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Sandia Develops Paper-Thin Battery Health Detector To Be Embedded In Batteries

Allison Proffitt January 29, 2020

BATTERY POWER NEWS | A paper-thin radio-frequency detector designed to work inside a lithium-ion battery provides information about battery health while charging and discharging. The…

SPARKZ Licenses Oak Ridge Cobalt-Free Technology

Allison Proffitt February 5, 2020

BATTERY POWER NEWS | Energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed…

Stanford Team Develops Fireproof Solid State Electrolyte

Allison Proffitt February 7, 2020

BATTERY POWER NEWS | A team of researchers from Stanford University has developed a fireproof, ultralightweight polymer-polymer solid-state electrolyte. The solution could provide increased energy…

Nobel Laureate On The Future Of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Allison Proffitt February 13, 2020

BATTERY POWER NEWS | Stanley Whittingham by no means believes that lithium ion batteries are a solved problem. The winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize…

Tubular Arrays to Solve Chemical and Mechanical Challenges of Lithium Metal Batteries

Allison Proffitt February 20, 2020

BATTERY POWER NEWS | In a Nature paper published earlier this month, Professor Ju Li, MIT, and collaborators reported that materials that possess both ionic and…

Why the LG Chem Advertisement about Lithium-ion Batteries is Irresponsible

Allison Proffitt February 28, 2020

BATTERY POWER INSIGHTS | On February 3, 2020, LG Chem, a battery manufacturing giant, released an advertisement telling the public not to use (handle) lithium-ion…

Optimizing Battery Lifetime under Fast Charging Conditions through Machine Learning and Experimental Design

Benjamin Ross March 3, 2020

BATTERY POWER NEWS | High-throughput and accelerated aging tests have been used to try to tackle the numerous variables and long experimental times in battery…