A new rechargeable high voltage manganese dioxide zinc battery, exceeding the 2 V barrier in aqueous zinc chemistry, is the latest invention by City College of New York researchers. With a v... Read more
A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and fresh waters mingle. The technology could make coastal wastewater treatment plants energy... Read more
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Sanoh Industrial developed a very stable battery cell that can directly convert heat into electricity, thus finally providing a way for exploi... Read more
Researchers have built a more efficient, more reliable potassium-oxygen battery, a step toward a potential solution for energy storage on the nation’s power grid and longer-lasting batteries... Read more
DGIST Senior Researcher Changsoon Choi’s team developed single-layer graphene based multifunctional transparent devices Expected to be used in various devices such as electronics and skin-at... Read more
Smaller, faster, better: Nanoscale batteries may power future technology Inside modern cell phones are billions of nanoscale switches that flip on and off, allowing the phone to function. Th... Read more
Rice scientists show solvent leaches cobalt, lithium for reuse from spent batteries Rice University researchers literally have a solution to deal with the glut of used lithium-ion batteries... Read more
Thermal energy could hold the key to cheaper, more sustainable electricity; with South Australian company CCT Energy Storage unveiling the world’s first working thermal battery today. Known... Read more
A major hurdle to creating a metal-free, 100-percent polymer battery is finding a polymer that is electrochemically active Dr. Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, associate professor, holder of the William... Read more
U of A chemists confirm importance of nano-sizing silicon to improve lithium ion batteries. University of Alberta chemists have taken a critical step toward creating a new generation of sili... Read more
Imagine not having to charge your phone or laptop for weeks. That is the dream of researchers looking into alternative batteries that go beyond the current lithium-ion versions popular today... Read more
A study led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has shown that carbon fibres can work as battery electrodes, storing energy directly. This opens up new opportunities for structural... Read more
Lithium-based battery could make use of greenhouse gas before it ever gets into the atmosphere. A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide... Read more
Most of today’s batteries are made up of rare lithium mined from the mountains of South America. If the world depletes this source, then battery production could stagnate. Sodium is a... Read more