A new chemical process can transform waste sulfur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a University of Arizona-led team. The new plastic has other... Read more
Redox flow batteries offer an effective way to balance out fluctuations in the supply of renewable energy Sun and wind are important sources of energy. Almost a quarter of the electricity we... Read more
Zinc-Ion ZIP-Cap™ Leverages Existing Battery Facilities To Produce Power Storage With A Dramatic Improvement In Cost and Energy Ionova Technologies, Inc. today announced it has achieved a br... Read more
Caltech engineers build electronic chips that repair themselves Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microsecon... Read more
An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element providing the new powe... Read more
A tiny implantable pacemaker as a pinhead is all set to revolutionise medicine world with its big advantage. Powered by radio waves from outside the body, the device does not need any batter... Read more
Narayan’s batteries have the capacity to store between eight and 24 hours’ worth of energy. A team of researchers has developed a cheap, rechargeable and eco-friendly battery tha... Read more
Renewables such as wind and solar power are experiencing an exponential year-by-year growth Researchers at Drexel University are developing an electrochemical flow capacitor (EFC) that combi... Read more
Heat can damage the batteries of electric vehicles – even just driving fast on the freeway in summer temperatures can overheat the battery. An innovative new coolant conducts heat away from... Read more
Remember the last time the battery on your cellphone died in the middle of a conversation? Tom Krupenkin, a UW-Madison physicist and researcher, sympathizes. Actually, he’s done more than th... Read more