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
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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
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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
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Lithium-ion batteries are, at this point, among the most popular variety of electricity-storing equipments in the world, and can be found in a wide array of applications, from mobile phones to laptops and other gadgets. However, they still hold only small amounts of electricity when compared to their size, experts s... |
23 September 2009
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