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Boosting battery research

June 12, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Most Americans don’t leave home without at least one lithium battery-powered device, and someday, the house itself may have a battery back-up. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to make these large back-up batteries less expensive, hold more energy and be less prone to bursting into...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: battery, battery research, grid-scale energy storage, tech transfer

Sandia National Laboratories battery expert Melissa Meyerson works in a glovebox to setup a lithium-sulfur flow battery. These kinds of batteries have huge potential for being large, safe and in-expensive back-ups for a high-renewables grid.

Safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars, power grid

March 7, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Solid-state batteries, currently used in small electronic devices like smart watches, have the potential to be safer and more powerful than lithium-ion batteries for things such as electric cars and storing energy from solar panels for later use. However, several technical challenges remain before solid-state batteries can...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Batteries, battery, battery abuse testing laboratory, battery safety, battery testing, lithium metal battery, lithium-ion batteries

Two men, one holding a shiny battery testing case, stand beside a beach-ball-sized, thick-metal testing instrument.

“Popcorn” particle pathways promise better lithium-ion batteries

June 11, 2013 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP), findings that could lead to better performance in lithium-…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: Batteries, battery, lithium-ion, science, technology