Energy & Green Tech
For the first time, researchers have successfully printed a complete, albeit experimental, lithium-ion battery including a solid-state electrolyte. While electrodes have been produced using 3-D-printing technology before, ...
Aug 24, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Battery-breakthrough stories continue with expectations that in time we will finally get some answers—that some innovator confronting issues of traditional lithium ion batteries will figure out an economy of manufacture ...
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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Security
"Good, good, good, good vibrations" goes the catchy Beach Boys song, a big hit in 1966 and beyond.
Oct 30, 2017
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Engineering
(Tech Xplore)—MIT Rocket Team on April 21 successfully fired a rocket motor printed from plastic. They had project support from Markforged for their 3-D printed rocket motor. They put out a video to show it in action.
Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion batteries, widely used in devices ranging from electric cars to iPhones, are composed of a cathode made from a positively charged lithium compound and an anode composed of negatively charged carbon. Ideally, anodes ...
Dec 20, 2016
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers in Korea have united to tackle the challenges in the commercialization of all-solid-state batteries. The work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.
Jul 30, 2024
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Engineering
It is the battery in your electric car that determines how far you can drive on one charge and how quickly you can re-charge. However, the lithium-ion battery, the most widely used electric car battery today, has its limitations—in ...
Jun 26, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Amidst the ongoing energy and climate crises, the stakes have never been higher. We are pressed for time to find better ways of producing clean energy to replace fossil fuels. Thus far, fuel cells appear to be one of the ...
Jun 21, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In facing life's many challenges, we often opt for complex approaches to finding solutions. Yet, upon closer examination, the answers are often simpler than we expect, rooted in the core "essence" of the issue. This approach ...
Jun 11, 2024
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