The flowless zinc-bromine battery (FLZBB) is a promising alternative to flammable lithium-ion batteries due to its use of non-flammable electrolytes. However, it suffers from self-discharge due to the ...

Due to cheaper cost, ease of production and environmental benefits, battery makers and electric vehicle manufacturers have long pursued dry processes for building electrodes. A new dry-processed ...

Tin can be processed into a highly porous foam. An interdisciplinary team at HZB has investigated how this tin foam (pictured) behaves as a battery electrode. Metal-based electrodes in lithium-ion ...

To make electric vehicles more practical and attractive to consumers, lithium-ion batteries need some improvements. Mainly, they need to hold much more energy per weight to allow vehicles to go longer ...

Thicker battery electrodes pack in more active materials, promising higher energy density. However, when it comes to lithium-ion battery performance, electrode materials' thermodynamic properties ...

ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AM Batteries (AMB), a pioneer in lithium-ion dry-electrode technology, and Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), a world leading innovator in lithium-ion battery production, ...

Scientists experimenting with key components in lithium batteries have come up with a promising new design that could one day see electric vehicles charge much faster, and offer twice the range at the ...

The lifespan of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and the related capacity fade are primarily influenced by the degradation of electrodes due to the deactivation of active materials. Studying this ...

The relative rigidity of batteries can be a problematic constraint when designing and packaging a product. This is especially the case for IoT-related applications such as wearables and IoT nodes, ...

The novel electrodes effectively suppress the crossover of bromine and bromine complexes, thus preventing self-discharge and enhancing the electrochemical performance and cycling stability of flowless ...