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Flow-Through Electrodes Make Hydrogen 50 Times Faster

May 27, 2020
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Durham, NC — Electrolysis, passing a current through water to break it into gaseous hydrogen and oxygen, could be a handy way to store excess energy from wind or solar power. The hydrogen can be stored...

Artificial Intelligence is Energy-Hungry — New Hardware could Curb Its Appetite

May 11, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — To just solve a puzzle or play a game, artificial intelligence can require software running on thousands of computers. That could be the energy that three nuclear plants produce...

Supercapacitor Promises Storage, High Power and Fast Charging

May 6, 2020
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State College, PA — A new supercapacitor based on manganese oxide could combine the storage capacity of batteries with the high power and fast charging of other supercapacitors, according to researchers...

Researchers Tackle a New Opportunity to Develop High-Energy Batteries

April 29, 2020
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Adelphi, MD — In recent years, lithium-ion batteries have become better at supplying energy to Soldiers in the field, but the current generation of batteries never reaches its highest energy potential....

Windows Will Soon Generate Electricity, Following Solar Cell Breakthrough

April 22, 2020
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Parkville, VIC, Australia — Semi-transparent solar cells that can be incorporated into window glass are a “game-changer” that could transform architecture, urban planning and electricity...

Research Team Develops a High-Capacity Battery Material Using Salmon DNA

April 17, 2020
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Sejong-si, Korea — A Korean research team has succeeded in developing next-generation high-capacity cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST,...

Scientists Develop Better Redox Flow Battery

April 14, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — USC scientists have developed a new battery that could solve the electricity storage problem constraining widespread use of renewable energy. The technology is a new spin on a...

Mutation Reduces Energy Waste in Plants

April 9, 2020
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Bochum, Germany — To this end, the team identified several thousand proteins, determined their respective amounts in mutant and reference lines and combined the findings with measurements of photosynthetic...

Making Biofuels Cheaper by Putting Plants to Work

April 7, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — Biofuels are an important part of the broader strategy to replace petroleum-based gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that we use today. However, biofuels have so far not reached cost parity...

Scientists Tap Unused Energy Source to Power Smart Sensor Networks

April 1, 2020
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State College, PA — The electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances also creates small magnetic fields that are present all around us. Scientists have developed a new mechanism capable...

Double-Walled Nanotubes have Electro-Optical Advantages

March 30, 2020
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Houston, TX — One nanotube could be great for electronics applications, but there’s new evidence that two could be tops. Rice University engineers already knew that size matters when using...

Nature-Inspired Green Energy Technology Clears Important Development Hurdle

March 23, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — Scientist Heinz Frei has spent decades working toward building an artificial version of one of nature’s most elegant and effective machines: the leaf. Frei, and many other...

On the Trail of Organic Solar Cells’ Efficiency

March 23, 2020
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Dresden, Germany — In their study, by investigating the vibrations of the molecules in the thin films, the scientists were able to show that very fundamental quantum effects, so-called zero point vibrations,...

Biomass Fuels can Significantly Mitigate Global Warming

March 12, 2020
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Beer-Sheva, Israel — Biomass fuels derived from various grasses could significantly mitigate global warming by reducing carbon, according to a long-term field study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University...

Powering Devices Goes Skin Deep

March 9, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Soft and flexible materials can be used to ultrasonically charge bioelectronic implants, which could help to reduce the need for surgical treatment. Electronic devices are...

Light to Electricity: New Multi-Material Solar Cells Set New Efficiency Standard

March 6, 2020
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Toronto, Canada — Researchers from the University of Toronto Engineering and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have overcome a key obstacle in combining the emerging solar-harvesting...

New Machine Learning Method could Supercharge Battery Development for Electric Vehicles

February 21, 2020
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Stanford, CA — Battery performance can make or break the electric vehicle experience, from driving range to charging time to the lifetime of the car. Now, artificial intelligence has made dreams like...

‘Reverse Fuel Cell’ Converts Waste Carbon to Valuable Products at Record Rates

February 12, 2020
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Toronto, Canada — Fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity. Now, a University of Toronto Engineering team has adapted technology from fuel cells to do the reverse: harness electricity to make valuable...

Herringbone Pattern in Plant Cell Walls Critical to Cell Growth

February 6, 2020
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State College, PA — Plant cells tend to grow longer instead of wider due to the alignment of the many layers of cellulose that make up their cell walls, according to a new study that may have implications...

Anti-Solar Cells: Photovoltaic Cell that Works at Night

January 30, 2020
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Davis, CA — What if solar cells worked at night? That’s no joke, according to Jeremy Munday, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis. In fact, a specially...

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