Category: Chemistry Energy Hydrogen

New generator can halve cost of hydrogen used to power buildings, cars | Computerworld

Start-up H2 Energy Renaissance unveiled a hydrogen generator that can make hydrogen gas for $1 or less per kilogram and used by fuel cells to >>>

Posted: May 5, 2016 in Chemistry, Energy, Hydrogen

Speedy ion conduction in solid electrolytes clears road for advanced energy devices | ORNL

Source: Speedy ion conduction in solid electrolytes clears road for advanced energy devices | ORNL

Posted: May 5, 2016 in Chemistry, Energy, Storage

Researchers demonstrate hydrogen atoms on graphene yield a magnetic moment

Source: Researchers demonstrate hydrogen atoms on graphene yield a magnetic moment

Posted: April 22, 2016 in Chemistry

PNNL: News – Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery

An unexpected discovery has led to a zinc-manganese oxide rechargeable battery that’s as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy density. >>>

Posted: April 18, 2016 in Chemistry, Energy, Storage

First Direct Proof of Stable Carbyne, The World’s Strongest Material

Scientists have managed to develop a novel method to grow stable, ultra-long 1D carbon chains of a material that is twice as strong as carbon >>>

Posted: April 11, 2016 in Chemistry

New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material

Source: New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material

Posted: April 4, 2016 in Chemistry, Physics

Toshiba recalls 100k laptop batteries after overheating incidents – SlashGear

Four reports of overheated and melted laptop batteries has prompted Toshiba to recall more than 100,000 units in the U.S. and Canada. These lithium-ion battery >>>

Posted: March 31, 2016 in Chemistry, Computer, Energy, Storage

Flat boron is a superconductor

Rice University scientists have determined that two-dimensional boron is a natural low-temperature superconductor. In fact, it may be the only 2-D material with such potential. >>>

Posted: March 31, 2016 in Chemistry

IBM Invents ‘Resistive’ Chip That Can Speed Up AI Training By 30,000x

IBM researchers invented a new chip based on non-volatile memory technologies that could speed up the “training” of artificial intelligence that’s based on Deep Neural >>>

Posted: March 26, 2016 in Artificial Intelligence, Chemistry

Single Drop Of Blood Will Soon Be Enough To Diagnose Most Types of Cancer

Researchers at the VUMC Cancer Center Amsterdam have developed a ground breaking technique that can detect different types of cancer at an early stage from a single >>>

Posted: February 19, 2016 in Biological, Chemistry