While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another ...

Lyten’s lithium-sulfur batteries could cut both weight and cost—if they can last. The key to building less-expensive batteries that could extend the range of EVs might lie in a cheap, abundant ...

Lithium prices are recovering strongly as battery energy storage demand grows, creating second major market for the metal ...

By adding silicon to battery anodes, energy storage can be doubled or even tripled. Ph.D. student Ali Abo Hamad at FSCN ...

Are lithium batteries sustainable enough to fulfill the dream of the electric-car revolution? The batteries propelling electric vehicles have quickly become the most crucial component, and expense, ...

Technology is always advancing and this is true for batteries that power electric bikes. Bruno Long In the relentless pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, sodium-ion batteries have emerged as a ...

A research team at Rice University led by James Tour has developed a two-step flash Joule heating-chlorination and oxidation ...

Wesley Chang is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Drexel University. Rechargeable batteries are great for storing energy and powering electronics from smartphones to ...

Lithium-ion batteries, or "Li-ion" for short, are one of the most ubiquitous forms of portable power in the world today. Most handheld devices like smartphones use Li-ion batteries, though scaled-up ...

R esearchers have explored the performance of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in extreme cold. They reviewed low-temperature (LT ...