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Electrocatalysis Could Play Significant Role Towards More Sustainable Energy

Electrocatalysis may play a significant role in the evolution of more sustainable energy in the future. Chemist Isis Ledezma Yanez, who will be defending her doctoral thesis on the 9th of June, provides a clear picture on the hydrogen evolution process.

9 Jun 2016

Researchers Design Molecular Catalyst to Meet Future Hydrogen Energy Needs

Hydrogen-powered cars could soon become a reality with a new, radical technique that process that enables efficient sourcing of hydrogen from liquid formic acid.

7 Jun 2016

'Bionic Leaf' System Uses Solar Energy to Generate Liquid Fuels

The days of drilling into the ground in the search for fuel may be numbered, because if Daniel Nocera has his way, it’ll just be a matter of looking for sunny skies.

3 Jun 2016

Researchers Successfully Recover Important Metals from Battery Waste with Nearly 100% Purity

Researchers have succeeded in recovering important metals – lithium, cobalt and nickel – from battery waste with nearly 100 per cent purity. Recovered metals will be needed increasingly in the manufacture of batteries, and in the future especially in batteries of electric vehicles.

3 Jun 2016

A New Approach for Large-Scale Production of Hydrogen

A potential energy carrier for the future is hydrogen, but despite this fact its large scale production continues to be a major problem. Recently, Bochum-based scientists have discovered a novel approach for a method suitable for industrial applications.

31 May 2016

University of Houston's Debora Rodrigues Receives C3E Research Award for Work in Clean Energy

Debora Rodrigues, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston, has received the 2016 C3E Research Award. Her work focuses on developing bio- and nanotechnologies to reduce energy costs in water and wastewater treatment.

27 May 2016

Thermo-Optical Measuring Method (TOM) could Save Several Million Tons of CO2 in Coal-Fired Plants

Coal-fired plants as alternative energy source to nuclear power are essential for ensuring the energy supply.

25 May 2016

Air Products, NSPE Collaborate to Successfully Construct Retail Hydrogen Fueling Station in Japan

Air Products and NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN Pipeline & Engineering Co. Ltd. (NSPE) have successfully constructed and placed onstream their first retail hydrogen fueling station in Tokyo, Japan. JX Nippon Oil & Energy, one of Japan's largest developers of hydrogen fueling stations, contracted with NSPE to supply the station.

20 May 2016

ALLM to Commercialize Patented CTS Technology to Produce Ethanol and Cellulosic Sugar

Alliance BioEnergy Plus, Inc. (the "Company"), is very pleased to announce the successful completion of its yearlong efforts to optimize its patented CTS technology to extract 100% of the sugar from virtually any cellulosic feed-stock after having it completed and proven by major industry ethanol producers.

4 May 2016

Non-Toxic Thin-Film Solar Cells Achieve Record Efficiency

Researchers from UNSW have built flexible, full-sized, thin-film, solar cells that have the highest efficiency ever recorded so far, making ‘zero-energy’ buildings a potential reality. Zero-energy buildings produce as much power as they use up. These solar cells are non-toxic as well as economical.

3 May 2016