From cell phones to laptops and tablets, lithium-ion batteries power most of today's portable electronics. Understanding how these batteries store and release energy as they charge and discharge is ...

Experimental Considerations Provide Insights into the Use of Lithium Arene Complex Solutions on Silicon Anodes Chemical pre-lithiation via LAC as a fast, easy and most important scalable method to ...

Following an explosion of studies of silicon as a negative electrode for Li-ion batteries, the anomalous volumetric changes and fracture of lithiated single Si particles have attracted significant ...

New research led by an electrical engineer is aimed at improving lithium-ion batteries through possible new electrode architectures with precise nano-scale designs. The researchers created nanowires ...

An electron microscopy technique for visualizing how lithium ions migrate at the nanoscale could help improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. From cell phones to laptops and tablets, lithium ...