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Renewable energy storage. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A small chemical trick could upgrade giant storage batteries

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Flow batteries allow for increasing energy capacity, primarily through larger tanks, without changing the electrochemical core, and they are considered relatively safe for stationary use, if not for one problem - the fear of bromine leakage.
Porous structures are at the core of many diverse applications in the energy world: space, smart buildings, solar cells, solar fuels, nuclear energy, fuel production, geothermal energy production, fuel cells and fast charging. The researchers explain in the article that proper design of these structures is an essential condition for technological, economic and environmental improvement in the energy sector.

Tiny portholes for a big future: Porous materials as the basis for the next energy revolution

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In an article in the journal Science, researchers from the Technion present a long-term blueprint for developing the world of energy around porous structures – from materials for producing and storing energy, through energy-efficient chips, to applications in biomedical engineering.
The ability to extract rare metals from waste is developing rapidly. Photo: unsplash

Recycling natural resources: The West pays the price of dependence on China

Dr. Daniel Mader explains how the attempt to save on pollution and harm the Soviet Union made China dominate the rare metals market – and now the West is trying to turn the wheel back
A photograph of the fracture surface in a silicone model, across both fracture planes, shows that the crack profile has a certain curvature

Secrets, cracks and fractures

It turns out that the shorter a crack in brittle materials - the more resistant they are to it, which can help in the design and use of applications that are based on brittle materials
Dr. Lonnie Johnson. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"Technology accelerates human evolution"

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Dr. Lonnie Johnson, an inventor who registered over 100 patents and developed a solid-state battery based on them, describes human evolution as an interactive process between biology and technology, in which each influences and is influenced by its own
A graphic illustration of the properties of the titanium-air battery, in the style of the periodic table of the chemical elements, with the unique electrical and energetic characteristics and properties of the innovative battery. This is how the researchers and developers of the titanium-air battery envision it: removing the oxide protective layer on top of titanium is likened in their eyes to the old Titan, full of tremendous energy but imprisoned in a dark cave for ages. The group of scientists discovered a way to break through the "passive" barrier and release the energy stored in the one-eyed giant - the chemical energy stored in it turns, in the structure of the innovative battery, into electrical energy. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Electricity from the air

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Researchers at the Technion and the Yulich Institute in Germany developed a titanium-air battery and demonstrated its effectiveness experimentally
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What is the most expensive part of an electric vehicle?

Switching to an electric car may save thousands of shekels a year, most of us know that. But what are the unique maintenance and care expenses for the electric vehicle - and what is the biggest expense?
Alternative Energy. Photo: depositphotos.com

Energy storage: the membrane barrier

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A development by researchers from the Technion and Primus Power is expected to accelerate the integration of renewable and green energies in the electricity supply
Dedicated parking space for electric vehicle charging. From Jumpstory

The batteries of tomorrow

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A battery based on cobalt- and nickel-free cathode material developed in the IBM laboratories in Elmden. Photo: IBM

IBM researchers invented a battery from sea water and without heavy metals

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A three-dimensional, cross-linked polymer sponge that adheres to the metal plate of the anode of a lithium-ion battery and enables faster passage of lithium ions and increased stability over time [Courtesy: Donghai Wang]

Next-generation lithium batteries: longer duration of activity, less charging time

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Illustration: pixabay.

Build better batteries

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Scanning electron microscope images show an anode composed of asphalt, graphene nanoribbons, and lithium on the left; And the same material without lithium, on the right. The innovative composition, developed at Rice University, is a first step towards the development of charging devices capable of charging electric batteries and accumulators at a speed that is 20 times faster than what exists today. [Courtesy: Tour Group/Rice University]

Asphalt for charging batteries

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Batteries that produce electricity from a reaction of carbon dioxide could help reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Illustration: pixabay.

Ideas that will change the world: batteries that can remove carbon from the atmosphere

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[Aldo Lobos Three strains of fungi capable of recycling cobalt and lithium from rechargeable battery waste. [Courtesy: Aldo Lobos]

Recycling precious metals from phone batteries with the help of mushrooms

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In the new approach, solid nanoscale particles composed of compounds of lithium and oxygen (in red and white) are immobilized within a sponge-like structure of cobalt oxide (yellow) that keeps them stable. [Courtesy of the researchers]

An improved lithium-oxygen battery will allow improving the capacity of electric cars

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Water based battery. Illustration: shutterstock

An electric battery that runs on water   

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Diagram of a "solar flow cell" depicting a configuration of three electrodes: (1) lithium anode electrode, (2) counter electrode (CE), (3) and photoelectrode (PE). Current moves through a liquid in the battery called electrolyte. [Courtesy: Yiying Wu, The Ohio State University]

One device that is both a battery and a solar cell

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batteries. Photo: Oleksiy Mark/Shutterstock

They made you a battery / Catherine Burzak

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Tesla Powerwall, from Wikipedia

Storing electricity at home - a solution for electricity consumption during peak hours and regulating the electricity generated from alternative energies

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Aluminum battery that charges in a second. Screenshot, from a Stanford University video

A cheap aluminum battery that charges in a second

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Batteries await recycling at a plant in Virginia. Photo: Huguette Roe / Shutterstock.com

The batteries of the future - lithium sulfur with a graphene shell

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The components of the new battery are made from renewable organic bio-materials obtained from the alfalfa plant (the seeds) and pine tree resin. [Photo: Daniel Brandell ]

A new battery made from seeds and pine resin

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(a) Schematic illustration of the cross-section of the nanoporous titanium dioxide electrode with a platinum coating on it. (b) Energy diagram of a plasmon-based radiolytic water splitting.

A nuclear battery based on water

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Electric vehicle charging. Photo: shutterstock

The car of the future will repair itself

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A prototype flow battery in researcher Aziz's lab at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (photo courtesy of Eliza Grinnell, SEAS Communications)

A new type of efficient battery

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From left to right: (A) a Zn anode (1cm in diameter), (B) an EMIHSO4 - PVA separator (laying on a syringe needle to illustrate thickness and transparency), and (C) a PbO2 - carbon cathode. US Naval Research Laboratory

New ionic liquid batteries

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Improved fuel cell. Image: MIT

Significant improvement in fuel cell efficiency

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Batteries from boiled potatoes. Photo: Application company

The mechanical apple: an application developed batteries based on potatoes for use in developing countries

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Among the research participants: Hirohito Nagasawa (left), Anders Nilsson (center) and Mike Toney (right). Photo by Kelen Tuttle

A new form of platinum and its use in fuel cells

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Old generation tram in Bucharest

Our bus is big and green

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US Department of Energy researchers are testing the battery that will run on lithium and air

Lithium-air batteries in the vehicles of the future

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A small nuclear battery

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A new and sweet source of energy

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Technion researchers have developed a silicon-air battery capable of working for thousands of hours non-stop

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A battery for electric vehicles is based on… air

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New technology for driving electric vehicles

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Lithium batteries are promising for future electric cars

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New methods for increasing the efficiency of lithium-ion batteries for portable devices

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Can laptops run on spinach?

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