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Self Healing Seals Improves Reliability of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have great potential for stationary and mobile applications. But SOFCs have had a flaw – the integrity of the seals within and between power-producing units. A materials science professor has invented a self-healing seal that will provide strength and long-term stability

24 May 2009

Electricity Generation From Tinted Glass Coated With World's Smallest Organic Solar Cells

New Energy Technologies, announced that, it is continuing to further advance the development of its tinted transparent glass SolarWindows capable of generating electricity by coating glass surfaces with the world’s smallest known organic solar cells

21 May 2009

World's Highest Output Lithium Ion Battery Developed

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd. which develops and manufactures lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications, such as hybrid electric vehicles, have developed a lithium-ion battery having the world's highest power density

19 May 2009

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Street Cleaning Vehicle Keeping the Roads of Basel Tidy

Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have, together with Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz, developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle which was presented to the public in Basel

18 May 2009

Hydrogen Production Process That Uses Sun Power Wins Award

A research project that aims to produce hydrogen on an environmentally friendly and cost-effective basis by using energy from the sun has won a prestigious E.ON research award

18 May 2009

Scientists Mimic Enzyme to Make Nature Based Hydrogen Processor for Fuel Cells

By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor

18 May 2009

Researchers Develop New System For Storing Hydrogen For Hydrogen Powered Vehicles

Sandia researchers have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system. The system stores 3 kilograms of hydrogen and is large enough to evaluate control strategies suitable for use in vehicle applications

7 May 2009

BASF Opens Fuel Cell Production Facility in New Jersey

Furthering its leadership position in the development of energy management solutions, BASF today announced it has officially opened its BASF Fuel Cell production facility in Somerset, New Jersey

6 May 2009

Combustion Science to be Studied at Princeton University Energy Frontier Research Centers

Princeton University will be home to a new $20 million energy research center for combustion science, as part of a federal initiative to spur discoveries that lay the groundwork for an economy based on clean replacements for fossil fuels

5 May 2009

Building Industry Experts Team Up to Find Way To Fix Toxic Chinese Drywall Problem

One of the leading forensic experts on building envelope water intrusion and toxic mold, Spiderman Mulholland, is joining forces with a network of professionals to combat the Toxic Chinese Drywall issues facing the United States today

4 May 2009