Energy & Green Tech
Despite their popular use today, lithium-ion batteries have the drawbacks of being toxic and expensive, with the added complication of a global supply shortage of the metal. For decades, researchers have tried to look for ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
An electrical engineer at The University of Toledo, who nearly died as a girl in Africa because of a hospital's lack of power, has developed a new energy storage solution to make battery packs in electric vehicles, satellites, ...
Mar 6, 2018
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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
Because the sun does not shine at night but all our screens do, we need energy storage to shift solar energy production during the day to when it is needed in the evening. To cope with this intermittence of renewables, we ...
Energy & Green Tech
UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng's Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world's first anode-free sodium solid-state battery.
Jul 3, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Research on manufacturing battery cells is gaining momentum—and there is a strong need, considering the future demand for energy storage: For the year 2030, global production of rechargeable batteries will double from today's ...
Jan 29, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers have developed a new technology which could enable lithium batteries to be replaced with more sustainable alternatives.
Aug 19, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Rice University researchers literally have a solution to deal with the glut of used lithium-ion batteries left behind by the ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles, cellphones and other electronic devices.
Apr 1, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
As the lithium-ion batteries that power most phones, laptops, and electric vehicles become increasingly fast-charging and high-performing, they also grow increasingly expensive and flammable.
Dec 19, 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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