Electricity News
October 21, 2024
Top Headlines
Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled a pioneering method for the efficient combustion of biofuels, using a revolutionary Swirl Burst (SB) injector to burn glycerol/methanol blends with near-zero emissions. This new technology enables ultra-clean combustion for ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Imagine tires that charge a vehicle as it drives, streetlights powered by the rumble of traffic, or skyscrapers that generate electricity as the buildings naturally sway and shudder. These energy ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — A new study suggests that large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could lead to significant population-level health benefits. The research team used computer simulations to show that ...
Latest Headlines
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Oct. 17, 2024 — A research team is exploring new battery technologies for grid energy storage. The team's recent results suggest that iron, when treated with the ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers produced 3D-printed, semiconductor-free logic gates, which perform computations in active electronic devices. As they don't require semiconductor materials, they represent a step toward ...
Oct. 14, 2024 — From brighter TV screens to better medical diagnostics and more efficient solar panels, new research has discovered how to make more molecules stick to the surface of tiny nanocrystals, in a ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed and demonstrated a technique that allows them to engineer a class of materials called layered hybrid perovskites (LHPs) ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Researchers have observed electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials. Using scanning ultrafast electron ...
Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how some parts of the human ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Scientists have used light to visualize magnetic domains, and manipulated these regions using an electric field, in a quantum antiferromagnet. This method allows real-time observation of magnetic ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to ...
Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers built a solar-powered desalination system that produces large quantities of clean water despite variations in sunlight throughout the day. Because it requires no extra batteries, it offers ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — Researchers adopt a new ligand to enhance the efficiency and stability of perovskite quantum dot solar cells. Solar cell efficiency increases to ...
Earlier Headlines
Oct. 3, 2024 — Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — Researchers have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that are strikingly similar to molecules that make life as we know it possible. These nanostructures are ...
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Oct. 2, 2024 — Engineers found a novel path around tedious process of tunneling individual sub-nanometer pores for nanoporous membranes one by one. The team created a new method of pore generation that builds ...
Oct. 2, 2024 — Researchers have developed a solid electrolyte that could be a suitable material for all-solid-state batteries. Solid electrolyte composed of nanoparticles embedded in an amorphous matrix shows high ...
Oct. 1, 2024 — Discerning whether a nuclear reactor is being used to also create material for nuclear weapons is difficult, but capturing and analyzing antimatter particles has shown promise for monitoring what ...
Oct. 1, 2024 — As many as 249 lives could have been saved in London during the 2018 record-setting hot summer had the city widely adopted cool roofs, estimates a new ...
Oct. 1, 2024 — Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery through the body. Scientists are now combining several millimeter-sized TrainBots ...
Sep. 30, 2024 — To help speed decarbonization, state regulators should reconceive of gas and electric utilities as serving the same purpose, according to a new report. Without coordinated action, the energy ...
Sep. 30, 2024 — Continued investment in carbon-intensive industries will drastically increase the amount of 'stranded assets' as the world moves to net-zero emissions, researchers ...
Sep. 27, 2024 — Scientists combined innovative drone technology and boat-based surveys to map out the complex tidal flows encountered by the world's most powerful tidal turbine -- Orbital Marine Power's ...
Sep. 27, 2024 — As power grids rely more on renewable energy sources like wind and solar, balancing energy supply and demand becomes more challenging. A new analysis shows how water systems, such as desalination ...
Sep. 26, 2024 — Scientists successfully tested a new way to produce sustainable jet fuel from lignin-based agricultural waste. The team's research demonstrated a continuous process that directly converts lignin ...
Sep. 25, 2024 — Manganese is earth-abundant and cheap. A new process could help make it a contender to replace nickel and cobalt in ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — The rate of e-bike and powered scooter injuries surged between 2019 and 2022 -- by 293 percent and 88 percent, respectively. The research adds to the existing information and gap in knowledge on the ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — Spintronics -- devices that use microscopic magnetism in conjunction with electric current -- could lead to computing technology as fast as conventional electronics but much more energy efficient. As ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — Scientists are pioneering a new approach to designing electrolytes for more energy-efficient and less carbon-intensive electrochemical processes. They hope to improve electrolyte performance in ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — The tiered umbrella is one of Thailand's oldest and most sacred ornamental symbols. Constructing one of these ornate pieces, also called chatras, can take master artisans up to six months. ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals, according to new ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — Researchers have found a way to use a component of glycerol to produce bio-based ...
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- Logic With Light: Introducing Diffraction Casting, Optical-Based Parallel Computing
- Nanostructures in the Deep Ocean Floor Hint at Life's Origin
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- New Design Overcomes Key Barrier to Safer, More Efficient EV Batteries
- New Method of Generating Multiple, Tunable Nanopores Could Revolutionize Membrane Technology
- Discovery of Promising Electrolyte for All-Solid-State Batteries
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Using Antimatter to Detect Nuclear Radiation
- Cool Roofs Could Have Saved Lives During London's Hottest Summer, Say Researchers
- Stronger Together: Miniature Robots in Convoy for Endoscopic Surgery
Monday, September 30, 2024
- Getting to Zero Emissions: A Call for Unified Energy Planning
- Vast 'stranded Assets' If World Continues Investing in Polluting Industries
Friday, September 27, 2024
- Study Highlights Complex Ocean Conditions Facing World's Most Powerful Tidal Turbine
- Untapped Potential: Study Shows How Water Systems Can Help Accelerate Renewable Energy Adoption
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
- Rates of E-Bike Injuries Rise Fourfold and Powered Scooter Injuries Nearly Double
- Thermal Effects in Spintronics Systematically Assessed for First Time
- Innovative Electrolytes Could Transform Steelmaking and Beyond
- Lasers Provide Boon for Manufacturing of Ceremonial Thai Umbrellas
- Extinct Volcanoes a 'rich' Source of Rare Earth Elements
- New Catalyst Developed for Sustainable Propylene Production from Biomass
- Low-Temperature Conversion of Ammonia to Hydrogen Via Electric Field-Aided Surface Protonics
Monday, September 23, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Homemade 'play-Putty' Can Read the Body's Electric Signals
- Why Petting Your Cat Leads to Static Electricity
- Template Synthesis Creates Multilayered Perovskites With Unique Ferroelectric Behavior
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- New Age Electrode With Densely Functionalized Polymeric Binder for High-Performance Lithium and Sodium-Ion Batteries
- New Technology Produces Ultrashort Ion Pulses
- New Understanding of the Limits on Nano-Noise
- Synthetic Mini-Motor With Enormous Power Developed
Monday, September 16, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
- Charging Ahead Towards Future Low-Cost Polymer Zinc-Ion Batteries
- Folded or Cut, This Lithium-Sulfur Battery Keeps Going
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
- Advancing Power Grounding Systems: A Novel Predictive Model for Soil Resistivity
- Researchers Develop a Stretchable, Wearable Device That Lights Up an LED Using Only the Warmth of Your Skin
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
- Solving a Memristor Mystery to Develop Efficient, Long-Lasting Memory Devices
- Molecular Level Changes Translate to Big Efficiency Gains for Organic Solar Cells
- New Defect Passivation Strategy for Perovskite Solar Cells
- Strongest Battery Paves Way for Light, Energy-Efficient Vehicles
Monday, September 9, 2024
Friday, September 6, 2024
- Molecular Simulations, Supercomputing Lead to Energy-Saving Biomaterials Breakthrough
- Shining Light on How Solar Power and Farming Can Coexist
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
- Preventing Car Battery Fires With Help from Machine Learning
- EV Charging Stations Boost Spending at Nearby Businesses
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024
- Unveiling Actual Role of Metal Cocatalysts
- Tiny New Lasers Fill a Long-Standing Gap in the Rainbow of Visible-Light Colors, Opening New Applications
- Researchers Unveil Scalable Graphene Technology to Revolutionize Battery Safety and Performance
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
- Freeze-Frame: World's Fastest Microscope That Can See Electrons in Motion
- Eco-Friendly Cooling Device With Record-Breaking Efficiency
- New Theory Could Improve the Design and Operation of Wind Farms
- Dormant Capacity Reserve in Lithium-Ion Batteries Detected
- Hydropower Generation Projected to Rise, but Climate Change Brings Uncertain Future
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Monday, August 19, 2024
- Development of a Model Capable of Predicting the Cycle Lives of High-Energy-Density Lithium-Metal Batteries
- Using AI to Find the Polymers of the Future
Friday, August 16, 2024
- Revolutionizing Thermoelectric Technology: Hourglass-Shaped Materials Achieve a 360% Efficiency Boost
- New Research Shows Unprecedented Atmospheric Changes During May's Geomagnetic Superstorm
- Engineers Design Tiny Batteries for Powering Cell-Sized Robots
Thursday, August 15, 2024
- Research Provides a Roadmap for Improving Electrochemical Performance
- Researchers Observe 'locked' Electron Pairs in a Superconductor Cuprate
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Physicists Throw World's Smallest Disco Party
- Smart Fabric Converts Body Heat Into Electricity
- A Method That Paves the Way for Improved Fuel Cell Vehicles
- Nighttime Light Data Shows Inequities in Restoring Power After Hurricane Michael
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
- Halogen Bonding for Selective Electrochemical Separation, Path to Sustainable Chemical Processing Demonstrated
- Delivery Robots' Green Credentials Make Them More Attractive to Consumers
- The Mother of All Motion Sensors
Monday, August 12, 2024
- Innovative Study Unveils a New Path in Green Chemistry
- Engineers Bring Efficient Optical Neural Networks Into Focus
Friday, August 9, 2024
- Engineering Researchers Enhance Perovskite Solar Cells Durability With First-of-Its-Kind Chiral-Structured 'springy' Interface
- Pioneering Plasma-Catalytic Process for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol Under Ambient Conditions
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
- Electric Bandage Holds Promise for Treating Chronic Wounds
- Turning Unused Signals Such as Wi-Fi Into Energy for Electronics
- World's Highest-Performance Superconducting Wire Segment
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
- Stacking Molecules Like Plates Improves Organic Solar Device Performance
- Researchers Solve Long-Standing Challenge for Piezoelectric Materials
- Heating for Fusion: Why Toast Plasma When You Can Microwave It!
Monday, August 5, 2024
Friday, August 2, 2024
- Cold Antimatter for Quantum State-Resolved Precision Measurements
- Solving the Doping Problem: Enhancing Performance in Organic Semiconductors
- Revolutionary Loop Heat Pipe Transports 10 kW of Waste Heat -- No Electricity Required
Thursday, August 1, 2024
- Engineering Researchers Crack the Code to Boost Solar Cell Efficiency and Durability
- Pursuing the Middle Path to Scientific Discovery
Monday, July 29, 2024
- Robotics: Self-Powered 'bugs' Can Skim Across Water to Detect Environmental Data
- Faster, Cleaner Way to Extract Lithium from Battery Waste