Energy & Green Tech
Scientists at the University of New South Wales Sydney are working on ways to improve the efficiency and cost of hydrogen fuel cells, to increase access to clean fuel.
Aug 11, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
All-solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries (ASSLSBs) are considered one of the most promising next-generation energy storage devices for high energy density, high safety, and low cost of sulfur.
Aug 28, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a chemical reaction that enables the generation of oxygen gas. This reaction is crucial for producing fuels through water splitting or through the electroreduction of CO2.
Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen, seen as the "ultimate energy" for the 21st century, boasts benefits such as being clean and renewable as well as storable and versatile. The International Energy Agency predicts that 115 million tons of hydrogen ...
May 9, 2023
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Engineering
Electronics engineers and materials scientists have been trying to identify materials that could help to boost the performance of electronics further, overcoming the inherent limitations of silicon-based transistors. Two-dimensional ...
Energy & Green Tech
Solid oxide fuel cells, or SOFC, are a type of electrochemical device that generates electricity using hydrogen as fuel, with the only 'waste' product being water. Naturally, as we strive to reduce our carbon output and mitigate ...
Mar 28, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Just a couple decades ago, nitrogen oxide emissions routinely plagued cities' skies and their residents' lungs. These polluting reactive nitrogen oxide gases from the tailpipes of combustion-engine vehicles and machinery ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Zinc—cheap, abundant, environmentally friendly—may be the answer to better batteries, but there's a major problem: Aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) cannot match lithium-ion batteries in terms of power output. To test ...
Nov 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers led by Prof. Hu Linhua from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Science found that the addition of serine cations (Ser+, C3H8NO3) in the electrolyte of aqueous zinc-ion battery would ...
Jul 14, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The notorious polysulfide shuttle severely impedes the practical application of Li-S batteries. Utilizing various electrocatalysts to improve the polysulfide redox kinetics has emerged as a promising strategy to address the ...
Nov 29, 2022
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