It's a well-known characteristic of metals that repeated bending in the same place can cause the material to weaken and eventually break; this phenomenon, known as metal fatigue, can cause serious ...
image: THE INTRODUCTION OF DEFECTS INTO ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR METAL-BASED BATTERIES IS AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE BATTERY PERFORMANCE, DUE TO DEFECTIVE CATALYSTS HAVE THE ADVANTAGES OF HIGH ...
Graphene and hexagonal Boron Nitride possesses exceptional chemical and physical properties. Recent experimental results ...
The formation of lithium dendrites is still a mystery, but materials engineers study the conditions that enable dendrites and how to stop them. Historically, as in decades ago, rechargeable lithium ...
Lithium metal is known to possess a very high theoretical capacity of 3,842 mAh g −1 in lithium batteries. However, the use of metallic lithium leads to extensive dendritic growth that poses serious ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are the dominant technology not only for portable electronics but it also is becoming the battery of choice for electric-vehicle and ...
Researchers have determined formulas to guide development of a promising new high-tech material, composed of insulating metal oxides known as alkaline-earth-metal binary oxides, that could lead to ...
OAKLAND — Preliminary tests of the BART rail that broke May 5, jamming the morning commute throughout the system, revealed an anomaly that could be a defect in the metal, transit district directors ...