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A team of researchers from ITMO have designed a new type of reactor that can quickly produce affordable green hydrogen. The technology uses magnets and nanoparticles to accelerate sixfold the process of water decomposition into hydrogen and oxygen, all while requiring 15% less energy than conventional methods. The lab-assembled reactor prototype is now ready for industrial testing. Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eJjFQPCM Image/video credits: ITMO University #hydrogen #CleanEnergy #reactor #technology #engineering #innovation

Brown Associate Professor Feng Lin served on the American Chemical Society's Division of Energy & Fuels Tech show panel last week, sharing his experiences with and the importance of university-industry alliances.

🚀 Thrilled to share our latest research published in ACS Applied Energy Materials: “Interface-Engineered Nickel Preinserted Vanadium Oxide (Ni₀.₂₂V₂O₅) Nanobelts via Ultrasonic-Assisted Synthesis for High-Performance Solid-State Supercapacitors” This study presents a novel approach to enhancing solid-state energy storage by preinserting nickel into vanadium oxide nanobelts. Our ultrasonic-assisted synthesis method enables superior electrochemical performance, offering promising applications in next-generation supercapacitor technologies. 🔍 Key contributions: • Interface engineering for improved ion transport • Structural optimization via ultrasonic synthesis • High capacitance and stability in solid-state configurations Grateful to my co-authors and institutional collaborators for their dedication and insight. Hearty congratulations Amol Vedpathak for excellent work. This work reflects our commitment to advancing sustainable energy solutions through materials innovation. 📄 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/de_5uh4h #EnergyStorage #Supercapacitors #VanadiumOxide #Preinsertion #Nanobelts #MaterialsScience #SustainableEnergy #ScientificPublishing #ACS

🚨 Welcome Professor John Irvine from the School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews 🚨 At #DriveToInnovate25 on September 11 at Silverstone 🇬🇧, Professor Irvine will deliver a keynote: “Materials at the Heart of the Energy Transition: Unlocking Innovation Across Land, Sea and Air” 🔑 In this keynote, Professor Irvine will explore how breakthroughs in materials science – from solid-oxide fuel cells to next-generation hydrogen and sodium-ion battery technologies – are enabling cleaner, more resilient, and scalable energy solutions. 🌍 Highlighting how advanced materials act as the true enablers of innovation, he will show how they drive progress across mobility, industry, and the wider energy ecosystem. ⚡ This perspective also connects to Prof Irvine’s leadership of NEXGENNA, a project of The Faraday Institution with Royce Partners, The University of Sheffield and University of Cambridge. NEXGENNA is accelerating the development of safe, sustainable, and scalable sodium-ion batteries – bringing down the cost of EVs and opening new frontiers in energy storage. 💡 As Dr. Nik Reeves-McLaren (NEXGENNA investigator) puts it: “The Empyrean opens a new window on the processes in sodium-ion electrodes, allowing us to much more rapidly optimise the next generation of cathode and anode materials for real applications.” 👉 Don’t miss this keynote at #DriveToInnovate25 – where materials meet mobility and the future of energy. 📍 Drive to Innovate 2025 | September 11 | Silverstone 👉 Register for free today: https://lnkd.in/gKDw8X5q #ww520 #ww312 #technology #markets #innovation #future #strategy

Smarter catalysts and stronger batteries: a leap for clean energy  As the world pushes toward clean energy, better batteries are key. Metal-air batteries could be game-changing. They store more energy than today’s lithium-ion batteries and could power everything from electric vehicles to aerospace systems. But they face a big hurdle: slow oxygen reactions that limit efficiency and shorten their lifespan. To solve this, researchers from Monash Chemical and Biological Engineering created CoFe-2DSA, a new catalyst made from cobalt and iron atoms spread across ultra-thin, porous carbon sheets. This smart design speeds up the crucial oxygen reactions, making the batteries far more efficient and durable. In testing, batteries using this material showed:  🔹 Higher energy storage  🔹 Greater power output  🔹 Remarkable stability over thousands of cycles This breakthrough shows how new materials at the atomic scale can unlock the full potential of next-generation, sustainable energy storage. Of the research, Dr Parama Chakraborty Banerjee says “These catalysts not only solve a key bottleneck for zinc-air batteries, but their design principles can be applied to other clean energy technologies - from fuel cells to water splitting - offering broad impact across the energy landscape.” Read the article in Elsevier's Chemical Engineering Journal here https://lnkd.in/g2VCUVMM Monash Engineering Monash University Saeed Askari Dr Swarit Dwivedi Dr Kang Hui LIM, PhD Masood S. Alivand Parisa Biniaz Dr Ali Zavabeti Associated Professor Sibudjing Kawi Professor Matthew Hill #AdriCTvanDuin Professor Akshat Tanksale Professor Mainak Majumder #ThisIsMonashEngineering #ZincAirBatteries #AtomicPrecision #CleanEnergy #DurablePerformance #Innovation #GlobalImpact

《Energy Lab》 Breaking New Ground: Single-Atom Catalysts for Multi-Carbon CO2 Reduction 🌱⚡ Exciting review by Fengkun Hao, Yunhao Wang, and Zhanxi Fan on rational design of single-atom catalysts (SACs) for electrochemical CO₂ reduction to high-value multi-carbon (C₂₊) products! While SACs have shown promise for C₁ products, this work dives deep into mechanisms and design principles for advancing C₂₊ generation—critical for sustainable fuel production and carbon neutrality. From copper-based to non-copper SACs, the authors explore innovative strategies to boost selectivity, efficiency, and scalability. A timely resource for researchers in catalysis, materials science, and sustainable energy! 📖 Dive into the science: [https://lnkd.in/gHabh9x8] #CO2Reduction #SingleAtomCatalysts #SustainableEnergy #CarbonNeutral #Electrochemistry #MaterialsScience #Innovation #GreenChemistry #Catalysis #ClimateAction

Zinc-based #batteries🔋 have significant potential for future high-capacity, low-cost energy storage. Thanks to X-ray tomography experiments at the ESRF on coated zinc electrodes, researchers from UCL, The ZERO Institute - University of Oxford and the ESRF - The European Synchrotron are now a step closer to making practical applications a reality. Professor Paul Shearing, Director of The ZERO Institute - University of Oxford, and co-corresponding author of the study, says: “While improving today’s Li-ion technology remains crucial, it is equally important to pioneer new battery systems, such as Zn system that can meet future demands for safer, more sustainable, and higher-performance energy storage. We have been collaborating with ID19 for over a decade, and their advanced X-ray techniques have been instrumental in supporting us in many ways, from understanding fundamental degradation mechanisms, to improving electrode manufacturing, to enhancing battery safety.” The results are out in Nature Communications. ➡️https://lnkd.in/eDdVbf7E Alexander Rack Wenjia Du Guanjie He Yuhang Dai

Researchers at Victoria’s Monash University have developed a new carbon-based material they claim allows supercapacitors to store as much energy as traditional lead-acid batteries, while delivering power much faster than conventional batteries can manage. #BatteryStorage #Australia #PVProjects

A one-second battery test? Oxford and UCL researchers make it possible. A collaborative team led by Dr Shangwei Z. and Dr Rhodri Jervis (UCL), with Professor Paul Shearing (University of Oxford), has developed a rapid, non-invasive technique to assess the health of electric vehicle batteries in just one second. The new method, MMER (multi-channel, multi-frequency electrical excitation response), enables real-time battery diagnostics — a breakthrough for battery reuse, recycling, and second-life applications. The research is supported by the Oxford Martin School, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and The Faraday Institution. This innovation could help reduce waste, conserve critical materials, and expand global access to clean energy. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dcGqNQCm #CleanEnergy #EVBatteries #BatteryReuse #SustainableEngineering #CircularEconomy #MMER #Innovation #EnergyStorage #BatteryRecycling

"One of the biggest barriers to reusing EV batteries is knowing, quickly and accurately, which ones are still good enough. This breakthrough means we can check the health of a whole module in seconds." Paul Shearing, ZERO Institute Director and Statutory Professor in Sustainable Energy Engineering