Battery Basics
Charging and Discharging Lead-Acid Batteries
A lead-acid battery stores electrical energy, but in the form of chemical energy it converts…
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Battery Basics
Battery Basics
What Goes on Inside Batteries
Would you like to know what goes on inside batteries? It’s quite simple really, although…
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New Composite Solid Polymer Electrolyte
Traditional solid polymer electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries have several drawbacks. That’s because they have low…
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Alkaline Fuel Cells with Cheaper Membranes
Hydrogen fuel cells have proved almost prohibitively expensive on account of their manufacturing cost, and…
Battery Technical
Better Solid State Batteries with New Pathways
Superior safety and higher energy density make better solid state batteries appear an obvious choice.…
Battery Basics
Anode and Cathode Making a Perfect Pair
Every battery we know has an anode, a cathode, some electrolyte, and a case enclosing…
Battery Experiments
What Happens Inside a Leclanche Cell?
Okay, so you went on a school expedition where they showed you a Leclanche cell?…
Battery Basics
Why Some Fruit and Veg Conduct Electricity
That old fruit battery experiment comes around each year, as regular as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and…
Battery Basics
Overall Battery Potential Determines Voltage
We spoke about electrode potential in a previous post, and the need to balance it…
Battery Basics
The Chemistry of an Electric Battery
A battery stores chemical energy, and converts it to electricity when a device draws it.…