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Carbon Nanofiber Supercapacitor Produced Without a Flammable Electrolyte Solution

Drexel University researchers have developed a fabric-like material electrode capable of making energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors and batteries, faster and less susceptible to disastrous meltdowns and leaks.

21 Sep 2017

Efficient Conversion of CO2 into Fuels Via Copper Catalyst

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created an innovative electrocatalyst with the ability to directly convert carbon dioxide into alcohols and multicarbon fuels with the need for very low energy inputs.

20 Sep 2017

Researchers Provide New Insights about Physics of Conductive Materials by Examining Electrons in Graphene

Compared to copper, graphene is much more conductive, partly due to its 2D structure. In a majority of metals, conductivity is restricted by crystal flaws which cause electrons to often scatter like billiard balls when they travel through the material.

23 Aug 2017

New Mathematical Model Helps Researchers Study Catalytic Effects of Nanoreactors

A new mathematical model of two different molecules reacting within so called nano reactors that serve as catalysts, has been developed by theoretical physicists.

7 Aug 2017

Scientists Trap Noble Gas in a 2D Porous Structure at Room Temperature

Recently, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory completed an experiment with a two-dimensional (2D) structure synthesized by them for catalysis research when, to their surprise, they studied that atoms of argon gas were trapped within the structure’s nanosized pores.

18 Jul 2017

New Off-Grid Desalination NanoTechnology Uses Solar Energy to Convert Salt Water into Drinking Water

An off-grid technology using only the energy from sunlight to transform salt water into fresh drinking water has been developed as an outcome of the effort from a federally funded research.

20 Jun 2017

Lithium Metal Batteries Improved by Using Hybrid Graphene Nanotubes as Anode

Researchers from the Rice University have developed a rechargeable lithium metal battery with a capacity that is three times that of commercial lithium-ion batteries. They achieved this by overcoming a problem that has challenged researchers for a long time, namely, the dendrite problem.

19 May 2017

Japanese Researchers Develop a Photocatalyst that Increases Hydrogen Production Tenfold

Hydrogen is an alternative source of energy that can be developed from renewable sources of water and sunlight. A photocatalyst capable of increasing hydrogen production tenfold has been developed by a group of Japanese Researchers.

19 May 2017

New 2D Materials Prove to be Fast in Conducting Electricity

New two-dimensional materials, with breakthrough magnetic and electrical attributes capable of making them building blocks of future quantum computers and several other improved electronics, have been fabricated by physicists at the University of California, Irvine.

27 Apr 2017

Scientists Engineer Nanomaterial for Efficient Harvesting of Sunlight

In the future, with the help of nanomaterials, sunlight can be used more efficiently to stimulate chemical reactions such as artificial photosynthesis.

29 Mar 2017

Nanoenergy News

Carbon Nanofiber Supercapacitor Produced Without a Flammable Electrolyte Solution

Efficient Conversion of CO2 into Fuels Via Copper Catalyst

Researchers Provide New Insights about Physics of Conductive Materials by Examining Electrons in Graphene

New Mathematical Model Helps Researchers Study Catalytic Effects of Nanoreactors

Scientists Trap Noble Gas in a 2D Porous Structure at Room Temperature

New Off-Grid Desalination NanoTechnology Uses Solar Energy to Convert Salt Water into Drinking Water

Lithium Metal Batteries Improved by Using Hybrid Graphene Nanotubes as Anode

Japanese Researchers Develop a Photocatalyst that Increases Hydrogen Production Tenfold

New 2D Materials Prove to be Fast in Conducting Electricity

Scientists Engineer Nanomaterial for Efficient Harvesting of Sunlight

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

Light-Responsive Azobenzene Polymers for Enhanced Neural Interfaces

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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