Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)

March 16, 2021

This was concluded by economists who studied the indicators of 21 OECD countries from 1980 to 2016Credit: UrFU / Ilya ...

Discovery of ‘knock-on chemistry’ opens new frontier in reaction dynamics

New experimental findings cast in doubt 90-year-old theoretical model of the transition state in chemical reactionsCredit: Illustration: Lydie Leung TORONTO, ...

Twisting, flexible crystals key to solar energy production

Researchers show how shapes and movements of halide perovskites create desirable renewable energy propertiesCredit: ORNL/Jill Hemman DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers ...

Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?

Engineers have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, a material commonly used in plastic bagsCredit: Image courtesy of Svetlana Boriskina In ...

Two UNIST faculty members elected as 2020 KAST fellows

Credit: UNIST Two faculty members at UNIST have been elected 2021 Fellows of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology ...

Shedding light on perovskite films

March 12, 2021

Efficient materials for future solar cells - New model to determine photoluminescence quantum efficiencyCredit: Markus Breig, KIT Photovoltaics decisively contributes ...

Cheaper carbon capture is on the way

March 11, 2021

PNNL-developed solvent breaks barriers, captures carbon for less than industrial counterpartsCredit: (Animation by Michael Perkins | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) ...

Contactless high performance power transmission

March 11, 2021

Superconducting coils for contactless power transmission in the kilowatt rangeCredit: Christoph Utschick / Wuerth Elektronik eiSos A team led by ...

Material from Russia will triple the capacity of lithium-ion batteries

Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS The scientists of the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (NUST MISIS) being a part ...

Are ‘bacterial probiotics’ a game-changer for the biofuels industry?

Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability In a study recently published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Novo ...

The secret of catalysts that increase fuel cell efficiency

Credit: POSTECH Fuel cells, which are attracting attention as an eco-friendly energy source, obtain electricity and heat simultaneously through the ...

Researchers develop a new, efficient tin monosulfide solar cell prototype

Credit: Tohoku University A team of researchers from Tohoku University have created a tin monosulfide (SnS) solar cell that boasts ...

The mystery of the missing energy – solved

Competition between triplet pair formation and excimer-like recombination controls singlet fission yieldCredit: Thor Balkhed The efficiency of solar cells can ...

Solid-state batteries could be made more cleanly by scaling-up flash sintering