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July 26, 2024

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Team Develops Safe and Long-Cyclable Lithium Metal Battery for High Temperatures

July 22, 2024 — In recent years, batteries have become ubiquitous in consumers' daily lives. However, existing commercial battery technologies, which use liquid electrolytes and carbonaceous anodes, have certain ...

Novel Electrode for Improving Flowless Zinc-Bromine Battery

July 18, 2024 — The flowless zinc-bromine battery (FLZBB) is a promising alternative to flammable lithium-ion batteries due to its use of non-flammable electrolytes. However, it suffers from self-discharge due to the crossover of active materials, generated at the ...

Completely Stretchy Lithium-Ion Battery for Flexible Electronics

July 17, 2024 — When you think of a battery, you probably don't think stretchy. But batteries will need this shape-shifting quality to be incorporated into flexible electronics, which are gaining traction for wearable health monitors. Now, researchers report a ...

Could High-Temperature Single Crystals Enable Electric Vehicles Capable of Traveling Up to One Million Kilometers?

July 10, 2024 — Researchers unveil a microstructure design guide to enhance the durability of lithium secondary ...

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Researchers Develop Innovative Battery Recycling Method

July 24, 2024 — A research team is tackling the environmental issue of efficiently recycling lithium ion batteries amid their increasing ...

Making Rechargeable Batteries More Sustainable With Fully Recyclable Components

July 15, 2024 — Rechargeable solid-state lithium batteries are an emerging technology that could someday power cell phones and laptops for days with a single charge. ...

BESSY II Shows How Solid-State Batteries Degrade

July 10, 2024 — Solid-state batteries have several advantages: they can store more energy and are safer than batteries with liquid electrolytes. However, they do not last as long and their capacity decreases with ...

Innovative Battery Design: More Energy and Less Environmental Impact

July 5, 2024 — A new electrolyte design for lithium metal batteries could significantly boost the range of electric vehicles. Researchers have radically reduced the amount of environmentally harmful fluorine ...

A Breakthrough in Inexpensive, Clean, Fast-Charging Batteries

July 3, 2024 — Scientists have created an anode-free sodium solid-state battery. This brings the reality of inexpensive, fast-charging, high-capacity batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage closer than ...

Whoever Controls Electrolytes Will Pave the Way for Electric Vehicles

June 24, 2024 — Team develops a commercially viable and safe gel electrolyte for lithium ...

MXenes for Energy Storage

June 17, 2024 — A new method in spectromicroscopy significantly improves the study of chemical reactions at the nanoscale, both on surfaces and inside layered materials. Scanning X-ray microscopy (SXM) at MAXYMUS ...

A 'Liquid Battery' Advance

June 12, 2024 — A team aims to improve options for renewable energy storage through work on an emerging technology -- liquids for hydrogen ...

Looking for a New Battery Platform? Focus on the Essentials

June 11, 2024 — In facing life's many challenges, we often opt for complex approaches to finding solutions. Yet, upon closer examination, the answers are often simpler than we expect, rooted in the core "essence" of ...

Electrified Charcoal 'Sponge' Can Soak Up CO2 Directly from the Air

June 5, 2024 — Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. Researchers used a method similar to charging a battery to ...

Polymeric Films Protect Anodes from Sulfide Solid Electrolytes

May 29, 2024 — Researchers unveil the interaction between polymeric materials and sulfide solid ...

'The Magic of Making Electricity from Metals and Air' The Vexing Carbonate Has Achieved It!

May 28, 2024 — Team develops a high-energy, high-efficiency all-solid-state Na-air battery ...

Renewable Grid: Recovering Electricity from Heat Storage Hits 44% Efficiency

May 23, 2024 — Closing in on the theoretical maximum efficiency, devices for turning heat into electricity are edging closer to being practical for use on the grid, according to new ...

Iron Could Be Key to Less Expensive, Greener Lithium-Ion Batteries, Research Finds

May 23, 2024 — Chemistry researchers are hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion ...

New Milestone for Lithium Metal Batteries

May 23, 2024 — Scientists develop a porous structures for lithium metal ...

Batteries: Modeling Tomorrow's Materials Today

May 21, 2024 — Which factors determine how quickly a battery can be charged? Microstructural models have helped researchers discover and investigate new electrode materials. When sodium-nickel-manganese oxide is ...

Carbon-Capture Batteries Developed to Store Renewable Energy, Help Climate

May 15, 2024 — Researchers are developing battery technologies to fight climate change in two ways, by expanding the use of renewable energy and capturing airborne carbon dioxide. Researchers recently created and ...

Making Batteries Takes a Lot of Lithium: Some Could Come from Gas Well Wastewater

May 15, 2024 — A new analysis suggests that if it could be extracted with complete efficiency, lithium from the wastewater of Marcellus shale gas wells could supply up to 40% of the country's ...

Eco-Friendly and Affordable Battery for Low-Income Countries

May 14, 2024 — A battery made from zinc and lignin that can be used over 8000 times. This has been developed with a vision to provide a cheap and sustainable battery solution for countries where access to ...

Disorder Improves Battery Life

May 8, 2024 — What determines the cycle life of batteries? And, more importantly, how can we extend it? An international research team has discovered that local disorder in the oxide cathode material increases the ...

Cost-Effective, High-Capacity, and Cyclable Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes

May 2, 2024 — Charge-recharge cycling of lithium-superrich iron oxide, a cost-effective and high-capacity cathode for new-generation lithium-ion batteries, can be greatly improved by doping with readily available ...

How Electric Vehicle Drivers Can Escape Range Anxiety

Apr. 25, 2024 — Two of the biggest challenges faced by new and potential electric vehicle (EV) drivers are range anxiety and speed of charging, but these shouldn't have to be challenges at all. Researchers ...

This Salt Battery Harvests Osmotic Energy Where the River Meets the Sea

Apr. 24, 2024 — Estuaries -- where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea -- are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources of ...

Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste

Apr. 23, 2024 — A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap ...

More Economical and Sustainable Rechargeable Batteries

Apr. 22, 2024 — Lithium salts make batteries powerful but expensive. An ultralow-concentration electrolyte based on the lithium salt LiDFOB may be a more economical and more sustainable alternative. Cells using ...

The Biggest Barrier to a Vibrant Second-Hand EV Market? Price

Apr. 19, 2024 — As early adopters of electric vehicles (EVs) trade up for the latest models, the used EV market is beginning to mature in the United States. Yet many potential buyers, particularly low-income ...

Mess Is Best: Disordered Structure of Battery-Like Devices Improves Performance

Apr. 18, 2024 — The energy density of supercapacitors -- battery-like devices that can charge in seconds or a few minutes -- can be improved by increasing the 'messiness' of their internal structure. ...

Neutrons Rule the Roost for Cage-Free Lithium Ions

Apr. 16, 2024 — Scientists using neutrons set the first benchmark (one nanosecond) for a polymer-electrolyte and lithium-salt mixture. Findings could boost power and safety for lithium ...

Pyrite, Also Known as Fool's Gold, May Contain Valuable Lithium, a Key Element for Green Energy

Apr. 15, 2024 — The technology revolution and development of new renewable energy resources is driving demand for lithium to new heights, but it is not a common mineral. Scientists say they have found lithium in an ...

Discovery Brings All-Solid-State Sodium Batteries Closer to Practical Use

Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a mass synthesis process for sodium-containing sulfides. Mass synthesis of electrolytes with high conductivity and formability is key to the practical use of ...