Energy Storage – Page 47 – TechConnect Briefs

Laying the Groundwork: Lessons Learned from the Telecommunications Industry for Distributed Generation

Wise A., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US

The telecommunications industry went through growing pains over the past that hold some interesting lessons for the growing distributed generation “industry.” Public policy was crafted that helped to accelerate specific applications within the telecom industry, [...]

Smart Grid, Transmission, Policy

Catching Mr. Big with the Small – ‘To Infinitesimal and Beyond”

Eastwood I., Authentix, US

In some parts of the world, the tax revenue from fuels is a big incentive for criminal syndicates to smuggle fuel and launder markers that are used to designate low tax fuels. These activities cost [...]

Nanotechnology – Disruptive Technologies for Electric Utility Systems. Challenges and Opportunities

Stringer J., Richman R.H., Izambard, US

Within the next 25 years, the electric power utility system in the U.S. will face a number of serious challenges. These will include issues related to diminishing supplies and increasing costs of fossil fuels, the [...]

Nano-Hetero Structure for direct energy conversion

Popa-Simil L., LAVM, Inc., US

The direct conversion of nuclear energy becomes possible in hetero-nanostructures. To convert the kinetic energy of the fission product into electricity it has to be created a nanostructure formed from a repetitive conductor-insulator structure generically [...]

Synthesis and characterization of a highly cross linked PEGME and PEG for solid electrolyte and its application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Shaheer Akhtar M., Chun J-M, Lee H-C, Kim K-J, Yang O-B, Chnonbuk National University, KR

The replacement of liquid electrolyte in dye sensitized solar cells by gel and solid electrolyte is one approach towards the improvement of properties of electrolyte such as leakage and evaporation of liquid to operate for [...]

Dye-sensitized solar cell using a TiO2 nanocrystalline film electrode prepared by solution combustion synthesis

Wang C.M., Chungb S.L., National Cheng Kung University, TW

The nanocrystalline anatase TiO2 films were prepared and characterized in connection with their application to dye-sensitized solar cells. Solution combustion synthesis of TiO2 nanocrystalline film is based on hydrolysis, nitrated, and combustion reaction. The solution [...]

Ultra-short pulsed laser for nano-texturation associated to plasma immersion implantation for 3D shallow doping : Application to silicon photovoltaic

Halbwax M., Sarnet T., Delaporte Ph., Sentis M., Etienne H., Torregrosa F., Vervisch V., Martinuzzi S., LP3 UMR CNRS 6182, FR

It has been shown in a recent past (Mazur et al) that a simple way to improve the silicon-based solar cells low efficiency (around 20%) is to irradiate the silicon surface with a series of [...]

Amorphous Diamond as a Thermionic Material

Sung J.C., Sung M., Kan M-C, Hsiao T-J., Chen Y-T, Sung J.C., Sung M., Kinik Company, TW

Amorphous diamond is essentially a chaotic carbon mixture with distorted sp2 and sp3 bonds. As such it possesses both metallic character of conductive graphite and semiconductor character of insulating diamond. Moreover, as each carbon atom [...]

Preparation and Characterization of Nafion/Microporous Titanosilicate Composite Membranes as Ion-Conducting Materials

Ryu S.-Y., Jeon J-D, Kwak S-Y, Seoul National Univesity, KR

Nafion is currently the most frequently used polymeric electrolyte in membranes for many fuel cell applications. Direct methanol fuel cells this electrolyte membrane are currently being considered as a desirable electrochemical power source in potable [...]