Generating electricity from renewable sources will soon become as easy as putting a brush and a tube in a tub of wastewater. A carbon fiber, bottle-brush anode developed by Penn State researchers will ...

Conventional batteries have anodes and cathodes, but a new design from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego lacks an anode. While this has been done before, according ...

Tesla confirmed the rumors that it cracked the dry battery electrode (DBE) manufacturing process, paving the way for much cheaper cells. The EV maker built a Cybertruck prototype using dry cathode ...

During the oil crisis of the 1970s, a chemist at Exxon named M. Stanley Whittingham, working on a new type of rechargeable battery, discovered that lithium ions could slip inside the gaps in a layered ...

Silicon has long been seen as a promising anode material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries because it can store much ...