Charged up: revolutionizing rechargeable sodium-ion batteries with ‘doped’ carbon anodes
Doping carbon anode material with different atoms increases the performance of sodium-ion batteries, scientists from Korea showCredit: Korea Maritime and ...
Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)
AI: ensuring that humans remain in the center
KIT coordinates MeKIDI project on digitization of processes in the energy sectorCredit: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Valuable support or job killer? ...
Highly efficient grid-scale electricity storage at fifth of cost
Credit: WMG, University of Warwick Researchers in WMG at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Imperial College London, have ...
AI trained to read electric vehicle charging station reviews to find infrastructure gaps
Credit: Ha et al./Patterns Although electric vehicles that reduce greenhouse gas emissions attract many drivers, the lack of confidence in ...
Squeezing a rock-star material could make it stable enough for solar cells
A promising lead halide perovskite is great at converting sunlight to electricity, but it breaks down at room temperature; now ...
INL partners with Coreform to improve open-source modeling and simulation tool MOOSE
Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Long before an advanced nuclear reactor begins to generate power or another complicated project comes to ...
Producing green hydrogen through the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight
A research team from INRS has joined forces with French researchers from ICPEES to pave the way towards the production ...
Boosted photocatalysis for hydrogen evolution: Reactant supply thru phosphonate groups
Credit: Copyright © 2020 Yosuke Kageshima, Shinshu University Water splitting research for solar hydrogen production has focused on physical processes ...
Nano-thin piezoelectrics advance self-powered electronics
New ultra-efficient material for future wearable techCredit: Image of pacemaker by Lucien Monfils, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike ...
How short circuits in lithium metal batteries can be prevented
Credit: Illustration: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology There are high hopes for the next generation of high energy-density lithium metal ...
Scientists streamline process for controlling spin dynamics
Researchers discovered the thickness of magnetic materials can act as a "knob" for fine-tuning spin dynamics, a key property for ...
Healing ceramic electrolyte degraded by Li dendrite
Post-annealing effect for healing Li garnet solid electrolyte degraded by Li dendrite penetrationCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL ...
A new archaeology for the Anthropocene era
Credit: Alison Crowther Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often ...
A scanning transmission X-ray microscope for analysis of chemical states of lithium
Credit: NINS/IMS Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are widely used for daily products in our life, such as hybrid cars, cell phone, ...
Giving the hydrogen economy an acid test
Credit: University of Tsukuba Scientists at the University of Tsukuba show that using a layer of graphene just one atom ...
A climate in crisis calls for investment in direct air capture, news research finds
Wartime-level funding for a fleet of CO2 scrubbers could slow warming, but stopping climate change still requires deep cuts in ...
UTA faculty member to study underground gas leaks, work with first responders
Detecting and repairing large gas leaksCredit: UT Arlington A civil engineering associate professor at The University of Texas at Arlington ...
‘Ocean 100’: Small group of companies dominate ocean economy
Researchers identify the 100 transnational corporations extracting the majority of revenues from economic use of the world's oceanCredit: Science Advances ...
The compound that makes chili peppers spicy also boosts perovskite solar cell performance
Credit: Jin Yang Scientists in China and Sweden have determined that a pinch of capsaicin, the chemical compound that gives ...
Copper-indium oxide: A faster and cooler way to reduce our carbon footprint
Scientists set a record for the highest conversion rate of carbon dioxide at low temperatures with copper-modified indium oxide, signifying ...