Battery leverages both iron and oxygen to drive more lithium ions On paper, it doesn’t seem like Christopher Wolverton’s super lithium-rich battery should work. For one, the novel battery us... Read more
UMass Amherst scientists say a polymer chain organized like a string of Christmas lights assists energy storage Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery th... Read more
An international team of scientists — including several researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory — has discovered an anode battery material with sup... Read more
Researchers from Empa and the University of Geneva have developed an initial prototype of a solid sodium battery with the potential to store extra energy. Phones, laptops, electric cars – ba... Read more
Jülich researchers show charging and discharging reactions during operation with nanometre precision Iron–air batteries promise a considerably higher energy density than present-day lithium-... Read more
MIT researchers create material for a chemical heat “battery” that could release its energy on demand. In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during t... Read more
The batteries we use every day may soon become cheaper, smaller and lighter. Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a family o... Read more
Research in lithium-ion batteries has opened up a plethora of possibilities in the development of next-generation batteries. In particular, the metal-air batteries with significantly greater... Read more
Industrial forecasts predict an insatiable need for battery farms to store renewable energy like solar and wind. Lithium ion batteries may remain tops for sheer performance, but when cost-pe... Read more
Lithium ion batteries are flammable and the price of the raw material is rising. Are there alternatives? Yes: Empa and ETH Zürich researchers have discovered promising approaches as to how w... Read more
“Air-breathing” battery can store electricity for months, for about a fifth the cost of current technologies. Wind and solar power are increasingly popular sources for renewable energy. But... Read more
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed for the first time a lithium-ion battery that uses a water-salt solution as its electrolyte and... Read more
Magnesium batteries offer promise for safely powering modern life – unlike traditional lithium ion batteries, they are not flammable or subject to exploding – but their ability to store ener... Read more
Three-stage method could revolutionise rechargeability University of Sydney researchers have found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling blocks preventing zinc-air batteries from overt... Read more
A new generation of manganese dioxide-zinc batteries with unprecedented cycle life and energy density is the latest innovation at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute. Th... Read more
