RICHLAND, Wash.—Sometimes, in order to go big, you first have to go small. That’s what researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have done with their latest ...

Golf cart owners face a common problem. You want to upgrade to lithium technology, but your battery compartment wasn't built for it. Standard lithium batteries are ...

Overheating batteries are a serious risk, in the worst cases leading to fires and explosion. A team has now developed a simple, cost-effective method to test the safety of lithium-ion batteries, which ...

Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have designed a new sodium-sulfur battery ...

Inspired by electric eels, researchers from the University of Oxford have developed a miniature “droplet” battery that could, some day, power tiny bio-integrated devices inside animal bodies. The ...

While a typical 18650 commercial, rechargeable lithium-ion battery has an energy capacity of around 2,800 milliampere hours (mAh), the miniature cylindrical pouch-type cells have a capacity of just 20 ...