Tag: batteries
Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Aluminum Batteries
Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Aluminum Batteries: A good battery needs two things: high energy density to power devices, and stability, so it can be...
Flameproofing Lithium-Ion Batteries with Salt
A polymer-based electrolyte makes for batteries that keep working – and don’t catch fire – when heated to over 140 degrees F.
Flameproofing Lithium-Ion Batteries...
Lithium-Metal Batteries Benefit from Interphase Insight
Lithium-Metal Batteries Benefit from Interphase Insight: Researchers around the world are on a mission to relieve a bottleneck in the clean energy revolution, in...
Zinc Batteries are Great, Improvements to Compete with Lithium
by Tsinghua University Press
Zinc Batteries are Great, Improvements to Compete with Lithium: Zinc batteries potentially offer a much lower fire risk than their market-leading...
Magnetic Field Helps Battery Electrodes Tackle Electric Vehicles
Magnetic Field Helps Battery Electrodes Tackle Electric Vehicles: AUSTIN, Texas — As electric vehicles grow in popularity, the spotlight shines more brightly on some...
Gauge the Health of Next-Gen Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Gauge the Health of Next-Gen Batteries for Electric Vehicles: Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have demonstrated that electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) can be a...
Building Better Batteries, Faster
PhD student Pablo Leon uses machine learning to expedite research on novel battery materials, while helping newer students navigate graduate school.
Rachel Yang | MIT News correspondent
Building...
Rechargeable Grid Storage Batteries
Rechargeable Grid Storage Batteries: Over the past few years, scientists have been hard at work trying to develop rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide batteries into a...
New Battery Electrode Material Welcomes Calcium Ions
Concerns over scarcity, high prices and safety regarding the long-term use of lithium-ion batteries has prompted a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
A Block Copolymer that could Enable Safer, more Stable Batteries
Polymers — Better battery electrolytes
New polymer materials under development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could enable safer, more stable batteries needed for electric vehicles...
