I can’t help but feel like someone high up in DOE recently looked at the calendar and had a panic attack: “OMG, didn’t we promise a lot more things by…
Read MoreNexeon, a U.K.-based silicon anode producer, claims to have developed the world’s highest energy-capacity Li-ion batteries proportional to size, based on its silicon technology. According to a company press release,…
Read MorePeter offered readers a heads up Wednesday about yesterday’s meeting with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Here’s what transpired. According to a DOE…
Read MoreA DOE press release tells me, “Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold a news media teleconference tomorrow, Thursday, December 16, 2010 to…
Read MoreThe Lawrence Berkeley National Lab this summer hosted a brilliant lecture series enthusiastically called “Carbon Smackdown,” which, as illustrated by the cool poster, is based on the idea of Berkeley…
Read MoreLast month we had a story about Saint-Gobain Glass’s $80 million investment in Sage Electrochromics. Today, another electrochromic window maker, Soladigm, announced via press release that it had received $30…
Read More[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/lithium_ion_nanowire.flv mode=1 f={image=/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/lithium_ion_nanowire.jpg}] Some lithium ion batteries are plagued with, well, physical problems. Some of the mechanical effects are manifest as batteries that get very hot. Others swell, especially…
Read MoreCredit: Mans Tham. In a post today on Wired.com, Swedish architect Mans Tham’s shares his ideas on transforming the Santa Monica Freeway into a true solar highway, which he refers…
Read MoreThird Way and the Idaho National Lab have been holding a “New Millennium Nuclear Energy Summit” this morning in Washington, DC. According to a press release, the meeting is aimed…
Read Morea) SiCNW growing from a large Si-based particle, (b) representation of the morphology seen in (a).SiCNW, silicon carbide nanowires. Credit: ACT Journal. An article in one of ACerS’ journals reports…
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