Battery Basics
Batteries Will Be With Us For Ever
We will probably always have batteries of some size or type with us, because we…
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Battery Basics
Battery Basics
Back to Battery Operating Principles
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta devised the operating principles of all batteries in 1799. Others…
Battery Basics
Optimizing Battery Performance for Climate
Perhaps the times really are a-changing, or maybe the extreme temperatures some are experiencing are…
Battery Basics
How Do Electro-Chemical Batteries Work
We use the term ‘electro-chemical’ because this article is about conventional batteries. Our scope therefore…
Battery Basics
Two Basic Lead-Acid Battery Designs
The first batteries were vertical piles of metal discs, with material between them soaked in…
Battery Basics
Inner Workings of Lead-Acid Batteries
Lead-acid batteries have been the mainstay of the energy storage industry for over a century…
Battery Technical
Bipolar Battery Dual-Purpose Electrodes
Bipolar batteries use an electrode that is both an anode and a cathode. This potentially…
Battery Technical
Electro-Chemical Applications in Industry
We round off our short series of articles about electro-chemistry, by reviewing common electro-chemical applications…
Battery Experiments
Global Battery Experiment for School Kids
The Royal Society of Chemistry founded in London in 1877 as the Institute of Chemistry,…
Battery Basics
Lead-Acid Battery Assembly and Chemistry
A modern lead-acid battery assembly still reflects Gaston Planté’s original 1859 concept, of diluted sulfuric…