Energy & Green Tech
What if you could charge your electric vehicle in the same amount of time it takes to fill a tank of gas? In a new paper published in Joule, researchers from McGill University and the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) ...
Dec 4, 2023
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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
If you could shrink enough for a fantastic voyage across a lithium battery electrode, you'd see the level of charge at every scale is highly uneven.
Apr 18, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Scientists from the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) and Computational Science Initiative (CSI) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped to solve a common problem in ...
Apr 18, 2022
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Software
Every time scientists study a new material for future batteries or investigate diseases to develop new drugs, they must wade through an ocean of data. Today, a whole ecosystem of scientific tools creates a wild variety of ...
Nov 24, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
With rising interest in backup power, solar power storage, and electric vehicles, the race is on to improve the performance of rechargeable lithium batteries. A Berkeley Lab team has developed an easy, fast, and inexpensive ...
Aug 16, 2021
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Engineering
A team of scientists working at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Brookhaven National Laboratory has designed an apparatus that can take simultaneous temperature ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Silicon has long been the conventional material of choice for solar cells, which convert energy from the sun into electricity. However, because light absorption in silicon is inefficient, solar cells made of silicon are thick, ...
Apr 29, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The race to produce safe, powerful and affordable solid-state lithium batteries is accelerating and recent announcements about game-changing research using a solid non-flammable ceramic electrolyte known as garnet has some ...
Jul 20, 2018
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Engineering
AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate researchers recently took advantage of a unique and rare research opportunity to better understand the behavior of materials used in the additive manufacturing process.
Oct 23, 2017
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