Energy Storage

University of Leeds scientists have invented a new type of polymer gel that can be used to manufacture cheaper lithium batteries without compromising performance.

Wireless window contacts draw all their energy from ambient radio signals.

Researchers may have found a new ingredient that could not only make lithium-ion batteries more efficient, but also cleaner and cheaper to manufacture.

PragmatIC Printing Ltd, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, and De La Rue plc, the world's largest integrated commercial security printer and papermaker, announced that they are working together on prototypes for printed electronic security products.

Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc., in Dayton, Ohio, have developed a new approach energy storage devices based on rapidly shuttling large numbers of lithium ions between electrodes with massive graphene surfaces.

Researchers from Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc. have proposed a new principle for energy storage that can be applied to electric vehicles, as published in //Nano Letters//.

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries.

The latest from the Rice lab of chemist Robert Hauge stakes a claim in the drive toward robust, versatile energy storage with a solid-state, nanotube-based supercapacitor that can be deeply integrated into the manufacture of devices.

Professor Ray Baughman from the University of Texas at Dallas discussed in his keynote presentation the bi-scrolled yarns developed by his team.

MicroGen Systems is developing a global, scalable, green, renewable energy power source.

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.