Electric-vehicle batteries are often described as the heart of the car, but researchers are increasingly focusing on another question: how...

Sodium-ion batteries are moving closer to the center of the global energy-storage conversation, and a new optical sensor may help...

Smartphones, smartwatches and small drones may soon have access to a different kind of rechargeable power source—one designed not only...

A waste stream once viewed as an expensive environmental liability could become an active ingredient in safer, longer-lasting batteries. Researchers...

Liquid battery electrolytes have long been described as if they were simple recipes: a salt dissolved in a solvent, perhaps...

Offshore wind is often presented as one of the clearest routes toward a low-carbon energy system: turbines harvest powerful marine...

Halide cathode materials, once sidelined because they dissolve in conventional liquid electrolytes, are emerging as potential game-changers for all-solid-state lithium...

Sodium-ion batteries are moving closer to the center of the global energy-storage race, and a new study from Japan has...

Boston College chemist Alexis Grimaud has received a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award worth nearly $600,000 to investigate a...

Storing renewable energy remains one of the central challenges of the clean-energy transition. Solar panels and wind turbines can generate...