A major hurdle to creating a metal-free, 100-percent polymer battery is finding a polymer that is electrochemically active Dr. Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, associate professor, holder of the William... Read more
U of A chemists confirm importance of nano-sizing silicon to improve lithium ion batteries. University of Alberta chemists have taken a critical step toward creating a new generation of sili... Read more
Dramatically longer-lasting, faster-charging and safer lithium metal batteries may be possible, according to Penn State research, recently published in Nature Energy. The researchers develop... Read more
Most of today’s batteries are made up of rare lithium mined from the mountains of South America. If the world depletes this source, then battery production could stagnate. Sodium is a... Read more
Battery researchers at the Department of Energy Technology (IFE) have solved a challenge scientists worldwide are struggling with. It allows for far better batteries with higher capacity, wi... Read more
Scientists have synthesized a new cathode material from iron fluoride that surpasses the capacity limits of traditional lithium-ion batteries As the demand for smartphones, electric v... Read more
Battery leverages both iron and oxygen to drive more lithium ions On paper, it doesn’t seem like Christopher Wolverton’s super lithium-rich battery should work. For one, the novel battery us... Read more
A new generation of manganese dioxide-zinc batteries with unprecedented cycle life and energy density is the latest innovation at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute. Th... Read more
Yale scientists have developed an ultra-thin coating material that has the potential to extend the life and improve the efficiency of lithium-sulfur batteries, one of the most promising area... Read more
UMass Amherst introduces ‘Braidio’ technology, lets mobile devices share power In a paper presented Aug. 25 at the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group on data commun... Read more
The capacity of lithium-ion batteries might be increased by six times by using anodes made of silicon instead of graphite. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) Institute of Soft Ma... Read more
New chemistry could overcome key drawbacks of lithium-air batteries. Lithium-air batteries are considered highly promising technologies for electric cars and portable electronic devices beca... Read more
Materials researchers at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Villigen and the ETH Zurich have developed a very simple and cost-effective procedure for significantly enhancing the perfor... Read more
A UT Dallas researcher has made a discovery that could open the door to cellphone and car batteries that last five times longer than current ones. Dr. Kyeongjae Cho, professor of materials s... Read more
Hybrid batteries that charge faster than conventional ones could have significantly better electrical capacity and long-term stability when prepared with a gentle-sounding way of making elec... Read more