energy

Until now,  thermoelectric devices have been difficult to exploit fully. However, a new organic thermoelectric device converts room temperature heat into usable electrical energy. No temperature gradient is needed because the team takes…

Caribbean islands are moving away from importing fossil fuels in favor of using their abundant sun and wind power for electricity. Frequent hurricanes, however, are problematic for solar energy generation. Researchers at the Department of…

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way to study electrochemical processes at the atomic level with unprecedented resolution, resulting in new insights into a popular catalyst material. They…

Porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of highly ordered materials composed of organic molecules linked by covalent bonds to create a network allowing for the precise construction of functional materials. Like metal organic…

Researchers at Oregon State University are demonstrating that iron, instead of cobalt and nickel, can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. They published their findings in Science Advances. So far, the cathode…

When I read that scientists are converting chicken fat into energy storage devices, I immediately thought of Schmaltz. Researchers published an ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report on a method to transform chicken fat into…

MUNICH, APRIL 2024 Panasonic’s hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar cells, known as Amorton, have a great track record for powering indoor and outdoor applications like IoT devices, watches, sensor nodes, asset trackers, or remote…

Researchers at Donghue University and the National University of Singapore created a flexible electronic fiber that uses the human body as part of the circuit to enable textile-based electronics without the need for batteries or chips.…

Imagine a remote telecom site nestled in the scorching deserts of Arizona, where summer temperatures soar above 120°F, or a hidden cell tower perched in the frostbitten tundra of Alaska, enduring winter chills that plunge below -40°F. In…

Researchers from MIT invented a device that operates without a battery, plug, or dirty energy. According to Daniel Monagle, MIT graduate student and study lead author, “We have provided an example of a battery-less sensor that does…