Lithium replaces petrol in British sports car
02 May, 2011 byHigh speed, high performance, high power - it used to mean high fossil fuel consumption.
Wax, soap clean up obstacles to better batteries
11 February, 2011 byA little wax and soap can help build electrodes for cheaper lithium-ion batteries, according to a study published in Nano Letters.
Electric vehicle battery management
20 January, 2011Nuvation Engineering has developed a custom battery management system, fuel gauge and driver interface for electric vehicles.
Building better batteries from the nanoscale up
14 January, 2011A nanostructured lithium-ion battery developed at Rice University may charge faster and last longer than Li-ion batteries in current use. Nanowires with a PMMA polymer coating solve a long-standing problem of forming ultrathin electrolyte layers around nanostructured electrodes.
Virus may lead to better batteries
26 October, 2010Scientists have reported progress in using a common virus to develop improved materials for high-performance, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that could be woven into clothing to power portable electronic devices.
Linear Technology LTM8061 and LTM8062 system-in-a-package uModule charger range
19 October, 2010 byThe LTM8061 and LTM8062 are the first devices in a new family of system-in-a-package uModule chargers, and support an output current up to 2 A.
Linear Technology LTM8061 and LTM8062 system-in-a-package uModule charger range
19 October, 2010The LTM8061 and LTM8062 are the first devices in a new family of system-in-a-package uModule chargers, and support an output current up to 2 A.
Linear Technology LT3651-4.2 battery charger
17 September, 2010Linear Technology has introduced the LT3651-4.2, a 4A monolithic synchronous buck battery charger for single-cell Li-Ion/polymer batteries.
Working towards a power-grid battery
15 September, 2010 byIf battery-making is an art, then University at Buffalo scientist Esther Takeuchi is among its most prolific masters, with more than 140 US patents, all in energy storage.
Bid to lower solar cell costs
24 May, 2010Dow Corning has signed a three-year contract with IMEC to perform joint research on the next generation of crystalline silicon solar cells.
Scientists see lithium-ion battery flaws
20 May, 2010Scientists at Cambridge have developed a simple, accurate way of ‘seeing’ chemistry in action inside a lithium-ion battery.
Rapid car battery charging may pose grid problems
12 May, 2010Siemens is hard at work on technologies for integrating electric cars into the public power grid. The development of methods to rapidly recharge cars is just one of the company's contributions to Denmark's Edison project, which is the first to plug a pool of vehicles into the grid.
Energy-scavenging power sensors
03 May, 2010It can be inconvenient to replace batteries in electronic devices that need to work for a long period of time, either in biomedical monitoring systems worn by a patient or in monitors for machinery or industrial installations in remote or inaccessible situations.
Australian company develops first universal battery-charging solution
09 April, 2010Australian company Digital Works has made a major breakthrough in the global battery charger market by developing two first-to-market products that leverage USB technology to charge different mobile devices from the one unit as well as standard rechargeable batteries.
When was the battery invented?
17 February, 2010 by Isidor Buchmann, Cadex ElectronicsOne of the most remarkable and novel discoveries in the last 400 years has been electricity. One may ask, “Has electricity been around that long?” The answer is yes, and perhaps much longer, but the practical use of electricity has only been at our disposal since the mid- to late-1800s and, at first, in a limited way.
