Mar
8
Electro Catalytic Action Turns CO2 Back Into Hydrocarbon
March 8, 2013 | 2 Comments
In a stunning development scientists at the University of Granada have a developed a carbon gel that enables carbon dioxide to be turned into hydrocarbons using a novel electro-catalytic process. After more than 10 years’ work researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have developed a new material using doped carbon that allows low-cost fuel […]
Mar
7
On the Path to Stop Lithium Battery Fires
March 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Its understood now that lithium deposits that form on electrode surfaces called dendrites build up until they cause an internal short circuit and can cause lithium-ion batteries to fail and some cases start a fire. Researchers at Purdue University have shown theoretically how to control or eliminate the formation of dendrites, an advance that if […]
Mar
6
New Catalyst For Synthetic Fuels From Biomass
March 6, 2013 | 2 Comments
The Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has sent out their press release announcing the discovery and design of a catalyst to build synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass using the Fischer-Tropsch process. The catalyst has already been patented by the Total S.A. oil and gas company. This […]
Mar
5
A Solar to Fuel Roadmap
March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment
MIT’s associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, former MIT professor Daniel Nocera (now at Harvard University), MIT postdoc Mark Winkler (now at IBM) and former MIT graduate student Casandra Cox (now at Harvard) have published a paper that is a new analysis laying out a roadmap for a research program to improve the efficiency […]
Mar
4
Superconductivity Warms Up
March 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment
A team of experts led by Chang-Beom Eom, the Harvey D. Spangler Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering and physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with colleagues at the Florida State University and the University of Michigan has artificially engineered a unique multi-layer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and […]
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