Oct
7
Can That Battery Be Saved?
October 7, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Researchers at California Institute of Technology have explored how higher temperatures can break down battery dendrites and possibly extend battery lifetimes. For heavy cell phone users this might be a great breakthrough in extending phone life. Over time, the electrodes inside a rechargeable battery cell can grow tiny, branch-like filaments called dendrites, causing short circuits […]
Oct
6
A New Technology for Producing Biomass With Algae
October 6, 2015 | Leave a Comment
UniVerve Ltd. (UniVerve), an Israeli company, has developed a scalable technology and production process combining algal biomass cultivation, harvesting and concentration as well as extraction and fractionation of fatty acids from biomass. Their results show an ability to offer high quality feedstock for various industries at a highly competitive price. UniVerve has begun scaling-up its […]
Oct
1
New Process Makes Scraped Tires Into Supercapacitors
October 1, 2015 | 1 Comment
An Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) team led by Parans Paranthaman has created flexible polymer carbon composite films as electrodes for supercapacitors. Using the technology developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University could have some of the 300 million scrap tires discarded each year in the United States alone […]
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