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Cellulose has for a long time been touted as a material that is capable to provide the foundation for a new type of batteries, that could power up small applications. For instance, they could be used in gift wraps, that could light up and say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Birthday.” But what phy... |
26 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have recently discovered that defects that are artificially induced in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may have the ability to significantly boost research in the field of supercapacitors. The scientists behind the innovation explain that these devices incorporat... |
20 November 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Scientists at the Tucson, Arizona-based Sion Power Corporation (SPC) have recently been awarded an $800,000, three-year grant for studying the complex properties of lithium-sulfur batteries. The company is a world leader in the field, with more than 100 national and international patents on the technology pending or ... |
15 November 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Scottsdale, AZ-based Fluidic Energy, a spin-off from Arizona State University (ASU), recently managed to secure the fundings it needed to continue its research into making ionic liquid energy storage feasible, Technology Review reports. According to experts at the company, the metal-air batteries that would result fr... |
5 November 2009
22:01 GMT |
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Next year will see the commercialization of the first batches of zinc-air batteries, a new class of power-storing devices that can hold up to three times more electricity than existing lithium-ion batteries. The new devices will be released in a very small form at first, for use in devices such as hearing aids and ot... |
28 October 2009
05:56 GMT |
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Over the past few years, numerous and important advancements have been made in the battery industry, with scientists developing ever smaller and more effective devices for a wide range of applications. In fact, it was progress in the industry that allowed car manufacturers to ponder releasing all-electric vehicle lin... |
8 October 2009
13:41 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking, new research, experts at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a new type of batteries, containing nickel and lithium, which can hold 3.5 times more energy than the average lithium-ion battery and is also much safer to boot. That is t... |
7 October 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Lithium-ion batteries are, at this point, among the most popular variety of electricity-storing equipments in the world, and can be found in a wide array of applications, from mobile phones to laptops and other gadgets. However, they still hold only small amounts of electricity when compared to their size, experts s... |
23 September 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Hydrogen-based vehicles are, at this point, a fairly uncommon occurrence, mostly because the designs are still plagued by engineering and technical issues. One of these problems is how to recycle hydrogen-containing fuel materials, so that they can be used again. Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LA... |
2 September 2009
19:11 GMT |
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At this point, one of the main obstacles preventing the full-scale development and implementation of electric or hybrid vehicles is the prohibitive cost of batteries, as well as their reduced mileage. Potential buyers weigh all these factors in when deciding what type and brand of car to purchase, but experts believe... |
20 August 2009
01:52 GMT |
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Lithium-ion batteries have over the past few years became the best choice for most consumer applications such as laptop and mobile phone batteries. The rate at which they are constantly improved has started to decline, mostly because the existing manufacturing technology has reached its limits. But experts at the Sta... |
14 August 2009
01:36 GMT |
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Electrical energy is known to be a thing of cables. That is to say, you have a cord going into the toaster, another one in the TV, and a couple more inside the computer. But a new approach to electricity transfer, whose grounds were set at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be able to recharge a cell pho... |
24 July 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Through their very nature, batteries are known to be rather bulky and large in size. Those that are not generally store less power, and need to be changed more often. Numerous innovations over the past few years have taken battery production to a whole new level, and a large array of new materials has since been use... |
3 July 2009
03:49 GMT |
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The Talon is a small bomb-defusing and disposal robot that is operated by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) crews in hostile environments, to identify and attempt to render nonoperational improvised explosives and other dangerous materials. But, whenever confronted with devices that have a very complex struct... |
8 June 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Batteries.com, a supplier of batteries and accessories for electronic consumer products, has announced a data breach incident after unknown individuals obtained unauthorized access to the server used to host its online store. Customer names, addresses and credit card details were stolen and some of the information ha... |
3 June 2009
08:12 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, there have been relatively few improvements in the technology employed in batteries, despite the emergence of lithium-ion cells and other similar devices. However, the capacity has remained roughly the same overall, and a breakthrough in the field has been long sought. Experts at the Univer... |
19 May 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel have just recently begun performing their fifth and final maintenance spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope, aiming to install new batteries and another insulating layer on the aging observatory. The batteries have never been changed since the instrument was first delive... |
18 May 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Liquid metal batteries are the way of the future, MIT researchers seem to think. They've created a prototype that can easily store several times more energy than conventional, solid ones, an innovation that could have numerous applications in storing the electricity created by renewable energy sources, such as s... |
27 March 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Although doctors and other health experts have yet to figure out exactly how harmful cell phones are to the human brain, one thing is for sure, their batteries are a real “death trap.” New studies show that the devices themselves carry numerous bacteria that can only live in that certain environment, but ... |
17 March 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Finding alternatives to traditional batteries in devices such as cell phones, laptops and even electric cars is one of the most important things for the industry, on account of the fact that innovation in this field could actually lead to a total re-shaping of our lifestyles. That is to say, power sources that can ch... |
16 March 2009
04:00 GMT |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have just recently set forth a bold, new idea, that of a battery made from materials that are so effective that they would recharge more than 100 times faster than the most advanced lithium-ion cells. In other words, they say, a battery that usually power... |
12 March 2009
07:06 GMT |
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San Francisco is now the proud owner of three electrical vehicle recharging stations, strategically placed in front of the City Hall, for optimum access from all areas. This effort is just a small part of a larger initiative underway in the state of California, where mayors form several large cities plan to turn the ... |
19 February 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Bolivia has currently the largest lithium reserves in the world, approximately half of the total supplies in terms of quantity. This makes the country extremely important for the outside world, on account of the fact that the mineral is highly precious for the battery industry, as well as for the development of elect... |
4 February 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Although most of the best-known portable devices available on the market nowadays are powered by rechargeable Li-Ion or Li-Polymer batteries, the truth of the matter is that there are quite a lot of consumer electronic products out there that still rely on the "old" AA alkaline batteries for power. And for this reaso... |
24 September 2008
10:27 GMT |
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The car batteries that we rely on today may be soon "driven" to extinction by recent discoveries. Engineers' old engine power-delivery problem has now been solved by means of the new supercapacitor. Post-doctoral researcher Jiyoung Oh together with research scientist Mikhail Kozlov from the NanoTech Instit... |
22 September 2008
04:59 GMT |
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The iPod and iPhone are probably among the world's best-known gadgets and two of Apple's iconic products. However, since they're portable devices, they run on batteries, which can get depleted pretty fast in certain situations. And this is exactly the reason why the iPowerRush was created (by whom exac... |
19 December 2007
01:38 GMT |
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Duracell has been traditionally associated with the idea of portable power (just recall those funky, rabbity commercials and you'll understand what I'm talking about), and, periodically, the company comes up with new and improved power sources, which provide increasingly higher extra-functioning time for th... |
16 November 2007
11:46 GMT |
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Energizer is one of the world's best known battery manufacturers and, over time, has launched quite a large number of interesting products, including the Energi To Go line of portable chargers. And since this series already included a model specially designed for mobile phones, the company has decided to come up... |
20 September 2007
12:41 GMT |
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Batteries pretty much run our world, nowadays, since they provide the required power for just about any and every portable device out there. And even if Li-Ion or Li-Polymer rechargeable packs are pretty much the standard, at least when talking about cell phones, laptops, MP3 players etc., there are still quite a few... |
18 September 2007
03:06 GMT |
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As the number of portable devices each person has in his/her possession at any given moment has skyrocketed during the past few years, the problem of charging them while on the go has suddenly become a very serious one. This led to the development of various multi-purpose chargers, including the one you're about... |
10 July 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Radioactive batteries, also known as atomic batteries, are electricity storage devices which use the charged particle emissions from a radioactive isotope to directly generate electricity. Recently, this old idea has been reinvented by, who else, DARPA (Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency), in search of new hi... |
9 July 2007
11:02 GMT |
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The IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre), a microelectronics research facility on the outskirts of Leuven, Belgium, created a new micro-device that can harvest energy from mechanical vibrations, by using micromachining technology.They even built a model that could be used to optimize the device during desi... |
23 June 2007
06:56 GMT |
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The problem of transporting electricity throughout large distances comes from the fact that conducting wires can break, snap in the wind, or when a tree falls on them, so every major storm knocks out most of the power grid, isolating important human communities.Trying to solve this problem, a team of students at MIT... |
9 June 2007
03:55 GMT |
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Energizer recently launched two new chargers for the rechargeable batteries Energizer DUO and Energizer Family Charger. STOP! When you read Energizer, you immediately associate the name with an anthropomorphic pink funny bunny that runs like a freak around the earth and back, right? Wrong! That's a Duracell'... |
13 April 2007
09:46 GMT |
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