Metals Tech

Transport is Australia’s third-largest and fastest-growing source of emissions, accounting for 23% of the total. Without intervention, transport is expected to be the leading source of emissions by 2030. Transport emissions increased by 3.6% from 2022 to 2023. Emissions from on-road diesel, which dominates the freight sector, were up by 3.7%. Diesel vehicle numbers (passenger, light commercial, […]

A team of researchers has combined the best battery technologies to create the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery. The team’s design uses a stable solid electrolyte and pressure to form dense sodium metal. An aluminum current collector ensures efficient, repeatable sodium plating and stripping at high capacities and speeds. This new type of battery […]

The growth of electric vehicles is hugely encouraging, helping to forge a path to a cleaner and more sustainable future. According to the International Energy Agency, 1.4 million EVs were registered in the United States in 2023, smashing all previous records and seeing a 40% rise when compared to 2022. While removing more dirty-fuel-powered vehicles […]

UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery. With this research, the LESC—a collaboration between the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the University of California San Diego’s Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering—has brought […]

Renault’s (RENA.PA), opens new tab electric vehicle unit Ampere said on Monday it would include lithium iron phosphate (LFP) technology in its plans to mass produce EVs, teaming up with LG Energy Solution (LGES) (373220.KS), opens new tab and CATL (300750.SZ), opens new tab to build a supply chain in Europe. Western automakers are under […]

Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands is testing an unusual kind of battery that could prove to be a better, cheaper way to store wind and solar energy. Developed by US startup ESS, the device is known as an iron flow battery. The airport is currently trialling the technology to power some of its electric ground power units. […]

Deep-sea mining seemed a far-off, futuristic endeavor not too long ago. Now that it’s getting closer to reality, electric vehicle fans will have to consider how deep-sea mining impacts the sustainability profile of EV batteries. In the latest development, Japanese researchers have found a huge new cache of manganese nodules on the ocean floor, and […]

Metal-halide perovskites have quickly advanced in the last decade since their discovery as a semiconductor that outshines silicon in its conversion of light into electric current. Simulations on TACC’s Frontera and Lonestar6 supercomputers have revealed surprising vortex structures in quasiparticles of electrons and atoms, called polarons, which contribute to generating electricity from sunlight. This new […]

A real-time, 3D temperature map of the inside of a nuclear microreactor for improved safety monitoring was reconstructed using a newly-established theoretical foundation to evaluate basis functions, which can be combined to describe fundamental trends in data, according to a new University of Michigan study. The results, published in Applied Mathematical Modelling, are applicable wherever […]

Norway wastes huge amounts of energy. Surplus heat produced by industry is hardly exploited at all. Researchers at NTNU have been looking at the possibilities for doing something about this. “Surplus heat from industrial processes is a huge resource,” says Kim Kristiansen. He has just completed his Ph.D. on a technology that can harness some of the surplus heat […]