Most people assume different power plants generate electricity in completely different ways, but in reality many of them rely on the same underlying principle of electromagnetism, whether the turbine ...

When a solid and a liquid come into contact, charged entities on both sides push one another apart. This phenomenon is known as charge separation, and it creates an electric double layer—a layer each ...

A European research team involving scientists from DESY and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) has developed a novel way for converting mechanical energy into electricity – by using water ...