Lithium metal batteries promise far more energy storage than current lithium-ion cells. They can deliver up to ten times the energy, making them ideal for electric vehicles, medical devices, and ...

Lithium-polymer battery technology is newer than lithium-ion. It didn’t appear on the scene until the 1970s and has only made its way into smartphones much more recently.

Lithium-ion batteries face safety concerns as a result of internal separator issues which often lead to short circuits. Scientists have now developed a method to improve the stability and ...

Fire-Inhibiting Nonflammable Gel Polymer Electrolyte for Lithium-Ion Batteries. ACS Energy Letters, 2023; 4650 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01128 ...

Lithium-ion batteries can suffer from critical safety and technical issues, such as the risk of explosion, lithium dendrite growth, short-circuit risk, electrolyte leakage, and thermal runaway. To ...

Solid-state batteries charge in a fraction of the time, run cooler, and pack more energy into less space than traditional ...

While lithium metal batteries could offer better safety, better energy density, and lower weight than lithium-ion technology – thanks to the replacement of heavier graphite with lithium metal as ...

New sodium ion battery, M3P battery, and lithium polymer battery tech reportedly slashing costs, boosting range, and using easier-to-get materials.

A Chinese research team from the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has equipped a lithium metal ...

Lithium-ion batteries have the greatest energy density per unit mass of any solid-state battery chemistry, up to 1.6 kilowatt-hours per kilogram. They're also usually rechargeable.