Story tips: Fusion squeeze, global image mapping, computing mental health, Na+ batteries
Credit: David L. Green/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Fusion - Squeezing the code The prospect of simulating ...
Tag: Energy/Fuel (non-petroleum)
Humanity’s greatest risk: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food, water crises: scientists
Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, 2020, a 50-page synthesis ...
Lithuanian scientists contributed to creating the world record breaking tandem solar cell
29.15% efficiency is the new world record for a tandem solar element, developed by Lithuanian and German researchers; the material ...
Energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech
Credit: Ilias Belharouak/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb 5, 2020 - Energy storage startup ...
Army scientists look inside batteries with a molecular eye
Credit: U.S. Army photo by Jhi Scott ADELPHI, Md. (Feb. 5, 2020) - Scientists are closer to understanding exactly what ...
Cathode ‘defects’ improve battery performance
A counterintuitive finding revealed by high-precision powder diffraction analyses suggests a new strategy for building better batteriesCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
Regioselective functionalization of perylenes reduces voltage loss in organic solar cells
Credit: NINS/IMS The power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on blends of electron donor (D) and acceptor ...
Scientists learn more about the first hours of a lithium-ion battery’s life
New technology enables nanoscale molecular view of self-assembling gateway structure withinCredit: Photo by Andrea Starr/PNNL The first hours of a ...
Herringbone pattern in plant cell walls critical to cell growth
Credit: Gu Lab, Penn State Plant cells tend to grow longer instead of wider due to the alignment of the ...
First-of-its-kind hydrogel platform enables on-demand production of medicines, chemicals
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin A team of chemical engineers has developed a new ...
A material benefit to society, Sandia scientist elected AAAS fellow
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories A perennial inventor of advanced materials has been elected fellow of the American Association for the ...
New research could aid cleaner energy technologies
Study looks beneath surface to see how oxides, gases interactCredit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - ...
Self-learning heatÂing control system saves energy
Smart heatCredit: Zooey Braun, Stuttgart / Empa Factory halls, airport terminals and high-rise office buildings are often equipped with automated ...
World record: Efficiency of perovskite silicon tandem solar cell jumps to 29.15%
Credit: Eike Köhnen/HZB While silicon converts mostly the red portions of sunlight into electricity, perovskite compounds primarily utilise the blue ...
Monitoring intermediates in CO2 conversion to formate by metal catalyst
Scientists discovered that a widely used compound thought to play only a 'sacrificial' role enhances key steps of the catalytic ...
Molecule modification could improve reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel
The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel could become safer and more efficient in future after researchers found a way to ...
Researchers generalize Fourier’s heat equation, explaining hydrodynamic heat propagatio
Theory is in striking agreement with pioneering experimental results in graphite published last yearCredit: @Michele Simoncelli, EPFL Fourier's well-known heat ...
Instant hydrogen production for powering fuel cells
Researchers develop a method for on-demand hydrogen production, which has potential for use in portable hydrogen fuel cellsCredit: Jing Liu ...
Seeing inside a battery while it’s working
Thin radio-frequency detector monitors capacity of commercial lithium-ion batteryCredit: Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A new paper-thin radio-frequency detector designed ...
Rice lab turns trash into valuable graphene in a flash
'Green' process promises pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic and other materialsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. ...