Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries
BATTERY POWER BRIEF | This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists — John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino — for…
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Sandwich-Style Sulfur Electrode Improves Energy Density
BATTERY POWER NEWS | Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology have created a sandwich-structured electrode using a novel material that could make high capacity…
Explosive: How to Qualify Battery Safety And Prevent Failures
BATTERY POWER INSIGHTS | With increasing frequency, we hear about lithium ion battery explosions on the news. It is imperative for companies to have a…
Tesla May Soon Have a Battery That Can Last a Million Miles
BATTERY POWER BRIEF | Elon Musk promised Tesla would soon have a million-mile battery, more than double what drivers can expect today. A new paper…
Lithium Ion Batteries and the Future of Grid-Scale Energy Storage
BATTERY POWER INSIGHTS | Roger Lin believes batteries—particularly lithium ion—may hold the power to salvage our electrical grid. Lin, who is the Vice President of Marketing at…
Thermal Runaway: Understanding the Fundamentals to Ensure Safer Batteries
BATTERY POWER INSIGHTS | Lithium-ion battery thermal runaway occurs when a cell, or area within the cell, achieves elevated temperatures due to thermal failure, mechanical…
Ironing Out the Technical Details of Fe-ion Batteries
BATTERY POWER NEWS | Recently, a group of physics researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Chennai, India, have proposed and filed a…
