Scientists in China have developed a new type of bendable battery that keeps working even when twisted or folded, offering exciting possibilities for powering flexible and wearable electronics. Led by ...

Zinc-air batteries have a lot going for them. They’re lightweight, compact and made of more sustainable, less flammable materials than other batteries. But they’re usually not rechargeable. A ...

Now, scientists have developed a proof-of-concept, rechargeable zinc-ion battery that forgoes the standard zinc anode, giving it a relatively high energy density (Nano Lett. 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs ...

Zinc-based batteries aren’t a new invention—researchers at Exxon patented zinc-bromine flow batteries in the 1970s—but Eos has developed and altered the technology over the last decade.

A rechargeable zinc air battery made by NantEnergy, an energy company headed by the California billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, in Los Angeles, Sept. 23, 2018.

Inside a closed battery, chitosan would gradually degrade over a period of several years, and the remaining zinc could be recycled, he says. Matter DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2022.07.015 Advertisement ...

Addition of a 2D protective layer to the anode of a zinc-ion battery makes it more efficient and increases its lifespan to over 100,000 cycles.

Zinc has an atomic mass slightly over 65 while oxygen’s is 16. So even if a battery was 100% zinc at full charge and 100% zinc oxide when spend that would only be a 25% mass increase for the ...

However, this discovery could overcome the problem with zinc-ion batteries capable of 5,000 charge/discharge cycles while still holding strong capacity. One step closer to making zinc-ion a reality ...

However, zinc-ion batteries have historically, for lack of a better word, sucked at recharging. This is because zinc-ion chemistries are plagued by dendrites — crystals that cause short circuits.

The Department of Energy is providing a nearly $400 million loan to a startup aimed at scaling the manufacturing and deployment of a zinc-based alternative to rechargeable lithium batteries. If ...