Brian Westenhaus

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• New Breakthrough Will Change How Oil Reserves Are Measured

  Published 01 December 2018 | viewed 17,163 times

  A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team of researchers has taken the first three-dimensional images of kerogen’s internal structure, with a level of detail more than 50…

• Coal To Liquid Fuel Could Become Much Cheaper

  Published 27 October 2018 | viewed 41,190 times

  Eindhoven University of Technology researchers have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce operating costs and open the door to capturing the large amounts of CO2…

• New Breakthrough Could Slash Solar Prices To New Lows

  Published 06 October 2018 | viewed 78,604 times

  Professor Yabing Qi and his team from OIST in collaboration with Professor Shengzhong Liu from Shaanxi Normal University, China, developed the cells using the materials…

• Bioscience Breakthrough Turns Plant Waste Into Gasoline

  Published 29 September 2018 | viewed 18,802 times

  KU Leuven, Belgium bioscience engineers have developed a roadmap, so to speak, for industrial cellulose gasoline. The bioscience engineers already knew how to make gasoline…

• New Breakthrough Could Lead To Safer Energy Storage

  Published 22 September 2018 | viewed 27,200 times

  Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science engineers have observed how carbon dioxide is activated at the electrode-electrolyte interface. Using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy the…

• The Next Stage In Perovskite Solar Development

  Published 16 June 2018 | viewed 17,517 times

  A Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) research team has proposed a perovskite material that serves as a potential active material for highly…

• Biofuel Breakthrough Uses Algae To Create Hydrogen

  Published 13 May 2018 | viewed 30,378 times

  A research group from the University of Turku, Finland, has discovered an efficient way for transforming solar energy into the chemical energy of biohydrogen through…

• This Discovery Is Changing Solar Energy Forever

  Published 26 April 2018 | viewed 44,572 times

  Rice University scientists have discovered a novel phenomenon of light-induced lattice expansion in perovskite materials. The lattice expansion cures bulk and interface defects, which leads…

• Scientists Are One Step Closer To Nuclear Fusion

  Published 21 March 2018 | viewed 41,762 times

  Colorado State University scientists, using a compact but powerful laser to heat arrays of ordered nanowires, have demonstrated micro-scale nuclear fusion in the lab. They…

• Is This The Answer To The Lithium Shortage?

  Published 18 February 2018 | viewed 13,154 times

  University of Texas at Austin and Monash University researchers have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from…

• New Breakthrough Boosts Solar Fuel Efficiency

  Published 21 January 2018 | viewed 19,338 times

  University of Twente researchers have made significant efficiency improvements to the technology used to generate solar fuels. This involves the direct conversion of energy from sunlight…

• Unexpected Phenomenon Observed In Lithium-Ion Batteries

  Published 17 January 2018 | viewed 21,120 times

  Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have observed an unexpected phenomenon in lithium-ion batteries – the most common type of battery used to power cell phones and…

• EV Range Set To Triple With New Lithium Battery Breakthrough

  Published 20 December 2017 | viewed 43,863 times

  The University of Waterloo researchers breakthrough involves the use of negative electrodes (the anode) made of lithium metal, a material with the potential to dramatically…

• A Low-Cost Alternative To Lithium-Ion Batteries

  Published 25 November 2017 | viewed 21,644 times

  Forschungszentrum Juelich researchers with American Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have now successfully observed with nano-scale precision how deposits form at the iron electrode during…

• New Process Makes Ethanol Sustainable

  Published 11 November 2017 | viewed 13,733 times

  Sweden’s University of Borås doctoral student Ramkumar Nair has shown it is possible to produce bioethanol from agricultural and industrial waste in existing plants in…

• Submerged Turbines Could Replace 10 Nuclear Reactors In Japan

  Published 02 October 2017 | viewed 17,796 times

  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) researchers have developed turbines to convert the power of ocean waves into clean, renewable energy. Professor Shintake and the…

• Fuel Cell Breakthrough Lowers Costs And Ups Capacity

  Published 09 September 2017 | viewed 28,810 times

  University of Delaware (UD) scientists have created a new technology that could make fuel cells cheaper and more durable. Hydrogen-powered fuel cells are a green…

• Is This Country About To Revive Biofuels?

  Published 04 September 2017 | viewed 15,376 times

  Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo researchers found the use of ethanol in vehicles reduces pollution by significantly lowering the number…

• This Is Why Your Lithium Battery Doesn’t Age Well

  Published 29 April 2017 | viewed 16,946 times

  An Argonne National Laboratory team of researchers has identified one of the major culprits in capacity fade of high-energy lithium-ion batteries. Scientists refer to a…

• “Grassoline” The Jet Fuel Of The Future?

  Published 08 April 2017 | viewed 21,028 times

  Belgium’s Ghent University researchers have developed a process that turns grass into biofuel. The press release is a little cute with the question, will we…