News tagged with battery
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AMD Fusion APUs plumped, primped, stretched
(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has announced some new additions to its Fusion APUs optimized for notebooks, netbooks and PCs. Users will see the immediate difference in battery life and enhanced graphics. So whats ...
New energy storage device could recharge electric vehicles in minutes
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has all the appearances of a breakthrough in battery technology, except that its not a battery. Researchers at Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc., ...
'Boozer' EV sets 1,000 miles-plus record on single charge
(PhysOrg.com) -- An experimental electric vehicle called "Schluckspecht" ("boozer," or "tippler" in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery ...
Argonne-pioneered X-ray lens to aid nanomaterials research
More affordable and efficient solar cells, batteries and lighting systems could result from a new X-ray lens that will let scientists study the nanoscale in greater detail than ever before.
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Strain and spin may enable ultra-low-energy computing
By combining two frontier technologies, spintronics and straintronics, a team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University has devised perhaps the world's most miserly integrated circuit.
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Sony announces 'WhiteMagic' - new LCD screen that uses half the power
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony has announced via its webpage the development of a new type of LCD display that uses either half as much power as current same-size LCD displays, or the same amount of power, but double ...
A systematic way to find battery materials
Lithium-ion batteries have become a leading energy source for everything from smartphones and laptops to power tools and electric cars, and researchers around the world are actively seeking ways to nudge their performance ...
Aug 12, 2011 |
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Better batteries through nanoscale 3D chemical imaging
Concerns over the finite availability of oil and the effect of greenhouse gases on climate have spurred intense efforts to develop electric-drive vehicles; the major barrier to successful commercialization ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Review: Acer media-center PC has built-in touchpad
(AP) -- Flat-panel TVs and PCs go great together - the PC gets a giant screen, and the TV gets access to tons of online video.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Research group develops “superior conducting” solid state lithium battery
A Japanese research group has developed a solid state lithium battery that appears to perform just as well as conventional liquid lithium ion batteries. The group has published their results in Nature Materials an ...
A better way to connect solar, wind to the grid
The sun makes sidewalks hot enough to fry eggs, the wind blows hard enough to tear fences, but if solar and wind energy can't be converted to the 60-hertz alternating current (AC) standard in the United States, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Energy storage device fabricated on a nanowire array
In a vivid demonstration of the progress being made in miniaturizing energy storage devices, a team of engineers from Rice University in Houston, Texas, has fabricated an energy storage device where all essential ...
Solar power does not have a long shelf life
Storing power is complicated and expensive, but very often, especially far away from the regular power grids, there is no way around large batteries for grid-independent electricity consumers. It would make ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Security researcher finds hack vulnerability in Mac battery chips
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research consultant Charlie Miller, currently with Accuvant Labs, has made it known that he intends to demonstrate a security hole in certain Mac laptops at next months Black Hat security ...