Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries don’t last forever. Over time, they hold onto less charge, eventually transforming from power sources to bricks. One reason: hidden, leaky hydrogen, new research ...
CATL has successfully doubled the life of LMB battery cell prototypes with an energy density of 500 Wh/kg. The breakthrough came through the use of a new type of lithium salt for the battery ...
What Is a Solid-State Battery? A solid-state battery is an electrochemical energy storage device in which the liquid or gel electrolyte of conventional lithium-ion cells is replaced by a solid ...
According to research published in Energy Storage Materials recently, a team led by Prof. HU Linhua from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a general ...
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a meta-weakly solvating electrolyte that ...
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have used a machine learning model to identify new chemical “medicines” for batteries. By training the model on a small dataset, the team predicted effective ...
Recycling lithium-ion batteries – whether they're the large ones in your EVs or the small ones in your gadgets – is no easy task, as it requires specialized processes, high heat, and a range of ...
In materials science and electrochemistry, dendrites are branching, tree-like crystal structures that form when atoms or ions deposit on a surface under non-equilibrium conditions. The term derives ...