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Battery Components Made of Packing Peanuts

Engineering inspiration can strike when you least expect it. When researchers at Purdue University moved to a new lab, they decided to do something useful with the leftover packing peanuts. By heating the pac... Read More...

New Imaging Shows why Solid-State Batteries Degrade

There is great potential for solid-state batteries to be a new lightweight, long-lasting power source for consumer electronics such as smart phones. Unlike typical lithium-ion batteries which contain liquid ele... Read More...

Coming to Homes Soon: Tesla Batteries

Tesla executives announced they are just a few months away from unveiling a stationary battery that could be used to power homes and businesses. The technology would likely derive from Tesla’s Model S, which us... Read More...

Lithium-Sulfur Batteries are Light, Cheap and Powerful

Lithium-sulfur batteries have the potential to store up to five times the energy per gram that Lithium-ion batteries do, and at a lower cost. The science of using sulfur in batteries is sound, but putting the t... Read More...

Reversible Ammonia Batteries Convert Waste Heat to Electricity

A research team from Penn State is developing a method to harvest low-grade heat as electricity using reversible ammonia batteries.

Researchers Pack Millions of Nanopores Together to Make a Battery

University of Maryland researchers have created single, tiny structures that when packed tightly together could lead to developments in shrinking energy storage components. The structures called nanopores a... Read More...

New World Record Set for Manufacturing Battery Electrodes

A team of scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new coating technology that increases the production speed of electrode foils leading to reduced costs to manufacture li... Read More...

Breakthrough in Battery Technology | In Compliance Magazine

Breakthrough in Battery Technology Makes Batteries Charge Faster and Last Longer

Researchers improved existing lithium-ion technology to develop the next generation lithium-ion battery that can charge twenty times faster and last twenty times longer than current lithium-ion batteries. ... Read More...

Greensmith on Track to Integrate 4 New Battery Types in 2014 for Over 23mW of Energy Storage

Greensmith, a leader in grid-scale energy storage technologies announced it is on track to successfully integrate an additional 4 new battery types in 2014, bringing the company’s total since inception to 1... Read More...

World’s First Solar Battery Developed

Researchers at The Ohio State University have created a hybrid device that combines a battery and a solar cell for the first time. The device utilizes a permeable mesh solar panel that lets air flow to the ... Read More...

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