Designing safe, cheap batteries for grid level storage
Summer Scholar Victoria Yao experiments with water-based, flow-driven battery concept in Brushett Lab.
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.
Motorcycle completes 12.5 miles, 156 turns for a second-place finish in the race's Electric Bike Division.
Pump-free design for flow battery could offer advantages in cost and simplicity.
An MIT development could benefit both the environment and human health.
First mass-produced, low-cost, eco-friendly battery has the potential to transition the world toward a more sustainable energy future.
New research paves the way for rechargeable batteries with almost indefinite lifetimes, researchers say.
Aluminum could give a big boost to capacity and power of lithium-ion batteries.
Reinventing how these batteries are made also improves their performance and recyclability.
Modeling mechanical stress in solid-state lithium batteries yields insights into battery microstructure for MIT postdoc Giovanna Bucci.
Materials science professor develops algorithms to solve problems across disciplines, strengthens online teaching techniques, and contributes to scientific art.
Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage brings together researchers from MIT and two Russian institutes to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells.