A new material called multiscale reduced graphene oxide could mean faster charging and power delivery than traditional batteries allow.

Scientists have successfully generated electricity from water droplets with high efficiency using a method called plug flow, where water columns with air pockets create charge separation. The new ...

Recent breakthroughs in quantum mechanics, highlighted by the Nobel Prize in Physics, are fundamentally changing the energy sector by enabling new forms of energy harvesting that surpass thermodynamic ...

The Valley of Death comes up a lot in chemistry entrepreneurial circles. It’s the difficult part of the journey that start-up companies take to turn an innovation that works at small scale into a ...

The Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, and Breakthrough Energy Discovery, a Breakthrough Energy platform focused on ...

Breakthrough Energy CTO Eric Toone outlines a path toward sustainable prosperity for our planet. The Breakthrough Energy Summit in London convened leaders from around the world to take stock of our ...