A team of researchers from Iceland is looking to fight climate change by turning greenhouse gases into rocks. A recent paper published in Science details how researchers have been able to capture carbon emissions and lock them in the ground, transforming them from harmful atmospheric greenhouse gases to volcanic rock. “Our results show that between 95 and 98 percent of the injected carbon dioxide was mineralized over the period of less than two years, which is amazingly fast,” said lead…
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Sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation Nomination period: October 15 through January 15, annually Presented: ECS fall meeting, annually The ECS Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award Sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation was established in 2016 to encourage excellence among postdoctoral researchers in battery and fuel cell research and to recognize recent achievements or contributions to the field that can be expected to have an impact on future research and development. The award’s...
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We may understand melanin best as the pigment that dictates our skin tone, but these pigments are actually super plentiful – existing in almost every organism on earth. While melanin is all around us, there is still much to learn about its chemical structure. A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University set out to better understand melanin, and in doing so, found that its chemical structure may be conducive to creating certain kinds of batteries. “Functionally, different types of…
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Sharing solutions to today’s most pressing global issues Pennington, NJ – (May 17, 2016) – The Electrochemical Society will be in San Diego May 29 – June 2 hosting the 229th ECS Meeting at the Hilton Bayfront and San Diego Convention Center. Over 2,400 attendees will discuss topics in batteries and energy storage, corrosion science and technology, electronics, fuel cells and energy conversion, carbon nanostructures, sensors, and more. The 229th ECS Meeting is a forum for sharing the latest scientific…
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Ellen Ivers-Tiffée has been a researcher in the field of functional ceramics for the energy sector for more than three decades, with her focus being on electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices. Currently, she heads the Institute of Applied Materials – Materials for Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Karlsruche Institute of Technology in Germany. Previously, she has worked with such notable companies as Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Technology, and the Center of Applied Materials Research. Her research aims at…
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Henry White is a world leader in the field of electrochemistry, performing pioneering research in energy storage and fundamental studies of reduction-oxidation reactions and electron-transfer reactions, and the structure of interfaces between metals and solutions. White worked under ECS’s own Allen J. Bard while obtaining his PhD, where he researched electrogenerated chemiluminescence, transport in Nafion modified electrodes, and solar energy conversion using transition metal dichalcogenide photoelectrodes. Since joining the Society in 1985, White has been presented with ECS’s Carl Wagner…
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Electronic cigarettes have paved a path for smokers to get their nicotine fix in a safer way. However, with recent news reports of the devices exploding into bursts of flames, many consumers now wary of the safety concerns. E-cigarettes are relatively simple devices. Powered by a battery, an internal heating element vaporizes the liquid solution in the cartridge. But for a New York teen, the process wasn’t as simple as he expected. Anatomy of an e-cigarette According to a report…
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has recently announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program that focuses on renewable energy to convert air and water into cost-competitive liquid fuels. The program, titled Renewable Energy to Fuels through Utilization of Energy-dense Liquids (REFUEL), is aimed at developing technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into carbon neutral liquid fuels – which can be converted into hydrogen or electricity to provide…
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Building a sustainable future Over 40 years ago, the modern environmental movement was born. Passion and concern drove a small group of twenty-somethings together in a rallying cry to create a more environment-conscious society, establishing what has become known as Earth Day. The original Earth Day focused on the issues of pollution, but today’s modern Earth Day focuses the pressing global issue of climate change. Global challenges Currently, carbon dioxide levels in the air are at their highest in over…
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Graphene’s potential seems limitless. From to patches that monitor glucose and inject treatment to water-splitting capabilities, the popularly proclaimed “wonder material” is finding a home in a host of applications. However, graphene has yet to make it wide-spread, commercial applications. To help take graphene from the lab to society, the Graphene Flagship has been formed as a European initiative promoting collaborative research on the up-and-coming material. Recently, the initiative published a paper detailing the possibility of creating light-responsive graphene-based devices…
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