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Batteries

Plastic bags could be the next battery

Tesla to buy Maxwell Technologies for $218 million

Focusing on the negative is good when it comes to batteries

Next-gen batteries may be possible with new engineering approach

KAIST introduces faster and more powerful aqueous hybrid capacitor

Murata develops high drain and extended temperature models for its lithium coin cell range

Microscopy technique for 3D visualisation of interfacial charge distributions

New type of battery could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants, MIT claims

A sodium powder version of sodium-ion batteries may hold the answer to a decent alternative battery, says Purdue University

High lifecycles for batteries with doughnut-shaped lithium sulphide

High-capacity sodium-ion could replace lithium in rechargeable batteries

Novel process to 3D print graphene developed