A recently discovered, stable and highly conductive lithium-ion conductor in the form of a pyrochlore-type oxyfluoride has been found to address the need for non-sulphide solid electrolytes in solid-state batteries, offering higher conductivity and stability and paving the way for advanced all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries with improved performance and safety. All-solid-state lithium-ion batteries with solid electrolytes are […]
New chemistries for batteries, semiconductors and more could be easier to manufacture, thanks to a new approach to making chemically complex materials that researchers at the University of Michigan and Samsung’s Advanced Materials Lab have demonstrated. Their new recipes use unconventional ingredients to make battery materials with fewer impurities, requiring fewer costly refinement steps and […]
Google kills products so frequently that you can’t help but wonder where they’re all coming from in the first place — the answer is death life by a thousand cuts, because the faucet of new services never really stops dripping. Speaking of, the AI features have been flowing like water lately, and that applies to […]
Apple is quickly moving ahead with its next-generation Apple Silicon plans. According to new reports this week, the first M4 Macs are expected as soon as later this year. Here’s what to expect. M4 Macs: What we know so far In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman offered some additional details on […]
This week in Las Vegas, 30,000 folks came together to hear the latest and greatest from Google Cloud. What they heard was all generative AI, all the time. Google Cloud is first and foremost a cloud infrastructure and platform vendor. If you didn’t know that, you might have missed it in the onslaught of AI news. […]
Although we do have alternatives like Microsoft Copilot and Google Bard, perhaps the first product that comes to mind when discussing conversational AI chatbots is ChatGPT. This is primarily due to the fact that the software was the first public application to take advantage of large language models (LLMs) on a global scale in this domain, and remains […]
Green Li-ion has launched a commercial-scale plant to process unsorted battery waste, or “black mass,” from used lithium-ion batteries. Within an existing recycling facility in Atoka, Oklahoma, the plant will produce sustainable, battery-grade cathode precursor, lithium, and anode materials – closing the EV recycling loop with the production done all in one plant. The current […]
Researchers from Lehigh University have developed a material that demonstrates the potential for drastically increasing the efficiency of solar panels. A prototype using the material as the active layer in a solar cell exhibits an average photovoltaic absorption of 80%, a high generation rate of photoexcited carriers, and an external quantum efficiency (EQE) up to […]
Microsoft is exploring the idea of putting ads in your Windows 11 Start menu. To be specific, it’s looking to place advertisements for apps you can find in the Microsoft Store in the menu’s recommended section. I could hear you sighing in defeat if you’ve used Windows 10 extensively before — the older OS serves […]
A major battery plant near Los Angeles will be among the largest in the world when it comes online later this year, promising to shore up California’s power grid during the peak summer season and help the state a meet ambitious climate goals. Calpine’s billion-dollar Nova Power Bank, built on the site of a failed […]
The generative AI boom has Big Tech companies racing to out-innovate each other by offering new features and platforms that take advantage of the hottest tech trend in years. And Wall Street wants to know how all those AI apps are going to pay off. To that end, Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), […]
A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot. The Witznitz Solar Farm near Leipzig, which is not state-subsidized, is owned by German investment firm HANSAINVEST Real Assets. It’s been continuously online since the end of March. […]
