Lithium was supposed to be soft. The metal bends easily in bulk form, stretches before it breaks, and deforms the way you ...

Lithium dendrites, i.e. tiny crystalline thorns that grow off of lithium-ion battery anodes during charging, have been a ...

Lithium-ion batteries play a crucial role in powering the transportation industry. While emerging technologies like hydrogen fuel cells hold promise for specialized applications, lithium-ion batteries ...

Brittle, microscopic metal filaments called dendrites are now firmly established as a primary driver of lithium-ion and solid-state battery failure, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed ...

Researchers have uncovered the mechanical properties of the nanoscale "thorns" that develop inside lithium-ion batteries, which can cause them to short circuit and die – or worse, such as ...

You might be reading this on a device that has one – lithium-ion batteries are in just about every new device we use today. Because of that, and with many of those tools and toys likely on the ...

Writer and occasional reluctant perpetrator of engine swaps, James O'Neil is a malaise era enthusiast and also fascinated by the many ways the auto industry has since recovered from those dark days.

Donut Lab, a Finnish solid-state battery maker, claims its cells retained 97.7% of their charge after sitting idle for 10 days, a figure that, if independently confirmed, would represent a sharp ...