If they had used a safer electrolyte, the risk would have been reduced. A research team at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, found a new physical organoge... Read more
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of... Read more
Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries. Calculations by the Rice lab of theoretical physicist... Read more
“We believe our new battery may be the best yet designed to regulate the natural fluctuations of these alternative energies.” Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DO... Read more
Manufacturers are not investing in improving the overall technology due to a lack of incentives from a cost perspective, while customers are also not hankering for improvements. The l... Read more
Air-breathing lithium batteries that go far beyond the capacity of current power packs may be in the offing A rechargeable, air-breathing battery that can store up to 10 times the energy of... Read more
“There’s going to be graveyards full of buried battery companies” PolyPlus partners with Johnson Controls and Corning to commercialize energy dense lithium-water, lithium-a... Read more
Could run for 40 percent longer without being charged A lot of us only think about batteries when we’re cursing out your phone or laptop for its dwindling power, but battery innovations will... Read more