Utilizing electron spin for faster charging, higher capacity batteries

Credit: POSTECH Charging an electric vehicle usually takes about 10 hours or longer, and even with fast-charging methods, it takes at least 30 minutes. That is assuming there is an…

Lithium batteries have a 4-hour limit. Mateo Jaramillo hopes to solve that

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wind and solar power are sometimes dinged for not producing electricity 24 hours a day, but one of the most abundant minerals on the planet, iron,…

How microgrids can help communities adapt to wildfires

Griffith Park brush wildfire and the Woolsey fire in California. Credit: Jorge Villalba/iStock Wildfires have become increasingly frequent due to climate change, with record occurrences in areas not historically prone…

Team develops alloy to boost fusion energy

Engineers create continuously tunable thermal regulators

Zixin Xiong, a Purdue University PhD candidate in mechanical engineering, studies thermal transport at high temperatures in the Marconnet Thermal and Energy Conversion Lab. Purdue professor Xiulin Ruan and associate…

Advances in eco-friendly gas insulating medium for next-generation SF6-free equipment

Carbon neutral heat beneath our feet ‘could supply large parts of UK’

Photocatalytic concrete for clean air in underground tunnels

An artificial light source has been installed, allowing the photocatalytic function to work even underground where natural light does not reach. Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology…

Renewable energy capacity additions to hit record: IEA

Solar and wind power are driving a surge in renewable energy capacity. Renewable power capacity will grow by a record number this year as high fossil fuel prices and energy…

A green path to net zero carbon building

NZCB system test site (Gaho community center, Jinju city, Korea. Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has…