The power that makes electric vehicles travel farther and smartphones last longer comes from battery materials. Among them, ...

The development of lithium-sulfur batteries has been plagued by issues, largely due to some unfavorable characteristics at play in their cathodes. But now, thanks to new research led by a team at the ...

South Korean battery manufacturer SK On reports a significant breakthrough in cathode material research. The company, together with Seoul National University, ...

Engineers developed a cathode material for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries that is healable and highly conductive, overcoming longstanding challenges of traditional sulfur cathodes. The advance holds ...

Casper Rawles at BenchmarkWeek in Los Angeles. Image: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Prices for graphite in the battery supply chain have not moved much this year, kept down by softness in the global ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a new organic cathode material with an energy density higher than most cobalt-based cathodes. It can charge–discharge in as ...

Solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, offering greater energy density and range than contemporary lithium-ion batteries, remain out of reach, not least due to challenges coming from the ...