Glass-coated tin nanoparticles, with the potential to be used in thermal energy-storage applications. Nanomaterials help researchers address challenges associated with strength, temperature regulation, advanced heat-transfer, and more.
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Chemically modified ceramics show promise for high-energy-density capacitors with the potential to store electrical energy longer. The team seeks to modify the nanostructure of the ceramics to improve energy density and efficiency and service lifetimes.
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A team from the University of Notre Dame is using low-temperature plasma sintering to improve the energy-conversion efficiency of 3D-printed thermoelectric materials selected with a combination of high-throughput experimentation and artificial intelligence machine learning.
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Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working on 3D-printed graphene aerogels for energy-storage applications.
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When manufactured at nanoscale with electric current, nanocarbon-metal composites have remarkable electronic properties that could lead to breakthroughs in our electricity use. But first, manufacturers' must develop technologies to scale-up affordably to the size of transmission cables and other conducting applications. Manufacturing these materials in the U.S. would enhance competitiveness for companies in diverse applications, from integrated electric-storage systems to microelectronics thermal management. This image shows graphene nanoribbons (GNR) in aluminum grain.
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