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- 2014-04-16 A pomegranate-inspired nanoscale design for large-volume-change lithium battery anodes
- Silicon is an attractive material for anodes in energy storage devices, because it has ten times the theoretical capacity of its state-of-the-art carbonaceous counterpart. Here, we propose a hierarchi...
- 2014-04-16 EU advent of innovative high-power supercapacitor
- Supercapacitors are considered one of the newest innovations in the field of electrical energy storage. For example, charging is completed within a few seconds and the laptop keeps running for at leas...
- 2014-04-16 UN SG Ban Ki-Moon opens Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) in Berlin
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier open the first meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the UN Secre...
- 2014-04-16 The new flat graphene nanoribbons
- Graphene is a two dimensional material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb or chicken wire structure. It is the thinnest material known and yet is also one of the stro...
- 2014-04-16 New energy vehicles enjoy government subsidies in China
- China has launched a new round of government subsidies for new energy vehicles in November 2013, in a bid to further accelerate the development of green vehicles, promote energy saving and reduce air ...
- 2013-10-06 Decoupling hydrogen and oxygen evolution during electrolytic water splitting using an electron-coupled-proton buffer
- Nature Chemistry reported Prof. Leroy Cronin group’s work at the University of Glasgow on successful realization of different stages of process of electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen and oxygen...
- 2013-10-06 Solar water splitting: Black Nanoparticles Could Play Key Role in Clean Energy Photocatalysis
- A unique atomic-scale engineering technique for turning low-efficiency photocatalytic “white” nanoparticles of titanium dioxide into high-efficiency “black” nanoparticles could be the key to clean...
- 2013-10-06 New energy materials: Photonic Floquet topological insulators
- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and successfully demonstrated a photonic Floquet topological insulator, a new device used to protect the transport of light th...
- 2013-10-06 Integrated technologies: Solar energy convertors heat up
- A method for improving the efficiency of electron emission in solar conversion devices is presented in Nature Communications. The method demonstrates an important step for solar energy convertors base...
- 2013-10-06 Integrated technologies: Stretching the power
- A strategy for the creation of unusually stretchable batteries is presented in Nature Communications. By combining suitable materials with deformable electrical interconnects, reversible stretching of...
- 2013-10-06 New energy materials: Evolving granular matter
- A computational strategy that can optimize the mechanical properties of jammed granular materials is reported online this week in Nature Materials. The approach makes possible the systematic explorati...
- 2013-10-06 New energy materials: Boosting the bandwidth of optical reservoir computing
- A high-speed, optical, learning-based approach to information processing, which uses components that are readily available in labs, is presented in Nature Communications. The demonstration highlights ...
- 2013-10-06 New-generation chemical battery: Providing a longer life for lithium-sulphur batteries
- A long life lithium-sulphur battery that uses a novel egg-shell structure for cathode materials is reported in Nature Communications. The creation of this new electrode architecture could pave the way...
- 2013-10-06 Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit
- As the Physicist Organizational Network reported on March 24, a joint research team from Denmark and Switzerland has proved that the sunlight intensity gathered by single-nanowire can reach 15 times m...
- 2013-10-06 Synthetic fuels from Syngas: High quality hydrogen for fuel cells
- A new catalyst for converting methanol to hydrogen is reported in Nature Communications. The catalytic reaction proceeds at the relatively low temperature of 160 °C and produces no detectable carbon m...
- 2013-10-06 CO2 harvesting and conversion: Metal-organic frameworks capture CO2
- A porous metal-organic framework that can absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) at ambient conditions is reported in Nature Communications. This technology may open up new possibilities for the...
- 2013-10-06 Platform chemicals from biomass: Turning paper into biofuel
- A single-celled microbe that shares properties with both animals and plants has the ability to thrive on cellulose as a source of energy, reports research published in Nature Communications. The organ...
- 2013-10-06 Platform chemicals from biomass: Methanol from biomass
- A new catalyst that has the potential to directly produce methanol from biomass is reported in Nature Communications. Methanol has been put forward as a cleaner transportation fuel than petrol, but it...
- 2013-10-06 New-generation chemical battery: Durable fuel cells for cars
- A new stable electrode material that could be used in fuel cells for electric vehicles is described in Nature Communications. Current fuel-cell electrode materials can suffer from degradation under op...
- 2013-10-06 New-generation chemical battery: Recharging sodium battery development
- An electrolyte reported in Nature Communications could help to pave the way towards a new type of solid-state rechargeable battery. Such all-solid-state sodium batteries could be a cheap and safe alte...
