Tag: battery research

9
Aug

Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries

Metal-air batteries are one of the lightest and most compact types of batteries available, but they can have a major limitation: When not in use, they degrade quickly, as corrosion eats away at their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, making it possible for such batteries to have much longer shelf lives.

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15
Jul

Thinner Lithium Electrolytes from Lower Temperature Process might Improve Solid-State Batteries

MIT Researchers have devised a new pulsed laser deposition technique to produce thinner lithium electrolytes using less heat. According to the researchers, the use of thinner lithium electrolytes could allow faster charging and might lead to higher-voltage solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Key to the new processing technique for the solid-state battery electrolyte is alternating layers of the active electrolyte lithium garnet component

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21
Jun

(Video)How to get dQdV curve on Neware cyclers?

How to get dQdV curve/plot when you tested cells on Neware cyclers? And how to make the curve smoother? Many Neware cycler users asked this question. BTSDA is the free software from Neware which is used to view the test result, it can help you to understand the battery performance better, and it can export data to txt/xls/csv, what’s more,

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21
Jun

Battery Fashion: Scientists Weave Rechargeable Electronics Into Clothes

UMASS AMHERST Wearable electronics are nothing new, but the technology has been limited by the question of how to power them for long periods without toting around a bulky charge storing device. Not any longer. Thanks to UMass Amherst materials scientist Trisha L. Andrew, a battery can now be stitched directly into your lapel. Andrew and her colleagues have developed a

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17
Jan

Ion age: why the future will be battery powered

Why have batteries become important? In a world increasingly anxious about climate change, the surge in the generation of renewable energy over the past 20 years offers a sliver of hope. But the variable nature of wind and solar power means that storing energy until consumers need it has become the next big challenge. And so, large-scale battery installations are

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4
Jan

New Battery Design Extends the Life of Low-Cost, Lightweight Batteries

Metal-air batteries are one of the lightest and most compact types of batteries available, but they can have a major limitation: When not in use, they degrade quickly, as corrosion eats away at their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, making it possible for such batteries to have much longer shelf lives. While typical

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26
Dec

Building a better battery layer by layer

A team of researchers from Shinshu University in Nagano, Japan is now closer to a thin, high-capacity lithium-ion battery that could open the gates to better energy storage systems for electric vehicles. The research team was led by professor Katsuya Teshima, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Science (hereinafter called CEES) at Shinshu University in Japan. They published

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