A sensor buried in a farm field has two ways to stay powered. A battery that will die. Or a solar panel that will get caked ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, Tesla announced a breakthrough battery that would be much cheaper to produce while offering higher energy density thanks to new technologies like dry cathode coating and silicone anode.

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

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 ...