Energy Storage

Stanford transparent batteries: seeing straight through to the future?

The Rice lab of Professor Pulickel Ajayan has packed an entire lithium ion energy storage device into a single nanowire.

Thanks to new research by several Stanford scientists, transparent cell phones are one step closer to becoming a reality.

Fuel cells were originally considered to be replacements for internal combustion engines used in traditional vehicles and replacements for traction batteries used in pure electric vehicles.

Fuel cells were originally considered to be replacements for internal combustion engines used in traditional vehicles and replacements for traction batteries used in pure electric vehicles. Unfortunately, they have proved woefully incapable of efficiently and economically supporting the frequent load changes of vehicle traction. Many of them had a troublesome start up time and problems of life and reliability as well. Thus building ever larger fuel cells was pursued from about 1991 to 2001 but it ended in tears.

At the recent event Electric Vehicles Land Sea Air in Stuttgart Germany, there was strong coverage of electric boats.

Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems.

Aluminum-Celmet can be used to improve the capacity of lithium-ion secondary batteries and capacitors.

In a crucial step towards the development of self-powering portable electronics, RMIT University researchers have for the first time characterised the ability of piezoelectric thin films to turn mechanical pressure into electricity.

The client (or maybe boss) wants me or someone in my team to get that low-power system they have built running from one of those solid-state batteries and it is time to figure out how to put the whole power system together.