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Chemistry World March 27, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Flow electrodes may enable large-scale sea water desalination Scientists from South Korea have modified a water treatment method called capacitive deionization, with the aim of desalinizing sea water on a large scale. Capacitive deionization uses an electric field to remove cations and anions from water flowing past two oppositely placed electrodes.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Sarah Adee |
New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places Capacitive deionization to debut in drought-struck Australia.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Sally Adee |
Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help  |
Chemistry World March 21, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Drinking water from sunlight and seawater A device that can 'push' the salt out of seawater has been developed by US researchers.  |
Chemistry World September 2009 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball looks at a new device that creates energy from salinity differences between fresh and sea water  |
Chemistry World June 20, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Carbon nanotubes boost battery power Researchers in the US claim to have created electrodes from carbon nanotubes that can make lithium-ion batteries some ten times more powerful than conventional models.  |
BusinessWeek March 10, 2011 Caroline Winter |
Innovator: Robert McGinnis of Oasys Water The former Navy diver was dismayed by how much energy it takes to desalinate seawater. So he developed a more efficient process.  |
Chemistry World March 23, 2011 |
Battery Turns Entropy Into Electricity US researchers have developed a battery that generates power from that entropy difference.  |
Chemistry World October 20, 2015 Philip Ball |
Nanotube desalination could be put back on track Computer simulations by researchers in China show what seems to be holding up this technology -- and suggest a way round the problem.  |
Chemistry World August 7, 2008 |
Making Seawater Easier to Swallow Researchers based in the US and Korea have developed a membrane that cuts the costs of filtering salt from seawater.  |
Fast Company Dec 2014/Jan 2015 Jon Gertner |
We're Running Out Of Water As California's drought worsened, just north of San Diego a massive seawater desalination plant-moved closer to completion.  |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Fuel Cell Converts Waste to Power One problem with fuel cells is that they produce carbon monoxide, which can gum up the works. Researchers have found a way to use the carbon monoxide to produce more energy in a reaction that can take place at room temperature.  |
Chemistry World March 5, 2012 James Urquhart |
Simulating Your Way to a Better Supercapacitor Researchers have used computer simulations to elucidate how supercapacitors are able to store electric charge.  |
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Rebecca Brodie |
Simple salt removal to get fresh water Scientists in the US have developed a membrane-free, solvent extraction method to remove salt from seawater that works at low temperatures.  |
Chemistry World February 2012 |
Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth.  |
Chemistry World May 13, 2011 Laura Howes |
New carbon material boosts supercapacitors A new carbon based material for supercapacitor electrodes could allow them to store the same amount of energy as a lead-acid battery but with much faster charge times.  |
Chemistry World September 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Graphene racks up the charge Researchers in the US have used graphene, sheets of carbon that are just one atom thick, to improve the performance of energy-storage devices which could supersede batteries in electric cars.  |
Chemistry World September 10, 2012 |
Low Salt Diet to Flush Out Oil BP has announced the first deployment of a new technology that it says will lead to a 'step change' in the amount of oil recovered from reservoirs.  |
Chemistry World May 17, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Carbon electrodes help form high capacity lithium-sulfur batteries Chemists in Canada have used a carbon framework to form an electrode in lithium-sulfur batteries that results in charge capacities several times greater than standard lithium ion batteries.  |
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 |
Nanotube diode reverses itself A minuscule p-n junction diode that could be used as a field-effect transistor or a light-emitting diode is a step forward in the push to make nanoscale electronic components.  |
IDB America May 2004 Daniel Drosdoff |
Barbados Acts to Prevent Water Crisis Geography and the tourism industry complicate the island's efforts to secure freshwater supplies.  |
Chemistry World April 2, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Biological battery powers up Scientists in the US have created a rechargeable 'lithium ion' battery with the help of a genetically programmed virus that acts as a scaffold for highly conductive electrodes.  |
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Road Salt Contaminates Water When faced with a winter storm, cities deploy trucks to cover city streets with salt. The nation's favorite deicer, however, pollutes freshwater, and new research suggests the effects of road salt may be more widespread than previously thought.  |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Solar Cell Doubles as Battery Scientists have designed a single, compact device that can both convert solar energy to electricity and store the electricity.  |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 |
Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently.  |
Chemistry World August 8, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Wet batteries power up The performance of water-based lithium-ion batteries has been greatly boosted by removing oxygen from the power cells, report Chinese researchers.  |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Carbon boosts plastic circuits Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have devised an inexpensive way to add better-conducting organic source and drain electrodes to organic thin-film transistors.  |
Technology Research News June 16, 2004 |
Silicon Nanowires Grown in Place Researchers have found a way to grow nanowires between pairs of metal electrodes deposited on silicon wafers.  |
Chemistry World November 5, 2014 Elisabeth Bowley |
Energy positive treatment for fracking water Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a technique that can simultaneously remove organic pollutants and salinity from contaminated water while producing energy.  |
Chemistry World December 5, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Water Cleaning Membrane Shows Hybrid Vigour Scientists in the US have combined naturally-occurring channel proteins with a new polymer to create a membrane that could be used to deliver drugs or purify water.  |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Katie Lian Hui Lim |
Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity.  |
Chemistry World May 10, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
New Electrode Material for High-Capacity Lithium Batteries US researchers presented details of a new electrode material for rechargeable batteries which, they claim, can store almost twice as much charge as conventional electrodes.  |
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Disorder opens up battery material field Better lithium-ion batteries that hold more power could be made by introducing disorder into their electrodes -- going against the prevailing wisdom on the best way to improve them.  |
Popular Mechanics February 5, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 J. R. Minkel |
Quantum Leap For Quantum Computing The most promising technology for constructing an ultrapowerful quantum computer is the ion trap, a nest of electrodes that holds ions in midair. Researchers have now built the first such ion-trap chips.  |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Tiny hole guides atoms against tide Researchers in Poland have made a synthetic device that uses an electrical field and an extremely small, conical pore in a thin film of material to coax potassium ions through the artificial membrane against their electrochemical potential.  |
Chemistry World October 26, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions.  |
Chemistry World January 28, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Better batteries with nano-cables Nano-sized cables made with titanium dioxide-coated carbon nanotubes could hold the key to developing new high-capacity batteries, report chemists in Germany and China.  |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Artificial DNA stacks metal atoms In recent years, researchers have replaced some of DNA's natural bases with those that attach to metal atoms in order to coax DNA to organize metal ions into tiny structures. Researchers in Japan have tapped the method to form stacks of single metal ions.  |
Chemistry World December 21, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Doped electrodes cram charge into supercapacitors A new supercapacitor electrode material has been created by Chinese researchers that can store much more energy than conventional supercapacitors.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Stick et al. |
The Trap Technique In this first part of a two-part series, the authors discuss how today's computers are running out of room for classical physics to work and how working with the quantum nature of things instead of against it will open up vast new frontiers for computing.  |
Chemistry World April 10, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Nanocrystalline copper turns CO into fuel A new type of nanocrystalline copper electrode that catalyses the electrochemical conversion of carbon monoxide to alcohols has been demonstrated by researchers in the US.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Sally Adee |
Water Ship Up Firm gets $250 million to make oceangoing desalination vessels.  |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors Researchers have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct field-effect transistors from carbon nanotubes.  |
Technology Research News March 26, 2003 |
On-chip battery debuts Researchers from Hosei University in Japan have taken a big step toward giving nano devices and biochips onboard power supplies.  |
Chemistry World August 8, 2006 |
Single Molecule Makes Electronic Switch A single molecule, trapped between two electrodes, acts as a switch and has a `memory' of the type used in data storage, researchers have found.  |
Chemistry World February 15, 2010 Andy Extance |
Reversing attraction shrinks car batteries Transforming the most important attractive force acting between molecules into a repulsive one could enable US scientists to nearly halve the size of lithium-ion batteries.  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics.  |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 |
Nanowires span silicon contacts One challenge in making electronics at the size-scale of molecules is finding ways to position and attach nanowires to the tiny components. Researchers from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories have succeeded in growning nanowires between electrodes.  |
Chemistry World September 15, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Super-thin batteries made from paper and algae Although the batteries have lower voltage and power density than conventional batteries, their low cost and flexibility hold great promise for applications where metal-based batteries are impractical.  |