Energy & Green Tech
Solid-state batteries could play a key role in electric vehicles, promising faster charging, greater range and longer lifespan than conventional lithium-ion batteries. But current manufacturing and materials processing techniques ...
Sep 7, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
As drivers around the world switch to electric cars, new batteries that can store more energy, translating to longer driving distances before a car needs recharging, can't come soon enough. But researchers at NTNU have discovered ...
Apr 26, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Solid-state batteries, currently used in small electronic devices like smart watches, have the potential to be safer and more powerful than lithium-ion batteries for things such as electric cars and storing energy from solar ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years, engineers have been developing a wide variety of innovative and promising electronic devices. Among these are electrochromic devices (ECDs), systems that can control optical properties, such as the transmission, ...
Feb 21, 2022 feature
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Energy & Green Tech
All-solid-state batteries are now one step closer to becoming the powerhouse of next-generation electronics, as researchers from Tokyo Tech, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and Yamagata ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The urgent need to cut carbon emissions is prompting a rapid move toward electrified mobility and expanded deployment of solar and wind on the electric grid. If those trends escalate as expected, the need for better methods ...
Aug 17, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have designed a novel material to make all-solid-state lithium (Li) batteries less costly but more effective, ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University collaborators are developing reliable, mechanical switches the size of a DNA molecule.
May 4, 2020
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Engineering
Researchers have found a way to convert heat energy into electricity with a nontoxic material. The material is mostly iron, which is extremely cheap given its relative abundance. A generator based on this material could power ...
Apr 27, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A newly discovered structure of a sodium-based material allows the materials to be used as an electrolyte in solid-state batteries, according to researchers from Penn State and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). ...
Apr 10, 2018
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