Cornish Lithium mining company are planning to revive Europe's mining industry targeting a £70 billion projected outcome for 2020 in line with the switching to electric cars across the world.
An electrode designed like a pomegranate - with silicon nanoparticles clustered like seeds in a tough carbon rind - overcomes several remaining obstacles to using silicon for a new generation of lithium-ion batteries, say its inventors at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
By Tina Hilding, College of Engineering and Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. - A group of Washington State University researchers has developed a chewing gum-like battery material that could dramatically improve the safety of lithium ion batteries.
