News tagged with magnesium electrode

Liquid Battery Offers Promising Solar Energy Storage Technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest challenges currently facing large-scale solar energy technology is finding an effective way to store the energy, which is essential for using the electricity at night or ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Stable electrodes for improving printed electronics

Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electronics. The process, which allows manufacturers to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Glass from the past informs decisions for the future

A new investment at the Department of Energy’s EMSL is now being used in an international effort to study 1,800-year-old pieces of glass from a Roman shipwreck and ruin. The primary goal of the research ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Liquid batteries could level the load

The biggest drawback to many real or proposed sources of clean, renewable energy is their intermittency: The wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine, and so the power they produce ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

With single laser pulses on single molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at MPQ (Max Planck Institute) succeed in resolving the internal dynamics of individual molecules using UV femtosecond laser pulses.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Battery-powered Christmas carol: A trip down memory (effect) lane

(PhysOrg.com) -- As consumers anticipate unwrapping the latest electronic gadget during the holidays, they may not give much thought to how long their shiny devices will last. But it's a topic under significant ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

When it comes to churning out electrons, metal glass beats plastics

By adding carbon nanotubes to a glass-like metal compound, researchers have devised a new breed of field emission electrodes. This technology, which produces a stream of electrons, may have promising applications in the consumer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Two atoms entangled using microwaves for the first time

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have for the first time linked the quantum properties of two separated ions (electrically charged atoms) by manipulating them with microwaves ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 38 | with audio podcast

Room-temperature spintronic computers? Silicon spin transistors heat up and spins last longer

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah researchers built "spintronic" transistors and used them to align the magnetic "spins" of electrons for a record period of time in silicon chips at room temperature. The ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Squid shown to be able to hear

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have solved the mystery about whether squid can hear and if so, how.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report


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