Tag: Lithium
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Report: Sony Working On New Sulfur Batteries
Today’s mobile devices all require a battery, and increasingly are showing the need for more and more power as they increase in complexity. Power is very much a problem of chemistry – difficult compounds and rare elements are all employed in rechargeable cells, so the field is very much a scientific one. The current battery type […]
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MIT in Scramble to Develop New ‘Yolk’ and ‘Shell’ Nanoparticle Batteries
Some Scientists at MIT have broken the mould with a new type of battery that should obliterate the current lithium-ion batteries out of their comfortable ionic waters. The picture above shows the ‘yolk’ and ‘shell’ nanoparticle. The grey sphere at the centre is representing an aluminium nanoparticle (the yolk), and the outer light-blue layer is […]
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Apple replacing first gen iPod nanos due to faulty batteries
If you happen to have a 1st generation iPod nano, you may want to take note of this; Apple has just issued a press release stating that in very rare cases, the battery of the 1st generation iPod nano may overheat and therefore pose a safety risk. Apple has identified that the affected iPod nanos […]
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Technology Breakthrough: Jelly Lithium Batteries
University Students make technology breakthrough with jelly lithium batteries, signalling safer, stronger batteries in the future
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Blackberry Playbook to rival iPad 2’s 10 hour battery life?
Thanks to a specifications sheet posted by Staples in the US, we could be looking at an iPad-rivalling 10 hour battery life from the Blackberry Playbook. Though the specifications for the device were announced back in September of last year, we weren’t ever given an expected battery life for the 5300 mAh battery that’s onboard. […]