New materials will yield stronger, faster-charging batteries
Researchers at MIT say they have created a new material that will pave the way to faster charging batteries.
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Study: Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution
Nearly 20% of today's electricity in the United States comes from nuclear power. The U.S. has the largest nuclear fleet in the world, with 92 reactors scattered around the country. Many of these power plants have run for ...
Apr 10, 2023
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First completely roll-to-roll printable perovskite solar cell
Swansea University has established a low-cost and scalable carbon ink formulation capable of unlocking, for the first time, the potential for perovskite solar cells to be manufactured at scale.
Mar 15, 2023
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Simple techniques to quantify Li plating and speed up the charging of Li-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) are among the most widespread rechargeable battery technologies, due to their high energy densities and performances. Despite their versatility and advantageous characteristics, these batteries ...
Engineering
Scientists illuminate barrier to next-generation battery that charges very quickly
New lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes are lightweight, inflammable, pack a lot of energy, and can be recharged very quickly, but they have been slow to develop due to mysterious short circuiting and failure. ...
Jan 30, 2023
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Salt-rejecting microchannels help make seawater drinkable using the power of the sun
A solar distillation device can purify brine from reverse osmosis plants with over 10 percent salinity, as well as water taken directly from the Red Sea. The technology offers double the freshwater production rate of existing ...
Jan 26, 2023
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Cheap, sustainable hydrogen: New catalyst is 10 times more efficient than previous sun-powered water-splitting devices
A new kind of solar panel, developed at the University of Michigan, has achieved 9% efficiency in converting water into hydrogen and oxygen—mimicking a crucial step in natural photosynthesis. Outdoors, it represents a major ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Re-awakening the world's first solar cells for indoor photovoltaics applications
The world's first solid-state photovoltaics were reported in 1883, and were composed of selenium, which eventually led to the development of the present-day photovoltaics, although the wide bandgap of selenium was limiting ...
Energy & Green Tech
Using an ethylene carbonate solvent with a sodium iodide salt to create a new kind of refrigerator
A pair of researchers at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory used a commonly known, naturally occurring phenomenon to build a new kind of environmentally safe refrigerator.
Energy & Green Tech
Enzymes could make it cheaper to recycle waste polyester textiles and bottles than making them from petroleum
What do a T-shirt, a rug, and a soda bottle have in common? Many are made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a ubiquitous plastic that revolutionized the materials industry after it was patented in the 1940s.
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