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ORNL Researchers Design Superionic Polymer Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (391+ words) Polymers are materials formed by long molecular chains made up of small, repeating building blocks. Well-known examples include a variety of plastics, which are usually made up of repeating units containing carbon and other atoms. The ORNL polymer electrolyte contains…...
Perovskite Crystals Sustain Electron Spin For 2 Milliseconds At Near Absolute Zero
6+ hour, 9+ min ago (414+ words) Previously, spin relaxation times in perovskite crystals lasted only tens to hundreds of nanoseconds. Now, measurements reveal these states can be maintained for up to 2 milliseconds in mixed-A-site perovskites. This extended duration establishes a new potential building block for solid-state…...
Trend of large batteries in phones: Use of silicon-carbon battery in new smartphones; One Plus-Oppo adopted, Samsung also in the race
10+ hour, 3+ min ago (319+ words) For smartphone users, battery has always been the biggest concern. Charging daily has become a habit. But now this situation is changing. Companies are working on a new battery technology that promises more battery life without increasing the phone's size....
Researchers successfully operate lithium-ion battery at frigid temperatures
6+ hour, 7+ min ago (586+ words) Aluminum could be a solution to keeping electric vehicles running longer when the mercury drops. That's because a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully tested a lithium-ion battery with an aluminum anode that operated well at minus…...
Sodium-Ion Battery Safety: Zero Thermal Runaway with New Electrolyte | 2026 - News and Statistics
8+ hour, 3+ min ago (245+ words) Index Box Search across reports, market insights, and blog stories. Sodium-Ion Battery Safety Breakthrough: Zero Thermal Runaway Achieved According to a report from ESS News, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics have published a paper detailing…...
Energy officials predict rapid buildout of battery storage technology as electricity generation surges
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (539+ words) Homeowners and utility companies are increasingly taking advantage of the many benefits offered by solar panels and battery storage. Improvements in technology have quickly enabled greater access to one of the cheapest energy sources. A report from Dennis Wamsted and…...
A Nickel-Iron Battery Patented by Thomas Edison Over a Century Ago Has Been Rebooted and Could Become the Future of Renewable Energy
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (338+ words) More than a century after its invention, Edison's nickel-iron battery is being reconsidered not for cars, but for a broader role in energy systems shaped by renewables and storage demands. As reported by Supercar Blondie, a team of international researchers…...
Is the "Holy Grail of batteries" finally ready to bless us with its presence?
11+ hour, 7+ min ago (651+ words) Finnish startup Donut Lab claims it's made a solid-state battery breakthrough. Whether you believe it or not, the technology does appear to be more than just hype. Earlier this year, a relatively unknown startup from Finland made a startling announcement:…...
Cation'Disordered Rock'Salt Lithium Titanium Oxyfluoride Anode Enabling High'Rate Li'Ion Storage Through a 3 D Percolation Network
21+ hour, 17+ min ago (317+ words) A novel low-potential cation-disordered rock-salt lithium titanium oxyfluoride (DRX-Lix Ti OF2) anode synthesized via electrochemically induced transformation enables pseudocapacitive Li+storage extending down to 0. 1 V vs. Li+/Li and delivers a high reversible capacity of~310m Ahg-1and an ultrahigh rate capability exceeding…...
Grey wolf AI model improves SOH estimation for bipolar lead-acid batteries
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (241+ words) A research team at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, led by Sunil K. Pradhan and Basab Chakraborty, has developed a grey wolf optimisation (GWO)-based hybrid regression model that significantly improves state-of-health (SOH) estimation for bipolar lead-acid batteries. The…...