EV Batteries Good, “Paper” EV Batteries 10x Better
Researchers are developing a “paper” EV battery that could be more efficient and cost less than conventional lithium-ion batteries.
Researchers are developing a “paper” EV battery that could be more efficient and cost less than conventional lithium-ion batteries.
A new lithium ion battery that notably outperforms the industry standard across a wide variety of different parameters was recently created by researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering, through the use of a new “wonder material.” The new wonder material is, of course… sand. Yes. … [continued]
Scientists were pretty excited when they discovered you could convert light energy directly into electricity by capturing photons in semiconductors, exciting them into “excitons” (bound electron with negative charge and hole with positive), and capturing the resultant current through electrodes. Now a group of four chemists from the University of … [continued]
Could electric vehicles (EVs) soon get a big boost to their acceleration thanks to new, improved supercapacitors? The researchers behind an interesting new development in the field think so — thanks to the development of a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon graphene foam architecture that improves the performance … [continued]
Lithium-ion batteries that last 3 times longer between charges than is the current industry standard are now a reality thanks to new research from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering. The new way of making lithium-ion batteries — which, humorously, utilizes surgical tubing and one of the … [continued]
The first “magma-enhanced” geothermal system in the world — the IDDP-1 well at Krafla — has proven to be a great success, based on the first scientific reports on the project, which are now starting to be released. The well, which penetrated into magma quite unexpectedly during the drilling of … [continued]
A derailed 2009 project in search of improved geothermal resources has been found to have uncovered a new way to harness energy from volcanic magma itself, according to a paper just published at Geology: Origin of a rhyolite that intruded a geothermal well while drilling at the Krafla volcano, Iceland by Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Riverside.