Sentences with phrase «energy applications»

The researchers are hopeful that the results from the study will help in the development of 2 - D materials which could be used in energy applications such as fuel cells.

The breakthrough will help scientists to develop ways to use the incredible powers of hydrogen in novel materials for hydrogen storage, in fuel cells, or in other alternative energy applications.

No surprise that with the growth in interest in renewable energy applications, there is a growing demand for a trained workforce and thus a need for someone to offer training courses.

They also perform only under a narrow set of conditions, making them challenging to use in energy applications.

The plan highlights solar energy applications for the rural poor disconnected from the grid, sponsorship of research and development programs, and human resource development.

New composite material that traps oxygen selectively could be useful for energy applications such as fuel cells

For the most part, wind energy applications consist of covering vital wind turbine components with shrink wrap to protect against harmful elements those components could face either in transit, in warehouse storage, or at the turbine lay - down site prior to erection and installation.

Abstract: Ion conducting membranes are of interest for various energy applications including fuel cells and artificial photosynthesis systems.

Where heat pumps are used for heating, they are capable of highly cost - efficient energy applications because they tap into a limitless supply of «free» heat — either the surrounding air or heat captured in the ground or water, such as a lake.

The focus of her research is the colloidal synthesis and characterization of sustainable nanomaterials for energy applications including solar cells and LEDs.

These results show that understanding how the nanostructures are formed could lead to the ability to design materials with properties ranging from high surface area to high strength for batteries, nuclear reactors, and other energy applications.

Professor Apparao Rao, director of the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute, is also in talks with industrial partners to begin integrating the W - TENG into energy applications.

If such a fertility control technology — which has come under fire in farming for fear seed firms will exploit it — is proven effective, it could open the door to many varieties of wild plants, including weedy grasses, to be genetically engineered for use in energy applications like biomass and next - generation biofuels without fear of invasiveness.

Power Ledger has developed a series of world - leading blockchain energy applications, such as its P2P energy trading application.

«I am pleased to see that London Hydro consumers will now be able to access their energy data in a consistent format and share their data using these four new Green Button - enabled energy applications,» said Bob Chiarelli, Minister of Energy.

«Novel plastic could spur new green energy applications, «artificial muscles».»

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

These characteristics make iron - based superconductors promising for advanced energy applications, from electric vehicles to wind turbines and medical imaging devices.

«The huge interest in two - dimensional crystals for energy applications comes both from their physico - chemical properties, and the possibility of producing and processing them in large quantities, in a cost - effective manner,» says Bonaccorso.

Review co-author Andrea Ferrari, who chairs the Executive Board of the Graphene Flagship, and is director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, offers a soberly optimistic view of the potential for graphene in this area: «Graphene and Related Materials have great promise in these areas, and the Graphene Flagship has identified energy applications as a key area of investment.

Sofia Quaglioni is best known for her leading role in the emergence of a pioneering capability, using ab initio (literally, from first principles) approaches combined with HPC, to accurately describe light - nuclei reactions for low - energy astrophysics and terrestrial fusion energy applications.

In particular, the application of Co-ferrite in the realization of permanent magnet has attracted a renewed interest as an alternative to rare - earth base materials in low energy applications.

This feature makes the NuScale design especially well - suited for hybrid energy applications in which multiple energy sources are integrated with multiple energy consuming processes to form a highly optimized and efficient system.

«This hierarchical structure of self - assembled graphene sheets is an ideal design not only for lithium - air batteries but also for many other potential energy applications,» said Dr. Jie Xiao, the materials scientist at PNNL who led the study.

These projects are two of several technology collaborations between Johnson Controls and UW — Madison focused on optimizing battery system performance and interactions with a vehicle's powertrain and electrical architecture and on developing future stationary energy application

The results are a step toward designing catalysts for use in hydrogen energy applications such as fuel cells.

The SMU Geothermal Lab hosted our 9th international energy conference, Power Plays: Drilling into Geothermal Energy Applications, January 10 - 11, 2018 on the SMU campus in Dallas, Texas.

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Beyond the financial services market, we are also working with Ledger to embed BOLOS into any device's secure element and bring high - assurance security to markets like smart energy applications, home automation or wearables.»

Under the supervision of Ling Liang, a process engineer, she worked on figuring out how effective lignin - derived ionic liquids, solvents used in a variety of renewable energy applications, would be for biomass pretreatment.

A number of energy applications for 2D crystals are under development worldwide, and Europe's Graphene Flagship has invested significant resources in this area.

The first model that Vortex will introduce is the Mini, a 4 kW unit that stands 12.5 meters in height, which is intended for small - scale and residential wind energy applications.

Platinum, another rare mineral here on Earth, is believed to exist in large quantities on the moon and could be used in various energy applications, he said.

Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering, said hot electrons are particularly interesting for solar - energy applications because they can be used to create devices that produce direct current or to drive chemical reactions on otherwise inert metal surfaces.

These hybrid materials could be worth exploring for use in energy applications such as batteries and solar cells, Lu says.

«We believe these materials have potential in water filters, sensors, drug delivery and especially fuel cells or other energy applications.»

Yet scientists still know so little about how these metal oxides operate in nature, or how we can make them with the absolute control needed for high - performance materials in energy applications.»

Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and LEDs.

A newly discovered reservoir of rare earths, which are needed for high - tech, automotive and renewable energy applications, may remain on the ocean floor for some time

Another major limitation in the use of extracted chloroplasts for solar energy applications is that they easily break down due to light - and oxygen - induced damage to the photosynthetic proteins.