What's that powdery, crystallized stuff inside your battery case? Classic battery corrosion. While it can be a frustrating and potentially dangerous matter to resolve, it isn't usually hard to clean ...

Battery corrosion occurs naturally and usually doesn't signify a vehicle problem. If you let it build up, though, it can stop ...

Conventional lithium-ion batteries contain problematic substances such as nickel and cobalt, and the solvents used to coat ...

While modern power systems in personal electronics and larger devices have been gradually moving toward rechargeable frameworks in the interest of sustainability, there's still a lot of disposable ...

Scientists have built a new a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery anode that incorporates iron oxide, ...

Double A batteries are great. Until you leave a camera in a drawer for awhile and the batteries leak and make a mess. I was traveling and bought off-brand batteries at a gas station. The corrosion ...

California is preparing to test an unconventional battery system that could provide clean power for days instead of hours, a key step toward reducing dependence on lithium-ion storage and natural gas ...

A group of researchers found a new way to develop mobile phone batteries that may last longer than expected, up to three times more than their intended timeline. Additionally, their latest innovation ...

As you may know, we’re rather big fans of building things here at Hackaday. But we’re also quite partial to repairing things which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Especially when those things ...

Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones to electric cars, but they rely on materials that raise environmental and ethical concerns. Metals like nickel and cobalt are costly to mine, ...