Battery Basics
Balancing Flow of Ions in the Electrolyte
On first sight the electrolyte plays a secondary role in a storage battery. However, when…
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Battery Basics
Battery Basics
Electrode Chemistry Inside a Storage Battery
We established in a previous post how electrons travel between electrodes in a battery to…
Battery Basics
The Chemistry of an Electric Battery
A battery stores chemical energy, and converts it to electricity when a device draws it.…
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M Stanley Whittingham Father of Intercalation
Developing the lithium-ion battery was far from being the flash of inspiration that occurred with…
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Lightweight Lithium Metal Takes Center Stage
Lithium is the metal with lowest density, meaning least compactness. It also has the greatest…
Battery Basics
Battery Memory Effect and Self-Discharge
We touched on how battery performance gradually degrades in our earlier post, as a previously…
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Standard Potentials for Half Reactions
We described how the chemistry works in a battery in our previous post, and we…
Battery Technical
Plastic Batteries From Conductive Polymers
Engineers have made a variety of different types of batteries in the past several decades.…
Battery Technical
Chemistry of a Battery Part 2: Electrolyte
The electrodes we see peeping out of battery casings are just one part of the…
Battery Basics
Lead Acid Battery Chemistry Simplified for You
A lead acid battery comprises acid and lead sheets we call electrolyte and electrodes. Those…