January 24th, 2020 | by Tina Casey
The Energy Department is pursuing a mobility future populated by electric vehicles, despite the recently impeached President's support for fossil fuel
September 9th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
If all goes according to plan, formic acid energy storage could be the key to unlocking the sparkling green hydrogen economy of the future
July 30th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Researchers at Rice University have created a device they say could boost the efficiency of solar panels to a staggering 80%. How did they do that?
December 7th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
The world of electrical energy is changing before our eyes. Some utility companies will go out of business while others will thrive.
October 23rd, 2015 | by Tina Casey
A new graphene enabled catalyst could lead to low cost, large scale hydrogen production for fuel cell electric vehicles and power-to-gas systems
September 7th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
Hydrogen is slowly but surely shedding its bad boy image as research progresses on solar powered water-splitting for hydrogen fuel cells
April 17th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
Take heart, fuel cell electric vehicle early adopters! You can look forward to cheaper, greener hydrogen for your personal mobility needs
April 7th, 2015 | by Tina Casey
Yet another sustainability threefer for algae: producing algae biofuel from municipal wastewater, removing pollutants, and saving energy, too
December 10th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
Researchers at Rice University have whipped up a flexible foam-based, flakey graphene battery in the form of an inexpensive microsupercapacitor
November 4th, 2014 | by Tina Casey
A research team from Rice University has achieved an energy storage breakthrough based on a new, relatively cheap and simple method for manufacturing Mo
July 26th, 2014 | by Zachary Shahan
As noted in an article yesterday, I’ve been very busy in the past month (well, months…) moving into a new home and [&hellip
February 8th, 2014 | by James Ayre
Diamane — an extremely thin film of diamond only a few atoms thick — can be created without the extreme [&hellip
August 27th, 2013 | by Tina Casey
While we’ve been busy touting graphene as the “miracle material of the new millennium,” there’s another advanced materials kid on [&hellip
August 7th, 2013 | by Tina Casey
Silicon could provide lithium-ion batteries with ten times their typical storage capacity, but this ubiquitous semiconductor is notoriously fragile when [&hellip
July 24th, 2013 | by James Ayre
An impressive new solar-powered sterilization system — capable of converting as much as 80% of the energy found in sunlight [&hellip
July 3rd, 2013 | by Tina Casey
A research team from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering together and Harvard Medical School is on track [&hellip
May 24th, 2013 | by Guest Contributor
Tina about one year ago wrote about Rice University research exploring the benefits from the use of boron in batteries. Rice [&hellip
December 4th, 2012 | by James Ayre
Researchers from Rice University have created a ‘seamless’ graphene and nanotube hybrid. The material is probably the best electrode [&hellip
November 2nd, 2012 | by Nicholas Brown
Rice University researchers have developed yet another li-ion (lithium-ion) silicon battery anode, but this time it is a crushed, [&hellip
September 10th, 2012 | by James Ayre
A new way to create the flexible components of rechargeable lithium-ion (LI) batteries from discarded silicon has been developed by [&hellip
July 9th, 2012 | by Nicholas Brown
Rice University researchers have developed an unusual type of lithium-ion battery. It is a liquid that can be painted [&hellip
June 29th, 2012 | by Tina Casey
Paintable and printable solar cells are lowering the cost of solar power, and now researchers at Rice University have come [&hellip
May 9th, 2012 | by Tina Casey
The U.S. Navy is behind a push to exploit one of the “hottest” areas of the electromagnetic spectrum, the terahertz [&hellip
