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Fine-Tuned Hydrocarbon Separation at Low Energy Cost

September 24, 2021
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — An electrochemical approach developed at KAUST produces molecular-sieving membranes that could enable a cheap energy-efficient separation of light hydrocarbons, such as olefins...

Researchers Infuse Bacteria with Silver to Improve Power Efficiency in Fuel Cells

September 21, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — A UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists has taken a major step forward in the development of microbial fuel cells — a technology that utilizes natural bacteria to extract electrons...

New Research Advances Clean Energy Solutions

September 7, 2021
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Tempe, AZ — Meeting society’s growing energy needs has become a daunting challenge for humanity. Demands for energy are expected to nearly double by the year 2050, while the effects of climate change,...

Researchers Develop a Photo-Rechargeable Lead-Free Perovskite Lithium-Ion Battery that Generates Energy and Stores Battery on a Single Device

August 27, 2021
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Hong Kong, China — A team of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an inexpensive, lightweight, and non-toxic (lead-free) photo-battery that has...

Direct Cellulose Fuel Cells thru Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Cellulose in Solution

August 17, 2021
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Nagano, Japan — Most of the biomass waste in the world is cellulose. Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could effectively use cellulose for renewable energy to build a carbon-neutral, sustainable society?...

New Solvents to Break Down Plant Cellulose for Bioethanol

August 16, 2021
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Kanazawa, Japan — Scientists from the Institute of Science and Engineering at Kanazawa University have developed new solvent mixtures to break down the tough structure of plant cellulose for the production...

Enzyme from Amazon Fungus could Enhance Efficiency of Second-Generation Ethanol Production

August 5, 2021
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil have found an enzyme from the Amazon fungus Trichoderma harzianum to be capable of breaking down biomass. Fungi...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

New Discovery Opens Novel Pathway for High-Titer Production of Drop-In Biofuels

December 18, 2020
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Aarhus, Denmark — New discovery opens novel pathway for high-titer production of drop-in biofuels Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers...

New Understanding of Electrolyte Additives will Improve Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells

September 7, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — Dye-sensitised solar cells used in low-light conditions could perform more consistently thanks to improved understanding of the role additives play in optimising electrolytes. Laptops...

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