News articles tagged with 'battery'
Giant batteries for green power
— 4 Apr 2011 19:18 | TechnologyGreen power is an unstable commodity. Photovoltaic plants rest at night, and wind turbines stand still when there are lulls in the wind. This is why in the future there will be a need…
Carnegie Mellon researchers electrify polymerisation
— 1 Apr 2011 14:48 | TechnologyScientists led by Carnegie Mellon University chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski are using electricity from a battery to drive atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP), a widely used…
Stanford researchers use river water and salty ocean water to generate electricity
— 30 Mar 2011 16:43 | TechnologyStanford researchers have developed a battery that takes advantage of the difference in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce electricity…
Batteries charge quickly and retain capacity, thanks to new structure
— 21 Mar 2011 16:22 | TechnologyThe batteries in Illinois professor Paul Braun's lab look like any others, but they pack a surprise inside…
Upgrading the vanadium redox battery
— 18 Mar 2011 15:09 | TechnologyThough considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery's use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and…
Better batteries for electric cars
— 14 Mar 2011 20:27 | TechnologyElectric cars are the future - a view shared by government and the automotive industry alike. The German federal government aims to establish Germany as the lead market for electromobility.…
New technology would dramatically extend battery life for mobile devices
— 11 Mar 2011 15:46 | TechnologyTechnophiles who have been dreaming of mobile devices that run longer on lighter, slimmer batteries may soon find their wish has been granted…
Biologists discover 'control centre' for sperm production
— 2 Feb 2011 16:16 | BiologyBiologists at the University of Leicester have published results of a new study into the intricacies of sex in flowering plants…
Better batteries from the bottom up
— 10 Dec 2010 21:27 | TechnologyRice University researchers have moved a step closer to creating robust, three-dimensional microbatteries that would charge faster and hold other advantages over conventional lithium-ion…
New long-range undersea robot goes the distance
— 3 Nov 2010 11:26 | EnvironmentOver the past decade, the undersea robots known as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have become increasingly important in oceanographic research. Today's AUVs fall into two groups:…