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Machine learning finds new metamaterial designs for energy harvesting

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

Metamaterials are synthetic materials composed of many individual engineered features, which together produce properties not found in nature through their struc...

Development of highly sensitive diode, converts microwaves to electricity

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

Through JST's Strategic Basic Research Programs, the technology was developed by researchers led by Kenichi Kawaguchi of Fujitsu Limited and Professor Michihiko...

Light work for superconductors

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

"Put simply, we demonstrated that under the right conditions, light can induce a state of superconductivity in an iron compound. So it has no resistance to an e...

Battery with a twist

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

A remedy for this problem is now being created by Markus Niederberger, Professor for Multifunctional Materials at ETH Zurich, and his team. The researchers have...

Imaging method promises industrial insight into fuel cells

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

"Our method is not limited to fuel cells or water. There's a lot of compounds in the chemical industries, including electrochemistry, electrolytes for batteries...

Cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries pinpointed

Oct 15, 2019 (SPX)

The team, led by Chongmin Wang at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has shown that the presence of certain compounds in the elec...

Scientists finally find superconductivity in place they have been looking for decades

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

The simulations they ran, published in Science, suggest that researchers might be able to toggle superconductivity on and off in copper-based materials called c...

First fully rechargeable carbon dioxide battery

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to show that lithium-carbon dioxide batteries can be designed to operate in a fully rechargea...

Controlling superconducting regions within an exotic metal

Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)

Future technologies, however, will harness the total synchrony of electronic behavior in superconductors - a property called the phase. There is currently a rac...

How to startup fusion devices every time

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), working with researchers at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy ...

Pressure may be key to thermoelectric generators

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

Alternative energy sources are key to combating climate change caused by carbon emissions. Compounds with thermoelectric capabilities can convert thermal energy...

Air Force scientists discover unique stretchable conductor

Oct 03, 2019 (SPX)

The material recently developed by AFRL scientists, called Polymerized Liquid Metal Networks, does just the opposite. These liquid metal networks can be straine...

A new way to turn heat into energy

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

The discovery, published last week in the journal Science Advances, could create more efficient energy generation from heat in things like car exhaust, interpla...

Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heat

Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)

The research team includes scientists from North Carolina State University, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Chinese Academy...

Solving the longstanding mystery of how friction leads to static electricity

Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)

Now a Northwestern University team developed a new model that shows that rubbing two objects together produces static electricity, or triboelectricity, by bendi...

How to predict crucial plasma pressure in future fusion facilities

Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)

Central to these predictions is forecasting the pressure that the scrape-off layer, the thin strip of gas at the edge of the plasma, exerts on the divertor - th...

Thermoelectric device harnesses cold of space to power LED light at night

Sep 13, 2019 (UPI)

"Remarkably, the device is able to generate electricity at night, when solar cells don't work," Aaswath Raman, an assistant professor of materials science and e...

First report of superconductivity in a nickel oxide material

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

Also known as a nickelate, it's the first in a potential new family of unconventional superconductors that's very similar to the copper oxides, or cuprates, who...

Breakthrough enables storage and release of mechanical waves without energy loss

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

In a newly published paper in Science Advances, a group of researchers led by Andrea Alu, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science ...

Coating developed by Stanford researchers brings lithium metal battery closer to reality

Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)

A new coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, a boon for development of next-generation electric vehicles. (Image credit: ...