Energy & Green Tech
Solid-state batteries, currently used in small electronic devices like smart watches, have the potential to be safer and more powerful than lithium-ion batteries for things such as electric cars and storing energy from solar ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Accelerating demand for renewable energy and electric vehicles is sparking a high demand for the batteries that store generated energy and power engines. But the batteries behind these sustainability solutions aren't always ...
Sep 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers around the globe have been on a quest for batteries that pack a punch but are smaller and lighter than today's versions, potentially enabling electric cars to travel further or portable electronics to run for ...
Mar 28, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Li-ion batteries, rechargeable batteries based on lithium ions, are currently used to power a wide range of electronic devices, ranging from smartphones to portable computers, toys, wireless headphones, and electric vehicles. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have a long history of breakthrough discoveries with lithium-ion batteries. Many of these discoveries have focused on a battery cathode known ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Over the past decades, engineers and materials scientists have been working hard to develop battery technologies that exhibit increasingly better performances. Their efforts are aimed at supporting the needs of the electronics ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Zinc batteries potentially offer a much lower fire risk than their market-leading yet fire-prone lithium-ion cousins, but researchers have concluded that the technology still needs a major boost to performance on a number ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A low-cost, high-performance battery chemistry developed by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could one day lead to scalable grid-level storage for wind and solar energy that could help electrical utilities reduce ...
Jul 25, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
A Washington State University research team has developed a way to address a major safety issue with lithium metal batteries—an innovation that could make high-energy batteries more viable for next-generation energy storage.
Feb 18, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers have developed a simple lab-based technique that allows them to look inside lithium-ion batteries and follow lithium ions moving in real time as the batteries charge and discharge, something which has not been ...
Jun 23, 2021
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