A New Fuel Cell Laboratory

Electric drivetrains with fuel cells are expected to be part of future low-emission mobility, especially for larger and long-range commercial vehicles. However, current fuel cells, such as the hydrogen fuel cell, are expensive to produce, as their designs use costly materials. To … Weiterlesen …

Batteries of the Near Future

Batteries are undoubtedly an essential factor both for the envisaged energy transition and for the mobility of the future. Thus, scientists at the the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS have developed an innovative process for the cost-efficient production of … Weiterlesen …

Melting Moon Dust

Hype and interest in the Moon is growing again, partly thanks to a very special anniversary coming up this weekend. On 13 September 1959, nearly 60 years ago, the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 mission successfully reached the surface of the … Weiterlesen …

A Foam Bath for Ores

Critical raw materials, such as copper, cobalt, and rare earth metals, are of strategic importance to the economy. However, the ore grain size of many of these metals in deposits are too small to be separated using the standard process … Weiterlesen …

A Hot Glue Gun for Healing

Most serious injuries are currently treated with pins and stitches, which have many drawbacks. For the patient, they are very painful, leave scars, require high skill from the doctor, and sometimes have to be removed after the tissues heal. Medical … Weiterlesen …

Canada Creates Fuel from Air

Jonathan Wilkinson is the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard. Recently, he announced an investment of CAN$25 million (about 17 million Euros) in Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE), a Canadian clean energy company that is pioneering technologies to capture and … Weiterlesen …

Improving Straw Paper Production

Trident Limited is the world’s largest manufacturer of wheat straw-based paper. The company is one of India’s preferred suppliers of high quality paper for multi-color high-speed printing, publishing, and branded copier paper. It focuses on being eco-friendly and is the first … Weiterlesen …

Energy Conversion and Water Splitting

An international team led by chemist Tom Nilges from the Technical University of Munich and engineer Karthik Shankar from the University of Alberta have now found a stable yet flexible semiconductor structure that splits water much more efficiently than was previously possible. An inorganic double-helix … Weiterlesen …

A Silent Air Taxi

Four years of preparation, various patent applications, several strategic partnerships and the founding of e.SAT GmbH have paved the way for an invention that could be tomorrow’s environmentally friendly mode of transportation: electro-hybrid airplanes. Now, e.SAT, RWTH Aachen University, RWTH Aachen Campus and Aachen University of … Weiterlesen …

Powering Jets With Plastic Waste

A research group from Washington State University has successfully produced jet fuel by melting plastic waste at high temperatures using an activated carbon catalyst (a processed form of carbon with increased surface area). “Waste plastic is a huge problem worldwide,” said Professor Hanwu … Weiterlesen …

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