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UrduThe Covid-19 Crisis is deepening the divide between energy transition frontrunners and laggards. In a new publication, researchers from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam present an overview of the global impact of the coronavirus pandemic on…
Tag: ENERGY/FUEL (NON-PETROLEUM)
Toxic PAH air pollutants from fossil fuels ‘multiply’ in sunlight
When power stations burn coal, a class of compounds called Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, or PAHs, form part of the resulting air pollution. Researchers have found that PAHs toxins degrade in sunlight into ‘children’ compounds and by-products. Some ‘children’ compounds can…
Big breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fibre that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material.
New porous material promising for making renewable energy from water
One prospective source of renewable energy is hydrogen gas produced from water with the aid of sunlight. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a material, nanoporous cubic silicon carbide, that exhibits promising properties to capture solar energy and split…
Catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol: Low temperature, high efficiency, and long working time
Efficient conversion of CO 2 is strategically significant for alleviating the energy crisis and achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. One promising conversion route is the hydrogenation of CO 2 to methanol using a renewable energy-based “green hydrogen” source. Traditional…
First closeups of how a lithium-metal electrode ages
Scientists have documented a process that makes these next-gen batteries lose charge — and eventually some of their capacity for storing energy — even when a device is turned off.
Why commercialization of carbon capture and sequestration has failed and how it can work
Credibility of incentives –a function of policy and politics–is a key, researchers say
A new dye shakes up solar cells
In 1991, scientists Brian O’Regan and Michael Grätzel at EPFL published a seminal paper describing a new type of solar cell: the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), also known as “Grätzel cell”. Simple and cheap to build while being flexible and…
Reactive boride infusion stabilizes ni-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries
A new coating for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), developed by scientists at UNIST promises extended driving for future electric vehicles (EVs). The coating, described in a paper published in the journal Nature Energy , when applied to LIBs is shown to…
Unveiling smart buoys for marine environment monitoring!
“Seawater battery-based smart buoys can monitor and collect over 15 different marine data, such as salinity, pH, and water temperature, as well as the location and range of fishing grounds. As it is a promising alternative for safe and scalable…
Better batteries start with basics — and a big computer
UC chemists used quantum simulations to understand a solvent that holds promise for green energy
UNIST to develop new electrolyte additives for high-energy-density LIBs
A joint research team, affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel electrolyte additive that could enable a long lifespan and fast chargeability of high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Published in the February 2021 issue of Nature Communications , this research has…
Solar cells: Losses made visible on the nanoscale
Using a conductive atomic force microscope, they scanned the solar cell surfaces and detected tiny, nanometre-sized channels for the detrimental dark currents, which are due to disorder in the a-Si:H layer.
https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/1098/the-right-ring-count-to-harness-waste-heat
Electronic organic materials offer promise to support alternative and green energy sources to meet escalating global energy demands and strict environmental regulations. A KAUST-led team has now developed electron-transporting, so-called n-type, organic semiconductors that could help generate electricity from waste…
Crystal structure prediction of multi-elements random alloy
Alchemy, which attempted to turn cheap metals such as lead and copper into gold, has not yet succeeded. However, with the development of alloys in which two or three auxiliary elements are mixed with the best elements of the times,…
SwRI develops new model, controller to optimize fast charging of electric vehicles
Technique averts potentially damaging “lithium plating,” accelerates recharge by 35%
Double-duty catalyst generates hydrogen fuel while cleaning up wastewater
Hydrogen is a pollution-free energy source when it’s extracted from water using sunlight instead of fossil fuels. But current strategies for “splitting” or breaking apart water molecules with catalysts and light require the introduction of chemical additives to expedite the…
Study finds plants would grow well in solar cell greenhouses
A recent study shows that lettuce can be grown in greenhouses that filter out wavelengths of light used to generate solar power, demonstrating the feasibility of using see-through solar panels in greenhouses to generate electricity. “We were a little surprised…
RIT’s Pratik Dholabhai earns NSF CAREER Award to study materials in solid oxide fuel cells
Assistant professor from RIT’s School of Physics and Astronomy receives prestigious grant
Militarization negatively influences green growth
This was concluded by economists who studied the indicators of 21 OECD countries from 1980 to 2016
New perovskite LED emits a spin-polarized glow
The inclusion of a special new perovskite layer has enabled scientists to create a “spin-polarized LED” without needing a magnetic field or extremely low temperatures, potentially clearing the path to a raft of novel technologies. Details of the research conducted…
How to prevent short-circuiting in next-gen lithium batteries
New findings may help unleash the potential of high-powered, solid-electrolyte lithium batteries
Two UNIST faculty members elected as 2020 KAST fellows
Two faculty members at UNIST have been elected 2021 Fellows of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). Distinguished Professor Sang Il Seok and Professor Jong-Beom Baek from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST are among…
Twisting, flexible crystals key to solar energy production
Researchers show how shapes and movements of halide perovskites create desirable renewable energy properties
Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
Engineers have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, a material commonly used in plastic bags
Discovery of ‘knock-on chemistry’ opens new frontier in reaction dynamics
New experimental findings cast in doubt 90-year-old theoretical model of the transition state in chemical reactions
Shedding light on perovskite films
Efficient materials for future solar cells – New model to determine photoluminescence quantum efficiency
UMass Lowell researchers work toward a greener economy
$1.8m DOE grant will help develop sustainable plastics
Highlights for journalists at ACS Spring 2021 meeting
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 — Journalists who register for the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will have access to nearly 9,000 presentations on topics including agriculture and food, chemistry and the future of plastics, COVID-19 lessons learned,…
Changing defaults can have a significant and lasting effect
People often choose the standard option. Choosing to be an organ donor, printing on both sides of the page – such decisions are influenced by which is the standard setting, or default. In fact, economists and sociologists call this the…
Contactless high performance power transmission
Superconducting coils for contactless power transmission in the kilowatt range
The mystery of the missing energy – solved
Competition between triplet pair formation and excimer-like recombination controls singlet fission yield
Bitcoin price boom ‘locking in’ vast energy consumption
The cryptocurrency market has been abuzz as Bitcoin gains popularity with investors, reaching an all-time high of over $58,000 apiece in February. In a commentary published March 10 in the journal Joule , financial economist Alex de Vries quantifies how…
Material from Russia will triple the capacity of lithium-ion batteries
The scientists of the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS” (NUST MISIS) being a part of an international team of researches managed to increase the capacity and extend the service life of lithium-ion batteries. According to the researchers, they…
The secret of catalysts that increase fuel cell efficiency
Fuel cells, which are attracting attention as an eco-friendly energy source, obtain electricity and heat simultaneously through the reverse reaction of water electrolysis. Therefore, the catalyst that enhances the reaction efficiency is directly connected to the performance of the fuel…
Are ‘bacterial probiotics’ a game-changer for the biofuels industry?
In a study recently published in Nature Communications , scientists from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU) and Yale University have investigated how bacteria that are commonly found in sugarcane ethanol fermentation affect the industrial process. By closely…
Solid-state batteries could be made more cleanly by scaling-up flash sintering
Flash sintering is a ceramic processing technique which uses electric current to intensively heat the ceramic sample internally rather than using only external furnace heating. The process can lower ceramic processing temperatures and durations significantly, enabling ceramics to be co-processed…
Sweden’s electromobility test bed is being established in Gothenburg, Nykvarn and Boras
Chalmers and RISE are now commencing construction of Sweden’s electromobility test center: SEEL. Electrification of the transport sector is to be speeded up at SEEL’s three plants in Gothenburg.
Novel hydrogen fuel purification membrane paves the way for greener future
Researchers develop a novel membrane that efficiently purifies hydrogen fuel from a mixture of gases
In a leap for battery research, machine learning gets scientific smarts
The latest advance from a research collaboration with industry could dramatically accelerate the development of sturdier batteries for fast-charging electric vehicles
Built to last: New copolymer binder to extend the life of lithium ion batteries
Scientists develop a novel binder material that protects the graphite anode of Li-ion batteries from degradation even after 1700 cycles
UN: 17% of all food available at consumer levels is wasted
Wasted in 2019: 931 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and other food services; Study finds food waste is a global, not just developed world, problem; Food Waste Index report helps countries track progress on UN SDG
How governments and companies should listen to the people on climate change
How governments and companies should listen to the people on climate change People are more engaged in reducing carbon emissions than previously thought – and governments, scientists and companies should listen to them – according to new research from the…
Pressure-regulated Excitonic Feature Enhances Photocurrent of All-inorganic 2D Perovski
HPSTAR scientists Dr. Songhao Guo and Dr. Xujie Lü report three orders of magnitude increase in the photoconductivity of Cs2PbI2Cl2 from its initial value, at the industrially achievable level of 2 GPa, using pressure regulation. Impressively, pressure regulating the 2D…
Gold-phosphorus nanosheets catalyzes nature gas to greener energy selectively
Advances in hydraulic fracturing technology have enabled discovery of large reserves of natural gas which primarily contains methane, which is mainly burned directly and causing global warming potentially. Upgrading methane to greener energy such as methanol through aerobic oxidation is…
Groundbreaking research into white-rot fungi proves its value in carbon sequestration
A foundational study conducted by scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows for the first time that white-rot fungi are able to use carbon captured from lignin as a carbon source. The research confirms a hypothesis from Davinia…
Energy switching decisions could widen social inequalities
New energy tariffs could leave people on bad deals even worse off despite the potential benefits for everyone, research has found. The study, led by the University of Leeds, found new types of energy contracts designed for a low carbon…
Virtually unlimited solar cell experiments
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to design and virtually test molecules for organic solar cells, which can lead to higher efficiency functional materials for renewable energy applications
High-performance electrocatalysts to propel development of direct ethanol fuel cells
Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Normal University recently reported a strategy for boosting the electrocatalytic performance of palladium (Pd) in ethanol oxidation reaction, the key anodic reaction of direct…
TU Graz on the way to becoming Austria’s first climate-neutral university
Climate action minister delighted with ambitious climate protection measures