Battery News

Posted November 13, 2012:

• Production of Batteries Made Cheaper and Safer, Thanks to Finnish Researchers

Posted November 8, 2012:

• Medical Devices Powered by the Ear Itself

Posted November 1, 2012:

• New Silicon-Based Batteries Outperform Current Batteries: 'Crushed' Porous Silicon Anodes Show Dramatic Increase in Charge-Discharge Cycles

Posted October 30, 2012:

• Materials Scientists Make Additive-Free Battery Electrodes With Nanoparticles

Posted October 18, 2012:

• Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?

Posted October 11, 2012:

• Organic Solar Cells With High Electric Potential for Portable Electronics
• Researchers Create 'Nanoflowers' for Energy Storage, Solar Cells

Posted October 9, 2012:

• New Way to Determine Amount of Charge Remaining in Battery

Posted September 27, 2012:

• Nickelblock: An Element's Love-Hate Relationship With Battery Electrodes
• Doctoral Student Developing Next Generation of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Longer Lasting Mobile Devices, Electric Cars

Posted September 21, 2012:

• Study Outlines Supply Chain Challenges for Lithium Future
• Giving Lithium to Those Who Need It

Posted September 7, 2012:

• New Approach to Cosmic Lithium in the Early Universe

Posted September 4, 2012:

• Waste Silicon Gets New Life in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Posted August 29, 2012:

• Building Ultra-Low Power Wireless Networks

Posted August 22, 2012:

• Batteries Made from World’s Thinnest Material Could Power Tomorrow’s Electric Cars

Posted August 21, 2012:

• Self-Charging Power Cell Converts and Stores Energy

Posted August 20, 2012:

• Ultra Low Power Analog-to-Digital Converter for Medical Devices and Wireless Sensor Nodes

Posted August 9, 2012:

• Solar Power Day and Night: New Storage Systems Control Fluctuation of Renewable Energies

Posted August 6, 2012:

• High Performance Flexible Solid State Battery Developed

Posted August 1, 2012:

• Breaking the Barriers for Low-Cost Energy Storage: Battery Could Help Transition to Renewable Energy Sources

Posted July 31, 2012:

• Never Again a Flat Battery: Early Warning System for Vehicle Batteries Developed

Posted July 18, 2012:

• X-Ray Imaging Used to Observe Running Batteries in Action

Posted July 16, 2012:

• Toughened Silicon Sponges May Make Tenacious Batteries
• Carbon-Based Transistors Ramp Up Speed and Memory for Mobile Devices

Posted July 12, 2012:

• Keeping Electric Vehicle Batteries Cool

Posted July 11, 2012:

• Making 'Renewable' Viable: New Technology for Grid-Level Electrical Energy Storage Developed

Posted June 29, 2012:

• New Fuel Cell Keeps Going After the Hydrogen Runs out

Posted June 28, 2012:

• Paint-on Lithium Battery Can Be Applied to Virtually Any Surface

Posted June 27, 2012:

• Positive at Last: A Pure Phosphorus Cation

Posted June 26, 2012:

• Scientists Spark New Interest in the Century-Old Edison Battery

Posted June 20, 2012:

• Stars, Jets and Batteries: Multi-Faceted Magnetic Phenomenon Confirmed in the Laboratory for the First Time

Posted June 13, 2012:

• 'No-Sleep Energy Bugs' Drain Smartphone Batteries
• New Energy Source for Future Medical Implants: Sugar

Posted May 27, 2012:

• 'Unzipped' Carbon Nanotubes Could Help Energize Fuel Cells and Batteries

Posted May 14, 2012:

• Button Battery Risks: Number of Battery-Related Emergency Department Visits by Children More Than Doubles

Posted May 8, 2012:

• New Battery System Could Reduce Buildings' Electric Bills

Posted April 19, 2012:

• Efficiency of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks Boosted

Posted April 18, 2012:

• Nature's Billion-Year-Old Battery Key to Storing Energy

Posted April 11, 2012:

• Power Without the Cord for Small Devices

Posted April 10, 2012:

• Sulfur in Every Pore: Improved Batteries With Carbon Nanoparticles

Posted April 4, 2012:

• Free Apps Drain Smartphone Energy on 'Advertising Modules'

Posted March 29, 2012:

• Electricity and Carbon Dioxide Used to Generate Alternative Fuel

Posted March 22, 2012:

• Brown Liquor and Solar Cells to Provide Sustainable Electricity

Posted March 21, 2012:

• Nanopower: Avoiding Electrolyte Failure in Nanoscale Lithum Batteries

Posted March 14, 2012:

• Silicon-Carbon Electrodes Snap, Swell, Don't Pop

Posted March 13, 2012:

• Body Clocks May Hold Key for Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

Posted March 8, 2012:

• Origami-Inspired Paper Sensor Could Test for Malaria and HIV for Less Than 10 Cents, Report Chemists

Posted March 2, 2012:

• Less Is More in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Piezoelectric Materials Convert Electrical Energy Into Strain, or Vice Versa

Posted March 1, 2012:

• Alternative Fuels Expert Plans Coast-to-Coast U.S. Trip on 10 Gallons of Gas or Less

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