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3D View of Melting Li-ion Batteries Helps Improve Safety

Mila Luleva — Fri, 01 May 2015 18:37:40 +0000

Engineers from University College London put lithium-ion batteries to the most challenging of tests in order to find ways to improve safety. When it comes to energy storage, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are currently the leaders by miles. We all have them around us, or even on us, for the majority of the day, probably without […]

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Illinois Researchers Create 3D Battery Electrode That Could Make EVs Charge In Minutes

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:13:54 +0000

The big problem with nowadays' batteries is that they charge and discharge slowly. They can be made to charge and discharge faster at the price of their shortened lifetime, but that's not a solution at all. Supercapacitors may offer fast charge/discharge rates, but their capacity is just not very high. A hybrid of these two would be perfect.

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Coating Nanowires With Plexiglas Could Yield Better And Safer Batteries

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:11:38 +0000

A team of researchers from Rice University have taken lithium ion batteries to their next step of evolution. Their aim to develop three-dimensional batteries is now closer to reality by the implementation of a PMMA polymer (aka plexiglas) encasing the arrays of nickel-tin nanowires than make up the anode.

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