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
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
An international team of scientists — including several researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory — has discovered an anode battery material with sup... 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
Finally Up and Running Silicon-air batteries are viewed as a promising and cost-effective alternative to current energy storage technology. However, they have thus far only achieved relative... 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
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
University of California, Irvine researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would neve... Read more
The improved performance could mean expanding the expected lifespan of silicon-based electric vehicle batteries up to 3 times or more, which would be significant for consumers, considering r... Read more
The improvement in capacity could translate into years or even decades of extra life Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new and unconven... Read more
A new nanotechnology that doubles the life of smartphone, laptop and electric-vehicle batteries even after being charged and discharged more than 1,000 times A new nanotechnology that double... Read more
A cathode that lasted five times longer than earlier designs When it comes to improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries, no part should be overlooked – not even the glue that binds... Read more