Brushing thin films onto electrodes preserves batteries
A bit of brushing may be the secret to making better rechargeable lithium batteries.
Aug 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers discover innovative approach to make novel lithium-ion battery materials
Researchers at Boise State University have developed a new approach to making novel lithium-ion battery materials. Starting from an amorphous (i.e., a material lacking long-range order) niobium oxide, the team discovered ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Scientists use multivalent cation additives to rid rechargeable batteries of a common pitfall
Researchers at Tohoku University have unearthed a means to stabilize lithium or sodium deposits in rechargeable batteries, helping keep their metallic structure intact. The discovery prevents potential battery degradation ...
Jun 6, 2022
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Novel strategy to make fast-charging solid-state batteries
In a breakthrough, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and their collaborators have discovered how next-generation solid-state batteries fail and devised a novel strategy to make these batteries last longer ...
Jun 2, 2022
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Sulfonamides make robust cathode material for proton batteries
Proton batteries are an innovative and environmentally friendly type of battery in which charge is carried by protons, which are positively charged hydrogen ions. A team of researchers has now developed organic sulfonamides ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Engineering
World's first LED lights developed from rice husks
Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum dots have developed a way to recycle ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Clues to better batteries emerge from tracking lithium
Pure lithium metal is a promising replacement for the graphite-based anodes currently used in electric vehicle batteries. It could tremendously reduce battery weights and dramatically extend the driving range of electric ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Reactive electrolyte additives improve lithium metal battery performance
A research team showed that electrolyte additives increase the lifetime of lithium metal batteries and remarkably improve the performance of fast charging and discharging. Professor Nam-Soon Choi's team from the Department ...
Dec 17, 2021
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A new way to reclaim cathode materials used in lithium batteries for use in new batteries
A combined team of researchers from the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) and battery maker A123 Systems has developed a new way to reclaim some of the materials from the cathodes that are used in lithium batteries, ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Making batteries live longer with ultrathin lithium
Our lives today are governed by electronics in all shapes and forms. Electronics, in turn, are governed by their batteries. However, the traditional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), that are widely used in electronic devices, ...
Jun 1, 2021
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