Illinois researcher’s theory of pore-scale transport to enable improved flow batteries
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer Redox flow batteries are an emerging technology for electrochemical energy storage that could help enhance the ...
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$2 million DOE grant supports Lehigh researchers building thermal battery
Interdisciplinary team to develop innovative approach to thermal energy storage for more flexible, efficient power plantsCredit: Lehigh University The addition ...
Researchers design an improved pathway to carbon-neutral plastics
Researchers from U of T Engineering and Caltech have designed a system that transforms renewable electricity and waste CO2 into ...
Turning up the heat to create new nanostructured metals
Scientists used heat to drive a spontaneous process in which different metals mixed to form 3-D interlocking nanostructures in thin ...
New hybrid device can both capture and store solar energy
Device offers a new avenue for capitalizing on abundant solar energyCredit: University of Houston Researchers from the University of Houston ...
University of Delaware startup awarded $3.4M in Department of Energy funding
Funding will help advance and commercialize a new class of polymer membranes to make fuels cells much more economicalCredit: University ...
Li-ion battery components to be printed on an inkjet printer
Researchers are developing a technology for printing the electrodes for miniature li-ion batteries by an inkjet printer.Credit: Peter the Great ...
Blowing bubbles: PPPL scientist confirms way to launch current in fusion plasmas
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that ...
Hot electrons harvested without tricks
Credit: Maxim Pchenitchnikov, University of Groningen Semiconductors convert energy from photons (light) into an electron current. However, some photons carry ...
Atomically dispersed Ni is coke-resistant for dry reforming of methane
Credit: QIAO Botao Dry reforming of methane (DRM) is the process of converting methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into ...
New material breaks world record turning heat into electricity
A new type of material generates electrical current very efficiently from temperature differences. This allows sensors and small processors to ...
Simulation reveals how bacterial organelle converts sunlight to chemical energy
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have simulated every atom of a light-harvesting structure in a ...
Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel
Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogenCredit: Illustration: NTNU In June, the International Energy Agency confirmed what most ...
Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant
Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy ...
Perovskite solar cells: Possible aspects of high efficiency uncovered
Credit: HZB Solar cells based on perovskites have reached enormously high efficiencies within a few years, only. Those containing hybrid ...
The environmental cost of cryptocurrency mines
UNM team assesses monetary price of health and air quality impactsCredit: University of New Mexico Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Monero ...
Light at the end of the nanotunnel for future catalysts
Credit: Sune Levin and Nature Communications Using a new type of nanoreactor, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have ...
New material points toward highly efficient solar cells
Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A new type of material for next-generation solar cells eliminates the need ...
Brookhaven-Commonwealth Fusion Energy Project wins DOE funding
Through DOE's new Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program, Brookhaven will partner with Massachusetts-based startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems to ...
‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency
Credit: Ella Maru Studio Scientists at the University of Cambridge studying perovskite materials for next generation solar cells and flexible ...