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Highly Concentrated Electrolytes Help Improve Cycle Life of Sodium-Oxygen Batteries

The demand for an efficient battery is greatly increasing as there are numerous electronic products such as laptops, smartphones, and electric cars in the market today.

8 Nov 2016

Chemists Build High-Functioning Electrode Material with Promising Characteristics in Dual-Ion Batteries

Oregon State University chemists have identified that one or more organic compounds that belongs to a family of pollutants can potentially contribute to an important advancement in manufacturing cost-effective and reliable batteries.

19 Oct 2016

ULB Researchers Increase Electricity Self-Sufficiency Using Lead-Acid Batteries and Solar Panels

In Belgium, photovoltaic systems coupled with lead-acid batteries do not guarantee the electrical self-sufficiency of a residence at a reasonable cost.

13 Sep 2016

Engineering Undergraduate from Lancaster Discovers Improved Mechanical Storage Solution

An engineering undergraduate from Lancaster University has discovered a new storage solution that has the potential to provide the missing-link required for a renewable energy revolution.

3 Aug 2016

Water Increases Perovskite Solar Cell Performance

Perovskite solar cells are becoming major players in the field of photovoltaics. The efficiency of these cells has increased to more than twice of their initial levels in less than a decade.

28 Jul 2016

Battery500 Consortium Aims to Create Next-Generation Lithium-Metal Batteries for Electric Cars

Electric cars with significantly smaller, lighter and less expensive batteries could be on the horizon if a new national research effort achieves its ambitious goal of significantly improving upon the batteries that power today's electric vehicles.

28 Jul 2016

Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Increase Capacity of Lithium Ion Batteries

The National Science Foundation has awarded $200,022 to a research team led by Likun Zhu, an associate professor of mechanical engineering with the School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, to overcome problems with one approach to increasing the capacity of lithium ion batteries.

30 Jun 2016

Novel Methods to Make Hydrogen Fuel from Water and Optimize Grid-Scale Batteries

A Stanford University research lab have created unique technologies designed to handle two of the biggest energy challenges facing mankind today. One is grid-scale energy storage, and the other is clean fuel for transportation. The researchers illustrated their findings in two research studies published in the Science Advances and Nature Communications journals.

20 Jun 2016

Researchers Successfully Recover Important Metals from Battery Waste with Nearly 100% Purity

Researchers have succeeded in recovering important metals – lithium, cobalt and nickel – from battery waste with nearly 100 per cent purity. Recovered metals will be needed increasingly in the manufacture of batteries, and in the future especially in batteries of electric vehicles.

3 Jun 2016

Toshiba to Field Test Cable-Free Rechargeable SCiB Lithium-ion Battery on Medium-Sized EV Bus

Toshiba Corporation has developed a fast, cable-free contactless charger for electric vehicles (EV) , and will field test it on a medium-sized EV bus designed to handle the power demands of regular high-speed journeys on expressways. Field tests will start from June 1 and continue until December.

1 Jun 2016