News tagged with oxide cathodes

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

Cyborg snail produces electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- First it was grapes, then cockroaches, and now snails have become the latest organism to generate electricity through an implanted biofuel cell. The process works similarly in all three situations: ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

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 high-energy cathode material can significantly increase safety, life of lithium batteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new high-energy cathode material that can greatly increase the safety and extend the life-span of future lithium batteries has been developed through the close international collaboration of researchers ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0