APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Water Electrolysis Stationary power generation ADVANTAGES: Enables the deposition of a dense, thin, defect-free, well-adhered electrolyte on a porous electrode Improves the electronic and ionic conduction in the electrode layer ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab and United Technologies Research Center have developed a new … [Read more...] about Hybrid Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Cells (2019-135)
Available Technologies
Moment Tensor Reconstruction 2017-095
APPLICATIONS: Seismic monitoring ABSTRACT: Seismic detectors may register movements of the earth generated by earthquakes and other seismic events. However, locating and determining the precise location and mechanism of an earthquake based on data received from seismic detectors may be difficult or impossible with some systems. Gregory Newman and Petr Petrov of … [Read more...] about Moment Tensor Reconstruction 2017-095
High Temperature Lithium Ion Battery Cells Utilizing Boron Nitride Aerogels and Boron Nitride Nanotubes 2017-020
APPLICATIONS: Lithium ion batteries ABSTRACT: Alex Zettl and Onur Ergen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed battery cells that can operate at high temperatures with a long cycle lifetime. Electrolyte complexes were prepared by embedding polymer electrolytes with BNAG and BNNTs. The cells with the BNAG modification display good electrolyte … [Read more...] about High Temperature Lithium Ion Battery Cells Utilizing Boron Nitride Aerogels and Boron Nitride Nanotubes 2017-020
Polysaccharide Gel 2017-041
APPLICATIONS: Food products Cosmetics Water and wastewater treatment Pharmaceuticals ABSTRACT: Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory led by Deepti Tanjore and researchers at HelioBioSys have developed a method of producing a polysaccharide gel comprising: (a) culturing or growing a cyanobacterium or a mixture of cyanobacteria species in a … [Read more...] about Polysaccharide Gel 2017-041
Graded Band Gap Perovskite Solar Cell 2016-060
APPLICATIONS: Solar cells ABSTRACT: Alex Zettl and Onur Ergen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed graded bandgap perovskite photovoltaic cells with good output current and power conversion efficiency by implementing a new cell architecture. GaN was chosen to replace the typical TiO2 electron transport layer to provide a better surface morphology … [Read more...] about Graded Band Gap Perovskite Solar Cell 2016-060
