News tagged with battery material

Major breakthrough in lithium battery technology reported

An NSERC-funded lab at the University Of Waterloo has laid the groundwork for a lithium battery that can store and deliver more than three times the power of conventional lithium ion batteries.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (50) | comments 18

Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than Lithium-Ion

(PhysOrg.com) -- A spinoff company from Arizona State University plans to build a new battery with an energy density 11 times greater than that of lithium-ion batteries for just one-third the cost. With a ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (54) | comments 11 weblog

Liquid Battery Offers Promising Solar Energy Storage Technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest challenges currently facing large-scale solar energy technology is finding an effective way to store the energy, which is essential for using the electricity at night or ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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Lithium-ion battery with new chemistry could power electric vehicles

(PhysOrg.com) -- While car companies race to develop electric and hybrid electric vehicles, one of the biggest challenges they face is finding a suitable energy storage system. Lithium-ion batteries, which ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Nanoball Batteries Could Charge Electric Cars in 5 Minutes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have designed a new battery that can recharge devices about 100 times faster than conventional lithium ion batteries. The design could lead to electric car batteries that ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 10 weblog

Mystery of car battery's current solved

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have solved the 150 year-old mystery of what gives the lead-acid battery, found under the bonnet of most cars, its unique ability to deliver a surge of current.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Batteries charge quickly and retain capacity, thanks to new 3D nanostructure

The batteries in Illinois professor Paul Braun's lab look like any others, but they pack a surprise inside.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 63 | with audio podcast

New battery material could lead to rapid recharging of many devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 9

Rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries get a boost from graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- By wrapping tiny sulfur particles in graphene sheets, researchers from Stanford University have synthesized a promising cathode material for rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (22) | comments 53 | with audio podcast feature

New technology improves both energy capacity and charge rate in rechargeable batteries

Imagine a cellphone battery that stayed charged for more than a week and recharged in just 15 minutes. That dream battery could be closer to reality thanks to Northwestern University research.

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Details of new type of electric car battery released

(PhysOrg.com) -- After being spun off from parent company A123 Systems last year; the new offspring, 24M has published a paper in Advanced Energy Materials, ending months of speculation about what it has be ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 25 | with audio podcast report

Improving batteries' energy storage

MIT researchers have found a way to improve the energy density of a type of battery known as lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries, producing a device that could potentially pack several times more energy ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An electrifying discovery: New material to harvest electricity from body movements

Scientists are reporting an advance toward scavenging energy from walking, breathing, and other natural body movements to power electronic devices like cell phones and heart pacemakers. In a study in ACS' ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Japanese scientists invent printable lithium battery

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of scientists in Japan have invented a lithium polymer battery that can be manufactured using only printing technologies.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

A step toward lighter batteries: Metal catalysts play important role in improving efficiency

A team of researchers at MIT has made significant progress on a technology that could lead to batteries with up to three times the energy density of any battery that currently exists.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast