New Breakthrough Electrode Allows 40,000+ Recharges for Future Batteries
A Stanford team of researchers have succeeded making a battery electrode that would be a perfect fit for storing large amounts of electricity in...
Germany Could Store Renewable Energy in Ex-Nazi Labor Camps from Harz Mountains
Germany has set itself on a one-way road towards adopting clean, renewable energy, even if that means giving up what is today its most...
World's Lightest Material is a Metal, Could Be Used for Making Better Batteries
A newly invented material could revolutionize many industries at once. Discovered by a collaborating team from three U.S. universities, the metal is the lightest...
University Of California to Be Powered by 1.1 Million AA Batteries
The new University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering found a new way to power the first floor of the building by installing...
Titanium-Doped Aluminum Creates Hope for Better Hydrogen Storage
A team of graduate student researchers at UT Dallas have discovered that a new metallic compound that can store hydrogen gas based on chemical...
Newly Invented Energy-Storing Organic Membrane Better and Cheaper Than Batteries and Capacitors
An organic membrane may be the world's next best battery and may revolutionize energy storage as we know it - it can bear far...
SustainX Makes Compressed Air Energy Storage Cheaper and More Efficient
A roadblock that's standing in the way of alternative energy is energy storage. People have been traditionally using batteries and flywheels for that purpose,...
German Researchers Dramatically Improve Electrolyte Filling Time in Batteries, Reduce Costs
A discovery made by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) can eventually make lithium ion batteries cheaper by improving a key process...
MIT Researchers Increase Ultracapacitor Performance by 45 Percent
Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao from the University of Stanford have developed an electrode manufacturing technique that could improve the capacity of ultra-capacitors by...
New Conductive Glue Enhances Lithium Ion Battery Capacity by 30 Percent
Currently, lithium-ion battery electrodes are made of graphite - we all know their performance. Silicon electrodes, on the other hand, could theoretically hold up...
