Lithium-ion batteries power our phones, cars, and even homes; ensuring their safe and efficient behavior has become ...

In an ideal world, an AI model looking for new materials to build better batteries would be trained on millions or even ...

We're going "Back to School" today, revisiting a classic at-home experiment that turns lemons into batteries — powerful enough to turn on a clock or a small lightbulb. But how does the science driving ...

Fast charging a battery is supposed to be risky—a shortcut that leads to battery breakdown. But for a Georgia Tech team studying zinc-ion batteries, fast charging led to a breakthrough: It made the ...

Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first proposed about 90 years ago, enables a high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery that could ...

The intermittent supply of green electricity requires large-scale storage to keep our power grids stable. Since normal batteries do not scale very well, the idea of using flow batteries, which store ...

Fast charging usually damages batteries, but in zinc-ion cells it made them stronger and may offer a safer way to power homes, hospitals and the grid. (Nanowerk News) Fast charging a battery is ...

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A new flow battery design achieves long life and capacity for grid energy storage from renewable fuels. A common food and medicine additive has shown it can boost the capacity and longevity of a ...