Faith Mcneil, Author at Science

A global spatial analysis of 96 countries finds that renewable energy cuts carbon emissions more strongly in neighbouring nations than...

Simple Hot-Pressing Step Slashes Resistance in Lithium-Iron-Phosphate Battery Cathodes

Researchers in Korea show that hot-pressing lithium iron phosphate precursors before sintering reduces charge-transfer resistance and stabilizes discharge capacity above...

Seaweed-Derived Additive Tames Water and Boosts Zinc Flow in Hydrogel Batteries

Researchers blended oxidized sodium alginate from brown seaweed into polyacrylamide hydrogel electrolytes, sharply improving zinc-ion transport and enabling zinc batteries...

Desalination Brine: The Salty Waste Stream Becoming a Mine for Lithium, Magnesium and Clean Energy

A new review argues that the hypersaline brine produced by the world's booming desalination industry should be mined for lithium,...

Tiny Doses of Many Metals Supercharge Fuel Cell Electrodes That Run Both Ways

Researchers boosted reversible protonic ceramic fuel cells by micro-doping an air electrode with tiny amounts of manganese, nickel, and molybdenum,...

Double Interfaces Supercharge a Promising Sodium Battery Cathode Beyond Its Theoretical Limit

Chinese researchers have engineered dual heterojunctions into a sodium vanadium fluorophosphate cathode, pushing its capacity past the theoretical limit while...

Nickel-Doped Lanthanum Silicate Apatite Boosts Fuel Cell Electrolyte Conductivity

Researchers have synthesized nickel-doped lanthanum silicate oxyapatites by a low-temperature co-precipitation route that achieve a record-high oxide ion conductivity of...

Topological Insulator Meets MXene in a Two-Dimensional Powerhouse for Clean Energy

Researchers have fused bismuth telluride nanosheets with conductive MXene to create a durable, high-performance heterostructure that catalyzes hydrogen and oxygen...

MXene-Wrapped Phase Change Materials Emerge as Multitasking Thermal Energy Champions