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What's causing the voltage fade in lithium-rich NMC cathode materials?

Researchers led by a University of California San Diego team have published work in the journal Nature Energy that explains what's causing the performance-reducing "voltage fade" that currently plagues a promising class of ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jul 16, 2018
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Tripling the energy storage of lithium-ion batteries

As the demand for smartphones, electric vehicles, and renewable energy continues to rise, scientists are searching for ways to improve lithium-ion batteries—the most common type of battery found in home electronics and ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jun 14, 2018
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3-D batteries pack power into tiny footprints

Batteries might seem like they come in every shape and size that you can imagine. But as electronic devices become tinier and skinnier without reducing their power and energy demands, they challenge engineers to design batteries ...

Energy & Green Tech

May 03, 2018
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New technology could wean the battery world off cobalt

Lithium-based batteries use more than 50 percent of all cobalt produced in the world. These batteries are in your cell phone, laptop and maybe even your car. About 50 percent of the world's cobalt comes from the Congo, where ...

Energy & Green Tech

Apr 11, 2018
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Novel metal-oxide magnesium battery for high-density energy storage

A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has discovered an exceptional metal-oxide magnesium battery cathode material, moving researchers one step closer to delivering batteries ...

Energy & Green Tech

Feb 05, 2018
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Graphene unlocks the promise of lithium sulfur batteries

Many battery scientists are interested in the potential of lithium sulfur batteries because, at least in theory, they offer a high energy density at relatively low cost. However, lithium sulfur batteries face a number of ...

Energy & Green Tech

Dec 18, 2017
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New design strategy for longer lasting batteries

It's always exciting to bring home a new smartphone that seems to do anything, but it can be all downhill from there. With every charge and discharge cycle, the device's battery capacity lowers a little bit more—eventually ...

Energy & Green Tech

Jan 23, 2017
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Cathode

A cathode is an electrode through which electric current flows out of a polarized electrical device. Mnemonic: CCD (Cathode Current Departs).

Cathode polarity is not always negative. Although positively charged cations always move towards the cathode (hence their name) and/or negatively charged anions move away from it, cathode polarity depends on the device type, and can even vary according to the operating mode. In a device which consumes power, the cathode is negative, and in a device which provides power, the cathode is positive:

An electrode through which current flows the other way (into the device) is termed an anode.

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