A joint research team from Tohoku University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has made a significant advancement towards high-voltage metal-free lithium-ion batteries that use a small organic molecule—croconic ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 13, 2022
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Climate change is causing temperatures to rise and is also increasing the likelihood of storms, heavy rain, and flooding—the recent flood disaster in the Ahr valley in Germany is just one such example. What we need to ask ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2021
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Where things get sticky happens to be where interesting science happens in a Rice University lab working to improve battery technology.
Materials Science
Jul 14, 2020
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By hybridizing sp2 nanocarbon and nanostructured porous carbon, researchers have created a high-energy and high-power lithium-sulfur battery at Tsinghua University, appearing on Volume 24, Issue 19 of Advanced Functional ...
Nanomaterials
May 20, 2014
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Sodium ion batteries are considered to be one of the most promising alternative systems to lithium-ion batteries, especially for large scale applications. Sodium-based transition-metal oxides with layered structure have been ...
Materials Science
Aug 16, 2022
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Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are considered the best hope for next-generation battery technology, thanks to their long-life cycle, high specific power and energy density. However, they have not met the ever-increasing ...
Materials Science
Nov 16, 2020
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Superman can squeeze a lump of coal and turn it into a sparkling diamond—in comic books, anyway. There is some scientific validity to this fictional feat. Coal and diamonds are both composed of carbon. The two materials ...
Materials Science
Jul 2, 2020
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"Experts" have long been saying the popularity of hybrid vehicles is waning, in parallel to lower gas prices. Say it ain't so? It ain't.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 25, 2009
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The discovery of graphene, a material made of one or very few atomic layers of carbon, started a boom. Today, such two-dimensional materials are no longer limited to carbon and are hot prospects for many applications, especially ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 15, 2018
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Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) have been considered one of the most promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) because of their competitive energy density with significantly low production costs. Moreover, alloy-type ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 30, 2022
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