Energy & Green Tech
A team of engineers and materials scientists at LG Chem, Korea's largest chemical company, has developed a material that they claim could greatly reduce the risk of thermal runaway and resulting fires in batteries. In their ...
Engineering
A team of engineers at Nanjing University, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new way to extract lithium from briny water.
Engineering
Its abundance of sunlight and heavy investment in solar cell technology has positioned Saudi Arabia well in its transition to becoming a leading exporter of renewable energy. Indeed, solar energy currently makes up more than ...
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, researchers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced battery technologies that can store more energy, recharge faster, discharge slower, and have longer lifespans. To achieve this, many have been ...
Energy & Green Tech
The interface between electrodes and electrolytes largely contributes to the efficiency with which batteries convert energy. In recent years, many efforts aimed at developing better performing batteries have focused on tailoring ...
Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) have become the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide. Energy researchers and material scientists have been trying to identify alternative materials that could serve as LIB components, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Fuel cells are energy-conversion solutions that generate electricity via electrochemical reactions without combustion, thus not contributing to the pollution of air on Earth. These cells could power various technologies, ...
Engineering
Solar cells based on perovskites, a versatile class of materials with promising optoelectronic properties, are gradually making their way toward commercialization. While these solar cells can have notable advantages over ...
Energy & Green Tech
Recent efforts aimed at developing more advanced battery technologies have in great part focused on designing novel cathode materials. This is because existing cathodes do not perform well at high voltages and can contribute ...
Engineering
The widespread adoption of electric vehicles greatly relies on the development of robust and fast-charging battery technologies that can support their continuous operation for long periods of time. One proposed energy storage ...
