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Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) is a compound that was discovered about a decade and a half ago. Though it is one of the most promising materials for rechargeable batteries, no one managed to discover how it actually worked until a paper published this week appeared.
The study is a continuation of a paper that was... |
8 February 2012
10:12 GMT |
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One of the main difficulties associated with using electric cars today is the fact that they have a limited range on existing battery packs. Researchers at the Stanford University think they can address this challenge by constructing highways that use wireless energy transfer to recharge batteries on the go.
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2 February 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Stanford University investigators announce the development of a new type of electrode, which could make it possible for experts to design and construct batteries capable of grid-level energy storage.
Based on the clever use of nanoparticles, these electrodes could set the foundation for a new generation of batterie... |
24 November 2011
06:04 GMT |
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The next generation of lithium-ion batteries could recharge in just 15 minutes, and remain operational for at least a week, according to a new report from scientists at the Northwestern University.
The group developed a new method for boosting battery efficiency, which relies heavily on the use of a bi-dimensional ... |
16 November 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Eager to show just what its robots and AA rechargeable batteries can do, Panasonic sent its Evolta toy-sized robot on a big run, which was really more of a combination between a swimming contest, a biking dash and a marathon.
On October 23, the company sent three Evoltas on a trip through water and dust, intending ... |
1 November 2011
06:39 GMT |
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Stanford University associate professor of materials science and engineering Yi Cui and his team were recently able to develop a superior rechargeable lithium battery cathode, a device which they say contains carbon nanofibers that are hollow on the inside, and coated with sulfur.
In addition, a new electrolyte a... |
5 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A group of physicists at the Rice University announces the completion of an advanced energy-storage device, a supercapacitor that is based on nanotubes. The instrument shows tremendous potential for use in extreme environments, which may include other worlds. Currently, a massive international research effort is taki... |
23 August 2011
03:17 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to understand why a material widely used for creating lithium-ion batteries actually works.Up until now, lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) has been heavily used to produce the posi... |
12 August 2011
08:25 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Rice University announces the development of a new type of battery, which is fashioned directly into a nanoscale wire. Scientists in the research group believe that this may very well represent the equivalent of the lithium-ion battery at the small scale. Almost every piece of electron... |
29 July 2011
11:04 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Stanford University, in the United States, announces the development of a new type of lithium-ion battery that is both transparent and highly-flexible. The new energy-storage device could have tremendous uses for the electronics industry, the group says.Interestingly, the researchers managed ... |
26 July 2011
05:01 GMT |
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It is sufficiently obvious by now that lithium-ion batteries will remain a staple of modern electronics for years to come, until fuel cell technology is sufficiently mature to take to the market. A Chinese startup is now taking its shot at fame, by improving an electrode material used in these batteries. The Beijing-... |
12 July 2011
11:01 GMT |
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A group of physicists in the United States announces the development of a new method for imaging the internal structure of a material called Nafion. The advanced polymer is tremendously useful for constructing batteries, and the innovation could make it even more so. Now that the material's inner structure can b... |
20 June 2011
03:54 GMT |
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In an move that could see the widespread adoption of electric vehicles finally taking place, experts in the United States were recently able to create a new battery design. They say that the innovation could finally allow electric vehicles to have the range and speed people expect of them.Researchers at the Massachus... |
6 June 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Fremont, California-based company Leyden Energy is currently working on developing a new type of chemistry for lithium-ion batteries. If these efforts succeed, then experts here may develop batteries that do not overheat like traditional ones do, leading to new applications. One of the most exciting prospects is the ... |
25 May 2011
04:48 GMT |
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A team of experts says that it managed to develop a new type of ultracapacitors that can be used to store between 5 and 7 times the amount of electricity that “fits” into conventional ultracapacitors. The achievement was made possible by scientists working with the Mountain View, California-based startup ... |
5 May 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Today, we are used to waiting for at least several hours for our gadgets to recharge their batteries. This is true for laptops, cell phones, tablet PC and mp3 players, among other devices. But experts say that, soon enough, batteries could recharge as fast as a couple of minutes.A technology demonstrated recently sho... |
11 April 2011
03:51 GMT |
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Since there are so many portable gadgets in need of recharging on the go out there, Scosche has decided to lend their owners a helping hand and introduced the goBAT II, a portable battery capable of recharging two devices at the same time.Of course, we're talking about a product that targets a fairly competitive... |
21 February 2011
06:53 GMT |
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Protective smartphone skins that also come packed with built-in extra batteries are some pretty hot items these days (given the fact that they're capable of seriously expanding the functioning life offered by the aforementioned mobile devices), and for this reason, we were quite eager to check out the PowerSkin,... |
18 February 2011
06:29 GMT |
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I'm not quite sure about you, but I tend to carry around quite a serious amount of gadgets every time I go for a drive, most of which are USB powered, and for this reason, a device that would let me charge them while moving from one location to the next on four wheels seems like a pretty good idea.And, in fact, ... |
27 January 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Just about everyone carries an USB flash drive around nowadays, and while the number of devices that are still powered by AA batteries, instead of rechargeable Li-Ion units is constantly decreasing, the truth of the matter is that combining these two concepts seems like a really interesting idea.In fact, that's ... |
18 January 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Investigators at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) announce the development of a new type of nanoscale-engineered battery, that is capable of accumulating energy about 40 times faster than today's top lithium-ion batteries. This remarkable power density was made possible by the latest advancements in na... |
5 January 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Once one gets himself/herself an iPhone 4, letting go is not exactly an option, and for this reason, the people over at Incase have recently introduced the Snap Battery Case, that comes packed with a rechargeable power pack and can actually push the Apple smartphone's battery life up to 40 percent, compared to t... |
10 December 2010
10:40 GMT |
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Ultracapacitors are energy-storing devices that can both absorb and release electricity very fast. However, they can only store very little energy inside. A group of American researchers may have fixed this issue, with a little help from a heavily-researched carbon compound.The science team, based at Nanotek Instrume... |
8 December 2010
18:01 GMT |
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If you're the type of person who spends so much time with their iPhone 4 that the handset's battery tends to get depleated really, really fast, then you'll most certainly be interested in the device you'll read about as follows, namely the Boost Case from HRL Tech.According to the manufacturer, be... |
5 December 2010
07:31 GMT |
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Back in 2000, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) professor of materials science and engineering Gerhard Welsch proposed an idea for a revolutionary type of capacitor that was way ahead of its time. Now, need has caught up the world of ideas, and the prototype is getting a lot of attention.Manufacturers of hybrid ... |
2 December 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Thinking that batteries don't get as much attention as they should, Panasonic decided to show off what some of them can do by having them power a robot while it traveled across Japan. Robotics have been their own branch of science for a very long time, and it seems that one of them has now been used for someth... |
27 November 2010
06:58 GMT |
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Despite of the fact that more and more consumer electronics rely rather on rechargeable, internal Li-Ion power packs, there are still plenty of gadgets out there that still work on AA and AAA batteries, and for this reason, Sanyo has just outed a new series of AA- and AAA-size "eneloop" rechargeable batteries with ap... |
17 November 2010
02:12 GMT |
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There are plenty of accessories designed specifically for Apple's various portable devices in general and the iPhone in particular available out there, on the market, but the most useful of them, by far, are those capable of enhancing the smartphone's functioning life via a built-in battery. And, in fact, ... |
17 November 2010
01:43 GMT |
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If organic flexible displays are somewhat of a normal occurrence by now the same thing can't be said about flexible batteries, but NEC is set to change all that, its super-thin Organic Radical Battery (ORB) showing us that batteries can be flexible too.Coming in about as large as a coin and only 0.7mm thick, the... |
10 November 2010
02:56 GMT |
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Given the enormous success recorded by Apple's iPad tablet all over the world, it should come as no surprise that we're seeing literally tons of accessories designed specifically for it arrive in stores, the latest we've come across, namely the PadPower from Japanese company SolidMicro, combining two f... |
19 October 2010
04:15 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States has developed a method of improving silicon's ability to absorb lithium ions, an achievement that may lead to the development of higher-capacity lithium-ion batteries. The team, made up of researchers at the Rice University and Lockheed Martin, says that it has devel... |
15 October 2010
04:57 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) announces the creation of a new design that would swipe away some of the obstacles preventing the creation of improved rechargeable batteries.The team managed this feat by producing new layouts for sodi... |
12 October 2010
11:35 GMT |
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A company announces that it has developed a series of batteries that can store 200 percent more electricity than anything else currently on the market. The firm has been opened for 18 months.Engineers with the Menlo Park, California-based Amprius say that their approach to developing batteries relies on the use ... |
17 September 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of St Andrews in the UK are working on developing molecular system for batteries that can be recharged by light alone. The innovation could mean that future batteries will be able to produce, and then store their own electricity. Unlike existing photovoltaic cells, which produce... |
12 August 2010
01:46 GMT |
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Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, are working on improving the performances of water-based lithium-ion batteries. This might just be the new safer and cheaper way of storing power from solar panels or wind turbines.Common lithium-ion batteries are made from two electrodes within a liquid electrolyte... |
9 August 2010
03:07 GMT |
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For many years, researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been renowned around the country for their involvement in battery studies,. Physicists here have studied everything from advanced power storage devices to fuel cells, and this made them th... |
30 July 2010
03:12 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States, featuring scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Drexel University believes it may have finally solved a very limiting problem plaguing electronics today. The researchers say that batteries are at ... |
26 April 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Electric cars are not about to be implemented at a wide-scale soon. This is the painful truth, and there are a wide variety of causes for that, including high initial prices, high maintenance costs, and a lack of appropriate infrastructure. However, experts working on a new study funded by the US National Science Fou... |
19 February 2010
20:01 GMT |
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A research team that was already involved in developing one of the most groundbreaking medical devices in history is now working on improving its original design, which was made available in the 1980s. The scientists, based at the University of Buffalo (UB), created lithium/silver vanadium oxide batteries to power im... |
11 February 2010
10:30 GMT |
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Scientists have recently created a new type of sensor, one that is capable of working almost around the clock. The device could enable a wide array of new medical implants that could be used in situations where conventional sensors are too large, bulky, or have insufficient battery life. This particular machine is ve... |
10 February 2010
02:44 GMT |
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Scientists in Germany and China have recently set forth a new hypothesis, saying that using a special type of carbon nanocables in battery construction could help increase these devices' efficiency and capacity considerably. They add that titanium dioxide (TiO2)-coated carbon nanotubes (CNT) have proven to be ve... |
29 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A new British study seems to suggest that the best possible way to ensure that greenhouse-gas emissions from cars are reduced is to make petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles smaller and lighter. According to the Oxford University team behind the investigation, this needs to be done in a drastic manner, as in considera... |
18 January 2010
04:27 GMT |
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According to recent statistics, the United States alone consume more than seven million barrels of gasoline each day, in order for people to power up their cars. Transportation systems around the world are currently being placed under increased strain, and it seems that there is no solution available to replace fossi... |
22 December 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recently proposed a new battery design that could lead to the emergence of an entire class of new devices. The digital quantum battery is a concept that could, at least theoretically, exceed the performances of its lithium-ion competitors by several or... |
21 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Using little more than average office paper, a group of scientists has been able to produce batteries that are both printable and moldable. The achievement is very important because it opens the way for production processes, which could see the manufacturing of computers, cell phones and solar panels from this new ma... |
9 December 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Cellulose has for a long time been touted as a material that is capable to provide the foundation for a new type of batteries, that could power up small applications. For instance, they could be used in gift wraps, that could light up and say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Birthday.” But what phy... |
26 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have recently discovered that defects that are artificially induced in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may have the ability to significantly boost research in the field of supercapacitors. The scientists behind the innovation explain that these devices incorporat... |
20 November 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Scientists at the Tucson, Arizona-based Sion Power Corporation (SPC) have recently been awarded an $800,000, three-year grant for studying the complex properties of lithium-sulfur batteries. The company is a world leader in the field, with more than 100 national and international patents on the technology pending or ... |
15 November 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Scottsdale, AZ-based Fluidic Energy, a spin-off from Arizona State University (ASU), recently managed to secure the fundings it needed to continue its research into making ionic liquid energy storage feasible, Technology Review reports. According to experts at the company, the metal-air batteries that would result fr... |
5 November 2009
22:01 GMT |
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Next year will see the commercialization of the first batches of zinc-air batteries, a new class of power-storing devices that can hold up to three times more electricity than existing lithium-ion batteries. The new devices will be released in a very small form at first, for use in devices such as hearing aids and ot... |
28 October 2009
05:56 GMT |
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