Their device — a carbon-14 diamond battery — is a strange fusion of radioactive decay, synthetic diamonds, and plasma chemistry. The result is a power source that could outlive generations of ...

First developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby, the technique is based on the decay of the carbon-14 isotope. Radiocarbon dating has been used for historical studies ...

The battery works by capturing the energy released during the radioactive decay of carbon-14 and converting it into electricity. This process is entirely self-sustaining, requiring no external ...

Named "Zhulong" after a mythical creature symbolizing light in Chinese classic Shan Hai Jing, this nuclear battery uses energy from the decay of high-specific-activity C-14, a radioactive isotope with ...

For example, carbon-14 decays to nitrogen-14 when it emits beta ... The graph shows the decay curve for a radioactive substance. The count rate drops from 80 to 40 counts a minute in two days ...