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Chemistry World
January 9, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Disorder opens up battery material field Better lithium-ion batteries that hold more power could be made by introducing disorder into their electrodes -- going against the prevailing wisdom on the best way to improve them.   |
Chemistry World
March 31, 2011
Kate McAlpine |
Water result for Li battery technology A new approach to alkali batteries, in which the cathode is dissolved in water that flows through the system, could overcome the limitations of currently available batteries |
Chemistry World
October 13, 2011
Fay Nolan Neylan |
Fluoride Shuttle Batteries Lift Off Scientists in Germany say that a rechargeable battery that works on the basis of fluoride transfer between electrodes could have a better storage capacity than current batteries. |
Chemistry World
September 26, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Electric vehicles set to charge ahead 'There is a big effort to improve lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and largely the outcome will be dictated by how the consumer reacts,' says Daniel Abraham, a battery expert at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2015
William Bergius |
New cathode material for sodium ion batteries An international team of scientists led by the inventor of the lithium ion battery has put forward a new cathode material for its potential successor, the sodium ion battery. |
Chemistry World
June 20, 2010
Jon Cartwright |
Carbon nanotubes boost battery power Researchers in the US claim to have created electrodes from carbon nanotubes that can make lithium-ion batteries some ten times more powerful than conventional models. |
Chemistry World
April 25, 2013
Charlie Quigg |
Inorganic nanosheet to enhance batteries A graphene inspired electrode material that could help batteries hold more power has been developed by Chinese scientists. The large surface area of these cobalt oxide nanosheets is key to their electrochemical performance. |
Chemistry World
May 17, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
Carbon electrodes help form high capacity lithium-sulfur batteries Chemists in Canada have used a carbon framework to form an electrode in lithium-sulfur batteries that results in charge capacities several times greater than standard lithium ion batteries. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2014
Dannielle Whittaker |
From nutshell to supercapattery Scientists in Canada have created a hybrid sodium ion capacitor (NIC) from peanut shells in a pioneering study bridging the gap between conventional ion batteries and supercapacitors. |
Chemistry World
November 25, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Silicon for better batteries A new silicon-based anode could greatly increase the storage capacity of lithium ion batteries - boosting the runtimes of devices such as laptops and mobile phones by up to seven times |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2013
Jeanne Therese Andres |
Long-life lithium sulfide batteries Scientists from the US and China have identified a polymer that makes lithium sulfide batteries last longer. |
Chemistry World
January 18, 2011
Philippa Ross |
Pig power for batteries Scientists in China have developed an electrode for lithium-sulfur batteries using pig bones as a cheap and renewable carbon source. |
Chemistry World
March 11, 2011
Harriet Brewerton |
Drawing batteries Scientists in Japan have made an electrode for a lithium-air battery using a pencil. The advance could bring efficient, environmentally friendly and safe batteries for electric vehicles a step closer. |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2009
Jon Cartwright |
Biological battery powers up Scientists in the US have created a rechargeable 'lithium ion' battery with the help of a genetically programmed virus that acts as a scaffold for highly conductive electrodes. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Alkaline flow battery charges up renewable energy storage Scientists in the US have developed an alkaline flow battery that they hope will help to tackle the tricky problem of storing energy from renewable power sources such as wind and solar. |
Chemistry World
August 15, 2012
Andy Extance |
Cells step toward plugless charging What if you could charge your phone's battery by slotting it into the sole of your shoe and walking on it? That bizarre scenario has just become more likely, thanks to Zhong Lin Wang and his team at the Georgia Institute of Technology, US. |
Chemistry World
July 28, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Better batteries with pure lithium anodes Researchers in the US have developed a coating that could allow next generation batteries to have pure lithium anodes. |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Super-fast charging aluminium batteries ready to take on lithium A new rival to the lithium-ion battery has been created that charges in under a minute and still performs almost perfectly after being recharged thousands of times. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Samuel K. Moore |
A Rapid-Recharge Lithium Battery MIT scientists tweak lithium formula to let battery discharge in seconds |
Chemistry World
December 9, 2010
Mike Brown |
Lithiation through the lens Scientists have generated high resolution images of lithium ions being deposited on a single nanowire anode, revealing how the material grows and flexes in response to charge. |
Chemistry World
February 26, 2015
Phillip Broadwith |
Asahi Kasei to buy Polypore for battery materials Japanese chemicals firm Asahi Kasei has agreed to buy the energy storage segment of US membrane specialist Polypore for $2.2 billion |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2011
Carl Saxton |
Power sources get flexible US scientists have designed an ultra-thin, flexible battery with the highest charge capacity reported for thin film cells. The battery can also be charged at a lower voltage than lithium ion batteries. |
Chemistry World
February 10, 2015
William Bergius |
Next generation lithium -- sulfur batteries given DNA boost In a creative application of rational design, scientists in China have turned to nature to help overcome one of the key challenges facing the most probable successor to the lithium ion battery. |
Chemistry World
May 10, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
New Electrode Material for High-Capacity Lithium Batteries US researchers presented details of a new electrode material for rechargeable batteries which, they claim, can store almost twice as much charge as conventional electrodes. |
Chemistry World
January 28, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Better batteries with nano-cables Nano-sized cables made with titanium dioxide-coated carbon nanotubes could hold the key to developing new high-capacity batteries, report chemists in Germany and China. |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2008
Frank Washburn |
Charging Into the Future Researchers are upgrading lithium ion and green-alternative batteries for increasingly power-hungry mobile devices. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2007
Ned Stafford |
Electric Cars Hoping for Lithium Ion Revolution General Motors is betting that chemists are close to solving the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle puzzle, by developing rechargeable batteries that are safe, robust, long-lasting, and inexpensive. |
Chemistry World
August 8, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Wet batteries power up The performance of water-based lithium-ion batteries has been greatly boosted by removing oxygen from the power cells, report Chinese researchers. |
Chemistry World
October 10, 2013
Rowan Frame |
Molten air -- a new class of battery Scientists from the US have invented a new type of battery. The so-called 'molten air batteries' have among the highest electrical storage capacities of all battery types to date. |
Popular Mechanics
December 20, 2007
Logan Ward |
New Nanowire Battery Life Reaches From iPods to Electric Cars Lithium-ion batteries that power most devices may soon be able to hold 10 times as much power. |
Chemistry World
March 11, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Super battery could power electric cars Scientists in the US have built a lithium based 'super battery' that releases its charge 100 times faster than a regular rechargeable. |
National Defense
October 2009
Jean & Erwin |
On The Road to More Fuel-Efficient Vehicles A123Systems, a lithium ion battery producer, has teamed with the Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop fuel-efficient vehicle technology. Funding for the joint project is being provided under the Recovery Act. |
Chemistry World
April 12, 2010
Andy Extance |
Balloon model bursts battery charge gap Over-simplifying chemical processes occurring in batteries has obscured an opportunity to improve energy efficiency, according to Slovenian and German scientists. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Super-thin batteries made from paper and algae Although the batteries have lower voltage and power density than conventional batteries, their low cost and flexibility hold great promise for applications where metal-based batteries are impractical. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2010
Andy Extance |
Reversing attraction shrinks car batteries Transforming the most important attractive force acting between molecules into a repulsive one could enable US scientists to nearly halve the size of lithium-ion batteries. |
Chemistry World
December 17, 2007
Jonathan Edwards |
Silicon Nanowire Boost for Rechargeable Batteries Scientists in the US have devised an easy way of using silicon nanowires to increase the capacity of lithium batteries. |
Chemistry World
April 3, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Nanoporous anodes charge up Scientists in China and the US say a new anode material they have created represents a significant step forward in the development of long-life stationary lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage systems. |
Chemistry World
October 28, 2010
Carol Stanier |
Hybrid electrolyte for better batteries Safer, more durable batteries are the aim of a US team that has made a new, hybrid nanoparticle-ionic liquid electrolyte. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Neil Savage |
Batteries That Breathe Using oxygen as a cathode could give lithium batteries 10 times the energy |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Graphene and phosphorene upgrade sodium ion battery A new material comprising interspersed layers of graphene and phosphorene has been shown to be a more stable, more conductive and higher capacity anode for sodium ion batteries than previous materials. |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2014
Katrina Kramer |
Conductive clay rolled out to store energy A conductive clay made by US researchers might provide a novel way of storing energy that could, one day, surpass batteries. |
IndustryWeek
May 19, 2010 |
Nanocomposite Materials Offer Battery Boost New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests material could vastly improve performance of lithium-ion batteries for cars and electronics. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007
Lisa Zyga |
Eco-Friendly Batteries on the Horizon A new generation of longer-lasting, environmentally friendly batteries that run on sugar, urine, and bacteria is on the horizon. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Superelastic battery Lithium ion batteries that can be stretched by 600% have been unveiled by scientists in China. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008 |
Electrovaya Batteries Power Autonomous Underwater Vehicles The company's SuperPolymer technology is based on a lithium ion polymer battery technology that can produce thin battery sheets suitable for applications ranging from small-size tablet PCs to electric vehicles. |
BusinessWeek
September 11, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Truth About Fiery Laptops Lithium ion batteries are potential incendiaries, but they're all we've got. |
Chemistry World
April 13, 2011
Fay Nolan-Neylan |
Nanofiltration for better energy storage Scientists in China have found that nanofiltration membranes could enhance the efficiency of vanadium redox flow batteries making them a more viable tool for large-scale energy storage. |
Chemistry World
April 21, 2015
Osman Mohamed |
Ultrasound test echoes with battery charge Researchers in the US have shown that ultrasound echoes can indicate density changes to provide a simple and non-invasive method for measuring charge within any battery. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
A Battery-Capacitor Hybrid for Hybrids Engineers give lead-acid batteries a makeover by crossing them with ultracapacitors. |
Chemistry World
February 23, 2011
Laura Howes |
Capsules for safer and more reliable lithium ion batteries Capsules coated onto electrodes could mitigate potential problems with lithium ion batteries by turning the batteries off when they overheat and 'healing' the electrodes when they crack and degrade, according to a researcher in the US. |
