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Scientific Reports, Published online: 14 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-58237-z Energy-controlled supercapacitors based on polybenzidine-oxidant-GO hybrid electrodes with vanadate and dichromate redox chemistry

As demand for electric vehicles, smartphones, and renewable energy storage continues to grow, so does the need for lithium, a key ingredient in modern batteries. Now, researchers at Monash University have developed a new method that could make lithium production more efficient and environmentally friendly. The new technology allows lithium to be extracted from salt […] The post New lithium extrac…

Nature Communications, Published online: 13 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74340-1 Lithium metal batteries face challenges with dendritic growth. Here, authors employ in situ TEM to reveal how specific electrolyte anions dictate lithium nucleation and interphase architecture, establishing design principles for suppressing dendrites and enabling stable lithium deposition.

The rapid expansion of robotics into unstructured, human-proximate environments has exposed fundamental limitations of conventional lithium-ion batteries, including safety risks from flammable electrolytes, insufficient energy density for extended untethered operation, and rigid form factors incompatible with emerging soft and structural robotic designs. Solid-state batteries (SSBs), which replac…

Oregon-based nickel-zinc battery manufacturer ZincFive is headed to the Nasdaq via a $600M SPAC merger with SparkLabs Group to fund increased manufacturing to meet growing demand. Read More

A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a new way to restore worn-out lithium-ion batteries, allowing them to recover up to 95% of their original performance. The breakthrough could make battery recycling much cheaper, reduce environmental pollution, and help ease growing shortages of critical battery materials. Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones and […] The…

Should China establish a global monopoly across battery supply chains, the military, strategic, and commercial implications for the US-ROK alliance will be profound. The post To stop Chinese dual-use battery dominance, the United States and South Korea need to team up appeared first on Atlantic Council .

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are promising next-generation energy storage systems due to their high theoretical energy density. However, their practical implementation is hindered by the low conductivity of sulfur and the polysulfide shuttle effect. In this work, garlic-braid-derived biochar was investigated as a sustainable sulfur host for Li-S battery cathodes. Biochar obtained from garlic b…

Waters Corp. (NYSE: WAT) has launched a differential scanning calorimeter built to test fully assembled coin cells, eliminating the cell teardown step that has long made DSC-based battery safety work slow and destructive. The Waters TA Instruments Coin Cell Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) scans fully assembled coin cells from -80 °C to 600 °C while… The post Waters targets earlier thermal…

Single-phase optimization is increasingly insufficient to simultaneously satisfy the demands of rechargeable batteries for high energy density, fast rate capability, and long-term cycling stability. Growing evidence indicates that electrochemical performance is governed not only by chemical composition, but also by the spatial organization and dynamic evolution of multiple coexisting phases. Insp…

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

Nature Communications, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74193-8 This study showcases a breakthrough in the field of lithium-ion battery (LIB) metrology, demonstrating over a two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in precision for noncontact thickness measurements, and achieving nanometre-precision using frequency-comb referenced terahertz (THz) interferometry.

Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.