Battery Science – News and Features

New battery technology could give flight to electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and supercharge safe, long-range electric cars.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 have been announced.

Proteins are good for building muscle, but their building blocks also might be helpful for building sustainable organic batteries that could someday be a viable substitute for conventional lithium-ion batteries, without their safety and environmental concerns.

If an atom, or atoms, has a balanced number of electrons (negative charge) and protons (positive charge) they are neutral overall. However, if they are not balanced, they will be charged. These charged species are called ions.

A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and fresh waters mingle. The technology could make coastal wastewater treatment plants energy-independent and carbon neutral.

Berkeley Lab researchers set the stage for a new class of 3D-printed, all-liquid devices which could automate chemical synthesis for drug formulations.

Researchers have a new method to convert waste plastic bags into carbon chips that could be used as anodes for lithium-ion batteries.

A biofuel cell with electronics has been engineered to process physiological and biochemical signals with high sensitivity.

A research team combined two machine learning techniques to produce data-driven methods for spectral interpretation and prediction that can analyze any spectral data quickly and accurately.

A new device allows researchers to make lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries fail on demand, and that’s a crucial step in making them safer.