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Why Lithium-Ion Batteries Swell and Fail
A lithium-ion battery can sometimes develop a disturbing physical change. Its case begins to bulge, a phone may no longer…
Dual-Ion Batteries Waiting For Their Moment
Dual-ion batteries waiting for their moment, are an emerging energy storage technology we have been monitoring for a while. They differ from conventional batteries…
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Lithium-ion batteries have powered smartphones, laptops, power tools – and more recently electric vehicles – for more than thirty years.…
Few people could have forecast how lithium-ion batteries have changed our world, when Sony introduced it in 1981. The new…
The lithium-ion revolution had many ground troops supporting it. Although historians often focus on Nobel Chemistry Prize winners Whittingham, Goodenough and Yoshino.…
There were two important discoveries made by the early 1980’s. Whittingham had shown that lithium ions could move between battery…