Battery Technology

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Just a few countries control the supply of the world’s Lithium, and in today’s odd…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Electric vehicles can takes ages to charge – but solutions are on their way ……

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Solid state batteries are seen by most people as the “Batteries of the Future” and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The global shipping industry burns highly polluting bunker fuel and is one of the world’s…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is energy hungry, and the lithium-Ion battery, even though it’s more popular than…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nature is fantastic at assembling, well, everything, so scientists are trying to harness nature’s smallest…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Biological systems can change their shape, and now researchers are getting better at creating shape…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think of batteries as having a common fixed shape, but structural batteries can be…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Renewables are the future, but the electricity they generate needs to be stored so it…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rare Earth metals are expensive, rare, and increasingly being used as a political pawn, so…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Solid state batteries are regarded as the ultimate in battery technology and Samsung have unveiled…