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BMW and Toyota Partner on Lithium-ion Battery Development Deal
Sometimes when you have to do something difficult,partnering is the best thing to do,even with a competitor.Rather than having each company reinvent the wheel and develop its own technology from scratch,car-makers have been making deals with...
MIT Is Working on More Powerful Lithium-air Batteries
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working on lithium-air batteries that could help in generating more powerful,lightweight batteries than available currently.Yang Shao-Horn is an MIT associate professor...
How Much Do You Know The Power of Lithium-ion Batteries?
It’s many of the newer lap tops and portable equipment that are using lithium-ion batteries because of the demands for more power and smaller size.The lithium-ion batteries are different from regular lithium batteries that may be used.The...
Some Tips and Ideas to Optimize Your Laptop Battery Life
Laptops are portable and light in weight.Due to its mobility,people love to work on their laptop.A laptop can operate for a long time when it has a good battery life.Hence,anyone who has a laptop desires to optimize the life of their notebook...
A Work In Progress For Lithium ion Batteries Do You Know?
They weigh surprisingly little,yet they back a greater energy wallop than any other batteries of similar size.They are based on ions,charged atomic particles.In the manner of nitro glycerin,although not nearly as explosive,they are sensitive...
Do You Know The Pro’s and Cons of Lithium Ion Batteries?
Lithium ion batteries were invented as long ago as 1912 by Gilbert N.Lewis,but it was a long time before they were developed enough to be launched on a mass market level.This happened in the early 1990′s with Sony pioneering their commercial...
Why Is the Li-Ion Battery the Quickest Rising Battery Chemistry?
Initial scientific tests with the Li-Ion battery started in 1912 with G.N. Lewis however it was not until the early 1970s that the initial non-rechargeable lithium batteries became commercially accessible.Attempts to develop rechargeable lithium...
Do You Know The Growing Popularity Of Lithium Battery Pack?
Why are Lithium-Ion battery packs popular?Of all the metals,lithium is the lightest.It has the highest electrochemical potential and provides the highest energy density per weight. G.N. Lewis et al pioneered the idea of Li-Ion battery in 1912.However,it...
Do You Know Nanotechnology Lights Up Batteries and Clothing?
Yi Cui,an engineer at Stanford University,leads a team that may take nanotechnology to the next level by creating paper batteries and fabrics that can conduct energy.At a recent demonstration,Cui took pieces of fabric and regular paper and soaked...
Ultra-lightweight And Bendable Batteries For Everyday Paper
Stanford scientists are doing the unbelievable.Who could have thought of ordinary papers as batteries and super capacitors?But Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly create ultra-lightweight,bendable lithium battery and...