From gadgets to the smart grid: Batteries are key to powering portable devices and developing a modern energy network. Researchers are scrambling to develop iterations that can overcome the current limitations. By sujata gupta, infographic by nigel hawtin.
Sujata Gupta
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Perspective: The energy-storage revolution: Lithium-ion batteries enabled smartphones to flourish. The next innovation will upend transportation and the grid, says george crabtree.
George Crabtree
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Lithium batteries: To the limits of lithium: Researchers are developing a type of battery that has ten times the power of conventional batteries.
Eric C. Evarts
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Technology: A solid future: Swapping the liquid electrolyte in batteries for a safer solid-state interior is bringing electric cars to the mass market.
Jim Motavalli
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Electrochemistry: Liquid assets: Flow batteries, which release electricity through fluid-based reactions, could revolutionize renewable-energy storage.
Neil Savage
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Recycling: Lazarus batteries: Battery recycling can be hard, energy intensive and uneconomic. But soon, dead power cells could be more easily resurrected.
Erica Gies
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Energy storage: Power revolution: Electrical grids increasingly depend on intermittent renewable sources. To smooth the supply out, utilities companies are testing alternatives to storing energy in conventional batteries.
Peter Fairley
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Batteries: 4 big questions: The energy density of batteries will need to be substantially increased and their cost decreased if renewable energy is to replace fossil fuels. Here are four important questions.
Katherine Bourzac
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