Most button-type batteries are ' zinc-air batteries ' that use oxygen in the air for the positive electrode and zinc for the negative electrode. The advantages of 'zinc-air batteries' are that the ...

We're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. Join us as we tour the cosmos, from the microscopic to the telescopic, with four scientists studying the role of four elements—zinc, ...

A new type of battery is coming onto the market that can store multiple days’ worth of energy, that doesn’t degrade, can’t possibly explode and is up to five times cheaper than lithium-ion, claimed ...

Medically reviewed by Alex Yampolsky, PharmD Zinc is a mineral found in food and taken as a supplement. It can help with cold ...

New Delhi, Apr 30 () Vedanta Group firm Hindustan Zinc on Friday said it has set up an oxygen bottling plant at the Rajsamand district of Rajasthan which is producing 500 cylinders of life-saving gas ...

An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from Poland. The core element providing the new power source with relatively high voltage and long lifetime is a carefully designed ...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) have designed a battery that runs on air. Dubbed the ” bio-battery,” the power source is fueled ...

MUCH attention has been given recently to developing a high energy density secondary battery based on the zinc/air electrochemical system. These batteries consist of several divided cells comprising a ...

Researchers have now developed a new type of thin film transistor that's significantly faster than its predecessors -- an important step toward speeding up image display on devices like TVs and ...

Canadian start-up Zinc8's hybrid flow battery can make wind or solar farms baseload and could transform the utility-scale energy-storage market, writes Leigh Collins A new type of battery is coming ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2015 -- If you're reading this story on a screen with a liquid crystal display, thank thin-film transistors. Thin-film transistors function like standard semiconductor ...