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Vanadium Flow Finds a Home in Grid Storage
It had to happen eventually. There have been one too many thermal runaways with lithium…
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An Isolated Risk of Pacemaker Battery Failure
We have high regard for the Medtronic company that has been making battery powered pacemakers…
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Fast L-Ion Charging Under a Microscopic Eye
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory decided to microscopically observe a lithium-ion battery during fast l-ion…
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Phone Charging Overnight Shortens Life
How many of us don’t have the habit of putting our phones on charge overnight…
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Lithium Battery Sponge Soaks Up Catholyte
Researchers at the Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology may have made a…
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Battery Explosions Threaten Lithium-Ion Edge
Lithium-ion batteries have dominated bulk energy storage from the beginning. However, lead-acid and redox flow…
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Large Battery Powered Ships on Horizon
We found a post by Daphne Leprince-Ringuet in Wired intriguing. She thinks ‘the next frontier…
Battery Basics
When Human Life Equates to Battery Life
Few of us would equate a human life to a battery life at first thought.…
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Graphene Coat Could Stop Lithium Fires
It’s never nice wondering whether the lithium battery in our phone could suddenly overheat in…
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UCI Student Stumbles over ‘Everlasting Battery’
When Eveready batteries branded itself as The American Every Ready Company in 1905, we can…