Supercomputers and Archimedes’ law enable calculating nanobubble diffusion in nuclear fuel
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have proposed a method that speeds ...
Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)
Often and little, or rarely and to the full?
Credit: Source: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski If we were talking about food, most experts would choose the former, but in ...
New electrode material developed to increase charge capacity of lithium batteries
Credit: Yokohama National University Lithium batteries hold a lot of promise for the future of many applications, including electric vehicles, ...
Scientists develop high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries
Credit: DICP Recently, research groups led by Prof. LIU Jian and Prof. WU Zhongshuai from the Dalian Institute of Chemical ...
Untwisting plastics for charging internet-of-things devices
Credit: Takenobu Group Untwisting chains of atoms within a plastic polymer improves its ability to conduct electricity, according to a ...
Engineers to work on cybersecurity for systems linking solar power to grid
A $3.6 million award from the US Department of Energy is part of $128 million dedicated to new projects that ...
Tandem solar cell world record: New branch in the NREL chart
Credit: HZB Tandem cells combine two different semiconductors that convert different parts of the light spectrum into electrical energy. Metal-halide ...
Particle billiards with three players
Frankfurt researchers solve puzzle of Compton scattering -- new approach for testing theories in quantum mechanicsCredit: Max Kircher, Goethe University ...
Solar power plants get help from satellites to predict cloud cover
Scientists develop a method to convert GOES satellite data into detailed information about cloud cover properties, enhancing the ability to ...
Development of attachable sticker-type rechargeable batteries
A joint research team from KIER, KAIST, PNU, NTU develops a high-performance re-attachable sticker-type energy storage device. The research findings ...
USC scientists develop a better redox flow battery
Credit: Source: USC USC scientists have developed a new battery that could solve the electricity storage problem constraining widespread use ...
Harnessing the power of electricity-producing bacteria for programmable ‘biohybrids’
Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22116 Someday, microbial cyborgs -- bacteria combined with electronic devices -- could ...
Next gen solar cells perform better when there’s a camera around
Researchers find a simple way to detect tiny imperfections that affect performanceCredit: Exciton Science A literal "trick of the light" ...
Innovative technologies for satellites
Credit: (Picture: Chair of Computer Science VIII / University of Würzburg) Some satellites are only slightly larger than a milk ...
Making biofuels cheaper by putting plants to work
Berkeley Lab researchers describe how biofuels can achieve cost parity with petroleum fuelsCredit: Marilyn Sargent /Berkeley Lab Biofuels are an ...
Possible lives for food waste from restaurants
Credit: University of Cordoba More than a third of the food produced ends up being wasted. This situation creates environmental, ...
BESSY II: Ultra-fast switching of helicity of circularly polarized light pulses
The ultra-fast change of light helicity is particularly interesting to observe processes in magnetic materials and has long been expected ...
AI finds 2D materials in the blink of an eye
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a ...
Scientists tap unused energy source to power smart sensor networks
Credit: Kai Wang The electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances also creates small magnetic fields that are ...
Using fiber optics to advance safe and renewable energy
Berkeley Lab to develop innovative technologies to make offshore wind and natural gas storage more reliableCredit: Berkeley Lab Fiber optic ...