Panasonic S Series lithium-ion battery for power tools
22 November, 2013Panasonic Australia has released a range of power tools featuring the S Series long-lasting 4.2 Ah lithium-ion battery. The battery offers up to 27% more working capacity per charge compared to Panasonic's 3.3 Ah battery and is built for heavy use, long runtimes between charges and a long life cycle. It features protection against overheating and other damage.
Scientists develop self-healing battery using stretchy polymer
19 November, 2013 by Glennda ChuiStanford and SLAC researchers have developed a self-healing battery electrode that could be used in electric cars, mobile phones and other devices.
Wireless power transfer technology wins top science prize
19 November, 2013Two professors from The University of Auckland have bagged a top science prize for their wireless or inductive power transfer technology (IPT).
Inexpensive material boosts Li-Ion battery capacity
30 October, 2013Researchers at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, and Fudan University, China, have developed electrode material that is suitable for large-scale manufacturing and can store higher charge densities than the conventional electrodes used in lithium-ion batteries.
Hollow nanoparticles help improve Li-ion battery performance
16 October, 2013Researchers at A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have developed a manufacturing technique that offers precise control over the size and shape of hollow carbon nanospheres.
Qld researcher's batteries win global award
04 October, 2013An Australian researcher has developed a battery that could allow electric cars to run between cities with fewer stops to recharge. Dr Da-Wei Wang aims to produce a battery for electric cars that has much greater energy storage than the batteries available.
Stanford scientists develop microbial battery
25 September, 2013 by Tom Abate*Stanford researchers have developed a microbial battery that generates electricity from sewage using naturally occluding ‘wired microbes’ as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal waste.
Rechargeable flow battery for solar and wind power
23 August, 2013MIT researchers have developed a palm-sized rechargeable flow battery prototype that generates three times as much power per square centimetre as other membraneless systems.
Battery-free wireless devices
14 August, 2013University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power. The devices exchange information by reflecting or absorbing pre-existing radio signals. The new communication technique, which the researchers call “ambient backscatter”, takes advantage of the TV and cellular transmissions that already surround us around the clock.
Graphene-based supercapacitors for portable electronics
05 August, 2013Monash University researchers have developed a completely new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors (SC), making them viable for widespread use in renewable energy storage, portable electronics and electric vehicles.
Hybrid cloud to save battery life
26 July, 2013Romanian computer scientists have developed a new system that is said to boost phone battery life by booting power-consuming computational tasks to an on-the-fly ad hoc cloud in which smartphones are both clients and computing resources.
Graphene ‘onion rings’ have delicious potential
23 July, 2013Concentric hexagons of graphene grown in a furnace at Rice University represent the first time anyone has synthesised graphene nanoribbons on metal from the bottom up - atom by atom.
Bacteria batteries to produce electricity
22 July, 2013An increasing demand for sources of alternative energy, environmental pollution caused by conventional batteries and the phasing out of nuclear energy in Germany has encouraged Bielefeld students to develop a bio-battery (microbial fuel cell - MFC), which directly transforms bacteria into energy.
Mobile phone powered with pee
17 July, 2013British scientists have developed a novel way of charging mobile phones using urine as the power source to generate electricity.
Researchers spy on Li-Ions to develop next-gen batteries
11 July, 2013Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University, has developed a device that allows researchers to eavesdrop on individual lithium ions - and potentially develop the next generation of batteries.
