ENERGY TECH - SINO DAILY

Old mining techniques make a new way to recycle lithium batteries

Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)

"We got a lot of 'oh wow!' responses, from eight-year-olds wanting to know how it worked to EPA officials wondering why no one had done this before," says senio...

Expanding the limits of Li-ion batteries: Electrodes for all-solid-state batteries

Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)

The fabricated batteries showed excellent electrochemical properties that greatly surpass those of traditional and ubiquitous Li-ion batteries; thereby, demonst...

A breakthrough of monitoring energy storage at work using optical fibers

Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)

The sensor is embedded inside the capacitor and is able to measure the state of charge of the electrodes and electrolytes in real time, while it operates, and o...

Workshop advances plans for coping with disruptions on ITER

Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)

Disruptions, the sudden loss of heat in plasma that halts fusion reactions, can seriously damage ITER and other doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamak...

Looking inside the lithium battery's black box

Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)

However, lithium is one of the most difficult materials to manipulate, due to its internal dendrite growth mechanism. This highly complex process is still not f...

3D printing the next generation of batteries

Aug 02, 2018 (SPX)

Until now, the internal geometry that produced the best porous electrodes through additive manufacturing was what's known as an interdigitated geometry - metal ...

Chinese-American engineer charged with stealing GE technology

Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that Xiaoqing Zheng, 56, be released Friday on $100,000 bond and placed under electronic monitoring while surrendering his p...

New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster

Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)

Although these materials, known as niobium tungsten oxides, do not result in higher energy densities when used under typical cycling rates, they come into their...

Liquid microscopy technique reveals new problem with lithium-oxygen batteries

Jul 27, 2018 (SPX)

"What we were able to see for the first time is that lithium peroxide develops in the liquid electrolyte of lithium-oxygen batteries, and is a contributor to th...

The relationship between charge density waves and superconductivity

Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)

For the first time, physicists at Ames Laboratory and their international collaborators were able to explore that relationship in the superconducting and CDW ma...

Organic Mega Flow Battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds

Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)

Organic flow batteries are a potentially safer, less expensive alternative to lithium ion batteries and vanadium flow batteries for large-scale renewable energy...

High-power thermoelectric generator utilizes thermal difference of only 5C

Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)

Due to advantages such as its relatively low thermal conductance but high electric conductance, silicon nanowires have emerged as a promising thermoelectric mat...

New battery could store wind and solar electricity affordably and at room temperature

Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)

The technology - a type of battery known as a flow battery - has long been considered as a likely candidate for storing intermittent renewable energy. However, ...

Researchers upend conventional wisdom on thermal conductivity

Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)

Now a group of researchers from around the United States has reported that a crystal grown from two relatively common mineral elements - boron and arsenic - dem...

Scientists uncover mechanism that stabilizes fusion plasmas

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have recently produced complex simulations of the process that m...

Chemical engineers pack more energy in same space for reliable battery

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

Now, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD), the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have figured out how to inc...

Gold nanoparticles to find applications in hydrogen economy

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

The obtained results are explained in the academic article "The mechanism of charge carrier generation at the TiO2 - n-Si heterojunction activated by gold nanop...

High-power electronics keep their cool with new heat-conducting crystals

Jul 17, 2018 (SPX)

The results of the study, published in the journal Science, mark the first realization of previously predicted class of ultrahigh thermal conductivity materials...

Qubits as valves: Controlling quantum heat engines

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

In their paper, published in Nature Physics, the group led by Professor Jukka Pekola presents a way to solve a problem in how quantum systems interact and excha...

Generating electrical power from waste heat

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a tiny silicon-based device that can harness what was previously called waste heat and turn it into...