor Katsuya Teshima, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Science (hereinafter called CEES) at Shinshu Univers...
Novel catalyst for high-energy aluminum-air flow batteries
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
This breakthrough has been led by Professor Jaephil Cho and his research team in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST. Their findings have bee...
Chile lithium miner shareholder sue to block sale to China's Tianqi
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
Pampa Calichera, Potasios de Chile and Global Mining -- collectively known as the Pampa Group which holds 29.12 percent of SQM -- said the decision by Chilean r...
Abrikosov vortices help scientists explain inconsistencies in 'dirty' superconductors theory
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
Superconductors are materials that lose electrical resistance under special circumstances. When resistance falls to zero, an electrical current circulates withi...
A new path to solving a longstanding fusion challenge
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
The new solution was made possible by an innovative approach to compact fusion reactors, using high-temperature superconducting magnets. This method formed the ...
New fuel cell concept brings biological design to better electricity generation
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
In a new approach, inspired by biology and online (Oct. 3, 2018) in the journal Joule, a University of Wisconsin-Madison team has designed a fuel cell using che...
Efficient generation of high-density plasma enabled by high magnetic field
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
If matter can be heated to temperatures of tens of millions of degrees using REB accelerated to nearly the speed of light by irradiating plasma with high-intens...
Flowing salt water over this super-hydrophobic surface can generate electricity
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
The proof-of-concept work could lead to the development of new power sources for lab-on-a-chip platforms and other microfluidics devices. It could someday be ex...
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