A biocompatible battery that runs on oxygen circulating in the body could one day provide continuous power to implantable medical devices
Read article: Implantable and biocompatible battery powered by the body’s own oxygen
Material contains special bandgap states that efficiently absorb light at crucial solar wavelengths
Read article: New photovoltaic 2D material breaks quantum efficiency record
High-performance battery cyclers offer reliable, accurate and repeatable test sequences in R&D and production settings
Read article: Battery cyclers: shedding light on the detail of electrochemical materials and devices
New material allows lithium ions to move in 3D and could compete with liquid electrolytes in mainstream Li-ion battery technologies
Read article: Solid-state battery electrolyte makes a fast lithium-ion conductor
Materials expert Krzysztof Koziol also talks about hydrogen-powered aircraft
Read article: Graphene-based materials show great promise for hydrogen transport and storage
Findings could help improve cell efficiencies still further, say physicists
Read article: Shallow defects drive slow recombination, high efficiency in perovskite solar cells
New work explains why rechargeable batteries break down
Read article: Leaky insulating layer reduces battery lifetime
New way of recovering material from lithium-ion devices also requires much less acid than other methods
Read article: Flash heating technique extracts valuable metals from battery waste quickly and cheaply
Anchored droplets of ionic liquids collect enough charge to power a pocket calculator
Read article: Droplet-based ‘wind farms’ harvest low-speed wind energy
New device could be incorporated into the concrete foundation of a building
Read article: Cement-based supercapacitor makes a novel energy storage system
