It’s Big and Long-Lived, and It Won’t Catch Fire: The Vanadium Redox-Flow Battery
Move over, lithium ion: Vanadium flow batteries finally become competitive for grid-scale energy storage
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The Search for a Better Battery
The classic combination of government research funding and entrepreneurial gumption won’t take energy storage to the next level anytime soon
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Nanomembrane May Bring Rechargeable Lithium-Metal Batteries Back
Nanomaterial looks to buoy the prospects of lithium-metal batteries
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No More Exploding Hoverboards? Stanford's Nano-Nickel Sheets Can Prevent Battery Fires
A battery that shuts down before dangerously overheating and restarts when it cools may just be a matter of adding a bit of plastic and some nanoparticles
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Is Apple “Poaching” or Just “Hiring” For Its Rumored Electric Car Project?
An East Coast company files suit; Tesla’s Musk appears to like competing with Apple for engineers
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Used Cigarette Filters Could Enable Next Generation of Supercapacitors
Where nanomaterials have thus far struggled, cigarette butts could offer the solution
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Layer of Nanospheres Enables a Pure Lithium Battery Anode
Thought of as the "Holy Grail" of Li-ion batteries, nanomaterials could make possible a lithium anode
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Li-ion Batteries with Nanotube Anodes Charge Phones in Ten Minutes
Charge and discharge rates are 16 times faster than coventional Li-ion batteries
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Ford and Samsung Team Up on Regenerative Braking for Non-Hybrids
Lead-acid batteries could become obsolete
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Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Join Forces to Tackle Supercapacitors
Combining the two wonder materials could lead to low-cost, high-performance electrodes for supecapacitors