New Polymer Material Can Store Hydrogen More Effectively
A new type of container for hydrogen gas has been developed by a team of Lawrence Berkeley Lab researchers. The inventors say it can store much more hydrogen than older versions, like pressurized tanks or those storing the gas inside some kinds of metallic molecular chains.
Newly-Invented Electrolyte Can Increase Battery Performance by 25 to 60 Percent
Batteries are going to get as wild as possible, with Wildcat Discovery Technologies' new electrolyte material that is able to bear up to five volts, a first in the history of energy storage. This discovery is due to Wilcat's combinational chemistry tools that can synthesize and test over 1,300 unique materials every week.
SMES: New Energy Storing Technology by ABB Using Electromagnetic Fields and Superconductivity
ABB, a Swiss-based engineering company, has presented a prototype of their innovative superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES), at a DOE ARPA-E conference which took place in Washigton D.C. at the beginning of this month. Their 3.3 kWh proof-of-concept SMES is not very cost-effective for the moment, but may one day provide cleaner storage solutions for excess alternative energy.
Xerox Researchers' Finding Can Yield 10 to 30% More Energy for Lithium Ion Batteries
A new printing technology invented by Xerox promises to have the ability of packing more energy into EV batteries. The invention involves the printing of a striped pattern of energy storage materials and highly conductive materials. The resulted electrodes are thicker than conventional ones, but can increase the energy stored in a battery by 10 to 30 percent.
SiGNa mobile H2: Water-Fueled Battery Recharges Your Gadgets Cheaply and Cleanly
SiGNa Chemistry Inc has created a kind of a battery that can be recharged with water. At first sight, there's something fishy with their mobile-H2 in the sense that it only needs water to operate and that's all. Ok, let's see some in-depth details of it.
New "Frozen Smoke" Material Could Become The Best Energy Storage Ever
Belonging to the family of the world's lightest solids, a new material invented by two researchers from the University of Central Florida, Assoc. Prof. Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jianhua Zou could constitute the world's best energy storage material for supercapacitors and lithium batteries.
Sharp Develops Vehicle-to-Grid-Like System That Uses EVs to Store Cheap/Green Electricity
Researchers have used a battery pack from an EV to provide 8 kilowatts of energy, enough for many kinds of appliances found in an average household. The Intelligent Power Conditioner is also capable of delivering 4 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity for the recharging of the electric vehicle's battery pack. This process took about 30 minutes.
Portuguese Paper Battery Can Be Recharged With Water
Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Technology in Lisbon (CENIMAT) have recently developed a novel type of battery that you can charge... with water! They say it's another step towards their aim of developing new ways to power gadgets and small electronic devices.
Power Tools Recharged In Less Than a Minute by New Lithium-Ion Ultracapacitor
The ultracapacitors and hybrid-capacitors produced by Ioxus are meant for high performance with low resistance, making them ideal for distributing high power amounts for acceleration, energy capture, turn on/off mild hybrids, or high power applications.
Apple's Patented Liquidmetal Could Enable Fuel Cells to Power Future iPhones
A Liquidmetal patent for an internal component of a fuel cell has been granted to Apple. Initially, the experts believed that the patent was for an iPhone antenna or for a new iPad enclosure, but it seems that they were wrong.
