NUS researchers create novel device that harnesses shadows to generate electricity
Credit: Royal Society of Chemistry Shadows are often associated with darkness and uncertainty. Now, researchers from the National University of ...
Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)
Untangling a key step in photosynthetic oxygen production
Understanding nature's process could inform the next generation of artificial photosynthetic systems that produce clean and renewable energy from sunlight ...
3D-printed system speeds up solar cell testing from hours to minutes
Australian scientists flag dramatic improvement to next-gen perovskite R&DCredit: Adam Surmiak, Xiongfeng Lin Tests on new designs for next-gen solar ...
Keep away from water: Skoltech scientists show a promising solid electrolyte is ‘hydrophobic’
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have shown that LATP, a solid electrolytes considered for use ...
A spreadable interlayer could make solid state batteries more stable
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at ...
Story tips: Mining for COVID, rules to grow by and the 3D connection
Credit: Dasha Herrmannova/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Computing - Mining for COVID-19 connections Scientists have tapped the ...
Formate dehydrogenase reduces carbon dioxide to formic acid
A giant leap for artificial photosynthesis research!Credit: Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Osaka City University Professor Yutaka Amao of the ...
Where neutrinos come from
Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black holes in far-off quasarsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian astrophysicists have come ...
Coordination polymer glass provides solid support for hydrogen fuel cells
Hydrogen fuel cells made with coordination polymer glass membranes could produce as much energy as their liquid-based counterparts while adding ...
Copper ion unlocks magnesium’s potential in next-generation battery
Credit: CUI Guanglei Researchers at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
On the road to non-toxic and stable perovskite solar cells
Credit: HZB/Meng Li Among the new materials for solar cells, the halide perovskites are considered particularly promising. Within a few ...
3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 11, 2020 -- Researchers at the Department ...
Moisture-sucking gels give solar panels the chills
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Youssef A. Khalil A cooling system developed at KAUST has improved the efficiency of a prototype ...
Transporting energy through a single molecular nanowire
Why single wires are superior to bundlesCredit: Sylvia Germes Photosynthetic systems in nature transport energy very efficiently towards a reaction ...
Scientists have created new nanocomposite from gold and titanium oxide
Scientists use lasers and gold particles to turn titanium oxide into nanocomposite for photocatalystsCredit: ITMO.News Oxides of different metals often ...
Scientists measured electrical conductivity of pure interfacial water
Credit: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Stuttgart, the Karlsruhe Institute ...
Highly efficient hydrogen gas production using sunlight, water and hematite
Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Associate Professor TACHIKAWA Takashi of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has ...
ASU professor recognized nationally with Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Credit: Mary Zhu Gary Moore, assistant professor in ASU's School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute's Center for Applied ...
Lehigh University team awarded $2.5 Million from ARPA-E
Funding will support transformational energy technology framework and platform to improve economic efficiency of current electricity system operationsCredit: Lehigh University ...
Story tips: Tracking populations, UPS’ special delivery and a long-awaited benchmark
Credit: ORNL researchers in late February demonstrated a 20-kilowatt, bi-directional wireless charging system on a medium-class hybrid electric UPS delivery ...