Researchers Create Self-Charging Battery
A team of engineers from the University of Porto in Portugal and the University of Texas at Austin have designed a simple battery capable of self-charging.
Creating Climate-Immune Electric Vehicles with a Self-Heating Battery
Penn State scientists have created a new battery that can rapidly charge and self-heat no matter what the outside temperature may be.
Rechargeable Lithium-Metal Battery Doubles Energy Density of Existing Battery Technology
A new lithium-metal battery technology that will provide two times the energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries is just months away from actualization.
Lithium-Ion Batteries Aren’t So Bad After All
A Swiss research group has proven that we don’t need to rush to reinvent batteries. They have improved the performance of conventional lithium ion batteries without even changing the chemical composition.
Clogged Ions Make Batteries Inefficient
Researchers discovered that the ions inside a battery should flow back and forth from one electrode to another, but it turns out that they often get stuck, causing “traffic jams” that reduce capacity. Now that the problem has been identified, several possible solutions could improve batteries in the near future.
German Researchers Solve Mystery About Lithium Air Batteries
Corresponding author Johannes Wandt with one of the electron paramagnetic resonance probes he developed.
Lithium air batteries could soon replace the bulky lithium ion batteries that power most of today’s c... Read More...
Scientists Use Bacteria to Make Rechargeable Batteries
Power from sustainable resources could one day be stored in batteries that are also made from a renewable resource. A research group from The Netherlands has proven that it is possible to make an inexpensive re... Read More...
New Manufacturing Method Makes Microbatteries More Efficient
Energy storage is a big problem for small electronic devices. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have demonstrated a new manufacturing method that could help make microbatteries more efficient. Their ne... Read More...
How to Turn Pollution into Batteries
Although it is possible to remove greenhouse gases from the air, the process has been prohibitively expensive. But what if the same gases that pollute the environment could be broken down into valuable material... Read More...
Could Pollen be Used to Make Better Batteries?
This scanning electron microscope image shows bee pollen studied for potential use as electrodes for lithium-ion batteries. (Purdue University image/ Jialiang Tang)
To improve lithium-ion batteries, scienti... Read More...