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Scientists Use Nobel Prize-Winning Chemistry for Clean Energy Breakthrough

January 31, 2019

Researchers translated a biological technique, which won the 2017 Nobel Chemistry Prize, to reveal atomic scale chemistry in ...

New Material May Help Cut Battery Costs for Electric Cars, Cellphones

July 13, 2017

A novel manganese and sodium-ion-based material developed at the University of Texas at Dallas may provide an alternative to ...

Clean Energy Stored in Electric Vehicles to Power Buildings

June 15, 2017

Energy stored in electric vehicles can be used to power large buildings, thanks to ground-breaking research from WMG, Univers...

How to Make Electric Vehicles That Actually Reduce Carbon

March 2, 2016

Team adapts a solar-powered process that converts carbon dioxide into carbon so that it produces carbon nanotube

Berkeley Lab Awarded $8 Million for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research

October 9, 2015

New projects for hydrogen storage and fuel cell performance aim to bring down cost of fuel cell electric vehicles

2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab

January 6, 2015

From new insights into the building blocks of matter to advances in understanding batteries, superconductors, and a protein t...

Storing Hydrogen Underground Could Boost Transportation, Energy Security

December 10, 2014

Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and...

Tracking Heat-Driven Decay in Leading Electric Vehicle Batteries

October 30, 2014

Scientists reveal the atomic-scale structural and electronic degradations that plague some rechargeable lithium-ion batteries...

Engineering Longer-Lived Batteries

September 19, 2014

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute design new advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries....

Rubber Meets the Road with Lab's New Carbon, Battery Technologies

August 29, 2014

Recycled tires could see new life in lithium-ion batteries that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and store energy p...

Building a Better Battery From Sulfur (video)

May 14, 2014

New research from University of Arizona could be a game changer for the electric car industry.

ARPA-E Awards IIT-Argonne Team $3.4 Million for Breakthrough Battery Technology

September 5, 2013

Carlo Segre, Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics at Illinois Institute of Technology, has received a $3.4 million awar...

Eliminating 'Range Anxiety' Through Better Batteries

July 26, 2013

Like people who drive gas-powered cars, those who drive electric vehicles are always on the lookout for where they can get th...

Agreement will Lead to Grid-Friendly Electric Vehicle Charging

March 15, 2013

A technology that will allow widespread adoption of plug-in electric vehicles without negatively impacting the electrical gri...

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