New way to keep lithium metal batteries from catching fire
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a safety feature that prevents lithium metal batteries from rapidly heating up and catching fire...
Fast-charging could damage electric car batteries
Just 25 industry-standard fast charging cycles can ruin a car’s batteries.
Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that...
New electric car battery could last for 1 million miles
A new lithium-ion battery for electric cars is safe, has high power, and can last for a million miles.
Electric car batteries typically require a...
World’s smelliest fruit could charge your smartphone
Imagine if we could use naturally-grown products, like plants and fruit, to store electricity that charges commonly used electronics like smartphones, tablets, laptops or...
Layered solar cells gain highest power-conversion efficiencies to date
The future's getting brighter for solar power.
Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to...
New multi-material solar cells set new efficiency standard
Scientists create highly efficient and stable tandem solar cell, one of the best-performing reported to date.
Researchers from the University of Toronto Engineering and King...
High energy Li-Ion battery is safer for electric vehicles
A lithium-ion battery that is safe, has high power and can last for 1 million miles has been developed by a team in Penn...
Graphene, perovskites, and silicon — an ideal tandem for efficient solar cells
Graphene Flagship researchers successfully combined graphene with tandem perovskite-silicon solar cells to achieve efficiencies of up to 26.3%.
Moreover, they envisioned a new manufacturing method...
Potassium metal battery emerges as a rival to lithium-ion technology
From smartphones to solar power, to electric cars, humanity is increasingly dependent on batteries.
As demand for safe, efficient, and powerful energy storage continues to...
Data centers aren’t the energy hogs we thought
Although demand for data has increased rapidly, massive efficiency gains by data centers have kept their energy use roughly flat over the past decade,...