Engineers at the University of Arizona have experimentally verified the electrochemical processes that control charge transfer rate from an organic polymer to a biomarker molecule, using common materials and measurement techniques to make their results widely accessible and reproducible.
Researchers are keen to discover the next generation of materials that can catalyze a transformation in renewable energy harvesting and storage.
Over the years, there has been a significant increase in the production of electric vehicles combined with the fact that the use of grid-connected battery systems for storing the electricity generated from renewable sources is also expected to grow considerably.
Leaky sulfur-acid automobile batteries may be a thing of the past, but current generation of lithium batteries still continues to have some disadvantages. Now, a group of engineers at Penn State have developed a unique kind of lithium sulfur battery that could be safer, more efficient, and less expensive.
With the cost of raw materials increasing and lithium ion batteries continuing to be flammable, are there any alternatives? The answer is yes. Researchers at Empa and ETH Zürich have come up with potential approaches as to how batteries can be produced from scrap metal and waste graphite.
Grant awarded to advance development of solid polymer electrolytes ("SPE"), utilizing DRAGONITE halloysite clay for solid-state lithium ("Li") batteries.
Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new catalyst that accelerates the rate of a main step in “artificial photosynthesis”—an effort to imitate how algae, plants, and certain bacteria harness sunlight to change water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich fuels.
Researchers from RIKEN and the University of Tokyo have created a new type of ultra-thin photovoltaic device, coated on both sides with waterproof and stretchable films, which can continue to provide electricity from sunlight even after being immersed in water or being compressed and stretched.
Thermoelectric materials will be a vital resource for the future as they are capable of producing electricity from sources of heat that would otherwise go to waste, from vehicle tailpipes, power plants and elsewhere, without producing additional greenhouse gases.
Researchers at TU Wien have developed a new cloaking technology: a special type of material is irradiated from above in a manner such that another beam of light can pass in an entirely uninhibited manner.
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