News articles tagged with 'electrolyte'
Improved redox flow batteries for electric cars
— 13 Oct 2009 10:52 | TechnologyA new type of redox flow battery presents a huge advantage for electric cars. If the rechargeable batteries are low, the discharged electrolyte fluid can simply be exchanged at the... — full story
New material could expand applications and lower costs for solid oxide fuel cells
— 2 Oct 2009 13:48 | TechnologyA new ceramic material described in this week's issue of the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells - devices that generate electricity directly... — full story
New high-energy cathode material can significantly increase life of lithium batteries
— 10 Apr 2009 17:15 | TechnologyA close international collaboration of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Hanyang University in South Korea have developed a new... — full story
New efficiency benchmark for dye-sensitised solar cells
— 1 Jul 2008 16:29 | TechnologyIn a paper published online 29 June in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry... — full story
Oxygen ions for fuel cells get loose at lower temperatures
— 29 Jun 2008 15:24 | ChemistrySeeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool,... — full story
A novel material for fuel cells created by MIT engineers
— 19 May 2008 12:32 | TechnologyMIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices... — full story
More safety for cell phone batteries
— 12 Apr 2008 12:55 | TechnologyLithium-ion batteries supply the power for cell phones and PDAs, and larger devices such as laptops, cordless screwdrivers and lawnmowers are becoming increasingly dependent on this... — full story
Capturing sunlight
— 28 Feb 2008 21:38 | PhysicsSolar cell technology is marching ahead, though it still struggles with the two problems: efficiency and high production costs. In collaboration with Satoshi Uchida at the University... — full story
Solar cells can take the heat
— 10 Jan 2008 17:36 | PhysicsSolar cells have attracted global attention as one of the cornerstones of alternative energy. In theory, it seems to make abundant sense to tap into the energy of the sun to convert... — full story
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