Liquid batteries, developed by MIT professor Donald Sadoway, are an exciting new battery technology that allows batteries to hold large amounts of energy for up to 12 hours, and discharge it slowly ...

Lithium ion batteries are common today, but for a number of environmental and economic reasons, scientists are looking for the next big battery. Calcium has potential in a number of areas, but ...

Concerns about the security and sustainability of battery materials being utilized are growing. The long-term use of lithium in energy storage devices is in danger due to looming worries about ...

Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a prototype calcium battery with a long cycle life of more than 500 charge-discharge cycles. The battery was developed using a hydride-based ...

A research group at Japan’s Tohoku University has developed a prototype calcium metal rechargeable battery capable of 500 cycles of repeated charge-discharge – the benchmark for practical use. However ...

Zhirong Zhao-Karger (left) and Zhenyou Li (right) from the POLiS (Post Lithium Storage) Cluster of Excellence at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have produced promising ...

Tohoku University researchers have managed to develop a prototype calcium metal battery. The battery is capacable of 500 cycles of repeated charge-discharge. Calcium is widely available and ...

Forward-looking: Despite being a relatively rare element, lithium is still the king of materials when it comes to rechargeable battery technology. Calcium is 2,500 times more abundant than lithium, ...

German scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in the development of calcium batteries which they claim, with further lab work, could eventually provide a cheaper, more environmentally friendly ...

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working on developing what they hope will be a greener, more efficient, and less expensive energy storage alternative to lithium batteries.