Conventional lithium ion batteries, such as those widely used in smartphones and notebooks, have reached performance limits. Materials chemist Freddy Kleitz from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Vienna and international ...
Engineering
Dec 13, 2018
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A team of chemists from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania together with physicists from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) science institute, Germany, offers a novel approach for selective layer formation in perovskite ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 12, 2018
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Industry uses platinum alloys as catalysts for oxygen reduction, essential in fuel cells and metal-air batteries, among other applications. Expensive and rare, that metal imposes tight restrictions on manufacture. Researchers ...
Materials Science
Oct 24, 2018
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Researchers at Washington State University have developed a new way to make low-cost, single-atom catalysts for fuel cells—an advance that could make important clean energy technology more economically viable.
Materials Science
Aug 30, 2018
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Sodium-ion batteries have potential to replace the currently used lithium-ion batteries by using the cheaper (less than a thirtieth of the cost of lithium) and more abundant sodium resource. This has particular potential ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 30, 2018
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A hiker gets disoriented while on a desert trek when she comes upon a drying puddle left by a recent rain.
Materials Science
Jul 2, 2018
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New all-inorganic perovskite solar cells tackle three key challenges in solar cell technology: efficiency, stability, and cost.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 27, 2018
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In even the most fuel-efficient cars, about 60 percent of the total energy of gasoline is lost through heat in the exhaust pipe and radiator. To combat this, researchers are developing new thermoelectic materials that can ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 26, 2018
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A new sodium-ion battery chemistry that shows superior performance to existing state-of-the-art sodium-based batteries could be the catalyst to enabling mass-production of the emerging technology for large-scale energy storage, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 5, 2018
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A KAIST research team has developed a new hybrid energy storage device that can be charged in less than a half-minute. It employs aqueous electrolytes instead of flammable organic solvents, so it is both environmentally friendly ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 1, 2018
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