Lithium cobalt phosphate crystals viewed with an electron microscope. Image source: Katia Rodewald/TUM. It’s no secret that the limited storage capacity of rechargeable batteries is perhaps the single ...

A major breakthrough in battery science reveals why promising single-crystal lithium-ion batteries haven’t lived up to ...

Electric vehicles promise low running costs and cleaner streets, yet many drivers discover their range shrinking long before ...

Power on the go is in demand: The higher the battery capacity, the larger the range of electric cars and the longer the operating time of cell phones and laptops. Dr. Jennifer Ludwig of the Technical ...

Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have ...

Schematic illustration of oxygen-breathing Scientists have developed a special type of crystal with oxygen-breathing abilities that could be used in clean energy technologies and next-generation ...

Surprising finding Optical microscope image of a representative crystal that possesses centrosymmetry, yet shows differential absorption of circularly polarized light. The crystal is made of lithium, ...

A new study shows that promising single-crystal battery materials degrade for reasons scientists hadn’t fully recognized before. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker Sch ...

Researchers have made a new family of materials in a rainbow of hues that can change color as they are heated and return to their original color when cooled (Chem. Mater. 2019, DOI: ...

A research group at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have published in Science about a new method to convert inexpensive polycrystalline ...

Power on the go is in demand: The higher the battery capacity, the larger the range of electric cars and the longer the operating time of cell phones and laptops. Researchers have now developed a ...