ARGONNE, Illinois, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Boundary-free structure for electrode particles eliminates reactions that diminish battery life. * * * Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have a long history of breakthrough discoveries with lithium-ion batteries. Many of these discoveries have focused on a battery cathode known as NMC, a nickel-manganese-cob  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Charging and discharging a battery cell transforms its electrode material into a "super" material. * * * Over the last decade, advances in research and development have led to more efficient lithium-ion batteries. Yet, significant shortcomings remain. One challenge is the need for faster charging, which can help speed the adoption of electric vehicles.   more

UPTON, New York, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science announced renewed funding for an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) led by DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory to study "Molten Salts in Extreme Environments" (MSEE). This center, originally established in 2018, focuses on understanding the properties of molten salts-a class of materials with potential applicat  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on Sept. 9, 2022: A groundbreaking class of hybrid solvents developed by NETL researchers to capture greenhouse gas from fuel streams and generate clean hydrogen from fossil energy resources could also bolster supply chains of key raw materials needed to address a crisis that is currently facing America's farmers. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (TNSawa) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Amitava Bhattacharjee, a distinguished plasma physicist and head of the Theory Department at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) from 2012 to 2021, has won the 2022 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics. The honor from the American Physical Society-Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP), named for a Scottish 19th Centur  more