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3-D nanocone solar cell boosts PV conversion efficiency by nearly 80%

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The technology substantially overcomes the problem of poor transport of charges generated by solar photons. These charges—negative electrons and positive holes—typically become trapped by defects in bulk materials and their interfaces and degrade performance. Click to enlarge. —Jun Xu.

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Sandia researchers developing new family of metal-based ionic liquids for low-cost, efficient flow batteries

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Liquid electrolytes are pumped from storage tanks to flow-through electrodes where chemical energy is converted to electrical energy (discharge) or vice versa (charge). However, RFBs also have general issues with charge cycle efficiencies; low energy densities; raw material costs; cross contamination of anolyte. Rose, Chad L.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Without a driveway and a garage, how can I set up charging at home? Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? What would my experience be like finding charging stations, and then what will it be like when I get there? And so that's what we call "DC fast charging."

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Without a driveway and a garage, how can I set up charging at home? Will we have a universal standard for charging? What exactly is fast charging? What would my experience be like finding charging stations, and then what will it be like when I get there? And so that's what we call "DC fast charging."

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Ioxus Developing Higher Power Density Ultracapacitors

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Typical ultracapacitors are characterized by high power density compared to batteries (but poor energy density), as well as quick charge and discharge. Smaller Ioxus cells offer a power density of 22-28 kW/kg, and larger cells offer densities of 12-15 kW/kg, said Chad Hall, COO of Ioxus. Earlier post.).

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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Neutrons do not possess any electric charge; they are stable inside the nucleus, and outside of it, they decay with a lifetime of about 15 minutes (886 seconds)—a long time for a fundamental particle. solvent system and the resulting charge transfer kinetics at various current densities is critical. Blade height is ~76 mm.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. Police later arrested a man named Edward Lee King on unrelated drug charges.

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