Louise Lerner,
Argonne National Laboratory

Imagine dropping your phone on the hard concrete sidewalk, but when you pick it up, you find its battery has already healed itself. A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are exploring ways to design batteries that heal themselves when damaged. Read more about Battery, Heal Thyself: Inventing Self-Repairing Batteries …