A new type of energy storage system could revolutionise energy storage and drop the charging time of electric cars from hours to seconds. In a new paper published today in the journal Nature... Read more
Dubbed “Methuselah”, new molecule outlives previous chemistries Highlights: > Harvard researchers have demonstrated the longest-lasting high-performance organic flow battery to date. >... Read more
A new type of flow battery that involves a liquid metal more than doubled the maximum voltage of conventional flow batteries and could lead to affordable storage of renewable power. A new co... Read more
Any resident of the Great Plains can attest to the massive scale of wind farms that increasingly dot the countryside. In the Midwest and elsewhere, wind energy accounts for an ever-bigger sl... Read more
In the future, a new type of tiny redox flow battery will supply tightly packed electronic components with energy, while also dissipating the heat they produce. Researchers at ETH Zurich and... Read more
Battery stores energy in nontoxic, noncorrosive aqueous solutions Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new flow bat... Read more
Could a glow-in-the-dark dye be the next advancement in energy storage technology? Scientists at the University at Buffalo think so. They have identified a fluorescent dye called BODIPY as a... Read more
As solar cells produce a greater proportion of total electric power, a fundamental limitation remains: the dark of night when solar cells go to sleep. Lithium-ion batteries, the commonplace... Read more
Research opens a ‘new universe’ of organic molecules that can store energy in flow batteries Harvard researchers have identified a whole new class of high-performing organic molecules, inspi... Read more
Pump-free design for flow battery could offer advantages in cost and simplicity. A new approach to the design of a liquid battery, using a passive, gravity-fed arrangement similar to an old-... Read more
Energy storage system owners could see significant savings from a new flow battery technology that is projected to cost 60 percent less than today’s standard flow batteries. The organi... Read more
