A battery electrolyte that is solid at normal temperatures yet still conducts ions could make lithium batteries safer and longer lasting by replacing flammable liquids.

CATL has successfully doubled the life of LMB battery cell prototypes with an energy density of 500 Wh/kg. The breakthrough came through the use of a new type of lithium salt for the battery ...

According to research published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition recently, a team led by Prof. HU Linhua. from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Science develop ...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory have used a machine learning model to identify new chemical “medicines” for batteries. By training the model on a small dataset, the team predicted effective ...

Hands wearing blue gloves hold a flat, white piece of flexible material Researchers made this stretchy, quasi-solid electrolyte from lithium salts and water using mechanochemistry. Credit: Adv. Mater.

Scientists in South Korea have discovered a way to make all-solid-state batteries safer and more powerful using inexpensive materials. Instead of adding costly metals, they redesigned the battery’s ...

The growing demand for portable electronic devices and electric vehicles (EV) has increased the need for rechargeable batteries. Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) are the current state of the art in this ...