Sep
10
A Cold Tube Can Beat AC For Cooling
September 10, 2020 | Leave a Comment
University of British Columbia researchers can show how a ‘Cold Tube’ can offer relief from the summer heat without relying on air conditioning. A Cold Tube uses half the energy of conventional air conditioners and can be used outdoors or indoors. Many people beat the summer heat by cranking the air conditioning. However, air conditioners […]
Sep
9
New Material Insulates And Near Superconducts Electricity
September 9, 2020 | Leave a Comment
An international team of physicists including Jennifer Cano, PhD, of Stony Brook University, has created a new material layered by two structures, forming a superlattice, that at a high temperature is a super-efficient insulator conducting current without dissipation and lost energy. The finding, detailed in a paper published in Nature Physics, could be the basis […]
Aug
26
New Catalyst Turns CO2 Into Fuel and Chemicals
August 26, 2020 | Leave a Comment
A team of Brown University researchers has found a way to fine-tune a copper catalyst to produce complex hydrocarbons – known as C2-plus products – from CO2 with remarkable efficiency. By efficiently converting CO2 into complex hydrocarbon products, the new catalyst could potentially aid in large-scale efforts to recycle excess carbon dioxide into useful carbon-based […]
Aug
19
New Tech Captures CO2 Reducing Power Plant Emissions
August 19, 2020 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… University of California – Berkeley chemists have come up with an efficient and less expensive technique for removing CO2 from natural gas plant emissions. The technique could be tweaked for higher output plants that use coal. The chemists took a magnesium-based metal-organic framework and added a tetraamine that catalyzes a CO2 polymer easily removed […]
Jul
23
Pairs Of Atoms Boost A Catalyst’s Activity
July 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment
Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers have competed a study that identified which pairs of atoms in a catalyst nanoparticle are most active in a reaction that breaks down a harmful exhaust gas in catalytic converters. The most active particles contained the biggest proportion of one particular atomic configuration – one where […]
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