High-temperature devices made from films that bend as they “breathe”
Mechanical actuators developed by MIT team expand and contract as they let oxygen in and out.
Mechanical actuators developed by MIT team expand and contract as they let oxygen in and out.
Brittle electrodes handle expansion by going glassy, study shows.
With support from the Toyota Research Institute, MIT faculty will focus on next-generation energy storage.
MIT, Carnegie Mellon researchers explore “self-healing” batteries with new metal-halide solid electrolyte material.
Inexpensive, reliable, and forgettable storage systems could enable boom in renewables, say speakers at MIT Energy Conference.
MIT's newest faculty bring a wide array of energy interests and developments to the Institute.
Researchers investigate mechanics of lithium sulfides, which show promise as solid electrolytes.
Industry speakers and MIT faculty offer solutions to problems ranging from small portable devices to large fixed installations.
Energy storage device could deliver more power than current versions of this technology.
Startup’s energy-storage devices find uses in drilling operations, aerospace applications, electric vehicles.
Summer Scholar Victoria Yao experiments with water-based, flow-driven battery concept in Brushett Lab.
Branchlike deposits grow on lithium electrode surfaces in two ways, one much more damaging.
New lithium metal batteries could make smartphones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long.
Summer Scholar Erica Eggleton joins Van Vliet Lab to make and test lithium manganese oxide electrodes.
New chemistry could overcome key drawbacks of lithium-air batteries.