Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/kincsem-hyper-gt-hypercar-use-radical-hydrogen-technology "The Hyper-GT chassis will be a carbon tub, understood to be under development by yet another well-known UK tech company whose identity can’t be revealed. McLaren Applied will be responsible for the whole electric powertrain – four electric motors, one per wheel, plus the inverters, traction control systems and a “relatively small” high- performance battery, which should allow the car’s all-up weight to be low against its peers. Total power will be “over 500kW”, or 670bhp" Related: Energy crisis: UK hydrogen breakthrough paves way for 'cheap' truly green power https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1600898/energy-crisis-uk-hydrogen-breakthrough-paves-way-cheap-truly-green-power Powering the future: Unlocking the role of hydrogen in lithium-ion batteries https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-powering-future-role-hydrogen-lithium.html

https://www.iit.edu/news/harnessing-wave-energy-illinois-tech-associate-professor-carrie-hall-named-fulbright-scholar "control systems for complex thermal systems to assist with the challenge of providing better control for wave energy converters to improve efficiency and durability... don't know in advance how big they'll be, when or in what direction exactly they'll hit... capture energy in multiple directions and leverage state-of-the-art control and prediction methods accommodate varying wave conditions"

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/04/07/engineered-crystals-could-help-computers-run-on-less-power/ "superlattice structure composed of three atomic layers of zirconium oxide sandwiched between two single atomic layers of hafnium oxide, totaling less than two nanometers in thickness, provided the best negative capacitance effect. Because most state-of-the-art silicon transistors already use a 2-nanometer gate oxide composed of hafnium oxide on top of silicon dioxide, and since zirconium oxide is also used in silicon technologies, these superlattice structures can easily be integrated into advanced transistors"

https://sciencex.com/news/2022-04-2d-layered-dielectrics-ultra-thin-transistors.html "Density Functional Theory (DFT) and identified 32 different 2D vdW dielectrics... 6 promising dielectric candidates introduced for n-MOS Field Effect Transistors (FETs)... rare-earth oxyhalides (HoOI, LaOBr, LaOCl, LaOI, SrI2, and YOBr). Our theoretical study and computational modeling explicitly reveal that these introduced 2D dielectrics with a thickness less than 0.8 nm outperform traditional 3D oxide dielectrics such as HfO2 with a thickness of 10 nm"

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/04/22/the-mobility-revolution-hybrid-lithium-ion-battery-capable-of-recharging-within-a-minute/ "high energy density (285 Wh/kg) and can be rapidly charged with high-power density (22,600 W/kg)... porous carbon hollow structure with large surface area by changing orientation of polymer resin from linear to twisted. When the twisted resin was carbonized, more micropores were formed... carbon structure with surface area 12 times larger... anode was made using a germanium-embedded hollow carbon nanosphere material to reduce degradation and maximize dispersion of lithium ions" See also:  Fast EV charging: Korean tech charges battery in 60 seconds https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/27/korean-researchers-develop-battery-tech-with-blistering-charge-speeds/ Related:  Forge Battery begins bulk customer shipments of 300 wh/kg Li-ion battery cells https://www.greencarcongress.com/2024/08/20240801-forge.html

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-advanced-digital-ultra-high-capacity-optical-transmission.html "all-fiber multiplexer to interface single-mode fibers with novel three-core coupled core fibers. transmit 172 Terabits per second over 2040 km... Using infrared camera and reference beam to measure amplitude and phase of both polarizations of optical beam, a full characterization of the phase and amplitude of light was used to obtain key metrics... real-time optical receiver with advanced digital signal processing on a commercial off-the-shelf GPU using CUDA"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-in-situ-composite-solid-state-electrolyte-high-voltage.html "P(PDEM-D4)-CSE exhibits high ionic conductivities (i.e., 4.0 × 10−5, 1.68 × 10−4, and 5.73 × 10−4 S·cm−1 at 30°C, 60°C, and 100°C, respectively). CSE can induce more uniform, reversible Li plating/stripping behaviors, mainly owing to formation of compatible solid electrolyte interface... enables long-life 4.4 V-class solid-state LMBs based on LiCoO2 cathode... 79.7% capacity retention and 99.74% average Coulombic efficiency after 500 cycles at 0.5 C rate" Related: KRICT Develops New Lithium Composite Material to Enhance Performance and Safety of Next-Generation Lithium Rechargeable Batteries https://www.newswise.com/articles/krict-develops-new-lithium-composite-material-to-enhance-performance-and-safety-of-next-generation-lithium-rechargeable-battereis Yonsei University develops a new era of high-voltage solid-state batteries https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103856

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-boost-batteries-consumer-electronics.html "one electron can be reversibly stored, which only provides battery with maximum capacity of 110 mAh/g. Catalysis has been widely used in lithium-based batteries such as lithium-oxygen batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries to improve energy and power... successfully achieve reversible two-electron storage in polymer-based ORB. all-organic polymer battery with cell voltage of 2.8 V... one of highest voltages in organic batteries... doubles energy storage capability... capacity of 175 mAh/g" Related: Electron transport emerges as new rule for lithium battery catalyst design https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-electron-emerges-lithium-battery-catalyst.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-sulfonamides-robust-cathode-material-proton.html "attaching electron-withdrawing groups to the molecular scaffold... increase electric potential... At 1 V, output voltage achieved was 20% higher than in next-best materials... gel-like electrolyte which was adapted to the sulfonamide cathode material and enabled flexible construction. This malleable battery pack retained capacity over 600 charge/discharge cycles... easy to manufacture, stable under standard environmental conditions, and virtually insoluble in water"

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-sapphire-fiber-enable-cleaner-energy.html "uses a sapphire optical fiber—a thread of industrially grown sapphire less than half a millimeter thick... can withstand temperatures over 2000°C. When light is injected onto one end of the sapphire fiber, some is reflected back from a point along the fiber which has been modified to be sensitive to temperature... writing a channel along length of fiber, such that light is contained within tiny cross-section, one-hundredth of a millimeter in diameter"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-fabricating-qubits-advanced-semiconductor.html "fabricated at an Intel facility, using all-optical lithography and fully industrial processing processes. Optical lithography, also known as photolithography, is manufacturing technique used to transfer a pattern onto a substrate using a photosensitive material... allows us to tap directly into our rich history of process innovations that have driven Moore's law over the last 50 years" Related: 2D materials could allow manufacturers to "catch up" with Moore's Law https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mit-method-2d-materials-moores-law Nanoscale ferroelectric semiconductor could power AI and post-Moore's Law computing on a phone https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-nanoscale-ferroelectric-semiconductor-power-ai.html Layered and traditional semiconductors supporting heterogeneous integration for post-Moore era https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-layered-traditional-s...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-uncovering-secret-ternary-polymer-solar.html "adding extra ingredient to the mix—giving ternary PSC—can improve power conversion efficiency (PCE) and stability... conducted electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy while PSC was operating. This gave them the chance to observe the behavior of the electrons and holes when cell was irradiated with sunlight... accumulation of charge over time contributes to the performance of cells deteriorating... adding an acceptor molecule, known as ITIC, to this system improves PCE and the stability" Related: A new conducting polymer complex to create stable and fully printable organic solar cells https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-polymer-complex-stable-fully-printable

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-efficient-flexible-solar-cells-excellent.html "incorporated polymer guests into the PM6:BTP-eC9 blend film to form entangled chain networks, thus improved the ductility and morphologically stability of the blend film. Due to the effective dissipation of local load caused by the entangled structure, the crack-onset strain of the developed ternary blend membrane is 17.14% higher than that of the traditional binary blend membrane. In addition, a stabilized PCE of 16.52% was obtained for the polyethylene terephthalate-substrate-based flexible OSCs"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-electrical-perovskites.html "two different aspects of charge-carrier behavior in thin films of a promising perovskite known as CsFAMA (a cesium-containing triple-cation mixed halide perovskite). First, they used a series of brief laser pulses to excite the charge carriers and then examine them just a few picoseconds (trillionths of a second) later... as the density of charge carriers increases, it linearly narrows the energy gap that electrons need to vault when they are excited by incoming light" Related: CityU chemists develop a strategy for highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells https://www.cityu.edu.hk/research/stories/2022/04/22/cityu-chemists-develop-strategy-highly-efficient-and-stable-perovskite-solar-cells A solution to perovskite solar cell scalability problems https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-solution-perovskite-solar-cell-scalability.html Cheaper solar cells could be on the way thanks to new materials https://tech...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-energy-shift-world-largest-batteries.html "closed-loop" systems that tap a surface or underground supply, then repeatedly cycle that water between reservoirs... pipe water between two 60-acre (24.3-hectare) reservoirs... could power nearly 500,000 homes for up to 12 hours... hundreds of abandoned U.S. mines that could host pumped storage, with upper reservoirs and lower ones below ground. They are close enough to transmission and distribution infrastructure and to solar and wind generating facilities" Related: Hydropower technology turning even low-lying hills into green power stores https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/-no-water-hydropower-technology-set-for-full-scale-debut/2-1-1635557 Low-viscosity waterless high-density hydro storage could expand tech’s reach https://spectrum.ieee.org/pumped-hydro-storage-rheenergise

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/science-research/article/14270618/miniscope-offers-windowlike-view-of-brain-functions-in-action "tiny electrically tunable lens, curvature researchers manipulate via static voltage without causing rise in temperature. Used on mouse model, Mini2P shifted focal plane between surface and deeper cell layers within brain’s cortex, thanks to lens’ curvature... produces 3D structure recordings of brain tissue, can record along multiple planes in Z-axis (toward the top of the brain, ranging from axonal branches... allows study neural network activity at high resolution in naturally behaving animals"

https://news.gsu.edu/2022/04/18/georgia-state-researchers-take-step-toward-developing-electric-eye/ "biomimetic artificial vision device, which uses synthetic methods to mimic biochemical processes, using na­notechnology... more than 80 percent of information is captured by vision in research, industry, medication... can enter narrow spaces... medical diagnosis, environmental study, manufacturing, archaeology... advances color recognition... unique stacking technique... van der Waals semiconductor-empowered vertical color sensing structure... precise color recognition capability" Related: An eye implant engineered from proteins in pigskin restored sight in 14 blind people https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/eye-implant-pig-protein-restored-sight-blind-people-rcna42681 An alternative to LASIK — without the lasers https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1094211 This artificial retina doesn't just aim to restore sight—it opens a hidden channel of vision https://techx...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-advanced-power-circuits.html "topology of dual-phase series capacitor DC-DC convertor, voltage-mode PWM controller with two feedback loops proposed to realize modulation of output voltage and series capacitor voltage... fast transient response technology overcame shortcomings of traditional PWM control... used dual-phase inductor current to simultaneously charge the load to further improve the response speed of converter... settling time of only 0.9μs, which is fastest transient responses"

https://newatlas.com/environment/hydrogen-greenhouse-gas/ "hydrogen's Global Warming Potential (GWP) is about twice bad as previously understood; over a 100-year time period, tonne of hydrogen in atmosphere will warm Earth some 11 times more than tonne CO2, with uncertainty of ± 5. Hydrogen reacts with same tropospheric oxidants that clean up methane. Methane is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas, causing some 80 times more warming than equivalent weight CO2 over first 20 years"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-stress-misaligned-particles-typical-lithium.html "lithium can't go into the cathode uniformly... it slows down the intercalation mechanics... make lithium insertion or extraction more uniform on these aggregates or individual particles... Introducing some porosity in the particle agglomerates might sacrifice some energy density, but at the same time would allow lithium to go in more uniformly. That could allow you to get more energy at a given charge/discharge rate"

https://news.clemson.edu/extract-from-a-common-kitchen-spice-could-be-key-to-greener-more-efficient-fuel-cells/ "Curcumin is used to decorate the gold nanoparticles to stabilize them, forming a porous network around the nanoparticles... deposited curcumin gold nanoparticle on surface of electrode at a 100 times lower electric current than previous studies. Without the curcumin coating gold nanoparticles agglomerate... Without this curcumin coating  performance is poor... We need this coating to stabilize and create porous environment around nanoparticles, and then they do a super job with alcohol oxidation" Related: Reversible fuel cells can support grid economically, study finds https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-reversible-fuel-cells-grid-economically.html  See also: Electricity out one way, green hydrogen the other – engineering the reversible fuel cell https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/electricity-out-one-way-green-hydrogen-the-other-engineering-the-reversible-fue...

https://source.wustl.edu/2022/04/opening-up-the-electromagnetic-spectrum/ "first fully integrated parity-time symmetric electronic system... can be made without the use of exotic materials, only requiring the same standard microelectronic fabrication technology used today for common integrated circuits... new technology implemented a concept with remarkable mathematical properties originating from quantum physics into an integrated circuit. It opens up a new part of the spectrum for research in the giga- to terahertz range"

https://interestingengineering.com/delivery-drone-100-pounds-80-miles "66 lb cargo... cargo pod roll directly under CCY-01 before attaching to airframe via metal bar... tilt forward reduce drag... PUPA airfoil... payload capacity 99 lb including PUPA... fly 25 miles 80 mph... CCY-01 is only in the concept phase so far, meaning it may never be built. Considering how unusual the design is, we'd wager that Cyclotech is taking its experimentation to the limit, without any guarantees of developing the machine they have designed" Related: Hydrogen H2D55 Drone 5X more energy efficient than traditional lithium battery-powered drones and can fly for 100 minutes with 15 lb. payload https://www.jns.org/israeli-hydrogen-powered-drones-could-prove-revolutionary/?h2fd What is a 'toroidal propeller' and could it change the future of drones? An expert explains https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-toroidal-propeller-future-drones-expert.html Autonomous cargo drone with sustainable ...

https://insidehpc.com/2022/04/quantinuum-announces-quantum-volume-4096-achievement/ "H1-1 and H1-2, which run projects for customers... taken offline for upgrades... average single-qubit gate fidelity for this milestone was 99.994(3)%, average two-qubit gate fidelity was 99.81(3)% with fully-connected qubits... measurement fidelity was 99.72(5)%.  The Quantinuum team ran 200 circuits with 100 shots each, using standard QV optimization techniques to yield an average of 152.97 two-qubit gates per circuit... outputting heavy outcomes 69.04% above 2/3 threshold... greater than 99.99% confidence" Related: UK-based quantum computing firm Quantinuum claims sub-atomic matter breakthrough https://news.sky.com/story/uk-based-quantum-computing-firm-quantinuum-claims-sub-atomic-matter-breakthrough-12877152

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-internet-breakthrough-bell-state-analyzer-presents-giant-leap-toward-fully-quantum-internet/ "quantum gates, or logical operations necessary for performing quantum communications protocols... able to manipulate photons in user-defined way, often in response to measurements performed on particles elsewhere in the network... quantum gates operate on simultaneous superpositions of zeros and ones, keeping the quantum information protected as it passes through, a phenomenon required to realize true quantum networking" Related: Internet at the speed of light https://news.yale.edu/2022/05/03/internet-speed-light Laser bursts drive fastest-ever logic gates https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/laser-driven-logic-gates-petahertz-ultrafast-computers-522142 First Quantum Teleportation Between Unconnected Nodes, an Important Step Towards a Functioning Quantum Internet https://science-news.co/first-quantum-teleportation-between-unconnected-nodes-an-importan...

https://evtol.com/features/whisper-aero-shares-details-ultra-quiet-electric-propulsor-technology/ "drone design, as well as a nine-passenger commercial aircraft that can utilize existing aviation infrastructure... next-generation propulsors, designed to be ultra-quiet and efficient... no aircraft can be as fast, efficient, or achieve the total operating costs... very low-speed drone that can be the quietest thing that has ever flown, as well as a very high-speed nine passenger commercial aircraft, to show breadth of opportunities" Related: Jetoptera targets Mach 0.8 with bladeless-propulsion VTOL aircraft https://newatlas.com/aircraft/jetoptera-bladeless-hsvtol/  See also: Filling a Large Bag in One Breath  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhWhTbins_A X-57: NASA's electric plane is preparing to fly—here's how it advances emissions-free aviation https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-x-nasa-electric-plane-flyhere.html Autonomous eVTOL air taxi flown over Jerusalem by Israe...

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2022/nasa-s-new-material-built-to-withstand-extreme-conditions "deliver enhanced mechanical properties at extreme temperatures. At 2,000° F, GRX-810 shows remarkable performance improvements over current state-of-the-art alloys including: Twice strength to resist fracturing, Three and a half times flexibility to stretch/bend prior to fracturing... More than 1,000X durability under stress at high temperatures... Previously, an increase in tensile strength usually lowered a material’s ability to stretch and bend before breaking, which is why our new alloy is remarkable" Related: Bio-inspired materials showcase potential for protective equipment and textiles https://phys.org/news/2024-03-bio-materials-showcase-potential-equipment.html Atomic-level engineering enables new alloys that won't break in extreme cold https://phys.org/news/2025-09-atomic-enables-alloys-wont-extreme.html

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-porous-silicon-ability-incident.html "used the finite time domain difference method (FDTD) to calculate and compare surface reflectivity of porous silicon structures with different pore sizes... porous silicon structure when prepared under optimal corrosion parameters can achieve an average reflectivity as low as 2.3 percent for light in incident wavelength range of 300 to1000 nm... pore sizes of 300 to 700 nm could achieve lower reflectivity,... points the way for design and preparation of future low-reflectivity porous silicon structures"

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-hybrid-quantum-bit-based-topological.html "topologically protected; the particular geometric structure of the superconductors as well as their special electronic material properties ensure that quantum information is retained. Topological qubits are therefore considered to be particularly robust and largely immune to external sources of decoherence. They also appear to enable fast switching times comparable to those achieved by the conventional superconducting qubits used by Google and IBM in current quantum processors" Related: New material may offer key to solving quantum computing issue https://phys.org/news/2023-02-material-key-quantum-issue.html Realization of photonic p-orbital higher-order topological insulators https://phys.org/news/2023-03-photonic-p-orbital-higher-order-topological-insulators.html Scientists discover quantum oscillations in correlated insulators https://phys.org/news/2023-06-scientists-quantum-oscillations-insulators.ht...

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-v-class-metal-free-lithium-ion-battery-closer.html "significant advancement towards high-voltage metal-free lithium-ion batteries that use a small organic molecule—croconic acid. The breakthrough moves us closer to realizing metal-free, high-energy, and inexpensive lithium-ion batteries... organic batteries exploit naturally abundant elements such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. In addition, organic batteries have greater theoretical capacities than conventional lithium-ion batteries because their use of organic materials renders them lightweight"

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-higher-potassium-ion-battery.html "The K-ion capacitor with the Nb2C MXene had the most outstanding performance, with the highest power density of 2336 W/kg and an energy density of 24.6 Wh/kg... K-ion capacitor with MXene can discharge power orders of magnitude faster. The capacitor with Nb2C MXene maintained nearly full capacity (94.6%) after 30,000 cycles of discharging 5 amperes/g of electricity, in contrast to the roughly 500 cycles a lithium-ion battery is expected to last" Related: Researchers offer insights into solid-electrolyte interphases in next-gen aqueous potassium-ion batteries https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-insights-solid-electrolyte-interphases-next-gen-aqueous.html Electrodes with hollow nanotubes improve performance of potassium-ion batteries https://phys.org/news/2023-10-electrodes-hollow-nanotubes-potassium-ion-batteries.html Group1 Unveils First Potassium-ion Battery in 18650 Format https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-graphene-hbn-breakthrough-spur-quantum.html "terraced graphene substrate—essentially an atomic-scale staircase—and heated it to around 1600 degrees Celsius before spraying on individual boron and active nitrogen atoms. The result far exceeded the team's expectations, forming neatly ordered seams of hBN on the graphene's terraced edges, which expanded into wide ribbons of material"

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/04/14/us-start-up-develops-polymer-based-batteries-for-stationary-storage/ "up to five times larger than lithium-ion systems of the same capacity and don’t require active temperature control. The product is being offered in power strings which the company said can rapidly discharge power, up to 1 MW, in less than 10 seconds and be recharged in less than five minutes. Each power string measures 2.2 m x 0.8 m x 3.4 m and weighs 1,590 kg. Its nominal voltage is 528 V and the voltage range is 158 V to 972 V... continuous operation at temperatures between -40 C and 50 C" Related: These plastic batteries could help store renewable energy on the grid https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/13/1049728/plastic-batteries-grid-storage/ What are ‘solar boxes’ and will they revolutionise renewable energy? https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/05/05/what-are-solar-boxes-and-will-they-revolutionise-renewable-energy How to Upcycle Plastics into Liquids That St...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-metamaterial-based-clock-network-large-superconducting.html "Using their resonant metamaterial-based clock distribution network... performed S-parameter measurements for a 10 GHz IC design and validated a digital reciprocal quantum logic circuit with 48,0000 junctions, operating at 3.5 GHz. Remarkably, they found that their network could enable the uniform distribution of power with a variation below 1 dB across a 3x3 mm2 active chip area, with a power efficiency of approximately 30%"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-world-rice-husks.html "combination of milling, heat treatments, and chemical etching... extracted SiO2 powders... burning off organic compounds of milled rice... heated resulting silica powder in electric furnace to obtain Si powders via reduction reaction... purified Si powder that was further reduced to 3 nanometer in size... surface chemically functionalized for high chemical stability and high dispersivity, with 3 nm crystalline particles to produce SiQDs that luminesce in orange-red range with high luminescence efficiency over 20%"

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nasa-electric-car-battery-nissan-b2055613.html?amp "Nasa has teamed up with Japanese automotive giant Nissan to develop a brand new type of battery that could transform the electric car industry. The US space agency hopes to create a battery that has significantly higher energy than the lithium-ion batteries currently found in most consumer electronics – from phones and laptops, to e-scooters and electric cars. The all-solid-state battery proposed requires half the space of lithium-ion batteries... does not lose capacity over time or suffer from any safety issues" Related: Battery breakthrough! Electric cars could be charged in as little as three minutes thanks to new solid tech https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/battery-breakthrough-electric-cars-could-be-charged-in-as-little-as-three-minutes-thanks-to

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-solar-energy-electricity-demand.html "solar energy system MOST—molecular solar thermal energy storage systems... specially designed molecule changes shape when comes into contact with sunlight... solar energy system can be combined with a compact thermoelectric generator to convert solar energy into electricity... sunshine was sent to the other side of the world and converted into electricity in China... generator is an ultra-thin chip that could be integrated into electronics such as headphones, smart watches and telephones" Related: Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years, say scientists (and then easily convert heat to electricity) https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/04/12/solar-energy-can-now-be-stored-for-up-to-18-years-say-scientists  see also: ‘Exciting’ solar breakthrough means energy can be kept in sustainable batteries that don’t overheat  https://uk.news.yahoo.com/exciting-solar-breakthrough-means-energy-141245566.html ...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/04/11/indian-startup-unveils-zinc-based-battery-tech-for-stationary-applications/ "easily manufactured at scale, even in India, as the raw materials are widely available. The company designed ZincGel on a modular platform that can be modified. It plans to commercially launch ZincGel products in India by next year. It will target solutions for fleets that operate low-powered electric vehicles like two-wheelers and three-wheelers. ZincGel battery technology is a highly efficient alternative to the costly imported batteries currently available in India" Related: ISHOW India 2021 – Offgrid Energy’s ZincGel Battery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkfXPSGLYps  see also: Offgrid Energy Labs' pilot manufacturing facility for its patented ZincGel® batteries  https://smartenergy.news/article/124731/Offgrid_Energy_Labs_opens_UKand_s_first_ZincGel%C2%AE_battery_manufacturing_facility

https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/new-transistor-could-cut-5-from-world-s-digital-energy-budget/ "magnetism-related property of electrons points up or down and can be read, like electric charge can, as 1 or 0... applying positive voltage, spins of underlying chromium oxide point up, ultimately forcing spin orientation of graphene’s electric current to veer left and yield a detectable signal. Negative voltage instead flips the spins of the chromium oxide down, with the spin orientation of the graphene’s current flipping to the right and generating a signal clearly distinguishable from the other"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-prospects-lithium-carbon-dioxide-batteries.html "practical Li-CO2 batteries with highly efficient CO2 fixation and high energy storage are achievable... slow kinetics of the electrode reactions, so the next step in the development of lithium-carbon dioxide is to seek an efficient catalyst that can boost the electrode reactions during battery charge and discharge" Related: Energy Dome Successfully Launches First CO2 Battery Long-Duration Energy Storage Plant in the World https://www.hastingstribune.com/energy-dome-successfully-launches-first-co2-battery-long-duration-energy-storage-plant-in-the-world/article_e61a9f20-3cfd-54fb-b3d3-1f12b813a307.html The world’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage is headed to the US https://electrek.co/2022/11/14/the-worlds-first-co2-battery-for-long-duration-energy-storage-is-headed-to-the-us/ Unveiling the mysteries of operating voltages of lithium-carbon dioxide batteries https://phys.org/n...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-recovery-sweden.html "smaller heat-reuse cycle within the two containers. The heat generated from the Submer liquid immersion cooling tank inside the data center container is used to preheat the air intake for the fuel cells... return water loop from the CDU in the Submer setup will be around 50 degrees Celsius... fuel cells consume air to function, but this air is best at 35 degrees Celsius, so the outside air (-25 degrees Celsius to 25 degrees Celsius) will be heated up by the heat from the Submer system" Related: Thermally regenerative battery produces ample energy using low-grade waste heat https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/thermally-regenerative-battery-produces-ample-energy-using-low/ Global experts propose a path forward in generating clean power from waste energy https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2023/03/global-experts-propose-a-path-forward-in-generating-clean-power-.html The impact of thermal drawdown-indu...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-bright-future-better-performing-solar-cells.html "satellite valleys in the band structure of semiconductors, where hot carriers can be temporarily stored without losing energy... The scientists were able to elucidate this approach in an indium-gallium-arsenide and aluminum (InGaAs/InAlAs) based semiconductor material that is sensitive to light, and therefore, a potential material for solar cells"

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-iron-laced-carbon-nanofibers-yields-high-performance "adding atomic Fe changed the electronic structure of the carbon materials to promote more electrical conductivity... reduce the diffusion resistance of the Li+... synergistic effect of the atomic Fe and the formation of an Fe-N bond that exposed more active sties to which Li+ could adhere... anode delivered sustained electric power through 5000 cycles of high current density, providing both high energy and large power density. Its interlaced fiber structure conferred structural stability and improved conductivity" Related: 500 households are warm thanks to ‘rechargeable’ iron powder https://innovationorigins.com/en/500-households-are-warm-thanks-to-rechargeable-iron-powder/

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-crystals-power.html "layered stack of hafnium oxide and zirconium oxide... demonstrates how the negative capacitance effect can significantly lower the amount of voltage required to control transistors, and as a result, the amount of energy consumed by a computer... fabricated short channel transistors and tested their capabilities. These transistors would require approximately 30% less voltage while maintaining semiconductor industry benchmarks and with no loss of reliability, compared to existing transistors"

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-in-electrically-tunable-graphene-devices-could-lead-to-the-development-of-beyond-5g-wireless-technology/ "graphene-based tunable THz resonator... gold-foil gate electrode forming bottom reflective mirror. Above it, a graphene layer is book-ended with electrodes, forming tunable top mirror... non-volatile ionic liquid electrolyte layer sits between mirrors, enabling control of top mirror’s reflectivity by changing applied voltage. In middle of device, between mirrors, molecules of alpha lactose, sugar commonly found in milk... controlled by two adjusters"

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-quantum-advances-low-cost-alternative-solar.html "used a chemical technique established by other groups to produce a two-dimensional perovskite surface atop their solar cell... power conversion efficiency of the team's cells was measured at 23.9 percent, a level that did not fade after 1,000 hours of operation at room temperature. Even when subjected to an industry-standard accelerated aging process at temperatures up to 65 C, the performance only decreased by eight percent after more than 500 hours of use"

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/04/06/aluminum-nickel-molten-salt-battery-for-seasonal-renewables-storage/ "battery’s energy is stored at a materials cost of about $23 per kilowatt-hour... hopes of bringing the materials cost down to around $6 per kilowatt-hour, roughly 15 times less than the materials cost of today’s lithium-ion batteries...can retain 92% of its initial capacity over a period of 12 weeks. They said it has a theoretical energy density of 260 W/hours per kg... added sulfur to the electrolyte to increase the battery’s storage capacity. A ceramic separator was embedded between the anode" Related: Molten-salt battery freezes energy over a whole season researchers demonstrate a low-cost, freeze-thaw battery that stores electricity for months https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1600898/energy-crisis-uk-hydrogen-breakthrough-paves-way-cheap-truly-green- Cheap, high capacity, and fast: New aluminum battery tech promises it all https://arstechnica.com/science/2022...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-zinc-air-battery-solar-power "cathode material with a heterojunction bandgap structure was synthesized, with a n-type semiconductor (graphitic carbon nitride, g-C3N4) and ap-type semiconductor (copper-doppedZIF-67 (Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-67),CuZIF-67). Long-term galvanostatic charge-discharge profile with zoomed dark, dark-light shifting, and light regions of the CZ-based zincair battery at a current density of 2 mA cm− 2 for up to 1000 cycles" Related: Building a better, cheaper battery for power grids https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-cheaper-battery-power-grids.html Initiating high voltage multi-electron reactions in NASICON cathodes for aqueous zinc/sodium batteries https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-high-voltage-multi-electron-reactions-nasicon.html Zinc-air battery: low-cost, environmentally generates hydrogen peroxide aiding in water purification https://www.energy-reporters.com/news/india-just-pulled-power-from-thin-air-s...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/04/06/could-hot-carrier-solar-cells-break-the-theoretical-efficiency-limit/ "creating “satellite valleys” in the band structure of semiconductors, where hot carriers can temporarily be stored without energy loss. The satellite valley changes the kinetic energy of the excess heat particles into potential energy, changing the particle from a loss to one that is stored. The researchers were able to successfully demonstrate storage of heat through the satellite valley effect by using a indium-gallium-arsenide and aluminum (InGaAs/InAlAs) structure" Related: milestone thermophotovoltaic cell converts 40% of heat energy to electricity https://www.designboom.com/technology/thermophotovoltaic-cell-converts-40-percent-heat-energy-to-electricity-05-13-2022/ Researchers create highest efficiency 1-sun solar cell https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-highest-efficiency-sun-solar-cell.html Breakthrough Solar cell doesn't Run On Sunshine https://www.youtu...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10687117/Nuclear-fusion-achieved-new-technique-fuel-accelerated-156-586mph.html "A University of Oxford spin-out has confirmed that it has achieved fusion. Projectile fusion technique is faster and cheaper than traditional approaches. It uses a hyper-velocity gas gun to launch a projectile at fusion fuel. As the fuel is hit, it accelerates to 156,586mph, creating a pulse of fusion energy. According to the firm, it has spent less than £45 million to achieve fusion" Related: Venture Capital: Nuclear Fusion Startup Zap Energy Achieves First Plasmas; Nabs $160M https://dailyalts.com/nuclear-fusion-startup-zap-energy-achieves-first-plasmas-nabs-160m/ This tiny fusion reactor is made out of commercially available parts https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/this-tiny-fusion-reactor-is-made-out-of-commercially-available-parts Researchers in China develop new method to enrich uranium in seawater by membrane filtration https://www....

https://grist.org/beacon/a-new-record-for-battery-storage/ "U.S. battery storage surged to a new record last year as power grids and property owners added more than 3,500 megawatts of capacity — enough to power roughly 1 million homes for a few hours at a time. That’s more than double the previous record set in 2020... The more battery storage you have, the more wind and solar power grid operators can keep on hand, ready to be dispatched when clouds roll in or when winds die down"

https://interestingengineering.com/a-new-battery-free-system-gives-devices-an-infinite-lifetime "BFree system allows devices to run perpetually using intermittent energy. When power is interrupted, the system pauses calculations. Then, when power returns, it resumes automatically without having lost any memory and without having to run through an extensive list of operations... novice programmer will learn about energy, energy harvesting, and the energy costs of a program they write"

https://physicsworld.com/a/elusive-superconducting-transition-signature-seen-for-the-first-time/ "electrons in the cuprate material... Bi2212, pair up at around 120 K... ARPES signal inside already-existing energy gap, which opens at near 120 K, shows most rapid drop across 77 K... is exactly the superconducting transition temperature determined by magnetic susceptibility measurements... anomaly at Tc... as the one the researchers observed in the material’s specific heat... pins down second step in transition and fourth signature of bulk superconductivity"

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-ultrafast-multitarget-tightly-focused-fields "ultrafast modulation of multi-target focal fields based on the facile combination of the time-dependent vectorial diffraction theory with the fast Fourier transform... tightly focusing radially polarized femtosecond pulse vortex laser beams in a single objective lens geometry... ultrafast temporal degree of freedom within a configurable temporal duration (~400 fs)... bright-dark alternation, periodic rotation, and longitudinal/transverse polarization conversion"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-honey-potential-brain-like-chips.html "The honey memristor chips developed at WSU should tolerate the lower levels of heat generated by neuromorphic systems which do not get as hot as traditional computers. The honey memristors will also cut down on electronic waste... neuromorphic chips which have the equivalent of more than 100 million "neurons" per chip, but this is not yet near the number in the brain" Related: Next generation computers modelled on the human brain https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1075863

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-sandwich-magnets-topological-insulators-potential.html "probe size of bandgap opening... confirm magnetic in origin... angle-resolved photoemission we could also probe the hexagonal warping in the surface state... strength of the warping in the Dirac fermions in our heterostructure is almost twice as large as in Bi2Te3... electronic structure, gap size and temperature at which MnBi2Te4/Bi2Te3/MnBi2Te4 heterostructure is likely to support the QHE effect by combining experimental ARPES observations with magnetic measurements to determine Curie temperature" Related: Ultrafast laser pulses reveal solid-state bandgaps in motion https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ultrafast-laser-pulses-reveal-solid.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-technology-solar-option-outages.html "designed a novel building-solar controller that optimizes solar energy with smart technology to keep microgrids operating for up to five days... improve grid resilience—or reduce outage duration and restore power supply as soon as possible—by leveraging solar energy and building... can generate enough power for a few homes or an entire community. The grids offer the opportunity to use more zero-emission electricity sources which reduces greenhouse gas emissions"

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-manganese-oxide-material-rapidly-low-grade.html "intercalation mechanism, where water molecules are reversibly inserted into a layered material, is very advantageous for heat storage... very fast, reversible and the material's structure is well maintained. Also, oxygen in the atmosphere doesn't degrade the layered manganese oxide crystal and water doesn't dissolve it... irnessite-type... better all-round performance... long lifetime, can reversibly store and release large amounts of heat per unit volume, and rapidly charges and discharges"

https://www.graphene-info.com/european-grant-enable-development-supercapacitors-based-nitrogen-doped-graphene "high-capacity, safe, and environmental friendly supercapacitors based on a graphene-derived material developed in Olomouc, which is already protected by a European patent... higher density than graphite, which, combined with the great ability to adsorb ions from the electrolyte, leads to very high volumetric energy density... significantly higher than for all carbon- or graphene-based supercapacitor materials" Related:  graphene-based supercapacitors https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Graphene-Breakthrough-Challenges-Lithium-Ions-Dominance-in-Energy-Storage.html

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/29/world-will-need-5-2tw-of-solar-this-decade-to-avoid-climate-breakdown/ "world will need 5.2TW of solar power generation capacity by 2030, and 14TW by mid century... will have to install 450GW of new solar capacity each year for the rest of this decade, with China and India to lead Asia to a roughly half share of the world's installed PV capacity in 2030... Irena has estimated the 12 million job losses it anticipates in the fossil fuel and nuclear industries will be outweighed by “close to” 85 million new energy-transition roles this decade, including 26.5 million in clean energy"

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-graphene.html "doped graphene... make them more suitable for optical and electronic nanodevices... single elements boron, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur, a two-element combination of boron and nitrogen, and a three-element mix of boron, nitrogen and takes about one second, is both catalyst- and solvent-free, and is entirely dependent on "flashing" a powder that combines the dopant elements with carbon black"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-unveils-factors-limiting-voltage-polycrystalline.html "contacts to CdSeTe solar cells are not necessarily perfect, as many researchers assumed, as they often contribute to voltage losses in the devices. In addition, the results of their analyses suggest that the bulk absorber in these cells is highly promising, but its performance is not fully realized without excellent semi-permeable membranes... Se and As alloying have detrimental material effects that limit the achievable voltage independent of the other sources of losses"

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/30/ultrathin-photovoltaic-silicon-membrane-with-65-light-absorption/ "theoretically able to achieve an absorption equivalent photocurrent of 26.3mA/cm2... can potentially be increased up to 33.8mA/cm2 by incorporating a back-reflector and improved anti-reflection, for which we estimate a photovoltaic efficiency above 21% for 1μm-thick Si cells... This means that thin Si cells with high efficiency could also be made from lower grade silicon, thereby reducing the energy needs for raw Si purification and reducing their energy pay-back time"

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-physicists-ferroelectricity-well-known-family-semiconductors.html "when two single sheets of a TMD, each only a few atomic layers thick, are stacked parallel to each other, the material becomes ferroelectric. In a ferroelectric material, positive and negative charges spontaneously head to different sides, or poles. Upon the application of an external electric field, those charges switch sides, reversing the polarization. In the new materials, all of this happens at room temperature"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/momentum-computing-pushes-technologys-thermodynamic-limits "particle’s velocity and position collectively allow it to embody a unique and unambiguous sequence of states... latter circumstance is key to reversibility and thus low dissipation... consist of loops of superconducting material interrupted by structures called Josephson junctions (JJs), where a thin layer of a nonsuperconducting material is interposed between two superconductors... information in JJ circuits is usually encoded in the direction of their so-called supercurrent’s circulation"

https://news.mit.edu/2022/carbon-fiber-lightweight-materials-0318 "Not only is the new carbon fiber cheap to make, but it offers advantages over the traditional carbon fiber materials because it can have compressional strength, meaning it could be used for load-bearing applications"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-scavenger-nanoparticles-fuel-cell-powered-vehicles.html "solid solution of tantalum and titanium oxide is required and that the nanoparticles should be around five nanometers... 6-4 ratio of tantalum to titanium oxide is required... when the scavenger nanoparticle material was added to the reactions of fuel cell systems, hydrogen peroxide yield was suppressed to less than 2%—a 51% reduction... current density decay of fuel cells was reduced from 33% to only 3%" Related:  The hydrogen stream: fuel cell engines for stationary power uses https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/04/15/the-hydrogen-stream-fuel-cell-engines-for-stationary-power-uses/

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-ultrathin-cesium-antimonide-efficient-photocathodes.html "when converting green light into electrons, the efficiency of their photocathode was greater than 2% and its process was as short as 10 fs, significantly faster than conventional photocathodes. They conclude that similar photocathodes could be used to create new devices with significant brightness enhancements"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-03-self-standing-mesoporous-si-power-lithium-ion.html "Using the electrochemical etching method, they developed a self-standing mesoporous Si film anode for lithium-ion batteries. The idea is that the pores of mesoporous silicon can accommodate the volume expansion during cycling, thus leading to stable battery cycling" Related: Porsche joins $400M bet on lithium-silicon batteries to juice up future EVs https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/04/porsche-joins-400m-bet-on-lithium-silicon-batteries-for-future-electric-vehicles/ Double-shell interphase design enabling suppressed side reactions for stable Si battery anode https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/5.0117229 Sunrise New Energy makes breakthrough in manufacturing process for Silicon-based anode; reduces manufacturing facility cost by 80%; silicon-based anode product by 50% https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/10/29379372/sunrise-new-energy-makes-breakthrough-in-the-manufacturing-process-for-silic...

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-optical-chips-layer-cake.html "silicon nitride wafer containing the passive components of the ultimate chip is produced with an extremely flat and clean top layer... release layer of material is grown. This is topped with the indium phosphide layer containing the active components such as lasers, optical amplifiers or photodetectors. The release layer underneath is then etched away, leaving behind a series of very small anchors that hold the separate devices in place. Then the thin indium phosphide coupon is picked up"

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/longi-sets-new-record-for-p-type-hjt-silicon-solar-cell-efficiency-301513002.html "p-type wafer processing solution for HJT cells and combined it with interface passivation technology to achieve a Voc of 747.6 mV for p-HJT cells. It should be noted that the processing of the low-cost p-HJT cell solution applied in this record has not yet been fully optimized and LONGi is convinced that this technology route still has great potential for further development" Related: At 26.81%, LONGi sets a new world record efficiency for silicon solar cells https://www.longi.com/en/news/propelling-the-transformation/ LONGi Unveils Revolutionary Hi-MO 9 and BC Technology at “Leading into Infinity” Event in Singapore https://solarquarter.com/2024/12/02/longi-unveils-revolutionary-hi-mo-9-and-bc-technology-at-leading-into-infinity-event-in-singapore/ Longi said it has achieved a 27.81% efficiency rating for a hybrid interdigitated back contact https://www...

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-superconductivity-superconductors.html "currents leaking from the gates (not electric fields) are needed to suppress superconductivity in metallic nanowires... current does not have to flow necessarily from the gate to the nanowire... 500 nm deep trench in the substrate... shields the nanowire from the phonons... The researchers attained similar results when the current of high-energy electrons flowed out of the wire and when it flowed between two electrodes placed in the vicinity of the nanowire (without any electrons reaching the nanowire itself" Related: Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in 'magic-angle' graphene https://phys.org/news/2023-01-superconductivity-magic-angle-graphene.html Discovering the magic in superconductivity's 'magic angle' https://phys.org/n ews/2023-02-magic-superconductivity-angle.html Boosting superconductivity in graphene bilayers https://phys.org/news/2023-02-boosting-superconductivity-g...