Currently, lithium-ion batteries are the most prevalent solution for mobile power supply. In some applications, however, it reaches its limits. This especially holds for electric mobility, where lightweight and compact vehicles ...
Materials Science
Aug 24, 2021
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Biomethane (CH4) can be used as feedstock for modern chemical industry or burned directly as a fuel.
Materials Science
Jul 28, 2021
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Feeling extra sweaty from a summer heat wave? Don't worry—not all your perspiration has to go to waste. In a paper publishing July 13 in the journal Joule, researchers have developed a new device that harvests energy from ...
Nanophysics
Jul 13, 2021
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Decisions made now will determine whether economies win or lose money as the coal industry changes over the next couple of decades.
Environment
Jun 8, 2021
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Using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen can be an effective way to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel, with further benefits if that electricity is generated from renewable energy sources. But as water-splitting ...
Materials Science
Mar 26, 2021
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Researchers developing renewable plastics and exploring new processes for plastics upcycling and recycling technologies will now be able to easily baseline their efforts to current manufacturing practices to understand if ...
Environment
Feb 2, 2021
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Northwestern University researchers have developed a highly effective, environmentally friendly method for converting ammonia into hydrogen. Outlined in a recent publication in the journal Joule, the new technique is a major ...
Materials Science
Nov 18, 2020
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A key component of ambient direct air capture (DAC) systems that remove carbon dioxide from the air is the sorbent material that is used to first capture the carbon and then to release it. Certain sorbent materials can pull ...
Materials Science
Jul 29, 2020
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The world needs clean water, and its need is only going to grow in the coming decades. Yet desalination and other water-purifying technologies are often expensive and require a lot of energy to run, making it that much harder ...
Materials Science
Jul 28, 2020
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(HealthDay)—It has been the sole silver lining in the coronavirus pandemic—cleaner air and water on the planet. But will it continue?
Environment
Jul 15, 2020
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