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Making Batteries Last 10X Longer
Reeja Jayan works with a team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, investigating the future life of spent batteries. Their…
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Battery Memory Effect and Self-Discharge
We touched on how battery performance gradually degrades in our earlier post, as a previously charged battery goes flat. But…
Battery Technical
The Miracle of Recharging a Battery
We have reached a point in our story where a battery has cycled most of its electrons to the cathode.…
Battery Technical
The Secret Battery Manager Electrolyte
Our first two posts in this short series spoke of the electrodes in a battery, and how they compete for…
Battery Technical
Standard Potentials for Half Reactions
We described how the chemistry works in a battery in our previous post, and we link to that article below.…