ENERGY TECH - SINO DAILY

A new path to solving a longstanding fusion challenge

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

The new solution was made possible by an innovative approach to compact fusion reactors, using high-temperature superconducting magnets. This method formed the ...

New fuel cell concept brings biological design to better electricity generation

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

In a new approach, inspired by biology and online (Oct. 3, 2018) in the journal Joule, a University of Wisconsin-Madison team has designed a fuel cell using che...

Flowing salt water over this super-hydrophobic surface can generate electricity

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

The proof-of-concept work could lead to the development of new power sources for lab-on-a-chip platforms and other microfluidics devices. It could someday be ex...

Efficient generation of high-density plasma enabled by high magnetic field

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

If matter can be heated to temperatures of tens of millions of degrees using REB accelerated to nearly the speed of light by irradiating plasma with high-intens...

A new carbon material with Na storage capacity over 400mAh/g

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

Hard carbon is one of the promising anodes in the early commercial NIBs for their good comprehensive performance, e.g., high capacity (~330 mAh g-1), good cycli...

What powers deep space travel

Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)

Inspired by Neil Armstrong's biography and trips to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Boeing's Factory in Seattle, she decided to pursue a graduate ed...

A novel approach of improving battery performance

Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)

This breakthrough has been led by Professor Hyun-Wook Lee in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with the Agency for Science...

X-rays uncover a hidden property that leads to failure in a lithium-ion battery material

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

Now, X-ray experiments at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have revealed that the pathw...

New battery gobbles up carbon dioxide

Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)

While still based on early-stage research and far from commercial deployment, the new battery formulation could open up new avenues for tailoring electrochemica...

Condensation enhancement: Toward practical energy and water applications

Sep 24, 2018 (SPX)

It is well known that dropwise condensation on the hydrophobic surface (Fig. 1A), where the frequent roll-off of condensed droplets, e.g. on a vertical surfaces...

Solaredge introduces Storedge backup solution for the entire home

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

SolarEdge's expanded StorEdge solution with a backup interface provides backup power to the entire house, eliminating the need to pre-select backed-up loads. Th...

Super cheap earth element to advance new battery tech to the industry

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

Sodium is a very cheap and earth-abundant alternative to using lithium-ion batteries that is also known to turn purple and combust if exposed to water - even ju...

Yotta Solar solves panel level energy storage

Sep 21, 2018 (SPX)

This passive temperature regulation enables the system to operate in extreme temperatures while protecting the battery life and without degrading performance. T...

When 80 microns is enough

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

Physicists have managed to send and control a spin current across longer distances than ever before - and in a material that was previously considered unsuitabl...

Laser ignites hot plasma

Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)

When flying out of the material sample, they pull the atomic cores (ions) behind them. In order to experimentally investigate this complex acceleration process,...

New high-capacity sodium-ion could replace lithium in rechargeable batteries

Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)

Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are rechargeable and are widely used in laptops, mobile phones and in hybrid and fully electric vehicles. The electric vehicle is a ...

Separating the sound from the noise in hot plasma fusion

Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists observe the L-H transition is always associated with zonal flows of plasma. Theoretically, zonal flows in a plasma consist of both a stationary flow ...

Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamaks

Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)

A long-time puzzle in the effort to capture the power of fusion on Earth is how to lessen or eliminate a common instability that occurs in the plasma called edg...

Not too wet, not too dry: plasma-treated fuel cell gets it just right

Sep 10, 2018 (SPX)

Now University of British Columbia researchers say they may have found a solution: pre-treating the electrode - a key component of fuel cells - with ionized oxy...

Pushing 'print' on large-scale piezoelectric materials

Sep 07, 2018 (SPX)

Importantly, the inexpensive process allows the integration of piezoelectric components directly onto silicon chips. Until now, no 2D piezoelectric material has...