Perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) are rapidly emerging as a transformative material for solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs ...

What if the future of energy storage didn’t depend on rare, expensive, and environmentally taxing materials? Imagine a world where batteries are built from elements as common as table salt, offering a ...

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) research team has published two major studies addressing key challenges in battery technology.

Firefighters at Wednesday’s commercial building fire. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) Crews with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded Wednesday to a lithium-ion battery fire ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves a satellite using the plasma exhaust of its ion engine to knock dangerous ...

Lithium-ion batteries power phones, scooters and electric cars — but the increasingly common energy source can spark fires so intense that they challenge veteran firefighters. The fires burn hotter, ...

BATTERY IS LIKELY TO BLAME FOR A HOUSE FIRE IN MILTON. THE FLAMES SWEPT THROUGH A HOME ON. CHARLES IN MILTON YESTERDAY EVENING. LAST NIGHT. NO ONE WAS HURT, BUT YOU CAN SEE THERE WAS A LOT OF DAMAGE ...

The chromophore molecule of animal and microbial rhodopsins is retinal which forms a Schiff base linkage with a lysine in the 7-th transmembrane helix. In most cases, the chromophore is positively ...

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WAYZATA, Minn. — A former North Dakota State football player who was involved in a confrontation that ended with gunfire has been accused of stealing property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, ...

Almost every passenger carries lithium-ion batteries onto airplanes – in their phones, laptops, rechargeable powerpacks and even vapes. And when something goes wrong with one of them, Federal Aviation ...