Energy & Green Tech
You've probably experienced the dread of a suddenly dead phone that is glacially slow to recharge. Add to that earbuds or laptops that die at the most inconvenient times. And perhaps you've delayed shopping for an electric ...
Feb 12, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
The use of lithium metal as the anode for batteries is one of the smarter options with better energy density than other materials. However, the interface between the electrode and electrolyte has quite a few issues that can ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Engineering
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are, by far, the most widely used type of rechargeable batteries, spanning numerous applications. These include consumer electronics, electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and spacecraft.
Nov 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Flat coin cell batteries (the kind used in watches) have been around for decades. But the combination of solid and liquid components makes it very hard to see how the components fail inside these batteries.
Oct 3, 2023
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Engineering
By mining data from X-ray images, researchers at MIT, Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator, and the Toyota Research Institute have made significant new discoveries about the reactivity of lithium iron phosphate, ...
Sep 13, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
From a pristinely packaged device on a box-store shelf to a beat-up and abandoned phone stripped of its SIM card, a smartphone's journey from indispensable to deactivated is remarkably brief.
Aug 23, 2023
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Security
Skyrocketing vehicle theft rates in some U.S. cities have drawn attention to an inconvenient truth: the increasing amount of technology in our vehicles can make them increasingly vulnerable to hacking or theft.
Jul 17, 2023
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Business
We are seeing the biggest changes in our energy and transport systems since industrialization. By 2026, global renewable energy generation is expected to match total fossil fuel and nuclear output. Building the wind and solar ...
Jun 29, 2023
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Engineering
Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have constructed a fully autonomous boat that can carry out bathymetric surveys—surveys of the depth and terrain of bodies of water like oceans, rivers and lakes. The team ...
Jun 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Rechargeable batteries store electricity in their electrode materials, while redox flow batteries use chemicals stored in tanks attached to the electrodes. Researchers have now developed a battery system based on a hybrid ...
Jun 26, 2023
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