Ammonia Borane Hydrogen Storage Invented at Purdue
Purdue University chemical engineers have invented a method of storing hydrogen and releasing it safely without the need for high-pressure tanks, only by using the fuel cell's dissipated heat.
STES: Underground Heat Storing Solution Designed for the Military, Also Applicable to Your Home
Storing hot materials while it's cold and storing cold materials while it's hot isn't anything new in concept, but transplanting the idea in geothermal science is both attractive and economic. For example, the Defense Department spends $3.5 billion on the energy needed by its bases, out of which most money go to cooling and heating.
New Graphene Production Technology Offers Hope for Cheap Hydrogen Storage
Victor Aristov, a Ph.D. at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, along with a team of other researchers, has discovered how to produce high-quality graphene by using the cheapest methods possible.
Lithium Air Batteries Find That Gold-Platinum Catalyst Increases Their Efficiency and Lifetime
MIT researchers have just discovered an alloy that, if used as a catalyst, makes lithium-air batteries more efficient. This type of battery works by reacting the metal lithium with the oxygen from the air, and is very efficient at storing high amounts of energy (three times more than lithium ion). The industry awaits the development of lithium air batteries so they can be used in future electric cars.
PCB-Embedded Li-Ion Battery Unveiled in a Tokyo Exhibition
Oki Printed Circuits Co Ltd has exhibited a technology that embeds a 170μm-thick thin-film all-solid-state lithium-ion (Li-ion) rechargeable battery into a regular printed circuit board (PCB).
Research Institutions to Develop Passive Magnetic Bearings for Various Application
Bearings are generally indispensable for any mechanical application that requires motion, and while the good-old classic bearings have proved their strong and weak points, a new generation of magnetic bearings is about to get born in the minds of mechanical engineers.
Toshiba's SCiB Ultra-Fast Charging Battery Selected to Be Used By Multiple Automakers
It looks natural for that to happen, since names like Sanyo and Panasonic had already been added as battery manufacturers on lists of Suzuki Motors and Toyota, respectively.
Southern California Implementing 53 MW Ice Energy Storage for Air Conditioning Systems
Ice can be used to store energy (though the other way we may be tempted to think) just like hot bricks or molten salt. Several Southern California municipal utilities will be implementing ice-based energy storage devices to reduce the air conditioning consumption in government offices and commercial buildings. Over the next two years, they will install 6,000 devices at 1,500 locations, storing around 53 megawatts of energy in total.
New Ultracentrifugal Processing Technology from Japan to Improve Li-Ion Batteries
Lithium ion batteries have been on the mainstream of electricity storage for a while, providing power for applications ranging from mobile phones to electric/hybrid cars. Still, lithium ion batteries need further development that would further increase their capacity and lifetime.
New Method of Making Supercapacitors on Thin Films Improves Price and Capacity
Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that can be recharged for virtually unlimited times, but the amount of energy they store is limited. Their working principle is not based on chemical reactions, but rather on transferring surface charges.
