News tagged with cathode material

Scientists make nontoxic, bendable nanosheets

(Phys.org) -- Cornell materials scientists have developed an inexpensive, environmentally friendly way of synthesizing oxide crystal sheets, just nanometers thick, which have useful properties for electronics ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanostructured electrodes for rechargeable sodium-Ion batteries

Highly efficient 3V cathodes for rechargeable sodium-ion batteries have been developed by users from Argonne National Laboratory's Materials Science, Chemical Sciences & Engineering, and X-ray Sciences Divisions, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Chinese team develop fuel cell that can clean water as it generates electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yanbiao Liu and his colleagues from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, have succeeded in building a device capable of both cleaning wastewater and producing electricity from it. Using light as ...

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

A systematic way to find battery materials

Lithium-ion batteries have become a leading energy source for everything from smartphones and laptops to power tools and electric cars, and researchers around the world are actively seeking ways to nudge their performance ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

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

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (32) | comments 57 | with audio podcast feature

Nanoscale materials for high-energy density lithium-ion batteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEI Corporation and the University of California, San Diego won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and implement high energy density cathode materials ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thin films show surprising reactivity, could lead to better fuel cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A surprising MIT laboratory finding about the behavior of a thin sheet of material -- less than a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair -- could lead to improved ways of studying the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Working toward the next battery breakthrough (w/ Video)

If battery-making is an art, then University at Buffalo scientist Esther Takeuchi is among its most prolific masters, with more than 140 U.S. patents, all in energy storage.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New Hitachi Li-ion batteries to last ten years

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hitachi has announced they may be able to double the life of rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries through the development of a new cathode material. The material was developed in conjunction ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

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