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Biochemistry Sep 1, 2017

Bacterial cell wall changes produce more fatty molecules

Bacteria and other microbes can pump out building blocks for biofuels. Unfortunately, getting microbes to produce enough building blocks, lipids, presents a significant challenge. Microbes often fall short of what they could ...

Materials Science Aug 30, 2017

Researchers produce a biocell as effective as a platinum fuel cell

Making a biocell that is as effective as a platinum fuel cell: that's the feat that researchers in the Laboratoire de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) have achieved, in collaboration ...

Energy & Green Tech Aug 23, 2017

How 139 countries could be powered by 100 percent wind, water, and solar energy by 2050

The latest roadmap to a 100% renewable energy future from Stanford's Mark Z. Jacobson and 26 colleagues is the most specific global vision yet, outlining infrastructure changes that 139 countries can make to be entirely powered ...

Energy & Green Tech Aug 17, 2017

Hyundai unveils new fuel cell SUV with longer travel range

Hyundai Motor said Thursday it plans to launch early next year a second-generation hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that will travel more than 580 kilometers (360 miles) between fill-ups under Korean standards.

Materials Science Aug 3, 2017

Study reveals exactly how low-cost fuel cell catalysts work

In order to reduce the cost of next-generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells for vehicles, researchers have been developing alternatives to the prohibitively expensive platinum and platinum-group metal (PGM) catalysts currently ...

Energy & Green Tech Jul 13, 2017

Optimizing hydrogen-powered passenger ferries

Maritime transportation has emerged as one solution to the traffic gridlock that plagues coastal cities. But with urban passenger ferries operating in sensitive environments and tourist areas, hydrogen fuel cell-powered passenger ...

Energy & Green Tech Jul 4, 2017

Solar cell design using diverse plant pigments

A member of the Faculty of Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, in cooperation with colleagues, has optimized and characterized TiO₂-based solar cell design using diverse plant pigments. The study involved two ...

Materials Science Jul 3, 2017

Breakthrough achieved in improving the ionic conductivity of fuel cell materials

Ceramic fuel cell technology has a tremendous potential for clean energy production.

Materials Science Jun 30, 2017

Researchers develop selective electrocatalysts to boost direct methanol fuel cell performance

A research group from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently reported the development of a new technology to boost performance of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) using high-concentration ...

Cell & Microbiology Jun 30, 2017

Scientists manipulate 'signaling' molecules to control cell migration

Johns Hopkins researchers report they have uncovered a mechanism in amoebae that rapidly changes the way cells migrate by resetting their sensitivity to the naturally occurring internal signaling events that drive such movement. ...

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