Battery Technology

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…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI can try millions of different chemical permutations a day, and dramatically accelerate product development….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the world tries to move away from fossil fuels we’re seeing an explosion in…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF 3D printing is still relatively nascent but as researchers invent new tools and techniques one…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While even the best and brightest minds can try to imagine life thirty years in…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Lithium Ion batteries rely on the mass availability of several rare earth elements which are…