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Building a better battery

By Sid Perkins / April 8, 2013

Researchers designed a way to make better batteries using supersmall sulfur particles coated with titanium dioxide. Credit: Seh et al., Nature Communications (2013)

Researchers develop a way to make batteries that hold more charge and don’t weaken with age

Posted in Chemistry, Computers & Electronics | Tagged Battery, Cornell University, getinvolved, lithium-sulfur battery, materials science, nanostructure, polysulfides, Stanford University; Hector Abruña, sulfur, titanium dioxide; Yi Cui, topstories

Battery powered to heal

By Stephen Ornes / April 7, 2011

Battery Capsles

With its own first-aid kit, this battery can really keep going

Posted in Atoms & Forces | Tagged Battery, circuit, current, electric circuits, electricity, feature, physics

Batteries built by viruses

By Stephen Ornes / October 28, 2009

Scientists use microbes to create tiny power supplies

Posted in Technology & Engineering | Tagged batteries, Battery, circuit, electric circuits, electricity, electromagnetism, immunology, physics