This article originally appeared in the fall 2024 issue of UC San Diego Magazine as “The Battery (EV)olution” with the sidebar "Are You Ready to Make the Swap?" and the companion article "Charging ...

Li-ion batteries are starting to near their performance ceiling and performance improvements are proving increasingly difficult to come by. Trade-offs are having to be made to increase energy density ...

"Forever chemicals", the colloquial term for the family of chemicals known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), is coming under increasing regulatory pressure globally, with mounting ...

Lithium-ion batteries revolutionized the world when Sony brought them to the mass market in 1991. Compared to previous ...

Electricity is having another Thomas Edison moment of transformation this century, and it’s all thanks to lithium-ion batteries. Nearly 150 years after the American scientist patented the light bulb ...

Two years ago, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to the three scientists who led the development of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that have laid the ...

An innovative approach to battery materials could bring sodium-ion energy density and charging speeds far closer to those of ...

Laptops are the perfect middle ground between smartphones and desktop computers and provide portability without compromising on the sophistication of the tasks you can accomplish on the go. For years, ...

No matter how much you take care of your Lithium-ion power tool batteries, they'll eventually wear out from use. Over time, they suffer from capacity loss, where they no longer hold the same amount of ...

These days, batteries are found in just about every electronic device you could imagine. From phones to lawn mowers to cars, the items that make life in the modern world happen to do so with a battery ...