Energy & Green Tech
In a study published in Nature Energy, Dr. Perla Balbuena and Dr. Jorge Seminario, professors in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, developed a new method for understanding the ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Costa Rica, a country where open pit mining is banned, has become a leader in the extraction of heavy metals such as lithium—not from the Earth, but old batteries.
Mar 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
EPFL startup hiLyte has developed an eco-friendly battery that will allow people in Sub-Saharan Africa to light their homes and charge their cell phones. The technology is currently being tested by families in Tanzania.
Jan 13, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Solid-state batteries (SSBs) are currently regarded as a promising battery technology of the future. Compared to the current lithium-ion batteries, which are used in mobile phones, laptops and electric vehicles, SSBs could ...
Nov 28, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Greater use of electric vehicles might be good for the environment, but further growth hinges on continued availability of critical battery components such as cobalt. Cell phones and other electronics also depend on the element's ...
Feb 19, 2020
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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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Energy & Green Tech
Charge-recharge cycling of lithium-super-rich iron oxide, a cost-effective and high-capacity cathode for new-generation lithium-ion batteries, can be greatly improved by doping with readily available mineral elements.
May 2, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers proved that the heat transport ability of lithium-ion battery cathodes is much lower than previously determined, a finding that could help explain barriers to increasing energy storage ...
Nov 6, 2020
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Software
Google's popular low-cost Chromebooks are turning 10, and they are adding features to mimic higher-end devices like Apple's MacBooks.
Mar 10, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Electric vehicles and portable electronic devices such as laptops and mobile phones are unthinkable without lithium-ion batteries. The problem is highly toxic materials such as cobalt are often used for the cathodes of these ...
Apr 24, 2024
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