Solid-state batteries are often viewed as a promising path toward safer and more powerful energy storage. However, one key ...

A neutron-based mapping technique has been used to track the movement of lithium ions ...

Batteries are part of everyday life, powering everything from phones and laptops to electric cars. Most rechargeable ...

Researchers solved the mystery of how soft lithium dendrites crack the hard ceramic inside solid-state batteries, triggering ...

MIT researchers have made a new discovery that could pave the way for solid-state lithium battery development. Solid-state lithium batteries could offer a lightweight, compact, and safe alternative to ...

Lithium may be the key component in most modern batteries, but it doesn’t make up the bulk of the material used in them. Instead, much of the material is in the electrodes, where the lithium gets ...

It has taken years of toiling away in their labs, but developers of lithium-ion batteries made with solid electrolytes—known as solid-state batteries or SSBs—are moving toward commercialization of the ...

Jody Only is an author and photographer. Within the last five years in the auto industry, she has had bylines with TopSpeed, HotCars, LSXmag, Engine Labs, Chevy HardCore, and Street Muscle. She is a ...

Recent research published in Science introduces a promising solid electrolyte material that could improve the performance of next-generation lithium batteries, particularly at lower temperatures.

Lithium–sulfur batteries could store substantially more energy than conventional lithium-ion batteries while relying on sulfur, an abundant and ...

In conventional battery systems, the electrolyte is usually a liquid solution containing lithium salts. Solid-state batteries, in contrast, are electrochemical energy storage devices in which the ...

The success of a promising class of next-generation batteries may hinge on something almost impossibly thin: a coating just a ...