Lithium-ion batteries have transformed everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles and energy storage. But to power the next wave of tech — from planes to smartphones — they need to get ...

Lithium-ion batteries are powering a revolutionary transition to electric vehicles. But booming battery use will eventually create a mountain of spent batteries—and very few are currently recycled. A ...

The development of inert anodes represents a significant leap forward in the evolution of aluminum electrolysis, promising a reduction in carbon emissions and an improved environmental footprint for ...

Chemists use flash Joule heating to recover graphite anodes from spent lithium-ion batteries at a cost of about $118 per ton. How many rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are you wearing? How many are ...

A research team led by Prof. Weishen Yang and Prof. Kaiyue Zhu from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences utilized trace amounts of carbon dots to develop ...

A one-step plasma sputtering method for fabricating silicon/tin nanowire anodes could open doors to next-generation lithium-ion batteries Many countries have set decarbonization targets to meet the ...