The recycled rubber we so readily discard—some 290 million tires each year—could someday provide electricity to our electric vehicles or store solar or wind energy.
Read MoreImprint Energy is hoping to “disrupt” the battery market for this $1 billion-and-growing industry with their flexible and rechargeable batteries that can be printed on industrial screen printers on the cheap.
Read MoreResearchers at China’s Fudan University have developed an incredibly elastic lithium-ion battery that can be stretched up to 600 percent.
Read MoreMaking gains: Controlled thermal conductivity of lithium cobalt oxide means big things for batteries
Researchers have experimentally shown that lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2)—the MVP of electrochemical energy storage—can be controlled over a “considerable” range.
Read MoreORNL researchers have developed a battery that not only can be made as small as a coin, but can also last for a decade.
Read MoreThe Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $3 million to research and development of low-to-moderate-temperature geothermal resources in the United States, as well as to support domestic supply of “critical materials.”
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