It was with simple triethylammonium nitrate that a pure low-melting salt — an ionic liquid — was first identified more than a century ago. In the 1930s, a patent application described cellulose ...

A new device has no gears and requires no fuel. It doesn’t even use ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, Israel's Tel Aviv University and other institutions have developed a ...

Solid-state batteries could be safer and more energy-dense than today’s lithium-ion technology, but finding materials that allow ions to move quickly through solid electrolytes has been difficult.

A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich and ́Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has developed an innovative computational approach combining machine learning and Raman ...

Positron, the antiparticle of electron, has the same mass and charge as that of an electron but with the sign flipped for the charge. It is an attractive particle for scientists because the use of ...

PROVO, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ionic Mineral Technologies, a pioneering US-based producer of nano-silicon anode powders, has partnered with international technology group ANDRITZ to mass produce ...

Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation (BAIC) has claimed its new sodium-ion electric vehicle battery can reach a full charge in just 11 minutes, a figure that, if validated, would represent one of ...

Most of the world is betting on lithium-ion as the future of batteries–Elon Musk for one. When fully up and running in 2020, Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 is expected to churn out 50 million kilowatt hours of ...

The interaction between solid matter and positron (the antiparticle of electron) has provided important insights across a variety of disciplines, including atomic physics, materials science, ...