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Novel Method of Imaging Silicon Anode Degradation may Lead to Better Batteries

July 30, 2021
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State College, PA — A novel method of characterizing the structural and chemical evolution of silicon and a thin layer that governs battery stability may help resolve issues that prevent using silicon...

Making Clean Hydrogen is Hard, but Researchers Just Solved a Major Hurdle

July 22, 2021
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Austin, TX — For decades, researchers around the world have searched for ways to use solar power to generate the key reaction for producing hydrogen as a clean energy source — splitting water...

The Pressure is Off and High Temperature Superconductivity Remains

July 12, 2021
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Houston, TX — In a critical next step toward room-temperature superconductivity at ambient pressure, Paul Chu, Founding Director and Chief Scientist at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the...

Catalyzing the Conversion of Biomass to Biofuel

July 5, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Zeolites are extremely porous materials: Ten grams can have an internal surface area the size of a soccer field. Their cavities make them useful in catalyzing chemical reactions and...

Future of Perovskite Solar Cells Shines a Little Brighter

June 23, 2021
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Okinawa, Japan — Solar cells, which convert sunlight to electricity, have long been part of the global vision for renewable energy. Although individual cells are very small, when upscaled to modules,...

Biodegradable Battery

June 7, 2021
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Dübendorf, Switzerland — The fabrication device for the battery revolution looks quite unconspicuous: It is a modified, commercially available 3D printer, located in a room in the Empa laboratory building....

Scientists to Take a New Step in the Microelectronics’ Development

May 19, 2021
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St Petersburg, Russia — Researchers of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University(SPbPU) developed a new approach to determine the best electrode materials composition for Solid-state lithium-ion...

‘Molecular Glue’ Makes Perovskite Solar Cells Dramatically More Reliable Over Time

May 7, 2021
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Providence, RI — A research team from Brown University has made a major step toward improving the long-term reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy technology. In a study to...

Scientists Uncover Structure of Light-Driven Enzyme with Potential Biofuel Applications

April 23, 2021
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Menlo Park, CA — Although many organisms capture and respond to sunlight, enzymes – proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions – are rarely driven by light. Scientists have identified...

Study Paves the Way for New Photosensitive Materials

April 23, 2021
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Tempe, AZ — Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints...

Designing Selective Membranes for Batteries Using a Drug Discovery Toolbox

April 9, 2021
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Washington, DC — Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass through while blocking others are key enablers for energy technologies from batteries and fuel cells to resource refinement and...

Researchers harvest energy from radio waves to power wearable devices

March 26, 2021
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State College, PA — From microwave ovens to Wi-Fi connections, the radio waves that permeate the environment are not just signals of energy consumed but are also sources of energy themselves. An international...

Are Bacterial Probiotics’ a Game-Changer for Biofuels Industry?

March 11, 2021
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Kongens Lyngby, Denmark — In a study recently published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU) and Yale University have investigated...

New Method Converts Methane in Natural Gas to Methanol at Room Temperature

February 19, 2021
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Chicago, IL — Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have discovered a way to convert the methane in natural gas into liquid methanol at room temperature. This discovery, reported in...

Tuning Electrode Surfaces to Optimize Solar Fuel Production

February 19, 2021
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Upton, NY — Scientists have demonstrated that modifying the topmost layer of atoms on the surface of electrodes can have a remarkable impact on the activity of solar water splitting. As they reported...

New Synthetic Route for Biofuel Production

February 9, 2021
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Bochum, Germany — A German-Chinese research team has found a new synthetic route to produce biofuel from biomass. The chemists converted the substance 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) produced from biomass...

Machine-Learning to Predict the Performance of Organic Solar Cells

January 29, 2021
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Madrid, Spain — Knowing how to predict the specific composition and cell design that would result in optimum performance is one of the greatest unresolved problems in materials science. This is, in...

Beauty in Imperfection: How Crystal Defects can Help Convert Waste Heat into Electricity

January 27, 2021
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Nagoya, Japan — If we are to prevent the impending environmental crisis, it is imperative that we find efficient and sustainable ways to avoid being wasteful. One area with much room for improvement...

Scientists Develop a Cheaper Method that might Help Create Fuels from Plants

January 12, 2021
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COLUMBUS, OH — Scientists have figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to conduct a chemical reaction at the heart of many biological processes, which may lead to better ways to create biofuels from...

Innovative Battery Chemistry Revolutionizes Zinc-Air Battery

January 11, 2021
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Münster, Germany — High-performance, eco-friendly, safe and at the same time cost-effective: the zinc-air battery is an attractive energy storage technology of the future. Until now, the conventional...

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