The performance and safety profile of lithium batteries has improved immensely over the years, but new technologies are constantly demanding even better performance and increased safety demands due to ...

Lithium-ion batteries face safety concerns as a result of internal separator issues which often lead to short circuits. Scientists have now developed a method to improve the stability and properties ...

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has built a polymer electrolyte that moves lithium ions through solid material up to 10 billion times faster than the polymer matrix around them, a ...

Researchers at KAIST have achieved a significant extension of battery life purely through the design of the electrode surface. Schematic of an ultrathin artificial polymer layer (15 nm thick) ...

UK-based Superdielectrics has launched the second-generation version of its polymer battery, the Faraday 2, aimed squarely at residential energy storage. The system is designed as a home-scale ...