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Can you charge those Li-ion based cells with USB-C charging ports without taking them out of the device? While this would seem to be answered with an unequivocal ‘yes’, recently …read more Continue reading The Hazards of Charging USB-C Equipped Cells In-Situ
Having a gadget’s battery nestled snugly within the bowels of a device has certain advantages. It finally solves the ‘no batteries included’ problem, and there is no more juggling of …read more Continue reading Built-In Batteries: a Daft Idea With an Uncertain Future
The flow battery is one of the more interesting ideas for grid energy storage – after all, how many batteries combine electron current with fluid current? If you’re interested in …read more Continue reading An Open Source Flow Battery
If you’ve got an interest in technology, it’s inevitable that your feed will feature a constant supply of stories with titles in the vein of “New battery breakthrough offers unlimited …read more Continue reading Zinc-Air, The Next Contender In Vehicle Batteries?
While consumers of crabs know just what the core of a crustacean has to offer, scientists are increasingly looking at the animal’s exoskeleton for novel medicine and biotechnology.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Lithium metal, Batteries, Sust… Continue reading Crabs give scientists a leg up in cheap rechargeable battery design
Engineers at MIT have developed a new battery design using common materials – aluminum, sulfur and salt. Not only is the battery low-cost, but it’s resistant to fire and failures, and can be charged very fast, which could make it useful for powering a … Continue reading Battery made of aluminum, sulfur and salt proves fast, safe and low-cost
By swapping out conventional materials for experimental ones scientists continue to make exciting advances in the performance of lithium batteries, and a team in Japan has just published research around a particularly promising one. The team’s new desi… Continue reading New polymer prevents cracks appearing in long-lasting lithium batteries
Zinc-air batteries are great little energy storage devices, but they have plenty of room for improvement – for one, they’re not usually rechargeable. Now a team led by the University of Münster has developed a new zinc-air chemistry that makes this typ… Continue reading Chemistry tweaks make for rechargeable zinc-air batteries
Despite seemingly-endless advances in experimental battery designs, good old lithium-ion batteries continue to be the frontrunner. There’s still plenty of room for improvement though, and now researchers have identified a new cathode coating that could… Continue reading Lifetime of lithium-ion batteries boosted by new cathode coating
Battery advances are starting to come thick and fast as massive investment in the segment begins to bear fruit. California’s Enevate has been chipping away at silicon anode technology since 2005, and now the company says it’s managed not only to achiev… Continue reading Enevate’s silicon-anode batteries promise ultra-fast EV charging