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What Can You Find Inside Lithium-Ion Batteries?
Lithium-ion batteries consist of active materials like layered oxide and graphite, coated onto metal foils to form electrodes.…
Why batteries come in so many sizes and shapes
Maybe you have a drawer in your house that looks like this? Peter Fiskerstrand/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Wesley Chang,…
New Method Developed for Safer and More Efficient Battery Electrolytes
At a Glance As the use of electric and hybrid vehicles continues to grow globally, the need for…
Scientists Discover Cooperative Behavior in Battery Electrolytes, Boosting Performance
At a Glance A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy‘s Argonne National Laboratory has made…
How zinc-ion batteries may solve our renewable energy storage problem
Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate…
How Do Batteries Work, Anyway?
In today’s increasingly mobile world, we rely heavily on innovations that allow us to move with our gadgets.…
Electric planes are coming: Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years
Small planes are easier to electrify, but larger ones aren’t far behind. Chalabala/istock via Getty Images Gökçin Çınar,…
Electric eels inspired the first battery two centuries ago and now point a way to future battery technologies
Prepare to be stunned by a technology that nature perfected. maradek/iStock via Getty Images Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown…
Researchers Just Created the World’s Smallest Battery Assembly—And It’s Size of a Dust Grain
Just when you thought devices couldn’t possibly get any smaller, researchers from the Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC),…
“Gamma Sulfur” May Hold the Key to Future Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Sulfur (S) has seen itself in the center of several new developments in the field of battery engineering…