A lithium-ion battery may have fewer parts than a combustion engine, but it's no less complex. It involves an intricate interplay of materials that influences an electric vehicle’s range, charging ...

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Cathodes play a dominant role in defining cell energy density, and also make up a significant proportion of cell costs, due to the use of high-cost metals such as cobalt, nickel and lithium. Standard ...

From the beginning of the electrification evolution, the U.S. has struggled to keep up with the Chinese battery giants, and has also fallen behind Europe in some battery production and adoption areas.

Researchers from POSTECH and Sogang University developed a functional polymeric binder for stable, high-capacity anode material that could increase the current EV range at least 10-fold over current ...

Lithium-ion batteries are powering a revolutionary transition to electric vehicles. But booming battery use will eventually create a mountain of spent batteries—and very few are currently recycled. A ...

Update: This article has been updated with a comment from Mercedes-Benz. Just like cars and gadgets, battery technology evolves in phases. Sometimes you get breakthroughs, other times things get ...

The rapid evolution of lithium-ion batteries has driven significant research into novel anode materials that offer improved safety, enhanced rate capabilities, and prolonged cycle life. Traditionally, ...

Materials science ain’t easy. And it’s especially difficult when it comes to the batteries that power our smart home, wearable, and mobile devices; more specifically, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.

Incorporating silicon into battery anodes has the potential to drastically improve charge and discharge performance in everything from phones to cars. In fact, the technology has been one of those ...

We've been covering the exploration and development of silicon battery anodes for well over a decade, but most of the breakthroughs have come at laboratory level. The past few years have seen the ...