Battery and Energy Storage

    Innovative Batteries Put Flying Cars on the Horizon

    Jet packs, robot maids, and flying cars were all promises for the 21st century. We got mechanized, autonomous vacuum cleaners instead. Now a team...

    Making Batteries Live Longer with Ultrathin Lithium

    Our lives today are governed by electronics in all shapes and forms. Electronics, in turn, are governed by their batteries. However, the traditional lithium-ion...

    Hybrid Redox-Flow Battery with a Long Cycle Life

    Redox‑flow batteries store electrical energy in chemical compounds that are dissolved in an electrolyte. They are a particularly promising alternative to lithium‑ion batteries as...

    Methylammonium-Free Perovskite Solar Cell with Slot-Die Coating, 18% Efficiency

    Scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Université Grenoble Alpes in France have combined a slot-die coating technique with gas quenching and substrate heating to fabricate a perovskite solar cell with...

    Next-Gen Electric Vehicle Batteries: These are the Questions We Still Need to Answer

    The next generation of electric vehicle batteries, with greater range and improved safety, could be emerging in the form of lithium metal, solid-state technology. But...

    Novel Heterostructure Nanosheet Boosts Efficiency of Lean-Electrolyte Lithium Batteries

    Lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery technology is promising for next-generation energy storage. However, lithium polysulfide shuttling, sluggish redox kinetics, and uncontrollable lithium dendrite growth limit...

    One-Step Method to Improve Performance of Cathode Materials in Na-ion Batteries

    Na-ion batteries are promising in large-scale energy storage owing to the abundant raw material resources, low cost, and high safety. Sodium vanadium fluorophosphate (Na3(VOPO4)2F) with...

    Achieving a National-Scale, 100% Renewable Electric Grid

    With recently announced federal emissions-reduction targets, a push for national power-sector decarbonization, and plummeting wind and solar costs, the United States is poised to...

    World First Concept for Rechargeable Cement-Based Batteries

    Imagine an entire 20-storey concrete building that can store energy like a giant battery. Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden,...

    Researchers Create New Zinc-Air Pouch Cells

    Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are among the most promising next-generation battery technologies due to their many advantageous characteristics. Most notably, these batteries have unique half-open...

    Govt approves Rs 18,100 cr PLI scheme for promoting ACC Battery Manufacturing

    The government on Wednesday approved the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for manufacturing advanced chemistry cell (ACC) battery at an estimated outlay of Rs 18,100 crore. With...

    A Long-Lasting, Stable Solid-State Lithium Battery

    Long-lasting, quick-charging batteries are essential to the expansion of the electric vehicle market, but today's lithium-ion batteries fall short of what's needed—they're too heavy,...

    Tesla Supercharger Network Reaches 25K-Milestone

    Elon Musk-owned Tesla's Supercharger network has now reached a total of 25,000 chargers a big milestone for the fast-charging network. At the end of 2020,...

    Researchers Develop New Metal-Free, Recyclable Polypeptide Battery that Degrades on Demand

    The introduction of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries has revolutionized technology as a whole, leading to major advances in consumer goods across nearly all sectors. Battery-powered...

    Significant Progress in Lithium-Air Battery Development

    Research led by the University of Liverpool, in partnership with and Loughborough University, is making significant progress in the development of stable and practical...

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