May 20, 2025 · One of lithium-ion battery technology’s biggest challenges is metal electrode degradation, which researchers are looking to solve with an unlikely material: tin foam.

May 18, 2021 · Lithium-ion batteries, spurred by the growth in mobile phone, tablet, and laptop computer markets, have been pushed to achieve increasingly higher energy densities, which are directly …

Oct 24, 2019 · More precisely, the tower allows battery-abuse researchers to drop up to 500 pounds on a lithium-ion cell from the nearly 8-foot height. The researchers want to learn exactly how lithium-ion …

Oct 24, 2018 · Researchers are working on new ways to make lithium-ion batteries safer, including improved internal designs, enhanced anode and cathode chemistries, and less flammable electrolyte …

Jul 22, 2025 · Lithium plating on the graphite anode degrades performance and can lead to fires. A mesoscale model offers a tool for predicting when plating starts and how quickly it progresses. Fast …

Jun 1, 2023 · Scientists develop a way to make polymer electrolytes, a key component for safer lithium-ion batteries, from waste polyethylene terephthalate bottles.

Sep 28, 2023 · The phenomenon that makes lithium-ion batteries possible also makes the battery a potential tool for desalination, with just a little laser-made channeling.

An original contribution on ultrasonic metal welding (USMW), particularly for the manufacturing of lithium-ion (li-ion) battery cells, modules, and EV packs. Hardcover, 861257.

Sep 28, 2023 · Zinc is one material being developed in the quest to improve on lithium-ion batteries, or even replace them. But zinc-air solutons are not easy because oxidation and reduction within the …

Aug 18, 2025 · The limits of lithium-ion “The solid battery has a high theoretical capacity or high theoretical energy density,” said Hongtao Sun, a professor of industrial and manufacturing …