Engineering
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are widely used in portable electronic devices, electric vehicles, and grid-scale energy storage systems. Safety of Li-ion batteries, however, has been called into question repeatedly over the ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Carefully designed covalent organic frameworks could make supercapacitor electrodes that have a greater ability to store electric charge.
Nov 02, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
There is huge momentum toward adoption of battery electric vehicles primarily because performances are meeting or exceeding the properties of traditional automobiles. Consumers want electric vehicles that have similar driving ...
Oct 26, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Vanadium flow batteries (VFBs) are promising for stationary large-scale energy storage due to their high safety, long cycle life, and high efficiency.
Sep 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Tesla is expected to announce a breakthrough in electric vehicle battery chemistry on Tuesday that could bring down the cost of the vehicles and increase their range and durability.
Sep 22, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Batteries with high energy densities could enable the creation of a wider range of electric vehicles, including flying vehicles that can transport humans in urban environments. Past studies predict that to support the operation ...
Sep 04, 2020 feature
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered a new anode material that enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles. Known as a disordered rocksalt, the new anode is made up of ...
Sep 02, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries—lithium lanthanum titanate with a perovskite ...
Aug 06, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion batteries are recognized for their high energy density in everything from mobile phones to laptop computers and electric vehicles, but as the need for grid-scale energy storage and other applications becomes more ...
Jul 17, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
For decades, researchers have looked for ways to eliminate cobalt from the high-energy batteries that power electronic devices, due to its high cost and the human rights ramifications of its mining. But past attempts haven't ...
Jul 15, 2020
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